Amy, you're clearly a racist fundamentalist Christian.

There is no tolerance in the Middle East but it is not about Islam. The Arabs have violent cultures and societies. In Egypt, 79 people died in a soccer riot. Christians in Lebanon massacred over 1000 people in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The more secular Arabs leaders (Assad, Ghadaffi, Arafat) are just as brutal as the religious leaders.

Arabs have a barbaric culture that is violent regardless of their religious ideas or devoutness. In violent nations, people will use any excuse to massacre their opponents (see Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka). Many despicable Arabs use Islam because it is convenient but it is not the root cause. Soccer can be used just as easily.

The problem with many countries in the Middle East is that have forgotten, or had suppressed, the Hammurabic codes and all the subsequent things that led to the Athenian, Spartan, and subsequent Greek and Roman styles of justice that have formed the European and American forms of justice as we know today.

The "eye for an eye" has been bypassed for "justice" and rule of law as we know it.

Amy,
This is from Roger Simon's site at PJ Media and I knew you would appreciate it.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/12/10/the-last-of-the-just-in-belgium/

January 07, 2011

Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as "human shields"

Muslims standing together with Christians to protect the latter during worship at a Coptic church. Can you imagine a similar scenario in the U.S., with, say, Christians defending the right of Muslims to build a non-mosque Not-at-Ground-Zero? If only it were so.

These Egyptians are demonstrating the true meaning of religious -- and political -- tolerance. The fact that this show of solidarity is coming so soon after a brutal attack on another Coptic church speaks volumes not only about their enlightened minds, but also their courage. The Egyptian government doesn't take kindly to demonstrations in general, no matter the sentiments its citizens are demonstrating. Here's another article that shows the risks Egyptians take by speaking out.

Posted by Lisa Simeone at 10:08 AM in Current Affairs, Religion | Permalink

http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2011/01/egypts-muslims-attend-coptic-christmas-mass-serving-as-human-shields-.html

And why did Copts doing something as benign as attending Christmas mass need human shields in the first place? Here's a clue: "The fact that this show of solidarity is coming so soon after a brutal attack on another Coptic church..." There've been a great many such brutal attacks, and Copts have been persecuted second-class citizens since Egypt was conquered by Muslims in the 7th century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Copts

All this was done by Muslims in the name of Islam and with the support of Islamic doctrine. You can't stick your head in the sand and ignore this just because some enlightened Muslims are not on board with it.

Can you imagine a similar scenario in the U.S., with, say, Christians defending the right of Muslims to build a non-mosque Not-at-Ground-Zero?

Lisa, I can imagine that if there were brutal attacks by hateful Christians on Muslims worshipping at mosques in the U.S., that other non-hateful Christians would offer to help protect them. The thing is, those hypothetical Christian-on-Muslim attacks are highly unlikely.

And, let's look at an instance where there was an attempted attack on a mosque (in the heat of post 9/11 anger**, in September 2001, here in Seattle):

Community answers targeting of mosque

The fragrance of flowers replaced gasoline fumes outside a North Seattle mosque yesterday as scores of people condemned a man's acts of retaliation against Muslims by flooding the prayer house with peace offerings.

Bouquets, American flags and letters of support overflowed on a brick landing outside the Islamic Idriss Mosque, where authorities say a 53-year-old Kenmore man arrived late Thursday night with a can of gasoline, a gun and bad intentions.

"It means a lot," the mosque's director of operations, Hisham Farajallah, said of the outpouring of support. "It shows the goodness of the American people and that these are the feelings of the majority. That's what counts."

Yesterday afternoon, Jews, Christians and Buddhists joined Muslims for an interfaith service at the mosque -- a demonstration of kinship in stark contrast to what transpired less than 24 hours earlier.

** while attacks on innocent Muslims in the U.S. happened in the immediate wake of 9/11 (here in Seattle, some ignorant cretin attacked a Sikh taxi driver), and are not excusable, consider what the response by Muslims against innocent Christians in, say, Saudi Arabia, would have been if 19 radical Christians had hijacked four Saudi airliners and crashed them into buildings in Mecca why crying "God is great!" The retaliation would have been FAR worse, FAR more violent and vicious.

Anyway, the good part about you posting what you did is that is shows that there are decent Muslims too, which is something one would not think possible while reading Amy's numerous blanket condemnations of Islam.