04-16-2024, 07:12 PM
(04-16-2024, 06:53 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I mean, Judaism is a religion founded on conducting genocide in the very area they are occupying now. Just because they were so isolationist that they created an ethnic religion instead of one that proselytized like Christianity and Islam so they would eventually be overpowered because they were too few in numbers doesn't make them any less accountable for those actions.
I should hope that it is understood that this is stated with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. I just don't really consider violence by the Israeli government or Jewish extremists any better than that of Muslim extremists or Islamic states.
Neither do I. What I find laughable is the assertion that a majority of Muslim nations issues (people btw, not the government) with Israel isn't that they are Jews. Modern history is replete with examples of Islamic extremism, from single person actions like what just occurred in Australia, to groups like Boko Haram, to larger groups like Al Qaeda, to government sized groups like ISIS, the Taliban and, largest of all, Iran. There is literally no equivalence to the Jewish faith in this regard, and no equivalence to Christianity in anything remotely like the same time frame.
I know it hurts certain people to admit the obvious, but there will never be peace in the Middle East until Islamic extremism is rendered a tiny minority, and this will have to be done by their fellow Muslims. Pretending that conflict in that region is motivated more by anything other than that is a glib distraction.
