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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
OK, good point about the insults. Nobody should be insulted in a mean-spirited way. So, how about my points re the open season on Catholics and Wiccans here at DCUM? Why aren't you butthurt on behalf of DCUM's Catholics and Wiccans? You're even in a position to do something about it. (Again, I'm not Catholic or Wiccan.)[/quote]

I have repeatedly asked for posters to use the "report" button to let me know about anti-Catholic posts. They almost never get reported. I have not read the Wiccan thread and there have been no messages from that thread reported. I can't do anything about posts of which I am unaware. I want to make one distinction between Islam and Catholicism. There is a Catholic Church with a structure and hierarchy and so on. I consider criticism of that institution to be fair game (unless the criticism has no basis in reality). There is not a similar institution within Islam. Therefore, criticism tends to target an amorphous "Islam" or "Muslims" which would be similar to criticizing "Catholics". All such cases are likely to raise my hackles.

If you were the one who asked about Landon, I repeatedly intervene in Landon threads. I even discovered paid sock-puppets in a Landon thread (one of my proudest moments). 
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You might be right about Muslims and Catholics being amorphous groups with widely varying opinions. But to the extent that Islam is based on a holy book that claims to be the very word of God, parts of Islam are every bit as unyielding and immutable as Catholic dogma. That's why, when Muslima makes broad statements about how "Islam gives equality to women" (NB, she usually says Islam, not Muslims) she gets a lot of pushback about inheritance, divorce, and other laws that are actually in the Quran. (FWIW, I and several others have read the Quran cover to cover.)  Or, at least you'd be even-handed about this and call out Muslima when she makes sweeping assertions about how "Islam does this or that" instead of calling out the posters who remind her about what the Quran says. (Yes, I'm pissed not butthurt. Get it right at least.)

The last case I recall, a week or two ago, is when you intervened on a thread about the afterlife. As happens on almost every thread in that forum, there was  destructive atheist who destroyed real dialogue by interrupting it with endless taunts about religion being BS, especially Catholucism beibg BS, stated various ways about 5 times on every page. So posters who knew there was no other real recourse, including myself, took to mocking her with jpegs. Your intervention took the form of removing the jpegs. So, thanks a lot, I guess![/quote]

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