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M Kitt

(208 posts)
50. No, but again "Conflation" is the driving purpose of that comparison
Sun Dec 20, 2015, 11:01 PM
Dec 2015

We can easily tie Christianity to the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany. The Catholic church in Germany, more specifically.

Not to mention involvement of that same church in KKK activities that peaked in the mid 1960s, and related killings connected to lynchings, etc.

But Back to WW2/Hitler

Does that connect Hitler to responsibility for purges associated with the Crusades, or the Inquisitions? Not likely.

Conversely, are Christians accountable for those actions of "final solution" carried out by the Nazis against Jews?

Do these (guilt by association) examples of "Christian" behavior mean that it's a religion of complete violence, prone to Genocide and World War?

More Recently

If you're that intent on conflating muslim activities in Aghanistan or Algeria with current Isil/Daesh threats in Iraq or Syria, why not blame all Christians for the Genocides on both sides of the Boznia/Herzogovina conflicts in 1992? Hundreds of bodies (mass graves) discovered on both sides of that conflict.

So when you roll out numbers like "Half a Million" killed in Algeria, you're not really bringing the historical perspective into it, Christianity has been involved with nearly every major war across the last several hundred years, and often on both sides of those conflicts.

Which is the flaw in the argument of "Global Jihad" against Muslims, they're not historically prone to War/Genocide on the scale of Christianity. Period.

As Stated in my last remark

Speaking of the results of our invasion/occupation of Iraq

Those same hawks are calling for current actions against Iran today, right wing TeaHadists are intentionally conflating Isis with Al Qaida with Iran with Iraq (with the entire Muslim religion of course). For purposes of rationalizing actions against any Middle Eastern nation with a Muslim constituency.

Essentially the Reicht Wing Fundamentalist version of what they'd call "Jihad" if proposed by Muslim religious fanatics.

TeaHadist Fundamentalist Christians are apparently intent on carrying out the same ambitions/agenda they accuse Muslims of.

In support of an "End Times" holy war in the middle east.



Ohio Boy Threatens To Bring Gun To School To Shoot Muslim Boy He Called A ‘Terrorist’ napkinz Dec 2015 #1
"Skyrocketing" maxsolomon Dec 2015 #2
Triple the average number after mere weeks does indeed appear to fit LanternWaste Dec 2015 #3
"no one has actually been attacked/injured" napkinz Dec 2015 #4
I didn't know there had been an attack this weekend. I stand corrected. maxsolomon Dec 2015 #7
Glad you won't mind hot coffee thrown on you then since it's not a crime in your book Person 2713 Dec 2015 #52
Reliable motivation for frenetic Anti-Muslim rhetoric? Reicht wing ambitions of Military Conflict M Kitt Dec 2015 #41
Woman Attacks Muslims Praying napkinz Dec 2015 #6
That's a Coffee Assault maxsolomon Dec 2015 #8
Throwing coffee in someone's face IS assault. Just because you don't think it IS assault does not CBGLuthier Dec 2015 #17
Better yet throw hot coffee in his own face and get back to us on how trivial it was Person 2713 Dec 2015 #53
Woman charged in East Bay park confrontation with Muslim men napkinz Dec 2015 #37
How about smacking a Muslim woman in the face with a heavy beer mug? The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2015 #57
"a man shoved a pregnant Muslim mother’s stroller into her belly" ScreamingMeemie Dec 2015 #33
Historically, spreading hatred of a particular group results in attacks by the demented against pampango Dec 2015 #5
It's not just "spreading hatred" the demented are reacting against. maxsolomon Dec 2015 #10
While attacks on mosques are horrible, the reason isn't RW hate speech Yorktown Dec 2015 #9
"So poor, ignorant people are led by their noses by manipulative politicians?" napkinz Dec 2015 #11
What is scary? People who plant bombs or folks scared of them? Yorktown Dec 2015 #12
ever hear of right-wing extremists? napkinz Dec 2015 #15
You're looking at yesterday's stats Yorktown Dec 2015 #19
Republicans only recognize acts of terror carried out by followers of radical Islam. napkinz Dec 2015 #16
Who cares? What counts is numbers: radical Islam is taking the lead in terrorism. Yorktown Dec 2015 #21
It's bigoted to attack Muslims because of Daesh treestar Dec 2015 #18
I would never attack Muslims Yorktown Dec 2015 #20
No religion is progressive treestar Dec 2015 #24
There are 1.6 billion Muslims, more than half of which believe the Sharia should apply Yorktown Dec 2015 #32
thank you treestar napkinz Dec 2015 #25
^ Par for the course marmar Dec 2015 #27
exactly ... justifying the violence against Muslim Americans napkinz Dec 2015 #28
Nice soundbite Yorktown Dec 2015 #36
Well here we go again. Another era of shame. jwirr Dec 2015 #13
what's also shameful ... napkinz Dec 2015 #30
Agreed. jwirr Dec 2015 #31
The illness can spread where least expected Person 2713 Dec 2015 #56
One wonders what proxitmately caused this? AngryAmish Dec 2015 #14
So you're saying "this sort of mischief" is justified KamaAina Dec 2015 #35
There is nothing indicated for California oberliner Dec 2015 #22
Thank the ReTHUG politicians and M$Greedia malaise Dec 2015 #23
yep ... napkinz Dec 2015 #29
It's also informative to make note of what our USA news media refuses to cover M Kitt Dec 2015 #40
Muslims are such peaceful and welcoming people. They would be the last to resort of violence... 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #26
Can we start calling them pogroms? KamaAina Dec 2015 #34
"It's beginning to look a lot like ... Kristallnacht." napkinz Dec 2015 #38
Someone else is tracking these Anti-Islamic trends? That kind of Compassion is rare these days. M Kitt Dec 2015 #39
Thanks for sharing, M Kitt. I think you'll appreciate these two articles ... napkinz Dec 2015 #42
The Real Threat To America Is Right Wing Republican Terrorists? Yorktown Dec 2015 #43
I think the point is you are more likely to be killed by a radical right-wing nut napkinz Dec 2015 #44
Me? No. Yorktown Dec 2015 #45
And you seem to be "Invalidating" the threat posed by our own Reicht Wing fundamentalists M Kitt Dec 2015 #46
you are mixing two very different issues Yorktown Dec 2015 #47
So we agree GW and Cheney R owners of a Gigantic Clusterf*ck that the rest of us have inherited M Kitt Dec 2015 #48
GW's war did not invent Afghanistan's Talibans or Algeria's GIA which killed half a million Yorktown Dec 2015 #49
No, but again "Conflation" is the driving purpose of that comparison M Kitt Dec 2015 #50
You mix so many different issues it's hard to see your point Yorktown Dec 2015 #51
Umm, think I'll only address the final statement of that post, per the brief replies you've made M Kitt Dec 2015 #54
Accuracy is on my side Yorktown Dec 2015 #55
Those were both worth review, thanks. M Kitt Dec 2015 #58
Man if those dots DashOneBravo Dec 2015 #59
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