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In reply to the discussion: Attacks On Mosques And Harassment Of Muslims Skyrocketing In America [View all]M Kitt
(208 posts)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.