You're a normal, everyday Muslim living life and trying to deal with the bastardization of your entire religion by twenty idiots with some airplanes. And nine years (!!!) later some chuckleheads are burning your holy scriptures because they can't differentiate between coerced hatred and true religion.
Cut back to us. Let's say a group of radical Christian terrorists (doesn't sound so evening news-friendly, does it?) fly over to Mecca and take down some buildings and a few thousand people. Their surviving cult members release videos using scripture from the Bible to justify what they've done and call on all "true" Christians to take up the call and destroy the enemy. Sound familiar? You think maybe if a group of Muslims got together on the ninth anniversary of that day to burn a whole slew of Bibles that normal, everyday Christians might get a little upset?
Islam ≠ Terrorism. Correlation ≠ Causation. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. But even that is a misnomer. Just because these terrorists were Muslim does not mean every terrorist is a Muslim. In fact, anyone with sense would argue these particular terrorists were not adhering to Islamic teachings when they chose to take another human's life. Much like a man killing his family, saying God told him to do it, and then taking some obscure Bible reference out of context to support his claim. This man may have been a "Christian" and he's using words from the Bible, but that doesn't mean Christianity supports his actions.
Why can't people understand this?
There's always another explanation: Maybe this is just a publicity stunt. That would put this man in a whole other category of evil.
We already have enough scare tactics and cleverly designed stunts crafted by global conglomerates and politicians to tell us what we think. Do we have to be subjected to the same schemes from our religious leaders now?
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