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christian mass-murder
Back when Slobodan Milosevic was bringing about mass murder in the former Yugoslavia I was puzzled that the media never really told us about what was happening there. We knew people were getting killed and that truly horrible things were occurring, but it was incredibly difficult to find out much more than superficial information.
A light went on for me when I eventually found out that Milosevic was christian and so were his mass-murdering cohorts who had been whipped up into a bloody frenzy to kill their moslem neighbors. The media was being coy about this aspect, just as most people today still think Hitler was atheist because of the media's reluctance to admit that he was devoutly christian.
Now I find out that Bashar al-Assad is an alawite, a christianised version of islam and that he has the backing of the christians in Syria. The people who want freedom and democracy and are being massacred and tortured are moslems.
Islam is an awful religion (just read the koran and its repetitive exhortation to murder those who are different), but I find it worrying that christians seem to be competing with them to become the world's scariest religion. It is as if they see the suicide bombers and jihadi rage that accompanies islam and say, "Whoa! We can outdo that. We can do mass-murder!"
Just what we don't need: more insane religiously inspired killing. [groan]
A light went on for me when I eventually found out that Milosevic was christian and so were his mass-murdering cohorts who had been whipped up into a bloody frenzy to kill their moslem neighbors. The media was being coy about this aspect, just as most people today still think Hitler was atheist because of the media's reluctance to admit that he was devoutly christian.
Now I find out that Bashar al-Assad is an alawite, a christianised version of islam and that he has the backing of the christians in Syria. The people who want freedom and democracy and are being massacred and tortured are moslems.
Islam is an awful religion (just read the koran and its repetitive exhortation to murder those who are different), but I find it worrying that christians seem to be competing with them to become the world's scariest religion. It is as if they see the suicide bombers and jihadi rage that accompanies islam and say, "Whoa! We can outdo that. We can do mass-murder!"
Just what we don't need: more insane religiously inspired killing. [groan]