Still stuck in the 14th century
Amid all the usual gems of wisdom you can find at Eteraz, I found this outburst by Aisha that reflects my own perception so well:
Very few of the so-called ‘great religions’ have an unstained history, and I am saying ‘very few’ to be polite. (I think ‘none’ is probably more accurate.) It is convenient to the point of imbecility that adherents of these faiths are so willing to forget their own history as soon as the violence that put them in power allows them to relax and reap the fruits of their conquest. I can promise you that if the jihadis ever did manage to take over the world, the first thing they would do is hang up their guns and ask why the enslaved nations took up arms against their just and peacable rule.
I'll leave aside the slander of my own religion for a moment, and point out that this paragraph captures a fundamental flaw: The mistakes of one side do not justify the mistakes of another; especially if taken out of context.
The context is the 21st century. I'll be the first to lambast the Catholic Church for its treatment of my people even unto the 20th century. But in no way do its sins - which involved forced conversions, mass torture and executions, and other villanies - justify the sins of the Islamic fascists. We live in the 21st century. We aren't going to slip back 6 centuries so that the Islamists can have their turn.
