An excellent article that shows this blog entry title is obviously wrong.
A 9/11 Widow Balances Her Family, a Job and Islam - NYTimes.com
Islam has a problem with extremists - a statement of the obvious. But most Muslims are devout people who live peaceful, good lives. Good thing too since millions live around us. They ignore the extremist passages in the Koran or creatively explain them away. Just as many Christians ignore or explain away extremist language in the Bible. See the early blog post about the slavery passages in the old testament and your unconvincing response (I understood your response to be that the bible says more or less that slavery is okay as long as we treat them kindly).
Extremists focus on the extremist language in their holy book to justify their acts. Should all Muslims be condemned for the acts of Islamic extremists? The language in their book certainly supports what they do. However Christians should consider this carefully before they go down this path. After all, Christianity could be blamed for the acts of Christian extremists - like the Ku Klux Klan. Who, after all, used the Cross as a very powerful symbol. The KKK (and modern day white supremacists) considered themselves the only true Christians - just as Islamic extremists believe they are the only true Muslims. (A side note - why didn't southern white Christian churches publicly condemn the acts of the KKK? Probably because the KKK were members of local churches.)
It is absurd to blame Christianity for the acts of the KKK - it is also absurd the blame all Muslims for the acts of the extremists on 9/11. Both faiths have holy books that are fully of extremist language - and 99% of followers (thank goodness) of both faiths ignore or explain away the extremist language. Just as you thankfully did.
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