Why is sympathy for Islam so common on the political left?

I guess they like conservative religious values

 

because when dirty wars are waged, torture is conducted, civil liberties are suspended--elements of the political left will fight for whatever group is marginalized, even those that nobody wants to sympathize with. See the Skokie march.

 

what?

Try two wrongs don't make a wrong.

You're painting a psuedo-narrative of mass of people with so little relevant data.

 

some sympathize with the innocents caught up in the fight. others just see them as a casualty of war statistic.

 

So are Muslims more marginalized vs marginalizing others (including their own)?

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html

I'm independent and usually look at facts and numbers.

 

bingo!

*snort*

 

You're ignorant and you watch too many movies, that's why you believe that.

 

Whatever dirty wars committed by the west does not erase the fact that hundreds of millions of people are marginalized in Muslim Majority countries because of a backward interpretation of a religion.

Yet all hear is people deflecting responsibility and blame from the ideology onto other things.

 

I think the OP's commentary is sound in many ways. I think worldview does have an enormous impact on your political ideology - whether you think people are basically good or not will affect almost every political stance you have. Many conservatives have a Christian worldview that contrasts deeply with the secular rational worldview of many liberals. This fundamental difference must be recognized.

 

Wait - which are you saying is the one that believes in the good of the human heart?

 

You are too young to be such a lost, sad soul.

 

Obama was not going to show up in France because their uppity azz's don't show up to go to war... If he would have went _ that would have been the 1st thing conservatives would have complained about.

 

Only if he saluted with a frappuccino

 

Christians do not believe that people are basically good, while secular rationalists do. I feel like that's a well-known distinction.

 

I can't speak for the belief systems of other people, but my Christian faith is predicated on the inherent goodness of humanity. Our bodies are ephemeral but our souls are eternal. Some of these souls give themselves over to God. Some do not. It's a choice.

 

How can you, as a Christian, believe that humans are inherently good if you believe also in the concept of sin? It's a contradiction.

 

As a Christian, I agree with this post. Christians believe in the ideas set out in Romans, that all have sinned and fallen short of God.

 

I think it is mainly because the Left tends to be sympathetic towards groups who are the target of racism or general bigotry, as Muslims commonly are.