Tom Toles for June 17, 2016

Or when was the last time a CONservative responded to a Christian terrorist by using a label that stereotypically tars all Christians with the same broad-brush accusation of terrorism?.After any instance in which a “Christian” KKK member burns a cross on the lawn of a minority, or a “Christian” shoots a doctor or bombs a clinic or kills African Americans praying in a Charleston church or blows up a federal building in Oklahoma City, Donald Trump and his TEApubliCON accomplices are too afraid to say the words:RADICAL EXTREMIST CHRISTIAN TERRORISM (which of course is not representative of the vast majority of peace-loving moderate Christians)..Let’s identify the REAL problem: radical extremist terrorism, whether it is inspired by religion (regardless of brand name) or secular.

Violence is not a Christian tenet. A Christian committing acts of violence violates his religion. Such is not the case for Islam. Everyone knows this except the most intelligent clique on the planet: white, well-educated liberals of North America and Europe.

The KKK is not, nor has it ever been, “Christian”. Its origin is in Freemasonry. The KKK= “radical Christian” iteration is steeped in ignorance.

I’m with The Wiz.

The Christian Bible is replete with commands to commit atrocities … many times more than what occur in the Qur’an. Everyone knows this except the religious illiterates who bow and pray to a Bible they worship but have never actually read, except for the parts cherry-picked for them by those who teach their Sunday School lessons. While there are occasional flashes of inspiration and primitive wisdom in the Bible (as in any ancient book of myths and legends), the Bible as a whole is a compendium of mythology, filled with numerous atrocities (supposedly commanded by god), direct internal contradictions and factual errors the cherry-pickers never seem to include in their Sunday School lessons. The Bible — largely plagiarized from earlier Sumerian and Babylonian mythologies — is no better and certainly no more literally factual than the mythologies of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Incas or Mayans. Here are specific examples of HUNDREDS of direct internal contradictions, factual errors, atrocities supposedly commanded by god and failed prophecies that your Christian friends never heard about but can find in their very own Bibles, each example fully documented with chapter-and-verse references your superstitionist friends can look up in their very own Bibles: http://danizier.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/the-blasphemy-of-bibleolatry/

The reality is that the vast majority of Christians and Muslims are peaceful moderates who just want to go about their daily lives without bothering anyone or being bothered by anyone..And it is illogical, immoral and inaccurate to try to tar all adherents to any faith with the broad brush of stereotypical assumptions..And the practical reality is that the vast majority of incidents in which we intercepted and prevented a terrorist attack were because Muslim moderates contacted authorities to report suspicious behavior..And one of the most pernicious LIES from Donald Trump this week was when he lied and falsely stated that the Muslims knew about the Orlando terrorist and failed to report him..FALSE..The terrorist was twice detained and questioned by the FBI.Both times were in response to reports filed by moderate Muslims.It was the FBI, not moderate Muslims, who dropped the ball.

Well, your tale illustrates why “radical Islam” is the problem. There are millions of radical Muslims, and we can’t always differentiate between the level-headed ones and those who commit jihadist attacks. Needless to say, Islam is nothing without Shari’a, so the moderates are really just lacking the courage of any convictions. The state of governments throughout the Islamic lands displays all we need to know about the ultimate end of a demographic shift towards larger and larger numbers of Muslims.

If Muslims were so intent on murder and mayhem, how come one massacre makes so much news? Should this not be happening every minute?

The republicon extremists believe in magic words as opposed to solutions.

It’s a shame that neither fundamentalists or atheists can have a mature rational discussion about anything.

Thank you Tom! Please keep up the good work!

But they can’t separate the two since Jesus cemented them together when he told them he didn’t come to change the law, but to keep it..So we’re told.

I do agree with you about the “Holy” Roman Empire.

anti-Muslim prejudice, anti-LGBT bigotry and pro-gun fanaticism are the platform of the GOP. If you could find a candidate that embodied all of this, they would win the Republican nomination.

the left wing defines anti muslim prejudice as one wanting to keep ones head on his shoulders // anti lgbt is throwing them off roofs [ if you say who does that you will be guilty of anti muslim prejudice/// pro gun fanaticism is wanting to own one

Reader-written Wikipedia is an authority. How come, in that cited list of homosexual=criminal nations, they left out “Christian” sub-Saheel Africa, much of Central America, and a scattering of other countries. It is media bigotry funded by divide and rule multinational corporations that spread these lies. True losers who cannot blame themselves for being losers are always ripe for scapegoating excuses.

It’s important to say all four of the things mentioned in the cartoon.

nailed it.