What is a 'Religious Extremist'? This Lefty Weekly Sure Doesn't Know

Publius Forum ^ | 03/09/10 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

For the Independent Weekly of Durham, North Carolina, writer Sam Wardle proves that he hasn’t a clue how the phrase “religious extremist” is properly defined. But, I’d suggest that his confusion is endemic in the far left and proves to show why so many in the west don’t understand how to face and defeat the real religious extremism of radical Islam.

In a story about Representative Sue Myrick (R, NC) and her association with The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools as juxtaposed with her condemnation of radical Islam, Wardle sees no difference between a radical Islamist that might blow himself up with a suicide vest or cut off the head of a helpless captive and a Christian American that wants to use properly constituted law to have the Holy Bible used in the classroom.

Certainly you can disagree with having the Bible used as a text in the classroom, but to say that a person that does want the Bible in the classroom is no better than a terrorist is, well, just plain stupid. It is also intellectually vapid. Unfortunately, Mr. Wardle is all too representative of the vapidity of the left that so often comes to this intellectually dishonest conclusion...

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Here is why the west could lose its war with radical Islam, too many westerners seem to think we are "as bad" as they are.

[a fool in paradise]

An atheist supremacist can be a religious extremist as well. Just look at the rantings of Christopher Hitchens.

[Spudx7]

The idea of the moral equivalency of Islam and Christianity continues to persist despite the curious absence of any Christian suicide bombers.

[Just mythoughts]

Here is why the west could lose its war with radical Islam, too many westerners seem to think we are "as bad" as they are.

Good grief, look who the American voters in the majority elected as their 'ruler' in chief..... after year in and year out of the liar left portraying President Bush as the devil incarnate.... but see now the devil is a transformed angel of 'light'. Racial Islam is right up front with their intentions for US, but NOT so of the myriad layers of the progressives that spew deceptions via the Jon Stewart airwaves we seemingly in ignorance continue to elect to 'rule' over US!!!!

[Between the Lines]

To the ungodly all religion is extremist.

It is a strange world we live in when flaunting one's sexuality is deemed proper in public but mentioning one's religion is not.

[I still care]

The liberals don’t want to hear that, either.

I’ve had discussions with them on this, the moment you start to make comparisons they shut down with an angry look on their face.

They do NOT want to hear that Mother Teresa is not Osama bin Ladin. They know what they know.

[MsLady]

The other little problem they seem to conveniently over look is, Christians have been persecuted by radical Muslim and Hindu groups inter alia due to conversion act conducted by Evangelicals, and by (officially) atheistic states such as the USSR and North Korea. Currently (as of 2010), an estimated 100 million Christians face persecution, particularly in the Muslim world and at the hands of Hindu extremism in India. With 19 million Christians killed in the 20th century.

[Mobile Vulgus]

Precisely!

[Teotwawki]

As a Christian, if I had two coats and I saw someone who had none, I should give that person one of my coats.

Now my 12 year old daughter is a Christian extremist. If she had only one coat and saw someone with none, she would give that person her only coat.