Yeah. It's all right wing conservative Christian rhetoric. I never thought Westboro would have such an influence in the Middle East. You are just so smart you and guno for figuring it out that everything ISIS does is because Christians make them do it.
This is why Obama will never say "radical Islam" because he knows like you and guno that this all goes back to the Crusades and ISIS is not responsible for their actions at all. It's all about radical Christianity.
Obviously ISIS has been getting secret messages from Reverend Phelps. OMG sealybobo you are right!!!!!!!!!!!! Look what the Christians are making ISIS do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they aren't the only killers. You act like Muslims and Arabs are the only ones who kill
I believe statistically when it comes to the LGBT community they are mostly at physical risk from zealots within the Muslim community. This is just a fact. And this is taking place in far too many countries.
For years I've been on boards warning that the harassment and physical assaults against gays in Europe would inevitably and sadly find its way to our shores. I have never understood why the LGBT community in the Americas has not been more vocal in condemning these atrocities.
I've been involved now for over two decades now working for women's rights in the ME particularly Afghanistan and naturally the scope of my activism has spread to human rights all thru the ME, Europe and now the Americas.
I've always been pro Muslim and Anti radical Islam. I lived in Toronto for many a year and it's like a mini United Nations and I probably have known and worked with more Muslims personally than probably most on this board.
And they cannot nor should they be lumped into "one" religious nation because just like Christians Muslims come from all over the world with their own sets of moral and ethical standards depending on which country they have immigrated from.
Now that being said, we must not allow what has happened in Europe to occur here.
When we excuse violent acts by radical extremists by trying to blame everything and anything else rather that putting the full blame right where it belongs, on the extremist we hurt the Muslim community itself.
How on earth does an Imam get the moderate message out when everyone else and their mother are hogging the limelight in the aftermath of a terror attack? Politicians and entertainers have been sucking up the air for days. Sucking up all the headlines. Trying to blame everyone but Omar.
Blaming every one and everything else rather than the radicalized terrorist. It's a pity that so many people feel the need from Obama, Clinton, Kerry <fill in the blank anti gun politician>,Lady Gaga to Colbert to Kim Kardashian to hog the spotlight calling for peace love and understanding and of course gun control and a moderate Imam can't fight his way to a microphone because these attention whores take up all the space on page one.
Sadly the media is to blame as well for allowing these people to take over page one. The moderate message of Islam if lucky at all will be found on page C52. Pity. I don't know how we correct this so that the general population could understand that moderate Muslims do condemn the acts of radical Islam. And yes Muslims do understand and fear radical Islam. Mostly they are the victims of extremism.
They just can't get to the microphone. Their voices aren't being heard.
Here's an FYI. Gay bashing in the Netherlands is hitting nightmarish levels.
Gay-bashers thrive in modern-day Netherlands
By
Ezra Levant, QMI Agency
"If you think Amsterdam is the gay capital of Europe, you're half-right, but 10 years out of date. Today it's the gay-bashing capital of Europe.
Because Amsterdam isn't just gay. Now it's Muslim, too. A million Moroccans and Turks have immigrated to the Netherlands, and sharia law rules the streets.
If you doubt it, then you haven't been paying attention. Actually, that's not fair. Gay-bashing is front-page news only when it's committed by a straight, white male.
The media is terribly uncomfortable writing about gay-bashing by minorities. It's the same reason why Canadian feminists are so eerily quiet about honour killings of Muslim girls.
According to an "offender study" by the University of Amsterdam, there were 201 reports of anti-gay violence in that city in 2007 - and researchers believe for every reported case there are as many as 25 unreported ones. Two thirds of the predators are Muslim youths.
The violence couldn't be more brazen. It's not in the back alleys in the dark, it's in the heart of the city, often in broad daylight. It's a direct dare to the Dutch government to show who rules the streets.
In 2008, 10 Muslim youths broke into a fashion show, dragged gay model Michael du Pree off the stage and beat him bloody. Last month, several lesbians were hit by beer bottles thrown at their heads as they marched in a parade of thousands to protest violence against gays. There's a gay community centre in Amsterdam - you'd think that would be safe. Wrong. It's a target, with home-invasion style beatings.
No one is immune. Last year Hugo Braakhuis, the founder of Amdsterdam's gay pride parade, was attacked."
More at link.
Gay-bashers thrive in modern-day Netherlands
