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In reply to the discussion: Lowe's yanks ads from 'All American Muslim'; local community outraged [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)There are over a billion Muslims worldwide, and what, a thousand or so that committed suicide bombings? Not to mention that most of those bombers came from countries that were/are in conflict and/or had/have brutal authoritarian regimes in them. Such conditions breed extremism and extreme tactics.
Christianity isn't immune from this, indeed the biggest differences is the fact that most Christians in the world live in true democracies, which tones down the extremism quite a bit, and in addition, those that are extremists display different tactics, even if motivations like with terrorist Muslims are similar. An extremist Christian is more likely to shoot up a place, or murder/assault people on the street due to some perceived difference, or religious/nationalist motivated hatred.
And perhaps less surprisingly, terrorist Muslims display a lot more competence than terrorist Christians, who, most of the time, are caught before they do a lot of damage.