"The fact that there are such hateful Muslims as well as Christians disgust me. "
The fact that some equate present day Christians and Muslims disgusts me. Equating the past with present practitioners, equating aberrant and notorious but limited Catholic practitioners of pedophilia which was condemned by the Church with the widespread and Koranic call for jihad coming from Mosques, equating the repression of the present day Muslim countries with the present day freedoms of Western or Christian countries, equating the ignorance and illiteracy of Muslim countries with the supposed ignorance of their religion of Christian countries, ALL disgusts me.
Accusing the West and saying Africa, India and the Middle East are "currently being invaded and killed by the West" disgusts me too.
Stop trashing Westerners and Christians.
I don't understand how you can deny the fact that Americans are going around the world, doing just as bad things as muslims supposedly are. In fact, BBC published an article today reporting on a claim that modern-day abuses in Iraq are worse now than under Saddam's control, and Americans play no little role in that, for sure.
And only a few days ago, an innocent Muslim with distant ties through friends-of-friends was abducted to Syria and held in a coffin-like cage for 8 months.
Although the numbers vary, about 50,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the beginning of the war.
But besides all that, you're right. Only Muslims are trying to attack Christians, not the other way around.
I would think the level of xenophobia in this country couldn't get any higher. And I honestly didn't think the pope's comments were such a big deal, until I saw not only Muslims attacking him but conservatives on this website attacking Muslims. Apparently statements like that increase racism on both sides of the globe.
Believe it or not, it's not a one-sided battle "good-vs-evil." At least if we can get both sides to admit prejudices and racist beliefs - I have seen racist Muslims, and I definately see many racists on this website. As a non-white Catholic-raised American, I'm sorry, but I'm going to stay disgusted. Especially with Western superiority. Please, dervish, but your email just exemplifies that sort of "We are so much better" false attitude that so many people hold.