By That Logic
– Fred Phelps and Pope Benedict are Christians…. or does that only work when it’s a religion you don’t like?
Responding to my post When is Too Many Muslims? a reader commented, “Islam is not a single monolithic entity. Even within Islam, there are multiple understandings. Hence, to portray Muslims in absolute terms is very inaccurate.”
There are over four thousand species of cockroach and although it would be inaccurate to portray cockroaches in absolute terms I doubt that anyone would care exactly which particular species was infesting their home.
For these same reasons I bundle Shiites, Sunnis, and Wahhabis as simply Muslims even though they view themselves differently.
Tip of the toque to the good folks @ Mesopotamia West who also want to lump all sects, and followers of sects, into the big pot, and by doing so have made it OK for me to generalize about Christians….. see I knew there was a reason I have the Blogging Tories in my aggregator.
yay crazy frank, dirty old man of the year!
Hmm, comparing a particular religious or ethnic group to “cockroaches” (who presumably must be exterminated) eh?
Now who does that remind me of? There’s a historical precedent for this….don’t tell me, it’ll come to me…
No, it’s VERY different this time, Mike. See, this time we’re talking about a racial/religion minority that is secretive, clannish, conspiratorial, burrowing away at the security of our nation from within, abetted by an international conspiracy that runs back for generations.