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Originally posted by Stormdancer777
Its fear Bo,
People don't act because of fear,
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by BO XIAN
Typing something doesn't make it true either. AND MISSPELLING WORDS WHEN USING CAPS now only if you did your research on the English langage....
Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed.
Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country, with 220 million people, 85 percent of whom follow Islam, giving the Asian archipelago the largest Muslim population of any nation in the world.
“Jihad that has been understood partially and practiced with violence is justified by around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims,” the Indonesian Survey Institute said in a statement.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by BO XIAN
Do you even know any muslims?
Seriously?
I grew up around a ton of them...none were bloodthirsty.
You watch too much Fox news.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by BO XIAN
I am saying perhaps other Muslims don't get involved because they are afraid of the consequence.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by autowrench
WICCA?
Careful, there's Christians in this thread. They'll burn you alive for supporting WITCHES@~!@~ I mean, a small population of Christians still actively burn people alive for being witches...They all must be that way right?
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by BO XIAN
In your own post you say 3-70%. That's a huge percentile difference, but of course you pick the higher one because it suits your view on the world. Plus you linked no sources...
First, the most irrational, violent, and intolerant chapters in the Koran--the "Verse of the Sword" (Sura 9:5), most notably--were "revealed" in Medina, late in Muhammad's life, after the ones potentially amenable, and therefore they abrogate the earlier chapters. Allah's order to "kill the unbelievers wherever you find them" is an injunction, not a suggestion. "When we destroy a population," Allah says, "then we destroy them utterly" (17:16-17). Such words are as unamenable to rationalist disambiguation as the order to "fight those who do not profess the true faith till they pay the jiziya (poll tax) with the hand of humility."
Second, Islamic debate underestimates the weight of Muhammad's personal legacy. The problem of Islam lies to a significant extent in the claim of its prophet that his words and acts provide the universally valid standard. The Hadith--Muhammad's words and deeds, as supposedly recorded by his contemporaries, which must be obeyed by every true Muslim--contain huge stumbling blocks for a would-be Aquinas in Cairo. The Koran is to be recited, the prophet of Islam declares, not subjected to analytical study by a reasoning mind: "Whoever so interprets the Quran according to his opinion, let him seek his abode in the fire."
Third, Muhammad invented jihad in his lifetime; Islam was spread by jihad in its first century, and it has been defined by jihad ever since. Islam had developed a doctrine, legal system, and historical practice of mandatory violence against nonbelievers many decades before the Mu'tazilite thinkers (believed Allah was accessible to rational thought and inquiry) were born. Muhammad's early followers adopted bloodshed and terrorism as a divinely ordained method. The Jews of the Old Testament exterminated non-Jews in the name of their God, but they did so on specific commandment against specified enemies. To the Muslim warriors, the command was open-ended for the outset.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by autowrench
Now consider this, your using the word fundy may be seen by some Christians as a negative response.
I have been on this forum long enough to watch how Christians and or people with any religious belief are mistreated, but specifically the Christians and Jews.
It is not as bad as it once was, but I see less Christians posting.