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Christianity, missouri, Mosque, Pew Survey, St. Louis, vandalism
Via Think Progress we learn that vandals struck a St. Louis Mosque – for the second time in the two weeks. (And why didn’t I learn this in the Post-Dispatch?) A pentagram and the slogan “Worship Satan” were spraypainted on the Mosque wall.
The response from the Mosque officials:
In an interview with local news station KMOV, mosque spokesman Tim Kaminski said the mosque is not interested in pursuing charges against the vandal or vandals. “What we would like is for this person to come forward and come clean,” said Kaminski. “We have no rancor, no anger. We want to talk to this person. Explain to them what Islam is, that we worship the same God as the Christian and Jewish traditions do.”
Aren’t Christians supposed to be the ones who turn the other cheek? One comment brought up the new survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and it occurred to me that this event certainly helps put into perspective its finding that even atheists know more about the Christian religion than most self-professed Christians.
Another comment voiced a much darker concern:
It’s a short step from vandalism against property to attacks on people.
I was in Detroit just after 9/11, and I remember an incident reported in the local papers in which a mechanic attacked and injured an innocent Muslim man with a crowbar. As I remember it, the victim had done nothing other than enter his shop seeking service. The moral is that there are more than a few murderous fools with poor impulse control hiding in the woodwork, and, unfortunately, there are also lots of cynical demagogues who ought to know better, but who are hell-bent on using raging zenophobia as a political tool.
Uh, Willy Boy, you know that it was “Christians” that did this tagging exactly how? An “innocent Muslim” in Detroit was attacked with a crow bar? “Raging zenophobia”?
You remember the sound those bodies made when they hit the payment after jumping from the Towers to avoid being burned alive Willie Boy? As I recall in the 3000 or so lives lost their were Christians, Jews, and Muslims; but Christians did not fly the planes into the Towers and the Pentagon Willy Boy. Christians did not drive a bomb into the USS Cole either. A Christian did not go on a shooting rampage at Ft. Hood.
While it is true that all Muslims are not current day terrorists, it is true that all current day terrorists are Muslim. I find your concerns about “mistreating” Muslims a little of balance, as would most Americans who do not wish to have a monument to their “victory” built at Ground Zero.
Rogue – you really need professional help with both your English grammar/spelling and with the anger you have bottled up inside you. It doesn’t do you any good to hate a whole subset of the human population. In fact, hatred eats away at the stomach and the soul.
Given the number of Christians on the planet vs the number of Muslims and the total number of years both groups have had to murder “infidels,” Christians certainly have outscored Muslims, probably by a factor of 10. Just look at the history of European colonization of North and South America. The Spanish Catholics put native people on a roasting spit and made them “convert” or be burned to death.
And Christians during the Reformation and Counter Reformation in Europe killed each other in the name of Christ. Methinks no Christian alive today is in a position to condemn people of other faiths.