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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Ever hear of a little spot called Bosnia, Rupert? Christians killing Muslems. Oh, but that was such a long time ago, right? All the way back in the 1990's.
And Rupert, if you want to sound like you understand anything about this situation, you should take time to learn what happened hundreds of years ago, because I promise you, Moslems in the Middle East know and in some cases, are still mad about it. Remember Bush referring to the initial attacks as a "crusade?" Remember how upset the Moslem world got?
But thanks for agreeing one religious fanatic who would kill in the name of the religion is as bad as another, regardless of the religion. I knew there was common ground somewhere in this discussion.  |
In Yugoslavia(Bosnia, Croatia, etc.),that was a totally different situation. You had a situation there with three different groups that had been historic rivals and bitter enemies for years. You had the Serbs(Orthodox Christians), the Croats(Catholics), and the ethnic Albanians(Muslims).
In World War II, Serbs had been massacred by the tens of thousands in concentration camps. Then in 1991, the new Croat government was reviving fascism and enacting discriminatory laws targeting Orthodox Serbs. There was a civil war and the minority Serbs ended up fighting back and outgunning the Croats and the Albanians. There ended up being mass executions of Croats and Albanians at the hands of the Serbs.
I'm not excusing what happened there. You had a civil war there with a history of each side massacaring the other side. If there was no outside intereference, I think that whichever side had the most firepower would have massacred the other side. That is often times the case in wars. You have atrocities committed by both sides. In Vietnam, there were plenty of atrocities committed by our troops. There's no excuse for it, but it continuously seems to happen in wars.
Anyway, I don't think part of the theology of the Christians there was that all non-Christians in the world should be killed. It was just a case of bitter enemies who had a history of killing each other that wanted to continue to kill each other.
I want to make sure you understand that I'm not condoning what happened in Bosnia. It was murder. Murder is murder. I'm simply saying that I don't think theology was the reason for the murders. It was just a case of enemies killing each other. I think that is different from someone saying that you will be beheaded if you don't follow their religion.