Religion

[DanL]

No doubt some people are going to bring in (or atleast think about) 9/11 - hey, it's pop culture now. Some of you also might hate Muslims because of 9/11, or think bad of Islam. At the very least, you know someone like that, or you've heard someone say, "I hate Muslims" in some variation or another.

To those poeple I say this: learn a bit <censor block>ing tolerance. Yeah, so jihad is a belief of Islam, but does that mean all Muslims are dying to strap a bomb to themselves and blow themselves up? NO! I've talked to Muslims - a lot believe that Bin Laden's jihad is bs. I'm no expert on Islam, but I've been told that to make a jihad, you have to formally declare your intentions. Anyways, I really hate talking about pop-culture and suddenly being a bandwagon patriot, so I'll leave it at this:

I can't stop you from hating a race or an ethnicity, but if you want to hate them, don't do it because of the actions of a select handful of individuals. After all, a few good Christians did a bit of Jewish genocide in a little thing called the Inquisition a while back - does that mean all Christians want to eliminate Jews, or does it mean the fundamentalists in charge at the time wanted to eliminate the Jews?

PM or AIM me (PhyrosFire) if you want to discuss this further. It's only going to get ugly on here.