That's a hysterical oversimplification. There are many good, hard-working muslims right down the street at your local convenience store who are merely pursuing their own vision of the American dream, just like you and I. And they don't want America hurt or destroyed any more than you or I do.
And even though muslims practice what I believe to be a false and abominable religion, they have no relationship to indiscriminate murderers such as Hamas and their ilk, any more than you or I do to some deranged Christian killer. Some muslims even accept, for instance, that Israel has a right to exist!
What these muslims need to realize is that if they don't cleanse their own religion from within, it's going to have to be done from the outside. And that does mean their obliteration on the level you seem to embrace.
But regardless, advocating the death of any individual merely for their choice of religion is simply un-Christian and wrong. Indeed, it lowers one down to the same level of the very extremists they hate.
I simply can't see Christ ever embracing a pogrom against the members of any ethnicity or religion. Such bigotry and hatred is anathema to Christianity.
Make no mistake: I believe there are many Muslims, men and women, who deserve to be bombed into oblivion. But despite that fact, there are some muslims who are decent, peace-loving folks. There are such human beings in any ethnic or religious grouping.
Recognizing that possibility does not make anyone some kind of Hamas sympathizer. I believe Israel is entirely justified in their current military policy towards Hamas, and I'm quite confident that PM Netanyahu will fiercely defend the interests of the nation of Israel. More power to him.
Oh yes, you’re Jewish and so was Judas!
I agree with you, you can’t justly condemn anyone who is a Muslim, for the actions of others, or even the tenets of their religion.
We are all sinners. As a Christian, it is the sin that should be destroyed, not the sinners.
As a practical matter in war, you have to do what you need to do to win, while making reasonable attempts to minimize civilian casualties and damage.
It is necessary that Islamist movements like Hamas be eradicated or suppressed, but it is illegal, immoral and unnecessary to wantonly slaughter innocents.
Muslims are not given a choice of religion. If you are born to a Muslim father, as the great majority of Muslims are, the official penalty for changing religions is death (although their enforcement is inefficient).
There are and have been many strains of Islam which are markedly less violent and expansionist than what we are seeing today. Wahabbi extremism, fueled by oil money, has exploded from am isolated outpost in the desert to become the biggest force in Islam worldwide. They build most of the mosques, train brigades of Imams, and print mountains of textbooks in dozens of languages.
Those wealthy Wahabbi elites are ultimately the ones who need to have a change of heart, change of behavior, be imprisoned or killed.
I very strongly agree and admire with your comments in post 155.