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The central tenet of Christianity, is one of liberation from the sickness of evil, by love, freed for the sake of freedom to freely love as we are loved.
So many people, including many on these boards, do not seem willing to open their mind and make use of their higer faculties of reason, logic, and intuition, and many of their opinions are worthless in the light of truth and add up to nothing of any value, especially when driven or motivated by contemptuous bias.
Originally posted by Byteman
reply to post by DrChuck
This old flawed argument again.
A core belief of Islam is to spread it EVERYWHERE to EVERYONE. That means these people, with "conviction" as you put it, are also dedicated to a future where YOU and/or YOUR DESCENDANTS are under their rule.
Therefore, we don't have to respect their culture. They are already dedicated to destroying ours first chance they get.
According to your "let's respect it" logic, you must respect my wishes to preserve my culture and beliefs. So your rant against people, who themselves are against Islam, is hypocrisy. BTW, this is why this argument is forever flawed.
Now your just generalizing all Muslims. By your logic the Westboro Baptist Church represents all Christians. Believe it or not, not ALL Muslims are out to convert you and conquer you. You probably believe ALL Mexicans want to steal jobs in America.
As for Muslims being dedicated to destroying our culture, we do a heck of a better job at destroying other cultures than anyone in the world. When was the last time a Islamic state ventured into our lands with a full blown army? The small attacks they've successfully made are nothing compared to the demise and destruction of what we have accomplished. We've been in the Middle East trashing the place loooong before 9/11 happened. Who is the transgressor here?
I do respect your wish to preserve yourself, I respect everyones wish to preserve themselves, even those of my ENEMIES. Its the strongest and most basic drive of any living thing. But,I can just not respect yours, cuz your behaving like an ass.
Just as they WERE?
They STILL kidnap little girls, forcibly convert them to Islam, and then forcibly marry them.
They STILL stone female children for just looking at a boy wrong.
They STILL rape their child "brides". (abuse victims)
Western people are STILL held accountable for their actions.
You forget what stuff like POLICE, JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, DEFENSE LAWYERS, and JURIES are for?
It's just that we go through the ridiculous steps of actually having to PROVE the crime, instead of some high-level Mussie declaring "a wrong has occurred ALLAH!!!!!!!".
We don't stone to death RAPE VICTIMS like they routinely do either.
How do you know if they didn't hold a tribunal for this matter? Were you there? Or is it that your emotions cloud your reasoning?
As I said before not all Muslims follow your flawed generalizations.
I will declare Muslims whatever I want, whenever I want.
What are you, 5 years old?
Rape children = animals
Marry children = animals
Force children to do anything = animals
Stone women for having desires = animals
Stoning rape victims = animals
So adultery is a mark of being more heinous than Muslims?
In my opinion, your priorities are severely flawed.
How is two consenting adults having sex, worse than a grown man forcing himself upon a 8 year old child?
Why do you keep bring up the matter of children? Are you trying to appeal to emotions so your argument may sound more credible? All those things you've listed has been done by us too. We don't have child rapists? You don't think our soldiers overseas do any of those? The lands we conquered, have all been subject to worse treatment than what you allegedly accuse the entire Muslim population of doing.
The only difference I see is the stoning and timing. We use guns and the electric chair instead. Death is death whether its by stone or bullet. Marrying off underage girls was also practiced by us for thousands of years, in every part of the world. We have stopped that recently, more recently than you think. And even though most of the population in the western countries have banned it, it is still going on.
When the hell did I say two consenting adults having sex is worse than raping a 8 year old child? Where are you getting this?
Stop trying to force words in my mouth with your histrionics and behave like a human being.
How is that you sympathizer?
You sympathizer to a religion of child-raping.
Calm down.
edit on 29-1-2011 by DrChuck because: (no reason given)edit on 29-1-2011 by DrChuck because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by mountain40
reply to post by Maslo
Thanks for reconstructing my statement. Again, I do NOT care what the Taliban does or what stone age goatherders do. I appreciate the examples you offered, however, what the Afghan people do, does not concern me. Primitive people display primative behaviors. If it were up to me, that stoning would not have taken place, because I'd have used nuclear weapons on the mideast 25 years ago, and glassbowled the ENTIRE mideast.
The small attacks they've successfully made are nothing compared to the demise and destruction of what we have accomplished.
We've been in the Middle East trashing the place loooong before 9/11 happened.
How do you know if they didn't hold a tribunal for this matter? Were you there? Or is it that your emotions cloud your reasoning?
As I said before not all Muslims follow your flawed generalizations.
All those things you've listed has been done by us too.
The lands we conquered, have all been subject to worse treatment than what you allegedly accuse the entire Muslim population of doing.
The only difference I see is the stoning. We use guns and the electric chair instead. Death is death whether its by stone or bullet.
Originally posted by Hardstepah
while i agree this is barbaric, the fact remains this is the law of the land. we know that if we murder somebody we can be executed, it's no different there. while i understand that adultery should not be a a death sentence, it still is the law there.
do the crime do the time. who are we to judge their society and laws? again while i don't condone this it is the law, and the people there knows what happens to those who break the laws.
i'm sure a bunch of you don't like when other nations criticize our laws for being soft. don't criticize other nations laws, it's none of our business
Originally posted by reatarded
It is the norm of the country, abide by the norm and the law.
I could post a torture within US prison and claim how messed up is it that this still happens, that people get tortured physically and psychologically for stealing, to survive in a capitalistic environment.
Those who commit adultery in Afghanistan know the cultural norm, and the cultural norm.
Originally posted by ahmonrarh
wow...they even stoned the guy she was accused to have been sleeping with.........sorry, can't say it was totally unfair then.
Originally posted by Maslo
Afghanistan laws do not allow stoning, so this murder violated not only moral laws, but afghani laws as well.
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Originally posted by A boy in a dress
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