[newgeezer]

(With all due respect,) One could easily trot out any number of naysayers raised in conservative Christian families -- yes, even some elders' or pastors' kids -- all too eager to tell us their tales of the "evils" of fundamental Christianity.

So, while this story is interesting, and it may be 100% truth, any attempt to point to this as a model of the typical, Muslim home could be like pointing to the warden in The Shawshank Redemption as typical of fundamental Christianity.

At least, that's how a Muslim could dismiss it (justifiably or not).

[jlogajan]

Quite so. Converts go both ways. Not a lot of meaning there one way or the other.

[smith288]

I still have yet to find one Christian proclaiming their terror in the name of Jesus. Strange.....

[Mamzelle]

At least, that's how a Muslim could dismiss it (justifiably or not).

He *could*, but would he? The awful part of 9/11 was discovering how little, how weak, how grudging was the response of the so-called Muslim moderates.

We feel free to criticize Pat Robertson, and frequently do so, but he hasn't killed anybody nor issued murderous "fatwahs." Most of the time he annoys the heck out of me, but it's just crazy to draw an equivalency between Christians who are sometimes nuisances and mullahs who murder.

I don't hear many Muslims condemn their mullahs.

[AppyPappy]

That explains the Christians who flew planes into building in the name of Jesus.

Your evidence is lacking.