It's also about showing people the love of Christ, even in the face of persecution (although I would hardly call the last eight years that)
Make no mistake, I am a white male Christian as well. I'm just not looking to be offended, I'm looking to coexist with my friends, many of whom are gay, many of whom are agnostic and/or athiest, etc, etc.
I agree. But that also represents a very comparatively small, militarized denomination of Muslims.
Imagine, if you will, that everyone equated all of Christianity to the Southern Baptist churches of the Bible Belt in the 1950s
Of course don't blindly trust them, you need to have a queue of a few different news sources (preferably of different political bias) to compare and come to your own conclusions. What doesn't help is "sharing" the Facebook image with a "quote" from Barak Obama saying he wants to watch America burn.
Here's a video you might like