Islamic Extremism is to Islam as BLANK is to Christianity

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Blank = KKK

Anyone watch "West Wing" last night? It was stagey, talky, device ridden, politically driven -- and an excellent use of the medium of television. A civics lesson, history primer and sermon on tolerance disguised as drama. It was an entirely obvious stab at educating those out of the know, and had no pretense as anything else, and for that I loved it. It's rare that a writer (or a network) has the balls to say "Screw the storyline, we're doing this because we think it could help..."

And the commercial profits from the evening (which is probably several million dollars) went to the Fire and Police relief funds.

 

[Mischka]

I loved every minute of last night's West Wing! I especially adored the overt parallel of teaching a group of high schoolers about the impact and origin of terrorism to lecturing the audience on the same. Such wonderful condescension.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

As blank is huh?

How about?

As Witch Hunting in North Eastern North America was during "Puritan Times."

 

[MissTaken]

How about similar, yet different....

the Rev Jim Jones. Of course, his overt acts were on a much smaller scale.

 

[Todd]

biting toungue to keep from getting b-slapped

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Re: As blank is huh?

How about?

As Witch Hunting in North Eastern North America was during "Puritan Times."

Naw - small potatos; much closer in intent and allegory is the Christian Crusades on the "Holy Land" or some aspects of the "westward march/Manifest Destiny" that took over the US from the aboriginal natives - although the latter was not purely religious. Today we really don't have that equivalent in Christianity. The white supremicists come close, but they are a pathetic bunch of loosers with very little following that is shrinking every day - and they can no longer organize themselves out of a paper bag.

Islamic Extremism is much broader, more powerful, better organized and funded than the skinheads et al.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

People are so fucking literal here....

Times change, no shit.

Witch hunting "today" big time. Societal witch hunting maybe?

Use yer imagination and quite focusing on the fucking singularity of the written word.

 

[christo]

Islamic Extremism is to Islam as...Ann Coulter is to Christianity...

OK, it's a bit of a cheap shot. But she did call for the carpet bombing of Kabul, said killing Afghan civilians was OK, said we should kill their leaders and convert Afghans to Christianity, and said we should be investigating (and these are her words) every "swarthy male" in the country.

 

[lavender]

 

[Problem Child]

You guys are all thinking small potatoes. In the context of the recent events, I think Islamic extremism is to Islam as western colonialism was to Christianity.

You see both have very little to do with religion. But, think about Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. In many ways we were expanding and many people believed we were going to "enlighten" other cultures. We thought they were savages. We didn't think their culture was worth crap.

Isn't that the way they view America?

I think that's a good analogy, except that they don't want to enlighten us, they want to kill us.

Sort of like the what we tried to do with the American Indian.

 

[lavender]

 

[Mischka]

I think Islamic extremism is to Islam as western colonialism was to Christianity.

I still agree with the KKK analogy. Though colonization was done by Christians, that was a secondary characteristic. Expansion of power & wealth were the primary motivations, and the destruction of native populations was an unfortunate side effect.

Both the Islamic terrorists and the KKK concentrate on destroying others simply because they conflict with their interpretation of a religious text. As perverted as they may be, both groups find justification for their purposes in their religion.

 

[Isabella Thorne]

Blank is ...

Jerry Falwell ... hands down ...

i couldn't believe the ludicrous statement he made after the attacks ... i read it on the ticker tape on CNN ...

he said it was deserved because of homosexuality and internet porn ... seriously that is what he said ...

and quickly retracted ... geez i wonder why ...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Just to clarify...in "The West Wing" the KKK analogy was made along with the comment "It's the KKK gone medieval and global". It's not an analogy to exactly how powerful the KKK is, but an analogy to a religious order gone extremist.