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Originally posted by Jenisiz
reply to post by marg6043
...but who's to say given the opportunity to actually experience freedom without outside influence, it may change.
They Need Your Help
Remember the guys in Dearborn who were slapped around by Muslims at an Arab Festival for asking questions at a booth that specifically asked for questions?
This June they were arrested at another Dearborn Arab Festival for what amounts to Christian Proselytizing. They merely had Christian pamphlets on them. They, in America, are facing charges for being Christian. And the left scoffs when we warn of creeping Sharia.
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Originally posted by BluesBassist
reply to post by Jenisiz
Thats right lets forgive the corrupt religion that is Islam and the honour killings, the opression of women, the jihads its all ok... Christianity hundreds of years ago went through this so its ok, in the modern, science filled, rational thinking world of the 21st century for you muslims to stone women because your Islamic law said its permissable, to carry out "holy" wars its ok your allowed to because Christianity did it.... what a crock....
Originally posted by snusfanatic
reply to post by Jenisiz
yea, you didn't really read what he said, did you? Christianity did go through a murderous, dark-age...it was called the dark ages. Islam is still in its murderous dark age. and while there are plenty of good, hard-working, assimilating muslims, the culture that's been bread in the middle east - fundamentally opposed to all the freedoms you hold dear- is flocking to the secular world with unfettered immigration. you can do whatever you want with someone else's bible, but those of us who see a clear threat to the rule of law have a right to warn against a clear and present danger. and btw Lillith is not part of any of the most widely accepted biblical cannons, and also in case you forgot, the new testament generally purports to dictate everyday rules of conduct for christians. Ignorance about political islam's threat to the modern world is no excuse to dredge up ancient holy wars and gnostic texts to prove a non-sequitor. The point isn't 'burn the koran' any more than it is 'instate old-testament law.' the point isn't 'do as they did in the old testement' or 'muslims are evil because they're brown.' the point is that fundamentalist christianity, poses no where near a risk to modern society as the special form of islam that evolved to become more radical while mainstream christianity became integrated into pluralism. its not a theocratic or historic debate its a debate about a present day clash between cultures.
Originally posted by snusfanatic
reply to post by Jenisiz
Who's to say it won't change?????? Elements of shariah law are being integrated into European courts as you speak. Christians didn't just 'integrate' into pluralist society, extremists had to be stamped down and dis empowered through freedom of expression and the rule of law. Freedom of expression is dying in europe, see original post. Rule of law is also dying. The only way to integrate Islam the way both you and I would hope is to draw a bright line rule. Let people speak out against the extremism, don't fine them, and let culture stay in the home, not in the courts.
Originally posted by Jenisiz
The bible after all is a series of interpretations retold again and again and again. While I'll admit, the Koran is violent, Christianity was just as much so.
Moses comes down and instructs the Jews to kill one another for worshipping a golden calf...there are stories that go through the very foundations of the bible that preach the same ways of violence as the Muslims. The difference stems from social interaction. Muslims have been at the heart of much debate because of their location within the world. It is a rich area and therefore many outside powers have stuck their hands within their region influencing their beliefs and the ways they interpret their religion. Christianity and greed imho, gave birth to the modern Muslim extremist.
Originally posted by snusfanatic
Who's to say it won't change?????? Elements of shariah law are being integrated into European courts as you speak.
Originally posted by Jenisiz
reply to post by Alxandro
Naive...*sigh* let me refresh your memory:
gbgm-umc.org...
1. the first, 1095-1099, called by Pope Urban II and led by Peter the Hermit, Walter the Penniless, Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin and Eustace of Flanders, and others (see also first crusade);
2. the second, 1147-49, headed by King Louis VII who was enlisted by Bernard of Clairvaux, was a disastrous failure, including the loss of one of the four Latin Kingdoms, the Duchy of Edessa;
3. the third, 1188-92, proclaimed by Pope Gregory VIII in the wake of the catastrophe of the second crusade, which conducted by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, King Philip Augustus of France and King Richard "Coeur-de-Lion" of England;
4. the fourth, during which Constantinople was sacked, 1202-1204 (see also fourth crusade);
5. the fifth, which included the conquest of Damietta, 1217-1221;
6. the sixth, in which Frederick II took part (1228-29); also Thibaud de Champagne and Richard of Cornwall (1239);
7. the seventh, led by St. Louis (Louis IX of France), 1248-50; 3
And then we have the Dark Ages...
www.hermes-press.com...
" We'll examine what actually happened in the time called "the Dark Ages" -- nullifying the false histories of Christian apologists who would have us believe that this era of retrogression was caused solely by the "heathen barbaric hordes." As more honest historians such as Gibbons have discovered, the Dark Ages was largely brought on by the corruption of a counterfeit Christianity."
Should I continue...I can show you Hundreds of years of corrupt Christianity...
You can also looking into The Witch Hunts and several others....I find the witch hunts brutal as it shows the Christians are far more superior in their "repent" methods then the "barbaric" cutting off of heads by the Muslims...
edit on 21-9-2010 by Jenisiz because: (no reason given)