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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
I know of very few (in fact...I really know of none) Christians that embrace, nor even condone, the Rev. Phelps' idealogy. I would call Phelps an...extremist. Why then, do we assume that because some Muslim extremists step out of the bounds (to put it lightly) of human acceptability, are we so quick to catagorize them as representative of the entire islamic faith?
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In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim.
In 1972 at the Munich Olympics athletes were slaughtered by Muslims.
The '79 Iranian embassy fun was committed by Muslims.
The Beirut US Marine barracks were bombed in 1983 by Muslims.
A 70 year old man in a wheelchair was thrown from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship in 1985 by Muslims.
TWA flight 847 was hijacked by Muslims in 1985. A US serviceman died in an attempted rescue.
Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) was blown up by Muslims.
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was done by Muslims.
The US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslims in 1998.
9/11/2001 was committed by Muslims.
The Beslan school massacre was carried out by Muslims.
Muslims perpetrated the 7/7 bombings in England.
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Perhaps those things tend to stand out a little more than the piss poor examples that these "Christians" are setting for their "religion".