Well, the actions of the mainline muslims aren't in the spotlight like the terrorists actions are so it can be hard to tell sometimes.
Definitly and that happens in lots of circumstances with the media. The same thing happens against Christianity when only the Robertsons and Fallwells of the world make the news.
Yup, and with Pitbulls too. Its a shame.
The demonstations of the texts are not absolutely clear. Ever consider that your intepretation is wrong and the terrorist's is right?
Yes I have very much so. My standard methodolgy for approaching these types of situations is to examine the evidence and come to a conclusion based on that evidence. In this case I have read the Koran and the verses being discussed and in the context of the passages I can in no way see them as calls to religious imperialism. I have heard the arguments from the other side but all I see is them taking those quotes and removing all the surrounding context to produce their conclusion.
Yeah, that happens all too often. Especially on this forum.
If they have some OTHER kind of convincing argument about why I should accept their interpretation over mine, which also happens to be the mainstream one, then they have yet to present it.
Well I think the interpretation should be something you come up with yourself and suplimented with other peoples opinions. It doesn't look very hard for Islam to be portrayed as....lemme just type 'bad'. Of course, its not that hard to do to christianity either. But, IMHO, christianity is not as 'bad' as islam.
Moslem, Muslim . vowels in the language are sort of flexible.
Why do you choose the spelling that you do? Why spell it different than everyone else in the thread?
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