The poster is anti-jihad, which by context must mean not contemplative navel-gazing but actively engaged in hostilities.

The claim is that the poster is anti-Muslim.

This works only if we assume that all Muslims are pro-jihad.

I consider that equivalence to be anti-Muslim, tarring them with a broad brush before dipping in feathers.

It's rather like condemning Crusaders and those who burn Qur'ans savages, only be to told that such a condemnation is inherently anti-Xian. Some Xians would think this. They'd be rebuked and identified as they idiots they are. No apology, esp. from those not involved in the name calling, would be forthcoming. And properly so. They were/are savages.

Can't do that with Muslims, it seems. Perhaps because deep down inside we actually *do* assume all Muslims are jihadis in waiting.

It redirects here: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ with a handylink to her bio http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/about.html where it turns out she's a birther a world nut daily columnist and ents space in JohnBolton's ass.

Turns out she's a hard core rightwinger and admirer of that famous atheist, Ayn Rand.

Perhaps because deep down inside we actually *do not* assume all Muslims are jihadis in waiting. It helps if poltical analysis is not clouded by theism or antitheism.

(verse 33)

"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?"

(some translations run ........You sons of snakes!)


That's just my favorite out of a whole chapter of vituperation against some of His fellow Jews.

Jesus was not just a nice un-opinionated pale character. This text comes out of a Christian community 40 years after Jesus' death. It had been severely attacked by Jewish fundamentalists, and this text was remembered and reworded from Jesus to confound them.

The interfaith movement is growing rapidly. Our local seminary (United Methodist) now has developed an interfaith university which trains Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders. I have a number of friends who are active in the "Parliament of World Religions."
At the Christmas eve service at out Episcopal church, the Old Testament lesson was read by a prominent Rabbi--who is the Jewish scholar in residence at the Congregation. A dozen Muslim leaders were also invited to the service and were welcomed as brothers and sisters.