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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Give me one example. When has someone committed a violent act (killed someone, attacked an abortion clinic for example) and explicitly said that they did it for religious reasons based on their Christian beliefs, and then had everyone react with protestations of, "that's not really what motivated this person"? I can't think of a single one.
Now, you can point to many crimes committed by people who happened to be Christians where their Christianity wasn't brought to the fore. But that's different. Christians (and Muslims, and Jews, etc) can commit atrocities without being motivated by their religion. But it only seems to be Muslims who can unequivocally tell everyone, "I'm doing this for religious reasons", and in many cases cite scripture supposedly justifying their actions, and yet have their religion denied as being the motivating factor.
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Firstly, where is "everyone" that is protesting any connection to his Islamic beliefs here? Are you the lone solider fighting to make it known?
Robert Lewis Dear, and basically every other violent anti-abortionist. Are they talked about as Christian terrorists by mainstream media sources? Not in nearly the same way.
It's never, "they're a Christian!" it's "they're not
really a Christian, they're just crazy!" But I mean, how could anyone
possibly be both right? Kill someone in the name of Christianity, you're crazy, or just anti-abortion, or just homophobic. Kill someone in the name of Islam, you're just a terrorist.
I hate to break it to you but when members of the LGBT community are attacked and killed for being LGBT, abortion clinics are bombed, etc, those acts are motivated primarily by religion. They aren't talked about as Christian acts of terrorism or violence when Christians are to blame, it's just "life." They just "happened to be Christians" as you said.
If you think Muslims somehow get a degree of preferential treatment in Western society when it comes to how their acts of violence are viewed then you are so completely off in your own semantic-laden troll world.
Please, your turn, give me any other example than this one where you feel "everyone" denied the Islamic connection despite it being explicitly said by someone who committed the violent act. Since it happens all the time. Muslims have it so easy, should be no problem finding all the times
everyone gives them the benefit of the doubt. Can you think of a single one for this example?