A lot of our corporate media spew the same things about Islam. As I've said in other posts, I've been adversely affected in my life by terrorist acts in a Muslim country long before many here experienced 9/11 or anything close to it. And yet, having known many DIFFERENT Muslims in my life, I can say they are human beings like we are. There are jerks, but there are also many decent people just like we deal with in terms of other people in our lives here.
To go out and denounce a religion itself and those who follow it just based on the actions of a few in my book is just bigotry. I don't judge others from what I've seen those in the KKK do and other extremist Christians too. There are extremist Christian churches just as there are some extremist congregations of Muslims. We need to be weary and protect ourselves against both of them. But we shouldn't allow ourselves to be bigoted towards all who are associated with one religion just based on the acts of a few just because they are "different" from us or are people we normally don't associate with our lives and haven't had a chance to get to know as we know others that are in groups where some in those groups are also extremist criminals.
Some try to extract certain segments of the Koran to try and justify these rationalizations. There are many worse verses in the bible if you are going to try to cherry pick stuff that justifies going in and raping and killing women in cities too, if you take them out of context from the vast majority of teachings that are very valuable and instructive in terms of ethics to our fellow man. This one attendee of Bernie Sanders speech at Liberty University felt that though there were issues he differed with Sanders on, that he felt a lot more supportive of Sander's statements on morality than many in his party have been giving as being closer to what his faith taught him).
An Evangelical responds to Sanders' speech at Liberty U
Why can't we all follow this man's great example and look for the positive parts of what our fellow man that we might be inclined to feel is different from us instead of searching for the negatives to solidify a condemnation of them and those we consider like them in a broad brush.
And for those here that support gay rights but feel that all of those following Islam would be against what you want, read more here on how a group of American Muslims are trying to work for their religion and others to accept gay marriage too.
American Muslims Supporting Gay Marriage Speak Up
Now some of you might agree with the stances of many of the Muslim countries that outlaw it because you also don't support it as Christians. Maybe some of you are surprised and heartened that some Muslims support it the way you do too. But I think the important thing to note is there is a diversity of viewpoints in this religion by looking at this issue as an example, that those who are a part of it aren't all following some monolithic ritual that some here feel is very evil that leads all of them to want to do a 9/11 on us.
