Christian Terrorist is Grim News on Eve of Ramadan and 9/11

[ej510]

Source: Huffington Post

Norway's worst armed attack since World War II is grim news in the week before Ramadan, which starts August 1 for more than 1 billion Muslims around the world. Investigators' statements and news reports circling the globe claim that accused Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is a Christian terrorist determined to touch off a new Christian-Muslim war that would rival medieval Crusades.

If true, this Norwegian terrorist struck at a horrendous moment in global Christian-Muslim relations, when huge numbers of Muslims around the world say they are suspicious of the Crusader-like violence they perceive among Western Christians.

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This year, remember to wish our Muslim neighbors, friends and relatives a Good Ramadan. In your community, keep a compassionate watch on Muslim students, athletes and co-workers during those scorching August days. Muslims will need to take more breaks this year.

No one can undo what the Norwegian Christian terrorist has done. He survived the rampage -- so we may be subjected to many months of his anti-Muslim tirades. But, for thoughtful men and women in the predominantly Christian West, we can make a difference one compassionate family at a time.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-crumm/christian-terrorist-ramadan_b_908172.html

[Roy Rolling]

1. mis-branding

Though he says so, the Norwegian terrorist is no more a Christian and follower of Jesus Christ than the Muslim terrorists who profess to follow Islam. Both have betrayed their spiritual faith despite proudly saying they are religious followers.

They are not, they are violent and evil people disguised as religious people.

[richmwill]

2. +1 (n/t)

[ej510]

3. You never here those words out of westerners when it applies to Muslims.

You never here Al-Qaeda isn't Islamic.

[Union Scribe]

7. You do here.

So why bring that shit here? You think you're somehow compensating for maligned Muslims? You're not. The point you're trying to make is lost in your own flaunting of it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. To give Bush his due, he called it a 'perversion of a noble faith'

http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources/quotes/george-w-bush-on-the-perversion-of-islam-by-radicals-in-state-of-the-union-address

[xfundy]

4. OK, then establish official standards.

While I completely understand the desire of a nonviolent Christian (Muslim, Jew, Mormon, etc) to differentiate oneself from extremists, the fact is that the standard wail of "But they're not REAL Christians" is predictable to the point of having become cliché long ago. In fact, it sounds like whining–and Freepers, child-molester-protecting Catholic leadership, hate-filled "Conservative" "christian" "ministries" that call for violence, discrimination in thinly-veiled harangues say PRECISELY THE SAME THING.

There are humans that torture and kill people. But they are humans, just like me or you.

They are part of a group you belong to, by choice.

To claim otherwise is to float down that river of DENIAL.

[ej510]

5. Real talk, if this guy were a Muslim you would not here the outcry from Christians you here right no

[LanternWaste]

6. It then begs the question...

It then begs the question... what is the precise relevance of labeling a person as part of a group if that person's action are not part and parcel that group's tenets?

I imagine he had a job, yes? Why then is that job not part of the appellations being used to describe him? I'd think because it's simply irrelevant to his agenda and/or his actions :shrug: What type of auto did he drive? Many others drive the same make and model I'd think-- is relegating that to irrelevancy "floating down that river of DENIAL." also?

Having said that, I do of course realize the visceral satisfaction it can bring-- I saw it from my RW friends after 9-11, and I've seen it here in the past few days. We all of us entertain the spurious correlations in the world if they better validate a presumption we may hold...