Re: Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

Posted by Douglas Roberts-2 on Sep 13, 2012; 5:17pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-America-and-the-Middle-East-Murder-in-Libya-The-Economist-tp7580459p7580460.html

A Facebook-style visual data-byte response, Owen (attached).

--Doug

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

The Economist sent out their weekly email, which included a story on the Libya fiasco: http://goo.gl/0mfCW

This reminded me of one of my possibly Politically Incorrect notions: Why don't the civilized muslim world attempt to counter this insanity on the part of their fundamentalists?  At least some attempt to apologize for My Religion, The Bad Parts? God knows I do!

We had an imam visit the cathedral in Santa Fe to discuss the simplicity and beauty of his religion.  Some questions were asked about The Bad Parts, in a very civilized manor.  The conversation was sane, polite, and certainly informative.

What if the Vatican sent out a hit squad for all the similar anti-Christian movies or other inflammatory media?  Or the Buddhists sent ninjas after non-believers? Or the Jews killed Dutch cartoonists?

What I'm getting at is this: why *isn't* there a strong community of sane and vocal muslims at least trying to communicate to the rest of us?

Please do understand that this is not a rant against religion, but more of a puzzled look at an insane situation.  And Yes, I really wish we'd keep our nose out of other's affairs.  I'm not trying to be a bigot. But I truly would like to grok this phenomenon. 

What am I missing?  Good complexity question, I bet.

   -- Owen 

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