abu_rashid wrote on Feb 17
th, 2009 at 6:33am:
The point isn't about what his motives were.
No matter what his motives were, that would NEVER in any way implicate ALL Christians, and the same for Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus or Eskimo Theosophians for that matter.
Thee actions of an individual can NEVER be used to implicate an entire community of people. That's called mob mentality, it's called collective punishment, it's just pure lunacy, and only xenophobic racist loons would be thinking in such terms. And it's they, who along with the arsonist, need to be put inside.
They can if the community supports what they do, arms them, funds them, and the perpetrators say, that they are doing this in the name of the community. Often the community does it themselves. A guy who commits an assault that happens to be a muslim, or a jew or whatever - is in a very different category from terror in the name of Islam.
So stop the straw man analogies Abu. You must be running out of hay bales.