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You take a deFacto standpoint that your problems are from the religions of the world. If you were subjective it would help find truth.
Please don't attack me for having those doubts, and asking these questions.
My goal - my ONLY GOAL - is world peace.
Originally posted by wildtimes
It's useless anyway. Carry on, everyone. I give up.
Originally posted by wildtimes
I'm being shushed, pushed, labelled, and attacked.
You are too harsh with people you don't know one tiny bit, yes!!! We are here to discuss things. You haven't shown any reason for anyone to want to engage with you so far.
You assuming you know ANYTHING about ANY OF US after only 6 days and popping in here to tell us that we are ignorant, stereotypical people with a stupid agenda who haven't done our research is not winning you any points either.
I don't care about your denomination. You don't know much about "how other people are" on here. You haven't been around long enough. Unless you got banned and are now "back", or have been lurking for ever and not participating - which I highly doubt, or you'd know me by now. Obviously, you don't.
Don't tell wildtimes this, but I find her incredibly sexy, and not because of some picture which shows what appears to be a simple, natural, poetic spirit. I really like her openness, acceptance, willingness to help, learn, and express herself clearly. Remember, don't tell her I said so.
Adjective
Causing provocation, esp. deliberately: "a provocative article".
Arousing sexual desire or interest, esp. deliberately.
Now, doesn't this fit right along with your name and avatar? Just saying.
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
reply to post by yuppa
Muhammed is the messiah in islam according to lots of muslims.
According to the Koran, Jesus is the messiah in Islam. Which is why he is known as Isa al-Masih.
Mohammad never claimed to be the messiah and no Muslim who knows his religion thinks of Mohammad as the Messiah.
It doesn't matter I guess, as many think its fine to throw in their 2 cents on Islam without knowing exactly what Islam teaches.
edit on 8-6-2013 by sk0rpi0n because: (no reason given)
In your opinion, why are all the posters here who seem to be supporting Islam, dodging the questions and the issues. Do you think they are afraid or unwilling to admit the fears are valid? Are the cultures so different that Muslims can't have a significant conversation with non-Muslims? What is it? Why is everybody refusing to talk about the issues?
We know that Christians and Jews are being pushed out of Muslim countries.
We know Coptic Christians are being sliced and diced. Christians in Africa are having churches burned down and worshippers killed. Boko Haram and Al-Shabab are shooting left and right. Persecution of non-Muslims is going up.
So, two world wide religions of over a billion adherents. Both have long histories. One has 200 sects, the other has none. One launches a dozen terrorist a day, the other doesn't even launch one a day. And of the terrorist attacks committed by one religion, many occur in countries that have done them no harm. It seems the only purpose in those attacks is to gain concessions, drive out or kill non- believers, and seize territory. Now, do you see even a small part of the problem? HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR?
So, two world wide religions of over a billion adherents. Both have long histories. One has 200 sects, the other has none. One launches a dozen terrorist a day, the other doesn't even launch one a day.
Fathima, age 6, who lives with her
father and her mom, and with 2 sisters
and a brother in the Qandahar City,
likes playing with friends her own age
in the fields around her house. Her
father works long hours to buy food for the family. Fathima, on the third
day of American bombing of
Qandahar city told her father to take
her to Allah and she would tell Him to
remove Americans from this peaceful
world and destroy their airplanes, and if the father did not take her to Allah
then the father was to let her go out
to the deserts to pray to Allah
Almighty. 11-year-old Ahmad also asks for
Shahadat (martyrdom) and says to let
him go out of the home to fight the
invaders when they land. The father was unable to give an
answer so he finally asked the mother
to satisfy them. “You are too young for
fighting filthy invaders, Ahmad! And
you should wait until you get older;
the age for fighting is at least 16,” the mother advised her son. “And you Fathima, notify your
demands from Allah to your father to
pen it down and then he would send it
to Allah’s house; Kaba e Shareef. And
of course Allah will extend His Wrath
over all the disbelievers.” They both got satisfied and Fathima ran and took
a piece of paper with a half broken
pen to her father and told her father to
write; “Me, Fathima and all children of
Muslims of Afghanistan are under
attack of invaders, their airplanes are coming from their far away country to
our land and are bombing us, they are
not only the enemies of our country
and our lives but also the enemies of
your religion Islam, they came to
remove the real Islamic Emirate from Afghanistan. And moreover, they kill
the children who can neither do any
good nor harm to anyone. O my Allah!
Send your extreme wrath over them
and over all their supporters whether
they are Afghan or any others. We hate Americans and their followers, kill
them all.” After finishing the letter the father and
Ahmad went to a Masjid to perform
Isha (night) prayers, and a bomb hit
Fathima’s house and all members of
the family except Ahmad and his
father were martyred. The father says that Fathima whispered into his ear in
her last breath, “Don’t send the letter
now, I am meeting Allah very soon
and I will tell all that we are facing in
our country”.
They were living peacefully with each other till now so your interpretation that muslims are just killing non-believers as a religious duty is comepletely false.
Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, who as reformist candidates led the "Green Movement" that disputed the 2009 election result, have not been charged with crimes. But both men, former top officials now in their 70s, are being kept locked indoors, under constant surveillance and with little contact with families who fear for their health.
"This is illegal even according to our laws and regulations," Karoubi's son Mohammed Taghi Karoubi said from Britain. "No one has officially taken responsibility for this illegal action."
The government's firm grip ensures that there is unlikely to be any repeat of the unrest of 2009, when the authorities violently suppressed demonstrations and dozens of people were killed, hundreds wounded and thousands arrested.
Since then, with prices rising and unemployment surging because of international economic sanctions imposed over Iran's nuclear program, public discontent is arguably higher than ever but reformists among the leadership have been sidelined.
Five months ago Iran's foreign minister sent an unusual letter to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was time, Ali Akbar Salehi wrote according to two sources who read the letter, to reach out to Tehran's arch foe by entering into "broad discussions with the United States."
The supreme leader, though cautious about the prospect, sent a reply to Salehi and the rest of the Cabinet: he was not optimistic but would not oppose them if they pursued the initiative.
Salehi's move was bold on many counts, not least the risk it posed to him in bypassing outgoing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The outgoing president has fallen out of favor with the supreme leader in recent years and openly opposed Salehi's proposal, the sources said.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking on the last day of a subdued campaign that has not produced a leading candidate from three main hardliners and one moderate.
The winner will replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but inherit an economy struggling with high unemployment and inflation, and buckling under the weight of international sanctions imposed over Iran's disputed nuclear program.
The new president will also have little leeway to change major policies like Iran's enrichment of uranium for nuclear fuel or its support for President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. Both are decided by Khamenei.
"My insistence on the presence of the majority of people in the elections is because the strong presence of the Iranian nation will disappoint the enemy, make it reduce pressures and follow another path," Khamenei said in a speech on Wednesday, reported by the ISNA news agency.
I think the OP has been debunked and wildtimes herself accepted it.
The thread is now just wandering except you trying to still somehow prove that islam is violent by asking leading questions or assuming the refusal of posters to indulge you as a proof that your assumtions are true, just like you did about the video in OP. Asking muslims to respond to video without ever asking a straight question.
Syrian rebels kill dozens of Shi'ites in eastern town
Sunni Muslim insurgents have killed about 60 Shi'ite Muslims in a rebel-held eastern Syrian town where President Bashar al-Assad's agents had been trying to recruit and arm fighters for his cause, according to opposition sources on Wednesday.
The attack was another sign of how a revolt that began more than two years ago with peaceful protests against four decades of Assad family rule is descending into sectarian bloodshed.
A video posted online by rebels on Tuesday, entitled "The storming and cleansing of Hatla" showed dozens of gunmen carrying black Islamist flags celebrating and firing guns in the streets of a small town as smoke curled above several buildings.
"We have raised the banner 'There is no God but God' above the houses of the apostate rejectionists, the Shi'ites, and the holy warriors are celebrating," the voice of the cameraman says.
Many of the fighters involved in the attack were said to be from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. Hardline Sunni groups often refer to Shi'ites as rejectionists because they deny the legitimacy of the Prophet Mohammad's first successors.
Diplomats doubt Sudan will actually close the two cross-border export pipelines because its economy has been suffering without South Sudan's pipeline fees.
Oil used to be the main source for Sudan's budget until southern secession in July 2011, when Khartoum lost 75 percent of its oil production and its status as oil exporter overnight.
Both countries accuse each other of backing rebels on the other's territory, one of several conflicts stemming from the messy split of what was once Africa's largest country.
The comment you specifically replied to as to your comment above, didn't have nothing to do with you. It had to do with Charles. Now, smack yourself on the forehead again.
Not to mention, people don't have to have a "chaste and modest" avatar to be smart, either. You are "judging me" by my "provocative avatar" (Oh My God I Can See That Woman's Face, Neck, and Shoulders! My Eyes, My Eyes! I Should Pluck Them Out!) AND calling me names AND telling me my mind and my life.
I don't think I care to hear what you have to say anyway.
This was another comment you replied to that wasn't meant for you.
Though since you replied, I must ask you to look up the word provocative. Actually, I will do it for you.
Adjective
Causing provocation, esp. deliberately: "a provocative article".
Arousing sexual desire or interest, esp. deliberately.
Now, doesn't this fit right along with your name and avatar? Just saying.
But why are they killing each other? You see, this is the trouble as I see it - the Shia/Sunni conflict has been there forever, and yes, I know what it's about - it's about Muhammed's successor. So, ever since he died, Islam has been divided, even though he might have preached brotherhood and unity among Muslims in his last sermon. Why is that? It's no different from the infighting among Christians who think 'their' denomination is the right one. The Abrahamic religions have NEVER been uniformly practiced. Right now Iran is anticipating a new President to be elected on Friday. The Supreme Leader, however, has hand- picked the candidates, and the prominent reformers are being held captives and mistreated in their homes.
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by logical7
Why do you keep saying 'the West' is Christian?
THE WEST is comprised of people of ALL religions. It's NOT just Christians; that is a generalization and a misrepresentation of what is going on.
The USA is NOT a "Christian nation", logical7. Please try to get that through your head. It is a secular nation. And Europe is made up of secular nations as well.
I read the articles and i know who actually rules Iran and what really happens in Iran but why are you mentioning it?
the leaders are christians, zionists, zionist christians. Some with dual israeli citizenships, if you think that their decisions are not influenced by these associations then think again!