Sep 17, 2012 -- 3:25AM, Miraj wrote:

Sep 17, 2012 -- 2:48AM, CharikIeia wrote:

Sep 17, 2012 -- 2:07AM, Miraj wrote:

... there's also no excuse for allowing the media to dictate the focus of your outrage and the limits of your knowledge of what's going on in the world ...

No excuse? Excuse me...

The point here is, pointedly expressed, that savages don't have the qualifications to use the internet. It requires at least one semi-educated half-wit to beat them into a frenzy over a little heap of shit produced 8,000 miles away.

There is a reason why there exists such a discipline as journalism. Not everyone is capable of putting things into perspective, and certainly educated experts are more trustworthy than your local village Imam, or some Coptic buddy of Terry Jones.

Journalism is no longer a discipline; journalists are rarely experts.  I do agree that there are too many half-wits that allow what they see on the Internet to whip them up into a frenzy.  Message boards are full of them.

Not only that but a few have been caught lying to make the story juicier. That wasn't just spinning it but outright untruth.

Sep 17, 2012 -- 3:28AM, in_my_opinion wrote:

Sep 17, 2012 -- 3:05AM, Shusha wrote:

They weren't really Christians. 

Fair enough. The one's who do harm to innocents are not really Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, etc either! That is the real lesson here.

You can call the devil an angel but he isn't one after he becomes an evildoer.  It doesn't matter what he used to be or what he calls himself. His own action belies him.

The habit of insisting that the evildoer redefines the faith when his acts contradict that faith is a curious one that few adherents ever apply to their own belief system.  A Muslim who acts or encourages acts in contradiction of Islam doesn't redefine the faith for all the other Muslims, and he certainly doesn't redefine it against God's Word.  He simply leaves Islam to act upon his own desires, for there is no way to justify his beliefs and actions as being part and parcel of dictums that are in opposition to the evil acts.  The same is true for those that do harm in the name of any faith that contradicts their beliefs and actions.