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Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
They may not have a Pope, but they've sure as hell got their Bishops and Cardinals. And we're looking for most of them.
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Sure they do. But there's a misleading implication, I would submit, in a statement like that. The imam leading prayer in a Connecticut mosque is apples and oranges away from the imam hanging idolaters from lamp posts in Pakistan.
You are correct in your idea of definitions, however. I agree; I wasn't arguing that we're (ever) going to have a pan-world Muslim orthodoxy; but it is not too much to ask that Muslims (or anyone else) not blow up innocent folks.
The point of my post was that it's very important to be careful when lumping groups of people together. Would a Christian stick up for the actions of Eric Rudolph? A soldier for William Calley? I would hope not, but they do demonstrate the problems with judging a large, disparate group by the actions of a small (if vocal) minority.
Oh, and as for the 'war with Islam' bit, I wasn't referring to you specifically, but the title of the thread.
--Dan, devil's advocate