Many Liberals Defend Islam the Way Conservatives Defend Guns

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20. Undeniable?

Says who? Christian Americans dressed in military garb have been bombing and massacring non-Christian people of color around the world for decades in our post WWII expansion of corporate empire. Where were the "moderate" voices decrying these atrocities. From outside our borders, much of the world sees us as crazy Christians taking resources and oppressing working people at every opportunity - some might even call it real politik. Why harken back to the Crusades when we can use modern weaponry to annihilate people by the score and not even blink? ISIS posts some videos of beheadings and burnings and the west freaks out. How about 48 one-ton bombs landing on and around Baghdad in one night to the rousing cheers of Americans watching the display on TV. How's that any different than a group of Muslims chanting "death to America"? The difference is degree - we are so accustomed to the behavior of our military that we don't consider the deaths delivered by the thousands and thousands on behalf of our nation to be outside the norm. Want to give ISIS a kick in the groin, I'm all for it, but the Islam is the worst tirade is actually a shallow claim easily launched from the comfortable confines of our so-called Christian nation. I think the right wing government running Israel is a bunch of murderous criminals and they're easy targets for well-deserved criticism; but I don't think it accomplishes any good to make the claim that Judaism is the "most violent" religion going.