I’ve always wondered why Christians keep the thing bundled within the bible. It makes no sense given the way the two seem so opposite from each other. It just gives credence to humans writing the things rather than some super being, who I expect would be more organized about disseminating his message.
Hey I know more about Christianity than 98% of most Christians, and by far more skilled in the bible, because I like theology as an on going hobby. And guess what? Mohammad is still a filthy child rapist by Islam’s own Koran and hadith.
Sahih Hadith of Abu Dawud (817-888/9)
3a. “‘A’ishah said: The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) married me when I was seven years old. The narrator Sulaiman said : Or six years. He had intercourse with me when I was nine years old.” [Abu Dawud 2:2116, p.569]
That is the great problem, Muslims do not even read their own holy books, and are totally incapable of saying YES or NO. They are like drones filled with self justification and live a life out of books they have never read nor studied. Hence they are cult freaks. They are insane thinking that Allah works threw them to the murders of their kind, and they worship the child rapist Mohammad.
Maybe if we burn their books in public that might wake them up–see NO Allah showed up to put the fire out—so much for Islamic Voodoo.
Don
Given that they don’t plate their tanks with Qurans I think they’ve already figured out their books aren’t indestructible.
Read the book. It will also explain to you why so many Appalachian Americans have names like Ezekial, Jeremiah, and so forth. Oversimplified: once an English Bible became available to people who could read, a whole slew of English people became enamored of the Old Testament. Hence, the historical foundation for England’s involvement with Zionism.
Please… Sharia is a complicated issue. You can ask 10 muslims and get 10 different answers of what it actually means.
In Indonesia, there has been an effort to decentralize where some districts may enact their versions of sharia. Note that this isn’t the same as in the ME. Usually it’s under the guise of going after corruption. Plus in a VERY FEW areas where it has been implemented, non-muslims are not fully subject to it.
Your info is old.There’s a huge backlash against sharia in Indonesia as there have been reports of abuse. The few local jurisdictions who have implemented them do not even have the budget to enforce it.
Declining support:
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It is highly controversial:
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Yes, sharia law is crude and primitive. But it must be remembered that when Mohammed arrived on the scene, there was no law for the Arabian people, nothing but clan loyalty and blood feuds. Sharia law, for all its failings, was a major step forward in civilization for them.
Well that would just be super. Any guess of a time frame here? Can we pencil in next Tuesday? It would be great to read about a terror free week where nobody tried to blow up an airplane or strap a bomb to themselves and kill 30 people, or blow up a subway, a building, an embassy, kill a movie director, a cartoonist, a book writer, their daughter for holding hands with a boy, a man for holding hands with a man, blow up other religion’s antiquities …
These are not minor transgressions. They are not extensions of free speech. They represent a focused, codified application of religious intolerance.
I don’t see it changing in my life time. If you have evidence to the contrary then share it with the rest of us.
Well, I wouldn’t call it ‘huge’, but any progress is a good thing. My hope working in Yemen was that access to the media would be a beneficial thing. When you see a satellite dish on a stone hut in the middle of the desert, you figure they want information from further away than the local mosque. But watching the english versions of the local programming, you still find conspiracy theories broadcast like how the Zionists are evil and the Indians are going to blow up the Kaaba.
Something tells me Don is living in the back woods somewhere and has never met an actual Muslim (except perhaps the E.R. doctor that patched him up the last time he had a fireworks accident).
Sharia law and the old testament laws don’t strike me as being extremley different (based on tribal codes). Much is made of Mohammid’s consummating a marriage with a 9-year old girl, to modern ears it is very shocking, however very young marriages occurred among European Christians also. They were not the norm, but for reasons of politics and money, they did occur. Could someone with more knowledge of the bible inform us, is there anywhere in the bible that a minimum age for sexual intercourse or marriage is established? The only thing I have ever been able to find is the prohibition of sex between unmarried persons.
What percentage of Christians want to ban same-sex marriages? How many want Young Earth Creationism taught at schools? Muslims really aren’t that much different from Christians.
How many Muslims support gay marriage? More importantly How many Muslims support the death penalty for gay sex?
I think Muslims differ greatly from Christians in many parts of the world.
I would not be surprised if the Westboro Baptist Church supported the death penalty for gay marriage. The problem is that you’re comparing the extremists of Islam with moderates of Christianity.
What I was going to say. You’ve got plenty of kill-the-gays, shoot-the-unbelievers, nuke-the-world fanatics among Christians. I see no reason to assume that if you put Christian extremists in charge of writing the laws the way that Islamic extremists are in, say, Saudi Arabia that you’d get anything more enlightened.
Luckily, they aren’t in charge in most cases. But case in point, George Bush.
Still not as extremist a Christian as the Islamic types in Saudi Arabia are. Not even all that extremist by American Christian standards. He did more damage by being an amoral overprivileged idiot than he did because of his religion.
The fanatic, the man who knows The Truth and will brook no disagreement, he is the enemy of us all. Maybe God will forgive the man who fans the flames of ignorant hatred. Maybe I will too, but I’ll most likely wait till they’re dead.
And where are all the dead gays/non-believers? And by this I mean at the hands of Christians and not Muslims.
God’s busy handing out virgins so you’ll have to wait awhile.
You do know that gay bashing is quite common?