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[Cataholic]

How completely hypocritical of you. Completely. Whereas I made a VERY general statment (and who in God's name prefeces ANY thing with "this is my opinion) about Islam, you made VERY specific statments about things, here. If you go back to your first post in this thread, you are all OVER us, questioning our beliefs, insinuating that somehow we are 'less' because we laugh at something.

You talk about people here taking their heads out of the sand, that is just so funny to me. As if you somehow have this greater knowledge of life? As if.

You have EVERY right to express an opinion. But, so. do. I.

[caseysmom]

From what I have heard lots of IMAN's have molested youngs boys also, I don't think the catholics hold the market on that one.

I don't want to cause this to be any more tense than it already is PCB but it does seem like you put us in positions to defend our way of life lots of times and when you are questioned you get upset, sorry that is just what I have observed.

[Kfamr]

I don't want to cause this to be any more tense than it already is PCB but it does seem like you put us in positions to defend our way of life lots of times and when you are questioned you get upset, sorry that is just what I have observed.

This is very, very, very true.

Love her, but she has made many statements questioning people's beliefs, ways of life, etc. from the very beginning.


Like I said, if she had any problem at all with Johanna I believe as FRIENDS it should be talked about privately. Johanna or anyone else can't predict how someone's going to react to or read into a particular opinion. I had thought their friendship was greater than that, but maybe I was mistaken.

There are two VERY hurt sides here...

[Karen]

Okay, stop, folks. No name calling, no finger-pointing. Everyone is entitled to her/his opinion, however, there's no need to jump on each other.

I thank those who have taken this discussion seriously, and know that, while no one meant to hurt people's feelings, that is what has happened.

Christians kill each other - the American Civil war is one example. But it was not fought over "religion" per se, there were God-fearing Christian folks on both sides of that one. That's just a handy example.

War is never pretty.

War is never simple.

Let us, at Pet Talk, try to get along with each other, be respectful of each other's heartfelt opinions, and live together peaceably. We not be able to solve all the world's problems, but we can get along with each other.

Right?

And all of you who pray, pray please for peace.

[caseysmom]

PCB I think you are a very intelligent young woman and I have the utmost respect for you and for Islam. I think we can find ugly things in just about any group of people/religions/races, etc.

Unfortunetly we westerners do hear all the ugly stuff about Islam so that is our only information source besides you.

This is why I personally get turned off by religion, sorry for those with strong feelings about it I just feel like it separates people too much.

Obviously there are good things in Islam, all those billions of people who believe can't be believing in something that is only promoting violence, etc. Please don't be hurt by all of this I know its a big job for you to explain it to all of us but we do appreciate it and I do think some of the questions posed to you are meant to be inflammatory sometimes but just take it with a grain of salt and an opportunity to inform.