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[MetalSlimeHunt]

None of what we're seeing now is news. As a whole, the three abrahamic religions have been trying to kill each other (and themselves, in some cases) off for more than a thousand years. A rather depressing fact of our world and its history, but a fact none the less.

[Urist is dead tome]

So many ethnic groups in constant war. It's like the Hutu's and the Tutsi's. They just drop everything to kill each other.

[breadbocks]

None of what we're seeing now is news. As a whole, the three abrahamic religions have been trying to kill each other (and themselves, in some cases) off for more than a thousand years. A rather depressing fact of our world and its history, but a fact none the less.

Jews don't kill jews. Except at Masada. But that was special.

[Phmcw]

So many ethnic groups in constant war. It's like the Hutu's and the Tutsi's. They just drop everything to kill each other.

And the German and the French, the Serbs and the Slovaks, the catholics and the protestants, the confederate and the unionists...

[Zrk2]

We're so optimistic.

It stems from the human fear of the unknown. The different is always unknown, so it is always feared, and fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering and... Did I just go Yoda?

[AntiAntiMatter]

The different is always unknown, so it is always feared, and fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering and... Did I just go Yoda?

Yes.

[ECrownofFire]

We're so optimistic.

It stems from the human fear of the unknown. The different is always unknown, so it is always feared, and fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering and... Did I just go Yoda?

Not just human though, I'm sure that every animal has some fear of the unknown.

[Urist is dead tome]

Apes for one thing. 'Cause remember that scene in Beneath the Planet of the Apes? I sure do.

[AntiAntiMatter]

Apes for one thing. 'Cause remember that scene in Beneath the Planet of the Apes? I sure do.

Those apes are fictional, and thus irrelevant.

We're so optimistic.

It stems from the human fear of the unknown. The different is always unknown, so it is always feared, and fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering and... Did I just go Yoda?

Not just human though, I'm sure that every animal has some fear of the unknown.

Probably true. As one knows nothing about the unknown, and the ones who assume that the unknown is bad get eaten less than the ones who think otherwise.

[Zrk2]

Apes for one thing. 'Cause remember that scene in Beneath the Planet of the Apes? I sure do.

Those apes are fictional, and thus irrelevant.

We're so optimistic.

It stems from the human fear of the unknown. The different is always unknown, so it is always feared, and fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering and... Did I just go Yoda?

Not just human though, I'm sure that every animal has some fear of the unknown.

Probably true. As one knows nothing about the unknown, and the ones who assume that the unknown is bad get eaten less than the ones who think otherwise.

Exactly! Buried instincts play a surprisingly large role in the human psyche.

[chaoticag]

I think the problem will get worse before it gets better. Currently this group is probably making bombs right now.

If the Christians and Jews respond in kind then I think the world will be out of Muslims.

What makes me mad about all this is the the Muslims have essentially attempted a holy war, or Jihad as it were, on Christianity. And the only difference is that they added another prophet to the list.

And then this happened: http://friendlyatheist.com/2011/01/10/moderate-muslims-defend-coptic-christians/

    From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for last night’s mass, making a pledge to collectively fight the threat of Islamic militants and towards an Egypt free from sectarian strife.

    “We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first floating the “human shield” idea.

    Among those shields were movie stars Adel Imam and Yousra, popular Muslim televangelist and preacher Amr Khaled, the two sons of President Hosni Mubarak, and thousands of citizens who have said they consider the attack one on Egypt as a whole.

I hope you are ready to eat your words?

[Urist is dead tome]

I didn't say all Muslims were anti Christian terrorists. I have nothing against Islam. I even have a few Muslim cousin (wonderful people) and when I referred to "the Muslims" I meant the Muslims in the terrorist group.

[chaoticag]

Well, why didn't you say terrorists then?

[Urist is dead tome]

Because I thought what I said would have been sufficient. I've been wrong before.

[chaoticag]

Still, the problem is getting better. Much better than I expected even. With celebrities.