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Originally posted by ElijahWanLets say you're Hawaiian. Then on 11/11/12, we get attacked by Hawaiian terrorists. Ever since then, everywhere you go, just because you're Hawaiian people assume you're a terrorist or hate the "West". You try and try to tell people "No I'm not a terrorist, I'm Hawaiian, yes, but I'm not a terrorist" yet they won't listen to you.
The plain fact is that ONLY muslims engage in Jihad. You will not find Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, or members of any other faith engaging in Jihad.
Does Islamic Jihad Exists? Yes.
Do muslims engage in Jihad? Yes.
Is Jihad the mechanical process by which muslims propagate their culture? Yes.
Do Christians engage in Jihad in an effort to spread Islamic culture? No.
Do Jews engage in Jihad in an effort to spread Islamic culture? No.
Jihad is unique to muslims and is not practiced by any other people on the planet. Jihad is the mechanical process by which muslims expand their culture into non-muslim lands. Wherever muslims interface with non-muslims there is Jihad.
With all those followers of Mohammad in the same place as those traitors in D.C., it could be the best opportunity to solve most of our current problems in the States in a single move. Use your imagination on how that could go down.
how do you ban a belief? how do you police such a ban and monitor wether a mosque has been set up? are you suggesting that you ammend the constitution of the us to enable these bans? how would you restrict access to information such as the koran, discussion groups, the internet etc? how do you deal with converts to islam in this new regime, how would you find out about their conversion and where would you deport them to if they are us citizens etc?
I just don't think there's a concerted jihadi effort to take over the world
So we have a second poster who on the one hand refuses to allow their kids to enjoy Santa or the Tooth Fairy but who on the other hand jump to the defense of Islam. What a barrel of laughs you two are. Do you just not like Western culture much?
I jump to the defense of anyone who is being "hated" on. Has nothing to do with Western culture as I am a proud American who believes in freedom.
Explain the violent side of Buddhism.
Buddhist Propaganda It was then that I realized that I was a consumer of a very successful form of propaganda. Since the early 1900s, Buddhist monastic intellectuals such as Walpola Rahula, D. T. Suzuki, and Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, have labored to raise Western awareness of their cultures and traditions. In doing so, they presented specific aspects of their Buddhist traditions while leaving out others.
the mind of a person that would do this is pure and utter evil, sadly (again) this seems to happen in Radicalised countries where life seems worth zero.
Originally posted by JuniorDisco
reply to post by mike_trivisonno
Have you ever actually met any muslims? Because it sounds to me like you're taking your information very second hand.
It's a bit like watching a video of Fred Phelps and deciding that's what all Christians are like.
Have you ever actually met any muslims? Because it sounds to me like you're taking your information very second hand.
Originally posted by greatfriendbadfoe
Well this is from a once muslim woman.
Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.
While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Shariah teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Shariah encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others..
Originally posted by mike_trivisonno
reply to post by JuniorDisco
Have you ever actually met any muslims? Because it sounds to me like you're taking your information very second hand.
Yes, I have met and work with muslims on a regular basis. However, the quantity of personal interactions that I have with muslims has almost nothing to do the mechanics of spreading Islamic culture using the process of Jihad.
The "second hand" information to which you refer is the historical record. I admit that I was not there to witness the inception of Islam. I must confess to being absent from the slaughter of the Zoroastrians and the subsequent fall of Persia to Islamic Jihad. And I was not there to witness first-hand the fall of Byzantium. And I openly admit my glaring absence from the Battle of Tours, The Battle of Lepanto, the fall of Spain to Jihad... and the Reconquista. Indeed, I openly proclaim my absence from a great majority of human history. Second hand information, indeed....