No, American evangelicals are less crazy than Muslim extremists because they don't behead people, strap bombs to their bodies and blow up people, set IED's in roads, form mobs that chant death threats .......
Look, I know .... American evangelicals are white Americans (okay, not all of them are white, but in your mind they are) and therefore you set an incredibly high standard of behavior for them.
No, you look....I am well aware that there are evangelicals of every color....Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton come to mind and I have not treated them any differently. However, there are many more prominent white evangelicals than there are black or brown or yellow or red.
But you are right in that I do set a higher standard when it comes to American evangelicals. Why? Because we are better educated, more democratic and better economically. Should those conditions not make a difference?
Muslims on the other hand are, in your mind, brown third worlders and you EXPECT them to be murderous savages .... so you have a very low standard of behavior expected for them.
No, I don't. Their behavior is abhorrent. But I don't share this country with terrorist Muslims but I do share it with American evangelicals. I am sure even you can see why that might make a difference in my perspective.
Thus its easy for you to equate one American pastor of a tiny church threatening to burn a koran with
mobs of thousands of Muslims chanting death to America, terrorists who kill Christian aid workers, cut off people's heads, set explosives in markets .....
So then, you don't care if his Koran burnings impact the troops in Afghanistan. Is that what you are telling us? |
