Gottle,
There are crimes committed by individuals from every religious and political background. Sometimes the motivation for those crimes are religious belief. If a Catohlic shot McKinley was it the tenets of his faith that motivated him?
It looks like Nidal was a sick man. He was a regular customer of a strip club. Islam does not condone that. He did apparently shout out Muslim slogans as he was shooting his fellow soldiers. Islam does condone that.
The incident, unlike the McKinley shooting is not isolated. All over the world there are bombs set off, suicide or otherwise, killing people indiscriminately, Christian, Jew and Muslim, by Muslims financed and supported by other Muslims, in the name of Islam or Allah.
The murders have happened in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Spain, Israel, Italy, Phillipines, Malaysia, Pakistan, Iraq, and just about everywhere Muslims happen to be. They are for the most part organized, not single demented people acting alone. In Sudan there has been a genocide of at least two million, carried out by Muslims. The Muslim leader of Iran has vowed to annihilate Israel and most Muslims in the world probably would like to see that happen. The mass mudererer of Locherbie went home to a hero’s welcome. At 9-11 there were celebrations in Muslim streets. The financing of 9-11 came from Saudi Arabia.
Jihad is a tenet of the religion. It comes from the very core of the religion. Mohamed called for it and Islam went to war and remained at war for many centuries to conquer the world for Allah until Lepanto and Vienna. They conquered all of the Christian world, but for Italy, France, Germany, England. They conquered all of Spain and Portugal and the Spaniards fought six centuries alone to drive them out. After the setbacks of Vienna and Lepanto they were unable to wage war for awhile and when Napoleon went with his army into Muslim lands it was clear advancements of military science of the west would make attacking the west impossilbe, but the religion did not change. The tenet of gaining the world by war remained and it is once again manifested in organized fashion.
Was the guy who shot McKinley incited into a religious fervor by priests who called for the killing? Was Hitler’s holocaust called for by Christian leaders and holy books?
The Taliban execute women for being literate. They are blowing up girls schools in Pakistan. They cut out their clitoruses. Girls are forced back into school dormitories on fire to perish, because they are in nightclothes.
All of these things whether acts of individuals or groups are done in the name of Islam. You can not accuse anyone of unfairly depicting Muslims for mentioning these things, or inciting hatred of Muslims. That is like saying someone hates homosexuals if they think the behavior is immoral. I think the Hindu and Shinto religions are false. If I did not I would join their religions. I don’t hate Hindus. I think Islam is a false religion. I hope for a miracle of conversion for them all, as happened at Guadalupe. MX. But saying Islam is a religion of peace is insane.
Christians from the very beginning of their history also want to take over the world. Their founder called for it. History shows, from the first apostles, the method is sending missionaries into non-Christian lands to try to convince people of the truth of their religion and convert them. Their missionaries are often rejected and martyred, and revered as martyrs. Their saints are miracle workers not warriors, other than a teenage girl martyred by fellow Christians.
At Fatima, a place of pilgrimage for Catholics and Muslims, Mary foretold WWII and the millions of deaths and horrendous destruction that it would bring. In Medjegorie, another private revelation, she is reported to have said there is a religious war coming that is inevitable. She appears in these places and others, crying over what men do in the world in their hardness of heart and refusal to turn from sin. I lament with her.