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Old 05-21-2014, 11:17 AM
 
Location: Florida
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I also say that gun owners are 'peaceful people'...yet they also spend a good deal of time shooting, killing, and getting shot.

Not much 'outcry' about it, except when someone shoots up a school or a restaurant.
Right. I don't think there is a peaceful group of people in US, or anywhere for that matter. I don't even know which group in US might be the most peaceful, because it seems like there is violence and murder everywhere you look. We are a violent country, there is no escaping it.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Read your own link; they're almost all recycled articles from the AP, Reuters, etc. And they're all about the violence ("genocide" crops up a bit I see) there, further showing Islam is not peaceful.

Incidentally HuffPo is not journalism; they merely aggregate others works on their website.
Huffpost is still a liberal news source, sorry that they aren't covering it the exact same way right wing news sources cover it.
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:34 AM
 
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Name one Christian country in which the state passes laws that requrie the execution of people that are not of the Christian faith, or that leave that faith.

This isn't about one wacko Muslim or Christian doing mindless, vicious crap in the name of his superstition. It's about an entire country basing laws on that superstition and murdering those that don't follow it. See the difference?
Name one "Christian country"

(Hint: The United States, Canada, Australia, the UK... they aren't "Christian countries.")
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:41 AM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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I read this story this morning, and its gnawing at me more and more.

These guys are a bunch of savages.

Imagine the news coverage and international backlash If a Christian even assaulted a Muslim At home here. There would be riots, and every news organization would eat that story up.

Vs a state sponsored murder for the crime of being a Christian and marrying a Christian.

Where are all the Hashtags and angry news reporters?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Muslims are off limits.

The only group left that people are free to attack is the Christians.

The real reason why liberals won't attack muslims---they're "Cowards"

Sudan Orders Christian Woman Hanged After Giving Birth | WREG.com
Even if ALL Sudan Muslims are violent (Which I really doubt)

STILL Doesn't mean ALL Muslim in the WORLD are violent.

Why do you have to generalize these people?!
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Pa
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The majority of Muslims are peaceful. It is the militant extremists who are not.
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:44 AM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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Name one "Christian country"

(Hint: The United States, Canada, Australia, the UK... they aren't "Christian countries.")
Although you were obviously trying to deflect the topic, you are hanging yourself here. Half the countries in the Middle East ARE Muslim countries. And that seems to be where most all of the stonings are going on... officially sanctioned by the governments... no?

Since you've pointed out that the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK are not Christian countries, you've effectively invalidated much from your previous posts. You can't very well have officially sanctioned Christian stonings when there is no such thing as an official body to grant such actions.
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:45 AM
 
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2.1 BILLION people are Muslims. About 23% od the world population.

Muslim Population in the World
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:46 AM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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The majority of Muslims are peaceful.
This is true. But that does not mean there are no officially sanctioned atrocities in Muslim countries.
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Old 05-21-2014, 11:53 AM
 
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If I remember right, it was George Bush leading the "Islam is a religion of peace" parade.

I'm a liberal, and I hate it. Just like I hate every other religion.
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Old 05-21-2014, 12:00 PM
 
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Although you were obviously trying to deflect the topic, you are hanging yourself here. Half the countries in the Middle East ARE Muslim countries. And that seems to be where most all of the stonings are going on... officially sanctioned by the governments... no?

Since you've pointed out that the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK are not Christian countries, you've effectively invalidated much from your previous posts. You can't very well have officially sanctioned Christian stonings when there is no such thing as an official body to grant such actions.
Not really. I don't think there is any evidence to say Muslims are "more violent" than Christians. Christians have more blood on their hands than any religion. I'm an agnostic atheist, so I look at it from the outside. "Muslim's are bad, Christians are good" is basically two people arguing over who's made up diety is "more right" than the other.
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