Christians in America must speak out

THE BAD NEWS: Christianity & Islam are the 2 religions always involved in religious violence on one side or both. Their supremacist beliefs bring out the worst in everyone as well. Not an impressive record of spiritual development for these religions.

THE GOOD NEWS: The majority of the world is not Christian or Muslim. Most are Hindu, Buddhists, Sikh, Jain, Confucianist, Taoist, Atheist, etc. These other "religions" do not promote religiously motivated violence.

Islam is impressive for a "religion" in terms of the violence and hatred. Just look at Pakistan today and the so-called moderate clerics celebrating the murder of an innocent. The killer is showered with rose petals, and the victim is blamed. The victim did not even commit blasphemy, which should be a capital crime anyway. He just spoke against blasphemy laws.

Where are the usual apologists for the Islam as the religion o' peace?

The solution is simple enough. Withdraw all alien forces - especially US forces - from the Muslim world AND dump the fictive "State of Israel" and you won't see any revenge attacks on Christians in Muslim lands for the bombings, the predator drone attacks and the ethnic cleansing policies of their spiritual brethren.

And while you're babbling nonsense about Muslim violence, google this term:

"Lord's Resistance Army"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Lord%27s+Resistance+Army%22

The Lord's Resistance Army of Christian "prophet" Joseph Kony has committed savagery and massacres on children on an enormous scale.

Sperrico,

You wrote:

"When anyone views the Muslim world today he or she sees a cult of anger at almost anything. Childish rage at cartoons depicting Islam's prophet while Muslims photoshoped pictures of Jewish leaders of Israel and prominent Christians of the West are depicted as vampires, apes and dogs."

How wrongheaded to define the entire "Muslim world" based on the acts of a few? Based on the logic of your thinking, the entire "Chrisitan world" should be defined by bigoted and hateful Christians like John Hagee, and the entire Jewish world should be based on the scrofulous Avigdor Lieberman. Of course, however, this is not the case.

And what is your authority to make such a statement about the Muslim world? How many Muslims do you know? How many Muslim majority countries have you visited? How many Mosques have you visited.

I am atheist, but I think I have more of a "Christian" heart than you or Cal Thomas.

You know, Cal, if you didn't spend most of your time here claiming that it's 'persecuting' Christians in America if everyone doesn't bow to your *own* bigotries, you might get a bit more sympathy when you claim Christians overseas are 'persecuted.'

(Yes, there's clearly a difference. However, you still act as though whatever you demand does no wrong, even when it leads to violence against others *here.*)

Maybe if people didn't have to defend ourselves so much against *you* *here,* we could all have some basis to stand on when saying it shouldn't be done to others elsewhere.

It is always easier for conservative Americans to see the evil done in the name of Islam than the evil done in the name of Christianity.

When anyone views the Muslim world today he or she sees a cult of anger at almost anything. Childish rage at cartoons depicting Islam's prophet while Muslims photoshoped pictures of Jewish leaders of Israel and prominent Christians of the West are depicted as vampires, apes and dogs. This simple example shows Islam's incoherent sense of equity.

It's okay for a Muslim to do the very thing that will get a non-Muslim murdered by a member of the sanctified rage of a religion; a cult that a deliberately misguiding President calls a religion of peace.
If someone is attempting to kill you, do not consider his outrage at what he may have believed that your forebears may have done, before you defend yourself, kill him.

Mr. Thomas,

This is not a clash between civilizations, a phrase that should be expunged from the political debate. The vast majority of Muslims living in Egypt, Pakistan, and throughout the world, are, like any other people, good and decent human beings. The current trail of suffering and agony that leads through places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine is marked by numerous injustices and miscalculations not only by some Muslims, but by the West, including: (1)the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, which caused a level of human suffering that the United States has not come close to acknowledging (and that is not even taking into account the toll taken by the years of sanctions on Iraq before the war); (2) the foolish support of Muslim extremists, hand in hand with Saudi Arabia, in the 1980s in the war in Afghanistan; and (3)the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people, which anyone can now see. Given these tragic events - which have killed and displaced millions of our Muslim brothers and sisters - it is no wonder there is a level of hate and anger that leads to atrocities.

Clearly, we should all bear witness to the slaying of innocents anywhere, including innocent Christians at the hands of Muslim extremists. But to witness such tragedies and to then conclude that there is a clash of civilizations in which Muslims are cast as the villian (which is what Christian extremists like you believe), without acknowledging the historical roots of such problems, is shallow.