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[quote=Anonymous]For the unhinged poster, this is what OP said:

" OP here, of course I denounce the attacks in Paris. I denounce all violence. And no I do not know the Muslim teachings they are using. That is not what I was taught when I went to Sunday School at a mosque in Boston when I was a kid."

She denounced the attacks.  Not enough for you.  You want her to denounce the ideology behind the attacks.  When she says she does not know the Muslim teachings they are using, she is saying there is nothing she learned years ago at Sunday school that would justify such attacks.

She is clearly someone who hasn't kept up with the radicalization of Islamic teachings that has occurred in the intervening years.  But she had no obligation to do so and probably hasn't practiced Islam at all during that period.  Stop shrilly insisting she had such an obligation and further an obligation to denounce it.  How can one denounce something one knows nothing about?

Personally, I have an interest in Islam and have attacked interpretations I have seen here on DCUM coming from Muslims I would consider moderate but misguided.  There was a theological battle in Islam around the end of the first millennium centering around whether the Quran was eternal or not and the views of the winning side (eternal) have had negative repercussions ever since.  It is the foundation on which all radical Islam is built and if I were a Muslim this is where I would start with reform.

Do I denounce the ISIS ideology?  Hard one--denouncing would seem to give it too much credibility.  It is utter idiocy.

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