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[Moonwalk]

19. I'm not assuming you would be okay with that--re-read my post as you...

...totally missed the point.

The point is, this story can be told to make people into STRAWMEN. Do you know what the term means? And when you do that you turn the story into a bigoted view of a certain group of people RATHER than a story about the evils of bigotry.

When using the Islamic against the evangelical, we see CLEARLY (or at least I do) bigotry against Islamics in showing them all as crazy terrorists who think anyone reading a Bible is an "infidel" which is ridiculous since Islam includes the Bible! This parable is very nice when it seems to be about bigotry, but it can very easily be used to have people assuming that all Islamics hate Christians and see them as infidels--and those cheering the story cheering how a saintly woman of their faith won out over the evil Islamic.

Remember this story is NOT TRUE. Not true, not true, not true. If it WAS true then I WOULD expect us all to be angry at the guy yelling at the flag-wearing veteran, whoever he was. And insisting that not all of us against certain wars are like that. But as it's NOT TRUE, I expect us all to be smart enough to see how this story could be used by those who want to paint anyone who is anti-war as an anti-veteran/anti-american; someone who should be ignored and put in their place with a standing ovation. Do you want us all cast that way? This story can do that. Just as, if you read the link to Snopes website there, you'll see that this story was used to really unfairly cast South Africans as bigots. THAT is a true story of what happened when a version of THIS false story was spread all over New Zealand as true.