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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol this poster is unhinged..."Guilty until proven innocent" is not a principle we follow in America. Maybe the PP should relocate to Russia where his/her type of thinking would be more welcome.[/quote]

I agree, so no one is "guilty" of "backlash" or "discrimination" against Muslims until proven innocent.  Maybe OP should relocate to Iran.[/quote]

Unless you agree that all Christians (not only catholics) must denounce the pedophilia of the Catholic church (just one example, we can come up with many for any given group of people), than you really have no argument here. By your logic, most christians support pedophilia.[/quote]

This is a bad example.  The collective outrage over pedophilia in the Catholic church was widespread.  Many Catholics spoke out against it, left the church, etc.  If you ask any Christian about it they would express disgust and sadness over the matter.  The previous pope made an almost unprecedented move of "retiring" because he knew he was handling the fallout poorly.  Pope Francis' has made a radical change in rhetoric and this made a real difference with people who were dissatisfied with the Catholic church on a lot of levels.

ISIS didn't pop into the world all of a sudden.  The hateful, crazy rhetoric has been part of the Islamic world for a long time.  The violence against minorities and even other Muslims has been around a long time, and has been widespread.  THAT is the equivalent of the Catholic church's pedophilia problem, and that elicited no outrage in the Muslim world.  You could have walked through Cairo on a Friday afternoon for the past couple of decades and heard ISIS-worthy sermons about the "kaffir" blaring from loudspeakers for the entire world to hear.  Criticizing anything "Islamic" in the Muslim world is very much taboo.  Or maybe most Muslims didn't really care, and things kept escalating until we reached this point.[/quote]

I specifically mentioned all denominations beyond Catholics since we are including all Muslims and not just the radicals...it's a perfectly good example.  You wouldn't think so however, because it shows the fault in your own argument. If you ask any American muslim about the paris attacks they would most likely also express disgust and sadness, even the OP said she denounced the attacks.[/quote]

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