Religion Against Each Other

Submitted by Mark D (United States), Mar 16, 2014 at 01:48

Those scriptures also imbue a hostility toward non-Muslims which in turn generates an assumption about non-Muslims harboring a like hostility toward Muslims.

... I went to a Catholic High School, attended bible classes when growing up, and I tell ya, Catholics hate Muslims and Jews. It is not just Muslims having hostility towards non Muslims, but non Muslims too having hostility towards Muslims. It stems from the scripture in the bible saying Christianity is the only true religion and that Muslims and Jews will go to hell because they do not believe in Christ. I thought everybody knows that.

And if that wasn't depressing enough, Muslims when they are a minority gets victimized too –

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/world/asia/rise-in-bigotry-fuels-massacre-inside-myanmar.html?hp

We can not step off facing the facts, whether we like what it says or not. ...

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