brian ross wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 4:50 pm
All these excuses to allow Christian Paedos to be well, Christian Paedos. If Christians were held responsible for what their fellow Christians were doing, then the two cases would be comparable 'cause afterall, that is how Muslims are continually treated by Islamophobes. Tsk, tsk. I wonder how 4E would react if men were held responsible for the Rapists in their numbers? For the Murderers? For, *GASP* the Terrorists? Yet you all want to hold innocent, ordinary, everyday, well assimilated, moderate Muslims responsible for what other Muslims are doing in the name of Islam. Really? And you wonder why I get annoyed with Islamophobes?
Reality isn't any kind of phobia -- it just is.
Your "all Christians/pedophiles" analogy fails because -- putting aside the fact that you're presumably alluding to Catholic priests -- any Christian/Catholic who commits pedophilia isn't doing it in the name of his god and his religion (unless he's a total wacko). Go ahead, find me a "Christian Pedophilia Association."
Muslims, however, band together -- even traveling to other countries -- to form groups whose sole purpose is to commit acts of terrorism against innocent men, woman and children that are deemed "infidels" ... genuinely believing their massacres please Allah and glorify Islam. How many young Christian men leave their homeland to join some far-off pedophilia organization?
And Islamic terrorism is hardly an aberration. As Forbes magazine observes (citing the Global Terrorism Index), "Of the 18,814 deaths caused by terrorists around the world last year, well over half were due to the actions of just four groups: Islamic State, the Taliban, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram." (Gee, if only they all had something in common ...)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdud ... b298222b3e
Worse yet, even Muslims who don't participate in terrorism don't necessarily condemn it. As a 2016 poll indicated: "Almost half of British Muslims wouldn't go to the police if someone they knew was involved with supporters of terrorism in Syria."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2308529/h ... upporters/
Sure, not all Muslims are terrorists, just as not all KKK members participated in lynchings and not all Nazis operated the gas chambers. But that doesn't mean I'd welcome the sight of a Klansman or a Nazi moving into my neighborhood. It's the movement itself that's immoral and violent, and if non-violent Muslims don't like being stained with the transgressions of their Islamic brethren, they should stop complaining and put more effort into rooting out the radicals in their midst. (Assuming, of course, that they're truly appalled by them.)
So ... with regard to Muslim immigration, the better analogy is this: If someone told you that a bag of M&Ms contained nearly half that were poison, would you stick your hand in the bag, grab a bunch and shove them into your mouth anyway?