Yaya - can you point to the post in this thread where you explained your false claim?
Yaya - can you point to the post in this thread where you explained your false claim?
Okay, last one. I deleted posts because I felt bad about mucking up the board (I had bumped 8 threads, which you called 3). And I deleted the posts where I cursed, because I try not to on this board.
But here is the post where you accused liberals of "bending over backwards" to defend terrorist acts. I'm not sure why this is something you keep denying. But you haven't explained this, or apologized for it, or just said that it was a mistake. It's strange that you don't even acknowledge it. You are clearly doing just that.
And that's that. NOW I'm done. I feel bad for you, more than anything.
I expect to see a lot of "Thingy" posts trying to provoke me going forward. You won't. If it makes you feel better in some way, have at it. But please do not accuse anyone of defending terrorism or murder or death, unless they actually do.
Unlike people like you, who blather endlessly about the evils of Muslims on an obscure message board, there are prominent liberal human rights groups who actually work in the real world to help defend people of all religious faiths, including Christian faiths.
Amnesty International: Egyptian Government must protect Coptic Christians
The Egyptian authorities must offer urgent protection to Coptic Christians in North Sinai and provide essential services and accommodation to hundreds who were forced to flee their homes, after seven people from the community were killed in a series of attacks there over the past month, said Amnesty International.
The government has failed to take action to protect Christians in North Sinai who have increasingly faced kidnapping and assassinations by armed groups over the past three years. *The authorities have also failed to prosecute those responsible for sectarian attacks against Christians elsewhere in Egypt, resorting instead to state-sponsored reconciliation agreements which, at times, have involved the forced eviction of Christian families from their homes.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...n-north-sinai/
Egyptian priest praises Muslim support of threatened Christians
OXFORD, England (CNS) -- A spokesman for Egypt's Catholic Church praised local Muslims for helping embattled Christians after a series of Islamic State attacks in Sinai.
Father Rafic Greiche, spokesman for the Coptic Catholic Church, said Christians must differentiate between ordinary Muslims and extremists.
"Ordinary Muslims are kind and try to help however they can -- *they're often first on the scene, rescuing the injured and taking them to hospitals," he told Catholic News Service March 3, as Christians continued to flee Egypt's North Sinai region.
http://www.catholicnews.com/services...christians.cfm
anatta (04-22-2017)
as long as it's understood "ordinary Muslims and extremists" are both real Muslims.
Salafi jihad ( commonly called extremism" is extreme,but the Salafi movement is becoming more and more mainstream.
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/27/who-...ation_partner/
Origins of Salafism
The Arabic term salaf means “ancestors.” It refers technically to the first three generations of Muslims who surrounded the Prophet Muhammad. Because they had direct experience with the original Islamic teachings and practices, they are generally respected across the Muslim world.
Self-identified Salafists tend to believe they are simply trying to emulate the path of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. This might include an array of practices from dress to culinary habits, as well as ethical teachings and commitment to faith.
Salafism as a movement is believed to have originated in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some historians claim it started as a theological reform movement within Sunni Islam. The impetus was to return to the original teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad and the Quran — a consequence, in part, of social changes and Western colonialism.
They specifically cite the works of Egyptian, Persian and Syrian intellectuals from the 19th century as shaping Salafist movements. One recent study, however, argues that these intellectuals from the past never even used the term Salafism. In other words, there is no authoritative account of how or when exactly this movement originated.
Finally, it is also open to debate as to which Islamic groups, schools of thought and practices may be considered Salafist. This is because groups and individuals who are labeled Salafist do not always view themselves this way. And they disagree among each other over what defines authentic Salafist practice.
Here’s what my research shows
The vast majority of people who loosely affiliate with Salafism, however, are either simply nonpolitical or actively reject politics as morally corrupt. From 2005 to 2014, I spent a total of two years as an ethnographic researcher in the cities of Lyon, in southeastern France, and in Hyderabad, in south India. I clearly observed this among these two communities.
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