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Exaggerating the terror genie: reflections on a fake sheik : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 17/12/2014While the Sydney holdup says absolutely nothing about a terror 'wave', it is being read as part of a current, with Australia being caught in it.
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In answer to your first question, James, Christianity is fundamentally a peaceful religion which is dying a slow death in the West anyway, and even the Old Testament did not order Christians to kill, behead, cut the throats of, or amputate the fingers of, non Christians. My own Christian religious teachers who were allowed to shove their religion down my throat at school, informed me that the New Testament's teachings involving Jesus Christ superseded the Old Testament anyway.
Your second paragraph, posed the question of whether it was fair to blame an entire group for the actions of an individual from that group. Yes it can be. To begin with, all Nazis are considered equally guilty of the Holocaust, and every member of the Ku Klux Klan is considered to be equally reprehensible by most people.
You see if an individual from any minority group engages in hostile acts against another group, which is in full accordance with the stated aims of the minority group, then the entire minority can, and should, be held accountable. The onus is upon the leaders of the minority group to please explain how the culture which defines their group identity, and which clearly declares hostility towards non members, is not entirely responsible for the act of the individual. This the Muslims leaders have failed to do. They can not condemn the violent instructions of their own God towards non believers.
Furthermore, it is necessary form the leaders of the minority group to distance themselves are far as possible from the actions of the individual who has engaged in hostile acts against the majority. This the Muslim leaders have done, but it was only a couple of months ago that these same leaders were condemning Australia's anti terror laws and saying that they would not co operate with the police. Now that one of their number has obeyed the instructions from their evil God, they can hardly complain that their religion should not be condemned in it's entirety.