And todays example of mercy and compassion comes to us from Egypt!
And, from one of the articles in the side margin of you link, were you on a plane recently?
Well that’s different though. That fella was a Christian, and therefore had no religious reasons to strive for peace, mercy and compassion.
TS;DR. Oh, just fuck the hell off. Muslims (assumption based on your thread title) I know are nice people.
Isn’t there a thread for this theme already?
Well obviously Christianity isn’t the ‘religion of peace’ since you need walls to keep Christians from killing each other.
I’m sure I’ll be going to the hell that doesn’t exist for this, but my first thought was: the High Sparrow strikes again!
Linky no worky
As I have noted before, as a Cradle Catholic I am confused because I am now a Lutheran but was raised to enjoy the thought of burning heretics. These days I have to leave such thoughts to Baptists. Muslims (I still haven’t looked–we ARE talking about them?) are those people with women whose wavy, ebony locks are so hot I shouldn’t see them, or are those Maronite Christians? Or Orthodox Jews? I get so confused,since I have always been a sucker for Mediterranean chicks. 
How does this compare? The story doesn’t identify him as ANY religion, and he didn’t yell “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” as he was doing it.
Oh yeah, he also didn’t strip an old lady naked and parade her down a street, so there’s that.
Easy to fix: try Northern Ireland
You mean Stupid Religious idea of the Day?
Perhaps not. But in his zest to show Islam as a vile, disgusting religion, he also used a site that shows that in America, we don’t tolerate them people who belong to that religion, but are just trying to go about their lives without bothering other people. The audacity of that woman!
Plus “But Christians do it, too!!” is the lamest of rebuttals.
Have I mentioned that I wept when the local mission closed that showed NI kids that Cs and Ps could live together and only some of us got nostalgic, and only ironically, that the Good Ol’ Days were past? Friends, this was only a few years ago. There is hope, if only fuckheads like the OP would get with the times.
Since the country is 85-90% Christian and he’s from North Carolina, I’d say the odds are pretty high.
Not if the point you are trying to make is that it makes to sense to blame an entire religion with hundreds of millions of adherence for the crimes of some of its members. We don’t demand that every time a Christian person is caught doing something unsavory that the crime itself be identified as a “Christian” crime—so why do it with Islam?
It’s a lame rebuttal because it looks more like an excuse than anything else. What those folks did was terrible. Full stop. If you want to rebut what you think the OP is on about, then offer examples of kind and compassionate Muslims.
Go ahead.
Seriously, there’s nothing stopping you from offering a better rebuttal, John. We all (those of us who are sane, anyway) know that compassionate humans of every religious tradition or tendency exist, and it’s easy to find examples.
But even some people revered by a few others for their wisdom have in the past recommended to hypocrites that they look to the beam in their own eye. It seems a valid response.
That would just be buying into the bullshit fallacious reasoning perpetrated by the OP.
it looks more like the rejection of the simplistic bigotry of hating broad groups for the acts of specific people.
so not lame
this has proven to be so convincing in the past.