Yeah, the KKK is more tied to skincolor. It's bad, yes, but Muslim extremists are worse because they came a few decades later when they could have easier access to things like automatic weaponry and rocket launchers. Muslim extremists are also not as opposed to suicide bombings.
KKK is a firmly christian organization. It is part and parcel of their beliefs.
I rarely communicate ideas well, it seems.
Perhaps it is because I am accustomed to speaking to a different audience, one that is more likely to understand my intent as it is delivered.
Also remember however that the KKK detests Catholics and would not hesitate to do to them what they did to the blacks. One thing that sets Christianity apart from the other Abrahamic religions is the fact that it's HEAVILY fractionated, with the main divisions being between Protestants/Mormons and Catholics/Orthodoxy, with the and being the biggest divider between the four sides, and that's just a generalization, not even accounting for things like the Episcopals and the Evangelists. It's difficult to blame any one thing on "Christianity" because Christians of one church will be quick to condemn and split off from those of another that they do not agree with, and will just as often bicker amongst themselves as they would outsiders.
The Sunni/Shiite split between Islam is roughly equivalent to this, and when you have Muslims fighting other Muslims, I'd guess it's usually because of these lines. Nevertheless, whether Islam dividing itself as a faith, even if only to remove the extremist elements is a good or a bad thing is difficult to say; the division of the church certainly hasn't done Christians many favors.
And I might add onto this.
However, your ready condemnation (or rather ready use of it as an example of a religion that does reprehensible things) of Christianity reveals a larger subset of this "Extremist problem", that I've been noticing has cropped up continuously. Even as distant as the Islamic fundamentalists are from the Christian churches, their actions ring across the Muslim community, which rings across the Christian community, which draws into
us, because many secular folk seem to, either out of contempt or ignorance, equate both the Muslims and the Christians into a homogenized faction of superstitious barbarians which have no place in the modern world due to some of our more antiquated beliefs (whether or not we still hold and/or practice them nonewithstanding), as well as the actions of our predecessors. The far-left cannot defend Islam because too many members of its creed view the Muslims, and the Christians, and even the Jews (in spite of condemning the Holocaust) as undesirable in the secularized west, and they only look like hypocrites trying to badger in the Muslims for political gain when attempting, where the far-right can easily chalk up their stance against them as
"they're different" without breaking character in spite of the fact that they [the Muslims] share far more ground with the right ideologically then they do the left.
Truth be told, the Militants are giving
all of the western faiths a bad reputation.
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