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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I don't think anyone has a problem with Muslims (or Christians for that matter) stating their opinion. None of us have a problem with that. I don't think that Letswastemoney's point was that he had a problem with Muslims following Muhammad or preaching to others that they should follow Muhammad. I don't think Letswastemoney had a problem with that. I think the problem he had was that they want to force people to behave in certain ways and they want to kill people that don't behave in those ways. I think that was his whole problem.
I guess I misunderstood your post. I thought you were disagreeing with Letswastemoney's main point.
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I also don't feel that people wanting to force others to behave in certain ways based on the way they believe is a strictly Muslim issue. I have no problem admitting that the extremes that many Muslims take it to including death threats gets ridiculous and there is NO comparison to Christians or other groups -- but to pretend that *only* Muslims get ridiculous or *only* Muslims want to tell other people what to do (which is why I re-quoted that original sentence in the original post...maybe LWM wouldn't have said it quite that way a second time around, either) is an argument that continually gets made. It's not a trading game where one extreme example cancels out another and then Muslims are left with more than other religions -- crazies are everywhere, and it sounded to me like LWM's post was doing what lots of people do in pretending that Muslims are the only ones capable belonging to the pushy beliefs club and the extreme actions club.