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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's somewhat annoying that you think that my focus is solely limited to the areas in which we disagree. I have said repeatedly that I find a lot of what is in your posts relating to this topic, interesting and informative. I found much of what she (and Stewart) said to be interesting and informative. Your assumption seems like a stupid one.
Ah. I see you've limited it to the most radical. If you magically converted every member of Islam to Catholics who grew up with that as their religion, would there be as many people willing to murder someone who desecrates the Bible or takes the Lord's name in vain? Would you be able to instantly raise a mob on the street willing to kill murder in the name of Catholicism?
TM
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Hell, I wrote all the stuff, so I wasn't assuming you'd find it completely irrelevant. But I thought you wanted me to come back to what you had focused on, so I tried. I tried to illustrate all the things that, for example, make the meanest, nastiest Islamic motherfuckers what they are, and to suggest that Islam wasn't really at the center of their nastiness.
On the mob, of course, there have been any number of Catholic mobs out for murder and mayhem over the years. Let's not get too cocky about the fact that things are generally better today after all the years of killing in the Church's name. I can think of lots of places, from Ireland to Central America, where there has been religiously linked or motivated rioting and violence in my lifetime. Is it over the burning of texts? No, but is that really what this was over? Again, I'm just not certain.
As to instantly raising a mob in the street, I'm going to be very interested in how spontaneously this mob erupted. Most mobs aren't that spontaneous. Some are. But I haven't found anything good yet describing exactly how this mob gathered or was gathered or where they came from.
It will not surprise me, knowing that the mullah is described as carefully getting Farkhunda out of the shrine where the argument started into the open area behind the shrine, and knowing that this dispute with Farkhunda was ongoing and threatened the mullah's livelihood, if the mob was actually organized. But I don't know.
