In what way do you think that Christianity does not see all other religions as inferior in the exact same way that Islam sees all other religions? Christian and or Jewish terrorists blowing up the Dome of the Rock could "could" be seen as reclaiming sacred space. In that sense it is irrelevant that it is being reclaimed from this guy or that guy.
Who would the Jewish/Christian terrorists be attacking? The government of Sudan? I feel like you are completely ignoring that I am discussing the western and muslim tension that has been building for a few hundred years. The nations are irrelevant in that sense. I am not endorsing this world view I am discussing a reality that exists. And I am repeating points from other responses but muslims have a very strong sense of themselves as a group that needs to be protected by the group. I wouldn't group them all together if they weren't doing it themselves.
I think this discussion is rapidly breaking down through the internet. I am finding it incredibly difficult to even understand what you are saying. For example:
The "impressiveness" of the WTC not so much the grandeur of the building, or its importance to the US economy, as it is that it was a target on soil physically untouched by war in the modern era.
I think you are trying to say that the WTC was an important target because the US was previously untouched by war but the way you said it is a little hard to follow.
"So you are saying that Muslims have to take the high road where Western Christians do not in order for people to not be offended? I mean, lots of Americans see the wars in the Middle East (pre and even more so post 9/11) as a war against Muslims. Not a war against certain regimes/in support of our economic policy. And support it for that reason."
I love this comment because you defend the rights of muslims to say that 9/11 was justified but deny the rights of the families of the dead to be offended by it. We are in America. Our media covered 9/11 a little more than it did the internal wars of the middle east. For muslims, particularly American muslims, to hang it out there that 9/11 was justified in the immediate aftermath was a little much, and it is no surprise that mom and pop in the midwest were and are still offended. Any real awareness of the middle east started for many americans with 9/11 and how did it start? With many muslim americans hemming and hawing about whether 9/11 was justified. Great P.R. move. The western propaganda machine went into overdrive after 9/11 to see things as the class of cultures/religions. The muslim propaganda machine had been working that angle for some decades before that.
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Who would the Jewish/Christian terrorists be attacking? The government of Sudan? I feel like you are completely ignoring that I am discussing the western and muslim tension that has been building for a few hundred years. The nations are irrelevant in that sense. I am not endorsing this world view I am discussing a reality that exists. And I am repeating points from other responses but muslims have a very strong sense of themselves as a group that needs to be protected by the group. I wouldn't group them all together if they weren't doing it themselves.
I think this discussion is rapidly breaking down through the internet. I am finding it incredibly difficult to even understand what you are saying. For example:
The "impressiveness" of the WTC not so much the grandeur of the building, or its importance to the US economy, as it is that it was a target on soil physically untouched by war in the modern era.
I think you are trying to say that the WTC was an important target because the US was previously untouched by war but the way you said it is a little hard to follow.
"So you are saying that Muslims have to take the high road where Western Christians do not in order for people to not be offended? I mean, lots of Americans see the wars in the Middle East (pre and even more so post 9/11) as a war against Muslims. Not a war against certain regimes/in support of our economic policy. And support it for that reason."
I love this comment because you defend the rights of muslims to say that 9/11 was justified but deny the rights of the families of the dead to be offended by it. We are in America. Our media covered 9/11 a little more than it did the internal wars of the middle east. For muslims, particularly American muslims, to hang it out there that 9/11 was justified in the immediate aftermath was a little much, and it is no surprise that mom and pop in the midwest were and are still offended. Any real awareness of the middle east started for many americans with 9/11 and how did it start? With many muslim americans hemming and hawing about whether 9/11 was justified. Great P.R. move. The western propaganda machine went into overdrive after 9/11 to see things as the class of cultures/religions. The muslim propaganda machine had been working that angle for some decades before that.