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intotheaether:
"I was raised as a Roman Catholic and am now an atheist, which means I will not be doing anything for Ramadan this month.
There. That's my answer. There's no reason for people to get into name-calling or ethnic slurs. In Catholicism, there's a very similar period--Lent--in which Catholics try to emulate Christ's forty day fast in the desert. Globally, there are nearly as many Muslims as there are Christians (and a very large portion of Christians are Catholics), and yet I have the suspicion that if this question had been posed about Lent, people would have taken it in their stride.
Fundamentalism and extremism is wrong from any group of people. I won't excuse Muslim terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. But by that same token, I won't excuse Christian groups such as the Army of God, who feel that it is their right to use scare tactics to blow up abortion clinics. If anybody is about to say 'but the Army of God is a fringe Christian group, they don't represent my views'--well, don't you think Muslims feel the same way about al-Qaeda? There are over two billion Muslims around the world; do you really believe that all of them can be defined by the extremists you see on the news?"
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intotheaether:"I was raised as a Roman Catholic and am now an atheist, which means I will not be doing anything for Ramadan this month.
There. That's my answer. There's no reason for people to get into name-calling or ethnic slurs. In Catholicism, there's a very similar period--Lent--in which Catholics try to emulate Christ's forty day fast in the desert. Globally, there are nearly as many Muslims as there are Christians (and a very large portion of Christians are Catholics), and yet I have the suspicion that if this question had been posed about Lent, people would have taken it in their stride.
Fundamentalism and extremism is wrong from any group of people. I won't excuse Muslim terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. But by that same token, I won't excuse Christian groups such as the Army of God, who feel that it is their right to use scare tactics to blow up abortion clinics. If anybody is about to say 'but the Army of God is a fringe Christian group, they don't represent my views'--well, don't you think Muslims feel the same way about al-Qaeda? There are over two billion Muslims around the world; do you really believe that all of them can be defined by the extremists you see on the news?"