Obama criticised for telling Christians to get off high horse over Islamic extremism

But following on that logic isis is slaughtering just as many Muslims as non muslims, if not more...so enforcing islam is not their primary motivation?

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I think that the comparisons were very apt.

Sure, religious extremism from Muslims is "now and happening" and Christian extremism has died down (for the most part) It still obviously continues with the likes of the KKK, the LRA and abortion clinic murders

During the inquisition, the hardcore religious zealots would happily behead you if you were the wrong type of Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jew

I don't doubt that if the inquisition were around today, theyd actually be MORE brutal than ISIS, because they'd have access to 20th/21st century weapons

The KKK would also happily burn people of other religions or races as well

I do think the comparison is a good comparison to make. Sure, the inquisition was centuries ago, and the KKK burning people was a decade or two ago, but imo, they do hit home,and people don't like that.

Oh no, I guess Germany can't complain about anything because the Holocaust happened." Child getting abuse? Oh please, the holocaust happened, so grin and bear it"

Obama is stupid.

You can tell that Obama literally doesn't care any more now that he is in his second term. Any President running for a re-election would probably lose the entire Christian right vote making such a remark.


Anyway I think that anyone whether they are Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Atheist has a right and some might even say duty to challenge and criticise Islamic extremism. How dare he criticise people for exercising their right to condemn a vile ideology. As Commander in Chief he should bloody well focus on creating a coherent and viable strategy to rid the middle east of this vermin.

The KKK was not motivated by Christianity.

If Ted Bundy went to Church, I wouldn't go around telling people that his actions are an example of Christian extremism.

he was not saying something that i was thinking. Americans have gone to great lengths to separate Church & State. Mr Obama should stick to the politics.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-criticised-for-telling-christians-to-get-off-high-horse-over-islamic-extremism-10030790.html

So was Obama wrong to make this comment - or was he actually saying something that many of us are thinking?

Please do not use this thread for religious debate.

I'm not sure that's exactly what he meant. I think he was trying to say that the actions of ISIS aren't evidence that Christianity is superior to Islam, because atrocities have been committed in the name of Christianity, too. He wasn't saying that the actions of ISIS didn't count as atrocities because worse ones had happened. At the risk of sounding clichéd, I think you just defeated a straw man.

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Then again, Obama and most of the left view Muslims as untouchable victims so cannot bring himself to ever suggest that they aren't perfect.

The point isn't what has happened, but what is happening. Any wrong that Christianity is doing is in a completely different league to Islam.

For pities sake. The left is full of the 'opium of the people' rhetoric with regards to religion you twit. You are mistaking a reluctance to join in on a holy Christian crusade and defiance of Christianity (since that is the religion that dominates the west mostly) as meaning this 'left' you speak of as being Muslim extremist sympathizers. How does the fact the Charlie Hebdo paper was a left wing paper fit in your warped world view?

Hmmm... I'm not sure Jesus advocated genocide.

Right, because clearly the front page of their website doesn't say:

America, Our Nation is Under Judgement from God!

No, their motivation was not Christianity.

Their motivation was maintaining racial supremacy. They would not have existed otherwise.

They didn't kill blacks to enforce their version of Christianity.

Yes, because they ...... real.

Just stop rambling and actually reply to what I said.

As I said before, they were not killing Blacks to enforce their version of Christianity.

They killed because they were primarily a racial supremacist organisation.