Schmoe wrote:
Not disagreeing that it's sensationalized, but that the comparison between the violence in modern Christians and Muslims is a HUGE stretch at best.
Why?
How many violent muslims do you think there are in the world? 50,000? 100,000? how about a million? (al queda in all it's glory is estimated to only have around 1000 core members) Do you realize that even if there were as many violent muslims as there were total members of the LDS church, it would still represent less than a tenth of a percent of the 1.6BILLION Muslims in the world?
and yet our sensationalist media still paints the world's second largest religion with this despicable violence brush that is perpetuated by our geographical, cultural, and language distance. Not to mention plenty of ignorance.
The really funny thing is how they look at us and see how immoral, violent, cruel and petty we are. Even if they secretly love Baywatch. For those who think that Muslims are solely violent people here's a few statistics for you.
let's look at a few violent Muslim countries out there: (homicides per 100k people)
Egypt 1.1
Tunisia 1.1
jordan 1.8
saudi arabia 1.0
and here are some of the more violent countries:
Palestine 4.1
Iraq 2.0
Syria 2.3
Iran 3.0
want to know what the rate for the US ?
a whopping 4.4. Even higher than Palestine. And I picked these at random. no cherry picking the lowest ones.
Want to know the World average is? 6.9.
Even if they wanted to, muslims don't have to kill us, we're doing a good job of that on our own. Now I'm not trying to excuse violence on either side. but the numbers are simply not there to back the extrapolation of violence of a very, VERY few onto the whole.
here's another interesting question... how many arabic words do you know? I'm going to guess that for most people one of the only words of that truly beautiful language is "Jihad".
Think about that. why do you think that is?
How would you feel if the only word Muslims learned about Christianity was "molestation" or "Ku Klux Klan"? That's about how far apart we are.