Semantics. I suppose someone who is a devout anything is someone who takes to heart and tries to lead their life according to the teachings of their faith. My grandmother and mother were devout Catholics. Mass three times a week. Rosaries said often more than once a day. Lives led in devotion to Jesus and the Virgin Mother. I am glad neither lived to see the ugliness that has broken through the surface of the church with the revelations of all this child abuse. It would have shaken their faith in the church, but not in their devotion to god.

We know a couple well who are devout Muslims. He is African and she is Eastern European. They are saddened and outraged at terrorists who call themselves "devout". They believe that these people are the antithesis of devout, and they cite examples of how secular these people often are when they live outside their home countries. Drinking, drugs, failing to pray daily etc.

I'm sick of the world, not just the U.S. treating these people with kid gloves for fear of offending them and their prophet, but I worry that a lot of the attendant hatred will spill over towards Muslims in this country. That would be very wrong.

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