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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The vast majority of Muslims are not exposed to interpretations of Islam that justify violence.[/quote]

And you know this, how?  I feel reasonably comfortable that a substantial minority of Muslims ARE exposed to such interpretations.  In any event, that's a diversion on your part since whether or not OP was exposed to it, she didn't denounce it.  (How could she denounce it if she wasn't exposed to it and was unfamiliar with those teachings?)   Clearly however OP must know at least as much about these teachings as you or I--which is enough to know they advocate violence against non-Muslims as part of their doctrine.    So she's being disingenuous, and you're now acting as her apologist for her failure to denounce it, irrespective of her specific level of knowledge.  Just watch the news.  It's right their on CNN.  Radical Islamic terrorists blowing themselves and other people up.

I denounce that.  You didn't.  She didn't.  You denounced me.

[quote]Just as in Christianity where certain Biblical passages such as those opposing homosexuality get attention while others such those discussing enslaving daughters don't, the same is true in Islam. [/quote]

Excuse me, did you just attempt to again be an apologist for what happened recently in Paris and Mali by equating Christian homophobia with Islamic homophobia?  Nice try.

[quote]Jihadist groups, on the other hand, teach a much different version of Islam using interpretations that are alien to the vast majority of Muslims.[/quote]

In that case the majority of Muslims should have no problem unequivocally denouncing those "interpretations."  But OP didn't.

[quote]It is not only possible, but entirely expected that someone who learned about Islam decades ago in Boston wouldn't be familiar with the Jihadist teachings.[/quote]

She's familiar enough with what's going on in the world to be concerned about anti-Islamic "backlash" affecting her.  Are you now claiming that OP is unaware of what the source of that "backlash" is?  She doesn't have a television set?  She didn't watch the news about Paris and Mali?

Well if she's completely ignorant of those versions of Islam then that explains why she didn't denounce it.  I just don't believe that's she could possibly be that ignorant.   She's feigning ignorance so she doesn't have to denounce it.  She evaded the issue entirely.

[quote]Similarly, nobody would expect someone who learned Christianity in a Lutheran Church to necessarily be familiar with the teachings of Seventh Day Adventists. [/quote]

If Seventh Day Adventists were blowing up theatres and machine gunning hundreds of people and it was on all the news stations and inundating the media then perhaps we would all have at least some passing familiarity with what was going on at least enough to understand that the Adventists (for instance) believed it was God's will that they murder people who were not of their faith.

Of course if I was someone who was a Seventh Day Adventist myself, but wanted to distract from the issue of what my co-religionists were doing, I might cry out in fear of unfair "backlash" and claim that I had no idea about why my co-religionists were doing that since I wasn't raised under the same set of doctrines.  But I would probably make it very clear that I renounced whatever version of my religion those Seventh Day Adventist killers were using to justify their murders, you know, so there wouldn't be any room for doubt.   I wouldn't say "Gee when I was a kid that's not I was taught."  I would say "This is absolutely evil and wrong."  But that's just me.  And of course it would all depend upon whether or not my religion ACTUALLY contained doctrine permitting killing of people not of my faith.

[quote]I am surprised that you need to have "backlash" defined for you. I would think that is a fairly basic term for native speakers of English. Moreover, I provided you a list of examples. Are you seriously struggling with that concept?[/quote]

Not at all.  I am having a bit of troubling coping with your deliberately evasive word salads and false accusations though.  If "backlash" means defacing mosques, attacking Muslims, etc., such as the examples you gave, then you were wrong to accuse me of "backlash," since all I did was offer an opinion that you don't like because it's true.

I didn't do violence to anyone, or anything, except your false notions, and that's gotta hurt.  But it's not "backlash."
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