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originally posted by: seabhac-rua
a reply to: ArtemisE
I'll ask you this: do you think that to support the idea of something like stoning a woman to death is not an extremist viewpoint? How about shooting them in the back of the head with an AK/47 in a public place like a football pitch? How about hanging a gay man from a crane in your town square?
You seem to think that for somebody to be considered as an extremist or a radical then that person would have to be active in the pursuit of committing terrorist deeds.
I don't agree, and I think you are naive, to be honest.
If a person contends that gay people should be executed for being gay, for example, then they hold an extremist viewpoint, in my books. And although they may not be the ones prepared to "kick the stool" out from under a person condemned to hang because of their sexual orientation, they support those who do. To me that is the whole point of this discussion.
The video I posted earlier in this thread shows what I consider to be an illustration of how many devout Muslims hold extremist viewpoints on subjects like adultery and homosexuality. And I am not contending that other religious institutions like Christianity are better, a turd is a turd.
At the end of the day, when you take into account the amount of Muslim people who hold and tolerate these views compared to the number of Muslims who have actively spoken out about the atrocities committed in the name of Islam, you'll get where I'm coming from.
originally posted by: junglimogli
originally posted by: tsingtao
originally posted by: junglimogli
a reply to: 727Sky
That penalist woman is loud mouthed and more political than anything .. some of her points may be valid, but she has not answered the question that was posed .. she used an emotional rant to deviate from the question and get people to clap over a 'usa usa usa' chanting attitude ..
she is talking about 4 dead americans .. compared to millions of innocents killed in other countries to 'avenge' their deaths ..because politicians like bush talked like her to ger american's blood to boil ..
The question posed still remains ... how do fight an ideoplogy ..a thought process with weapons ..
In my opinion, that penalist woman is offtopic ..and does not deserve the applause ..
it was a panel on benghazi.
saba was trolling and off topic. gabriel told her in no uncertain terms she was.
millions of innocents? really? where?
and one eliminates the thought process to stop ideology.
A lot of innocents have been killed, detained, maimed, etc worldwide ..in the name of avenging 911 .. yes, unofficially in the million + .. officially you will never hear about it ..
If your official figure of a few thousands is your defense to justify that it's 'ok' ..then we're done here ..
You can never eliminate the thought process with bombs ... thats the same mentality that will get you killed eventually .. because you will sprout thousands of more terrorists ..
originally posted by: wurzalgnu
a reply to: BO XIAN
I keep reading this Satanic moon God nonsense so just to stoke the fires of religious ignorance Christians worship a war God of the canaanite pantheon.
originally posted by: wurzalgnu
a reply to: yuppa
SIMPLE they stole a deity and killed off the canaanites to eliminate any opposition. Elevated the rather minor deity of jhwh to godhead and the rest is history. For what other reason did they kill the canaanites? Did their all loving omnipotent God tell them to spread the love with a blade? Why would anyone want to worship a murderer?
How and why is Allah (which is just the Arabic word for God, a bit the French word is Dieu) a satanic moon God? In fact why are people even still bothering with this fairy tale nonsense?
originally posted by: NotTooHappy
a reply to: 727Sky
Meh. Christians have proven themselves to be much worse than Muslims.
originally posted by: yuppa
The crusades were done by the Popes who were doing the same thing that the muslims leaders do. You mean cathlolicism specifically who perpertrated the crusades and the inquisition. Still they were not actually christians in action but name alone. we call them HYPOCRITES and they do not represent the entire religon.
now it wasnt christianity back then in the OT times if you are going to go there and say stuff about that. the OT is a history of the HEBREWS,and to show christians the past and where it all came from.
originally posted by: wurzalgnu
a reply to: yuppa
Muslims worship the God of Abraham. I realise that many Christians don't like this fact and make up stuff such as satanic moon God's and all that but the fact is Islam is an Abrahamic belief system.
You can call it capital punishment if you like but the reality that the wholesale slaughter of an entire race of people is genocide. In fact using that kind of logic you could say that the Nazis were just carrying out capital punishment against people who didn't fit their ideal, bit like God saying "These Canaanites don't fit my ideal with their behaviour so they should all be punished by death. Men, women and children, no matter how innocent shall be put to the blade." People want to worship a God that demands theis and have the audacity to call him a loving God.
Justify it as much as you like, quote scripture and use apologetics as much as you like. Fact is religion is barbaric and belongs in the past. Time for humanity to grow up and stop believing in fairy tales.