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Originally Posted by highthief
Well, I'm not sure something is "rotten at the core" of the faith - Islam is divided into several main sects and a bunch of smaller ones beside. It would be like saying there is something rotten at the core of Christianity because Jerry Falwell and his followers are a bunch of nutjobs.
But the lack of outrage does concern me. The lack of intensive media coverage by the Arab media is remarkable. I don't subscribe to Al-Jazeera or anything, but you'd think we'd here more about this than an editorial on page B3 of the Toronto Star.
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The apathy of the Muslim community at large is what I was refering to when I said that "Islam is rotten at the core". And while there are many sects of Islam, Al-Qaeda are members of the Sunni branch, which also happens, by far, to be the largest branch. If mainstream (non-homicidal/suicidal) Sunnis really were repulsed by what Osama and Company have done in the name of their faith, I really think there would have been a lot more public outcry. I find the lack of such outcry to be repulsive in the extreme.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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