Let me start off by saying that the protester of the Ground Zero mosque and community center proposal, the Westboro Baptist Church (which already tastelessly appears at the funerals of fallen soldiers saying they died because there are gays in the military), the Tennessee preacher, and the Florida preacher who is waffling on whether or not to burn Qurans and started all these demonstrations have more in common with radical Muslims than they do with rational people. However, I'll also say that the Afghan Muslims who are so enraged by these acts are hypocrites themselves. I don't remember them protesting when the Taliban was destroying Buddhist imagery and temples in 2001. Or when Muslims were burning bibles and destroying crosses in Gaza. Islam has a long history of not only intolerance but violence towards the iconography and the people of other religions. That's nothing that anyone needs to be imitating, especially not Christians and Americans.
I think humanity itself has a long history of intolerance and violence. And when you throw religion into it - where humanity purports to know exactly what a higher power wants - it's a recipe for disaster.
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