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Originally posted by Trublue
I only consider myself Christian because I am white
and live in a white Christian land.
To me like I said, this is not about religion and Islam is not
really about religion either, it's a system of power.
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
There is no higher or ultimate power then the power over one who will happy to please you.
Originally posted by space cadet
Are you trying to say that all of the above is caused by one religious group or country? That is insane to say or believe. God is the one who gives the capacity to learn, and that is given to all. There is no one country or religion who has learned more or has the right to learn more , have more knowledge than another. It is ignorant to think disease, obesity, divorce, immorality or homosexuality is all the infuence of a single country or religion, all these conditions have existed forever on earth! To state this as you have, as fact, is insane. Is that what you are taught as a Muslim?
Perhaps if all religious works began with the disclaimer: "Be aware that any reading of this particular work will result in different interpretations among the readers themselves, neither of which is the correct one, but all are" There might be no problems?
Originally posted by AbuMusaab
Originally posted by space cadet
Are you trying to say that all of the above is caused by one religious group or country? That is insane to say or believe. God is the one who gives the capacity to learn, and that is given to all. There is no one country or religion who has learned more or has the right to learn more , have more knowledge than another. It is ignorant to think disease, obesity, divorce, immorality or homosexuality is all the infuence of a single country or religion, all these conditions have existed forever on earth! To state this as you have, as fact, is insane. Is that what you are taught as a Muslim?
I wasn't blaming one country or one religious group. It is characterized by the West in general. They are the leading power and in those countries, some tried to ban alcohol at one time or another, such as Prohibition in the US, but their people's love for it overran them. So they gave up. Then they held onto banning alcohol sales only on Sunday, but that is going away, too.
Islamic Law doesn't allow the society to backslide like Western Law does. Alcohol is prohibited. 1500 years ago. Today. Always.
On a side, yet related note (not directed at anyone in particular): The one misconception I am absolutely tired of is the following:
People who say Islam is backwards, and medieval.
Do you know what is actually backwards and even more ancient? Current western society. The only difference is technology...
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Originally posted by Mahasamadhi
Iv'e been reading most (but not all) of the comments on this thread, excuse me if this has already been said:
The OP linked to a video from Sweden and claimed that Islam is destroying the swedish society. That, however is untrue. Neither Islam, Muslims or Immigrants are destroying our country (im swedish). There is however a problem, and that seems to be the way our immigration politics is carried out, not the immigrants themselves.
Western Muslims' Racist Rape Spree
By Sharon Lapkin FrontPageMag.com 12-29-5
In Australia, Norway, Sweden and other Western nations, there is a distinct race-based crime in motion being ignored by the diversity police: Islamic men are raping Western women for ethnic reasons. We know this because the rapists have openly declared their sectarian motivations.
When a number of teenage Australian girls were subjected to hours of sexual degradation during a spate of gang rapes in Sydney that occurred between 1998 and 2002, the perpetrators of these assaults framed their rationale in ethnic terms. The young victims were informed that they were "sluts" and "Aussie pigs" while they were being hunted down and abused.
In Australia's New South Wales Supreme Court in December 2005, a visiting Pakistani rapist testified that his victims had no right to say no, because they were not wearing a headscarf. And earlier this year Australians were outraged when Lebanese Sheik Faiz Mohammed gave a lecture in Sydney where he informed his audience that rape victims had no one to blame but themselves. Women, he said, who wore skimpy clothing, invited men to rape them.
A few months earlier, in Copenhagen, Islamic mufti and scholar, Shahid Mehdi created uproar when * like his peer in Australia * he stated that women who did not wear a headscarf were asking to be raped. And with haunting synchronicity in 2004, the London Telegraph reported that visiting Egyptian scholar Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi claimed female rape victims should be punished if they were dressed immodestly when they were raped.
He added, "For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good conduct."
In Norway and Sweden, journalist Fjordman warns of a rape epidemic. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen stated that the steady increase of rape-cases and the link to ethnicity are clear, unmistakable trends. Two out of three persecutions for rape in Oslo are immigrants with a non-Western background and 80 percent of the victims are Norwegian women.
In Sweden, according to translator for Jihad Watch, Ali Dashti, "Gang rapes, usually involving Muslim immigrant males and native Swedish girls, have become commonplace." A few weeks ago she said, "Five Kurds brutally raped a 13-year-old Swedish girl."
In France, Samira Bellil broke her silence * after enduring years of repeated gang rapes in one of the Muslim populated public housing projects * and wrote a book, In the hell of the tournantes, that shocked France. Describing how gang rape is rampant in the banlieues, she explained to Time that, "any neighborhood girl who smokes, uses makeup or wears attractive clothes is a whore."
www.rense.com...
22 April 2010
US president Barack Obama will lay a key plank of his strategy to mend ties with the Islamic world next week when he hosts a summit to boost economic development in Muslim nations.
In a step the White House hopes will help shift relations beyond decades of talk about terrorism and conflict, a senior official said Mr Obama will bring entrepreneurs from 50 countries to Washington on Monday and Tuesday to spur economic ties.
The event -- entitled "A New Beginning: The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship" -- will take place at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. (pictured).
The president pledged to host the summit in a landmark speech in Cairo last June, when he also called for a "new beginning" to relations between the United States and the Islamic world. "One of the principal goals of that vision was to broaden our relationship, which has been dominated by a few different issues, a small set of issues, for at least the last decade, and going back further than that," the official told AFP.
WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.
“In addition to the nations that most of you usually hear about when you think about the International Space Station, we now have expanded our efforts to reach out to non-traditional partners,” said Bolden, speaking to a lecture hall of young engineering students.
Specifically, he talked about connecting with countries that do not have an established space program and helping them conduct science missions. He mentioned new opportunities with Indonesia, including an educational program that examines global climate change.
“We really like Indonesia because the State Department, the Department of Education [and] other agencies in the U.S. are reaching out to Indonesia as the largest Muslim nation in the world. We would love to establish partners there,” Bolden said.
As a presidential candidate, Obama espoused a space program that invited more participation from the international community and Deputy NASA Administrator Lori Garver said recently that the next time NASA lands on the moon it would be part of an international exploration effort.
Originally posted by doctor j and inmate c5779
Ladies! Gentlemen! Can`t we all just... get along? I see some of you saying religion is nothing a tool being used to control people and you`re right.
Originally posted by space cadet
As serious as this topic is, I just tried to picture Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and the Carolina's being taken over by Islamic leaders, being islamized. And I just couldn't do it. I cannot picture it.
[edit on 1-5-2010 by space cadet]