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Originally Posted by Phil1111
1.6 Billion followers of Islam. There was a Christian minister rabblerouser in the US about two years ago. It was shortly after a copy of the Koran was burned in Pakistan. Riots in Pakistan followed and he hoped to achieve the same results in Dallas Texas.
He and some followers were going to parade around with posters denigrating Allah. Then burn copies of the Koran. All to spark riots among Muslims in the Dallas area. The Imams told their followers not to do anything and not one Muslim showed up. Not one did anything. The "Christian" minister sulked back to Alabama??? or wherever in the SE US he was from.
Blaming the acts of IS on Islam is like blaming every Christian for the acts of the RC. clergy for child sexual abuse.
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At no point did I "blame the acts of IS on Islam". The fact that 1.6 Billion followers of Islam are perfectly peaceful people has not been questioned. The question is whether there is anything that can be meaningfully discussed in relation to interpretation or misinterpretation of Islamic texts?
As for your analogy, I don't blame every Christian for the bad acts of the RC in the same way I don't blame every bad act of ISIS on muslims. However, I do question Roman Catholic ideology and structure to see if anything systemic within Catholicism might have made the child sexual abuse happen, or made it worse. I think that should fully be on debate, because having men (priests) in a position of power and authority over children, who take a vow of abstinence, whose political inner workings are shrouded in secrecy, whose influence of those in secular power (thinking of the incidents in and around Boston in particular) absolutely made the situation worse and is worthy of discussion, if not outright derision.