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In reply to the discussion: It's really, really hard to talk about radical Islamic terrorism [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)we talk about extremism in other religions quite frequently and with no guilt: the Christian far right, ultra-Orthodox Jewish sects, even some Hindu movements in India. We should be able to discuss extremism within the Muslim religion as freely. After all, we recognize that the vast majority of Christians, Jews, and l Hindus do not promote extreme and/or fundamentalist ideas, and certainly not all are violent. The same holds for Muslims. I, personally, scorn extremism in any of its forms, whether religious, political, or philosophical.
It seems to me so sad--tragic, I should say--that this awful event came the very day after we were so uplifted to see the love and peace that emerged at the Muhammad Ali funeral, with Baptist ministers, Muslim imams, Jewish rabbis, and Native American spiritualists all speaking together with one respectful, peaceful, and hopeful tongue.