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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (585343)	9/13/2010 4:43:35 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575939

"It seems to me that you justify or at least partially excuse persecution against Christians in predominantly Muslim countries. All because they're "proselytizing" in a culture where they're not welcome." All in your own mind. I find any persecution to be abhorrent. I would call what's happening in Milasia persecution. I would call what happens to Christians in a relatively westernized culture like Egypt persecution as well. Breaking the law to sneak into an Arab region with the intent to proselytize is not what I would call being persecuted; it is aggressive. Yet I would do everything I could to get them freed once they get caught... prison, whipping, beheading etc is way over punishment not matching the crime. I simply pointed out that under similar circumstances Christians have behaved the same way. I never said one is justified and the other is not. You can declare modern Christians to have evolved above that all you want but we have too much history for you to convince me of it. If the old circumstances were to return, the old behavior would also, which is why the atheists are so afraid of extreme right wing religion getting hold of the reigns of power. "Yet you want to take a stand for Muslims here in America because they might suffer some funny looks and prejudice." Ahhh... just some funny looks and prejudice. Whatever Ten. In any event, I want to take a stand for anyone who is a victim of bigoted attacks here in American, and I do as often as the occasion merits it. I'm happy to take a stand for anyone who is unjustly attacked; feel free to bring me an example and test it, or refer back to the many years I've posted on SI to find an exception. The other big group of people who it is popular to unjustly attack are white Christian men in America and I've stood up for them too. Muslims are simply the new nigger in America and it is to no small extent. Why would you not take a stand against that, or at least see it as a good cause for others? We don't have to endorse Islam to take a stand against bigotry.