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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I defer to your scholarship.
Little G and I talked about this issue just three days ago. She wasn't a history major and took this course for her pure interest in the diversity of the world. She was on the Deans list for four years and is employed in her field of journalism as an executive producer of news at a major network affiliate in a moderate sized city. She is heading more toward moderate thinking every day. Maybe because of spending six months monitoring police calls at the TV station before being promoted..
I hope she never loses her altruism and open mind or her hard work ethic. She has great parents.
Back to the point, when young Muslim men become more intensely interested in their faith, I hold my breath. Testosterone and idealism and youth and some bad teachings cause innocent people who did not harm anyone to be blown up, killed and maimed.
I do not think the brothers whose name I cannot spell were deranged or mentally ill like the sick young man who killed the children in Connecticut, or the mentally sick young man who shot people in the movie, nor political extremists like the Oklahoma bomber. I think they were religious extremists and that is very worrying.
We Americans usually associate religion with good and kind things.
I may be wrong in my summary so far but I keep an open mind and I have learned much from my fellow seniors on this forum and am not set in my way of thinking.
But at this point I think there is real danger from Muslim extremists who live among us.
What further galls me is the whole family of the brothers were living off public assistance. Went to the gym, one had a wife in a burka who worked and he didn't, a mom who took a course in cosmetics paid for by the government, both men had gone to college on The American dime...it just doesn't seem right on any level.
P.S. We paid for little G's tuition. Neither of us had the money for college when we were young.
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The key is extremists... We have extremists that hate any non-Christian religion, any minority etc. and they seem to hold many other strange beliefs. So, I Agree that we must be cautious around Muslim extremists, but I add that if a person or group is obsessive about most any issue without room for understanding and compromise, be cautious of them as well. compromising and finding common ground is normal behavior. My way or the highway is not heathy for anyone. I would never defend an extremist of any kind but would defend anyones right to the religion of their chose if they have moderate lifestyle and beliefs. Remember, the KKK are mostly Christians;however, it is the KKK connection that makes them evil and not the Christianity.
08-21-2013, 07:12 AM
