I understand the feelings of some here as to their reaction to the desecration of a mosque, at least at first blush. It is certainly the case that most terrorist acts worldwide today are perpetrated by Islamic people. I get that.
But I think it is wrong to denegrate any religion, even Islam. This country was largely founded upon freedom of religion and freedom of speech. (And I don’t buy any claim that gutting a pig and leaving it at a mosque is protected speech.) I support full-on assault for terrorists, Islamic or otherwise. I just can’t support attacks on religion per se, even Islamic religion. I could support attacks on a mosque that had been responsible for a terrorist act, but I don’t think that was the case here.
I cannot get behind this kind of attack— although I thought the remark about ham and Mohammed was pretty clever.
Islam is a system of tyrranical government wrapped in the respetable cloak of religion. If only Hitler had formally declared himself a god, nazism would have engendered the same degree of respect as islam.
Now that is my opinion..
But would it be hate. If it happened at a synagogue?
nah.
I've read thru every reply, re-read them, and re-re-re-re-read them, and I can find no denigration of any religion in any one of them.
Lots of denigration of a terrorist cult, but not relegion.
Islam is not a religion so much as it is a totalitarian political system that uses religion as a beard. I am completely against affording it the same considerations as the world’s other religions for this reason, and am in favor of an explicit Amendment delisting it as a religion for the purposes of 1A protections.