[SoothingDave]

It just Seems rather perplexing that there is such emphasis on Catholics in the article when Christians and Roman Catholics are being persecuted. One wonders why the difference is being noted so markedly..

3 things, really.

#1, Pat is Catholic.

#2, the point he is trying to make is that Catholics are seen as "the West" in a way that Orthodox and other Christians in the area are not. He notes that Catholic churches were attacked, and not Orthodox.

#3, as usual you bring your own perverse sense of idiocy to the conversation.

SD

[Havoc]

Perverse sense of idiocy.. What, that I note that the article blatently draws distinction and speaks of persecution of Roman Catholics, and then we are to just forget how Rome acts in other countries... Sense of idiocy must be that I am taking the step of actually questioning whether the Islamicists are responding to something being done by Roman Catholicics or just acting on whims. Or are we supposed to ignore the other side of the equation because the word Catholic has entered the picture..

Merely saying that Catholicism more represents the west than does orthodoxy may be true; but, it's rather weak. And on the whole unsubstantial. As I've noted, Roman Catholicism in America is a different thing than it is elsewhere in the world. I've stated why. I will not repeat as I think the point is well made.

So then, one wonders what perverse sense of idiocy you are beguiled with that you can't see the import of asking whether Rome has instigated something here or not. Guess that's too obvious, huh.

[subterfuge]

" as usual you bring your own perverse sense of idiocy to the conversation"

Well that's not very soothing.