"Do Canadian christians come out to distance themselves from Fred Phelps after he starts protesting at the funerals of soldiers? No, because everyone realizes that he's crazy. Same thing applies here."
No Christians/Buddhists/Bahai etc. etc. don't protest or if they do they send a letter to the editor or perhaps try and get a certain politician in. Meanwhile Muslims worldwide riot over rubbish that has been spouted at other religious groups to the extreme.
The difference it seems is purely this. Christians etc. aren't anywhere as near militant as Muslims. Therefore those "supposed" champions of tolerance and "TRUTH" feel free to take cracks at them.
And guaranteed the negative portrayal of religious groups would plummet the moment those groups started blowing things up. The only reason the POPE apologized is the threat of death.
Quite simply it SHOULD be that everybody respects everyone else whether they are religious or NOT. Those who don't should be faced in a peaceable manner in debate not in a derisive blathering on about their ideology or by riots or death threats.
The constant anti-religious blather by many in society including our leaders is pathetic. They should simply SHUT UP and just do their jobs and getting those jobs should be based on competency not religion. If somebody is out of line then confront them. What should have happened when the POPE came out with that statement is that some Muslim cleric should have refuted it.
Then the POPE should have either responded with his arguments or withdrawn his statements.
Same with any others who step out of line no matter whether it's a relgious or secular figure.
When society reaches that point I will believe we are more "tolerant" but until then it's pretty obvious throughout the world that there has been precious little progress -- very sad when you think about it.
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