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Should David Irving, Holocaust denier, be allowed to run tours to Poland? [246]
But Dariusz, don't you think we are letting ourselves guide too much by some of the reports we see on TV every day? Feel free to disagree with me of course, but I am just as much alarmed by radical christians (like the Westboro Baptist Church - how dare they to call it "church", by the way?! - Northern Irish splinter groups, the Rydzyk-followers, etc etc) as I am by radical muslims. And I do think that both radical christians and radical muslims are a minority in their respective religions. The overall majority are decent, law-abiding citizens who are just as appalled by the violence "in name of their religion" as you and I are.
I used to think that radical muslims were more inclined to use violence, but I am afraid I had to revise my opinion. The thing that makes it more scary is that "we" are the target, so it threatens our "comfort zone" more directly.
This is because their religion controls their lives.
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Not only theirs, Dariusz. I live in the center of the Netherlands. From the southwest to the northeast we have a kind of "Bible Belt" and I live pretty much in the middle of it. In my village we have a large amount of Pentecostals, and believe me, they are controlled by their religion as well. They keep to themselves, will pretty much refuse to talk to people who are not "one of theirs", are not really people I consider to have "christian values" (although they see it differently of course).
Again, I think we shouldn't forget that those who shout the loudest, will get on the news and will "tarnish" our view of the mainstream followers of a religion.
