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.
Only because whites are a minority. Nonwhite folks are just as likely to be evangelicals as whites.
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?
You mean you think we're more civilized.
First off, many Muslims are well educated and affluent. Osama bin Ladin, for example. Zawahiri, the doctor, for another example. The guy who tried to blow up a vehicle in NYC recently. KSM, who confessed to beheading that reporter named Pearl, went to college in North Carolina.
The ME was civilized thousands of years before northern Europe. If anything they should be more civilized than us. Don't liberals always brag about how advanced Islam was in the middle ages (remember you posting about the glories of Cordoba)? I think those boasts are gross exaggerations but apparently you folks don't even believe the stuff you say.
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.
Yes, there are terrorists here now. I've mentioned the guy who tried to blow up a vehicle in NYC already .... there is also the Ft Hood shooter and the guys who plotted to attack Ft Dix in NJ, I could go on and on with examples here.
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?
Sure I do. But he is less responsible for Muslims killing Americans than the Muslims who commit the crimes. You should direct your outrage at the people you know are bloodthirsty killers.
Tell me, what about violence over the Mohammed cartoons in Denmark? Do you think that cartoonist was as horrible as Terry Jones? |
