You know the post of mine being reference is specific to race. Show me the post where I've stated all black people are, all white people are, all brown, etc.. Show me that. By you're interpretation if I said all members the Westboro Baptist Church are nuts, that would fit the qualifiers in my post. In my mind that doesn't fit. However, I'll tell ya' what. You run a poll right here in P&R. List the post in question. Word the poll, did I (Captain Obvious) violate his own terms I listed. Run it until Sunday evening. I will comply with the results.
They are all made up. Made up by people who want to impose their beliefs upon other people. Organized religion has nothing to do with Creation, a Creator or the debate on creation by a single entity or by random chance. Organized religion, all of them, is about controlling groups of people. Nothing more, nothing less. Call it politics with the same kind of rule book. Practice what we preach, not what we do, and leadership is exempt.
"Brown" is not a race. Dance until you bleed but you're still rationalizing in order to justify your bigotry. Racism is not a critical component.
By your slicing and dicing definition, neither is black, white, yellow or red. In this day of feigned and manufactured outrage, one mans bigotry is another mans experienced opinion.
Standard definition. Race and ethnicity are not the same thing. You redefine "race" whenever it suits you. Which is why it's more honest and saves a lot of time to refer to white supremacy rather than racism. That includes everybody that you hate. Experienced opinion? If you like. But that still does not entitle anyone to generalize to an entire group. Is tolerant right-winger a contradiction in terms?
Is tolerant left-winger a contradiction in terms? Depends who is asking, which is my point. All I know is that you started this thread in some feeble attempt to defend Islam and I pointed out the blatant and utterly astounding cowardice and hypocrisy of the left when it comes religion. It's open season all day, every day when speaking to the absurdity of Christian beliefs, but it's no touch on Islam. Why is that? Bill Maher can spend an entire show maligning Christianity to endless howls of laughter and applause, but let him mention Islam in the same vein and that same crowd not only grows silent, but defensive. Why is that? When this stunning hypocrisy is pointed out, you/they/the leftist crowd cannot, and does not attempt to defend their actions. Like yourself, when cornered with this painfully obvious act of cowardice and hypocrisy they begin their attack on those asking the questions. Everyone becomes a bigot. Everyone has some type of phobia. You/they point out some b.s. that those on the right are guilty of. THAT AIN'T THE TOPIC. The topic is your double standard when addressing the crazy ass, extremely violent religion of Islam. Address that. We're not talking about some silly assed group like the Westboro Baptist types. Islam has millions upon millions of people practicing this crazy assed religion. They MURDER hundreds of thousand of people each and every year. They torture countless others. If not actually putting their religion of hate and violence into action, the overwhelming majority of the rest are stunningly silent. A brave few speak out and I commend their courage. There might be a few more find the courage if the leftist media would show some backbone themselves. Maybe if the supposed "'leader of the free world" would show some backbone, but he can't even call a spade a spade when it comes to Islamic terrorism. Leftist cowards, every last one of them.
A. I didn't start the thread to defend Islam; I started the thread to provide the POV of a Muslim cartoonist. As for the "cowardice and hypocrisy of the left when it comes to religion", that's the product of your fevered misperceptions. B. Your babbling about Muslims has yet to address the fact that we brought this on ourselves, which is also addressed in the article. Not that I expect your vision to clear long enough to see it, given the laser-like intensity of your prejudices, but dragging in a lot of extraneous irrelevancies does nothing to aid clarity.
So islamist terrorism is acceptable because the west did stuff to offend muslims? Now I've heard it all. Here is the great disconnect. Our "leaders" on both sides of the aisle keep insisting this is not about islam. Well the islamists certainly don't see it that way, not at all. The guy in the OP basically said if we attacked a "muslim" country, any kind of reprisal including terrorism was not only acceptable but reasonable. So an attack on one muslim is an attack on them all apparently, but if a group of muslims attack us spouting muslim jingo, it is just the attack of some extremists and clearly has nothing to do with islam.
Leftists are cowards. What I want to see is some left wing artist piss in a jar, thrown a copy of the Quran in it and have it displayed at some NY art gallery. I want to see wall to wall coverage by the MSM. I want to see the smug smirks of the leftist commentators when they say, hey, it's just art. I want to see and hear them defend it as simple freedom of expression. Then maybe we can talk about "fevered misperceptions." Until then they are cowards, only willing to lay in front of a truck that they know will stop.
I find your assertion that "we brought this on ourselves" to be quite offensive. Multiple U.S. Presidents have stated this assertion is quite offensive. The fairy tale that western nations somehow "brought this on ourselves" due to western nations trading for oil or some type of "interference" in the Middle East is absurd. I know there are a number people who attempt to weave this fable complete with a historical timeline of all the offenses from western nations. Maybe liberals just need to understand that the culture of these Middle Eastern nations are stuck in the 10th century and are still very tribal.