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A significant portion of terror attacks in the united states are committed by non-muslims, mostly white and christian. Why won't the Right in America criticize

A significant portion of terror attacks in the united states are committed by non-muslims, mostly white and christian. Why won't the Right in America criticize Radical Evangelical Terror? (This is a rhetorical question. It's not fair to blame clearly unhinged extremists on a religion at-large when billions of devotees do no harm.)

rimliu 10y ago
Sometimes silent support acts as enabler to those doing the harm. Alas, views of the majority of muslims are not encouraging (i.e. views on issues whether sharia should be the law of the country, should apostasy be punished by death, etc.)
- huxley 10y ago
  Ask very religious Americans if they think the laws of America should be more driven by Biblical principles, it isn't any different. Besides, religious courts already exist in the US. For example, Halakha are religious courts run for Orthodox Jews, they exist in America and make many decisions on family law and civil disputes. But even among bigger groups, lots of disputes are dealt with within the religious community, Catholics have 200 diocesan tribunals, if you want to end your marriage and stay in communion, you pretty much have to ask for an annulment at a diocesan tribunal. Lots more examples: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/08/applying-gods-law-religious-courts-and-mediation-in-the-us/ http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/08/applying-gods-law-religio...
  - rimliu 10y ago
    Interesting, I did not know about other religious courts. What I had in mind however was the opinion that Sharia should replace the country's court system.
jbmorgado 10y ago
> "Why won't the Right in America criticize Radical Evangelical Terror" Because that doesn't actually exist and it's just a faux and very poor argument. If you are intellectually honest you would understand there is a big diference between someone from a certain group (may it be christian, muslim, etc) just committing a crime as an individual and someone from a certain group committing a crime invoking principles that derive from belonging to that group (like their religious supremacy for instance). In that regard, yes, there are a lot more islamic attacks than there are christian attacks. We had one single attack in Europe that could (emphasis on could since the guy was by foremost an extreme right winger and not some christian fanatic) be connected to christian ideologies in the past decades (by Anders Behring Breivik, which did in fact kill a lot of innocent people)... but now go and check how many terrorist attacks you have connected to islamic ideologies.

rimliu 10y ago

Sometimes silent support acts as enabler to those doing the harm. Alas, views of the majority of muslims are not encouraging (i.e. views on issues whether sharia should be the law of the country, should apostasy be punished by death, etc.)

huxley 10y ago
Ask very religious Americans if they think the laws of America should be more driven by Biblical principles, it isn't any different. Besides, religious courts already exist in the US. For example, Halakha are religious courts run for Orthodox Jews, they exist in America and make many decisions on family law and civil disputes. But even among bigger groups, lots of disputes are dealt with within the religious community, Catholics have 200 diocesan tribunals, if you want to end your marriage and stay in communion, you pretty much have to ask for an annulment at a diocesan tribunal. Lots more examples: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/08/applying-gods-law-religious-courts-and-mediation-in-the-us/ http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/08/applying-gods-law-religio...
- rimliu 10y ago
  Interesting, I did not know about other religious courts. What I had in mind however was the opinion that Sharia should replace the country's court system.

jbmorgado 10y ago

> "Why won't the Right in America criticize Radical Evangelical Terror" Because that doesn't actually exist and it's just a faux and very poor argument. If you are intellectually honest you would understand there is a big diference between someone from a certain group (may it be christian, muslim, etc) just committing a crime as an individual and someone from a certain group committing a crime invoking principles that derive from belonging to that group (like their religious supremacy for instance). In that regard, yes, there are a lot more islamic attacks than there are christian attacks. We had one single attack in Europe that could (emphasis on could since the guy was by foremost an extreme right winger and not some christian fanatic) be connected to christian ideologies in the past decades (by Anders Behring Breivik, which did in fact kill a lot of innocent people)... but now go and check how many terrorist attacks you have connected to islamic ideologies.