Zer0 said:
and by the way..im black dumbass,wtf are u talking about KKK or nazis
His point was that the Christian Identity (Christian neo-Nazis) movement does not automatically make all Christians into Nazis or the KKK...
Just like how neither radical Wahhabist Islam or even the Iranian Shia theocracy makes it true that all Muslims are regressive, hateful, or intolerant.
No one apologizes for the human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, Waziristan, Iran, or anywhere else; but the fact is that most of the Muslim world, including Indonesia, which is the most Muslim country in the world, as well as Turkey, the UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and many others have human rights records consistent with other non-Muslim countries of comparable developmental status.
Open Source said:
I wonder how this thread would have turned out if it was a televangelist or Republican congressman or whatever being offended by a depiction of something related to Christianity.
Such a situation should be reacted to differently because of the very real status of religious discrimination in America. Muslims realistically should fear religious discrimination, misconceptions about Islam (as evident in this thread), and anti-Muslim violence.
Christians have no such fear--there's no real anti-Christian violence in America, the majority of the country is Christian, there is mild endorsement of Judeo-Christianity in the military and across the political and business spectrums.
The point is three-fold:
1) Because Christianity is better understood, it's highly unlikely someone would accidentally put a Christ-metaphor or a Christian symbol into a game or art work.
2) Because Christianity is not persecuted, an offensive anti-Christian work can be dealt with reasonably by consumers without the intervention of an activist group.
3) Because Christianity is the religion of the majority of the country, it's highly unlikely anything anti-Christian would ever gain momentum.
The two most recent Christian complaints about specific references to Christianity in the media or public sphere that I remember have been the Church of England complaining about Resistance: Fall of Man and Bill O'Reilly complaining that department stores say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas". Hardly comparable to having your religion compared to monkeys and savages and your symbols appropriated for that purpose.
Also, a Republican congressman is not a good analogy as he is not in any sense a representative of Christianity in the way that CAIR represents Islam. Obviously the reaction of a Christian organization is going to be taken more seriously than an individual Christian.