Je Suis Charlie

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Are those 99 percent speaking up? I'm actually asking. I don't recall seeing any sort of organized effort to denounce what the 'extremists, fundamentalists...pick a word' are doing.

I hear the occasional 'that ain't us' but those are just a few small words with no resonance.

Or is it another cultural thing to just pray a lot and say and do nothing about your murderous brethren?

Again, I'm asking. I really don't know if there's any sort of stepping up in numbers (like 99 %) to say or do anything to get right down to it and say 'oh hale no!'

I wonder about that too. I've read some people saying that the media isn't reporting it, but I don't know. Aslan is saying Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. But if you are a violent person you'll bring violence to it. I wouldn't want to be tarred with the same brush as The Westboro Baptist church because I live in a predominantly Christian country and I sure as shit don't want to be called on the carpet for all the fucked up things the Catholics did and still do just because I was raised Catholic. I think it is important to lump the terrorists together and put Westboro, for example, in with Al Qaida et al.