Muslims need to look at themselves

Why is it necessary to attack one religion to defend another, asks Salam Zreika Maybe Julia Irwin attacked one religion to defend another but her arguement doesn’t hold water. Nevertheless Salam applauds her.

I would like to applaud Labor’s Julia Irwin for standing up and making statements on behalf of Muslims in Australia.

Pointing out that some ancient text supported and even advocated violence to the same extent as the Koran doesn’t support Muslims in Australia at all. It simply underlines the fact that Christians left that shit behind a millenium ago and some Muslim fanatics haven’t. Haven’t noticed any Christians deliberately targeting woman and kids lately and then excusing themselves by saying “the Devil made me do it”….or “the Bible says I should pluck out a disbelievers eye” or whatever. Salam again;

What bothers me the most is that most people would agree with Anglican minister David West at Woollahra when he says: “It is easy to characterise people by the actions of minority groups. Christian fundamentalism in its extreme forms does not represent mainstream Christian thinking” which, of course, is true.

Of course it’s true but it’s only half the truth. Christian fundamentalism does not represent mainstream Christian thinking – nor do they blow up Muslims. Muslim fundamentalism does not represent mainstream Muslim thinking but the difference is they blow up christians …Muslims…anyone. Worse than this – I doubt there are any Christian clerics advocating their parishoners go and out and kill Muslims yet there are some Muslim clerics in Australia who are advocating the reverse. I think Salam Zreika might first agitate to get the errant Muslim clerics to shut up before he tells us to. Very few Australians would blame all Muslims but the problem is within the Muslim society, not with us Christians so start there Salam and good luck. The new anti-terror laws will help the country to rid us of these extremists and I suggest all your efforts should be targeting your own portion of society, not ours.