Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
 Originally Posted By: First Amongst Daves
Western civilization and it's values isn't founded on Christian concepts, you nitwits. It's founded on the pluralism and rejection of spiritualism that started with the Reformation and the Renaissance and culminated with Darwin and cosmology.

Despite Christianity, Western civilization has prevailed.

Here are some Muslim reactions to the shootings:

http://www.onislam.net/english/shariah/s...st-cartoon.html

Not seeing this on Fox, lads?

Now I remember why I don't come to this board. I always come away feeling like I have stepped in incorporeal dog shit and spend the next hour trying to wipe it off my psyche.


It doesn't matter how much most Muslims protest the terrorism. The same crowd always says the same thing about not seeing it. They don't want to. Why?



Here in South Florida, in an extremely multicultural region, I come into contact with at least hundreds of muslims, if not thousands.

I have NEVER spoken to one who expressed embarrassment with radical islam. They vaguely say that this isn't representative of all islam, but when pressed, they have anti-American views, and side with pan-islamic interests over those of the U.S. and broader West.
When pressed, they despise Israel and support Palestinian attacks of every kind.

I've seen several on the liberal side in these RKMB discussions post a muslim-liberal columnist here and there who protests islamic violence, and who waxes philosophic about what Islamic faith truly means. But that doesn't change what millions of violent jihadists ARE DOING in the name of Islam, or the millions who passively support and fund Islamic terror worldwide.

If I had seen one protest by Muslims in my area saying they disowned these actions, I would be persuaded there is another gentler form of Islam. If one muslim person I've spoken to, JUST ONE, in 15 years, had expressed strong opposition to this consistent thread of behavior among Al Qaida, ISIS, Nigeria, Sudan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel/Palestine, I might begin to believe that other muslims worldwide feel the same way. But they don't, and I don't.

While I'm sure there are a few, they are about as big and influential a movement within the Muslim global community as the Westboro Baptist church (which, for those not in the know, for all its vitriol and noise, only has about 40 members).