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So how many of you folks have been listening to short wave radio lately? Can you name a Christian preacher who regularly talks in hateful inflammatory language on that platform without having to resort to the use a search engine just to try to look even one of them up? Patrick doesn't bother to provide us with the name of even one because it would likely allow us to examine the source and identify said speaker as being from the fringe. And if you are fluent in Arabic, just how many shortwave broadcasts are there from imams calling for the destruction of Israel, death to the United States and jihad are there? Plenty! Patrick, you obviously have a selective bone to pick with Christians. I'm not sure why, but many blame Christians for nearly everything imaginable. That being said, mainstream Christianity today is undeniably peaceful. And if you check news reports from around the world, Christians are still regularly murdered for their faith. Burn a bible what happens? Shoot the Pope? - he forgives the shooter. Put a crucifix in urine for an art gallery what happens, or smear a painting of the virgin Mary with elephant dung, what happens? Draw a cartoon of Muhammad or threaten to burn a Koran and what happens. Mr. Butler your letter itself is evidence of a pure case of selective perception. Extremism will likely always exist. Anyone using that as a call to silence any or all voices you disagree with for own political purposes is very weak indeed for the first amendment guarantees our freedom of speech. It would be fairer to say, "Let the voices of the majority drown out extremism".
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/01/23/1516281/islam-has-no-monopoly-on-religious.html#ixzz1By0SQGuc
From the other Whet_stone quote - To all you anti-gun nuts - shut up
Whet_stone is fluent in Arabic?????????
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He's just worn down by too many dull knives having been swiped on him....
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