Also, I would hesitate to use the term ‘Jain emperor’ for Karavela
They’re fucking Buddhist monks, who are urging the Buddhist believers who follow them to commit atrocities against non-Muslims!
You most certainly are committing the No True Scotsman fallacy when you assert that violent extremist Buddhists have to reject Buddhism in order to be violent extremists. Along with a bunch of moving the goalposts and special pleading regarding the Buddhist monks who are promoting an intolerant and violent form of Buddhism.
So? The Dalai Lama isn’t the fucking Buddhist Pope. And hey, wanna hear about how Mongolia was converted to Buddhism? Spoiler: it involves forced conversion of the populace to Buddhism at the hands of the Dalai Lama’s first incarnation.
Yup, religion is not so good.
I don’t really care if melanin-deprived persons become rare, but it would be a shame to lose Western democracy.
Cosigned. Try to remember this distinction, all of you who are so quick to hurl the accusation of racism.
Its not “western” any more than physics is. The principles are universally obvious and desired, and, in many case, the students have long since outpaced the teachers.
Well, sure, if there was massive immigration from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas but the institutions of constitutional law, freedom of expression, separation of church and state (all the good stuff, basically) were kept intact, no problem.
There’s nothing in the genetics of white people that make them pro-democracy - the liberal structures we enjoy came about after generations of trial and error - and I’d hate to see them endangered by a pro-Sharia movement or anything else that could be reasonably construed as a threat to those structures.
Heck, if a bunch of genuinely Nordic-blond types thought we needed a good dose of fascism, I don’t give a damn if they’re as white or whiter than I am - I’d be happy to prosecute, persecute and even kill them if they start acting to overthrow the system of government to which I have become accustomed. Fuck those people.
Your inference is based on your preconceived notion of what you want others to say, not on what they have said.
You make the claim that Islam has some special characteristic that turns many of its believers into raving killers. We simply deny your claim. You make the claim that the followers of other religions are not led to the same madness. We point out that believers in the religions to which you point have engaged in very much the same horrors based on their religious beliefs, and you try to play the No True Scotsman game (providing not a single shred of evidence to support your odd belief), and then falsely accusing others of having claimed that Islam played no role in attacks by Muslims–a claim no one has posted.
Looks more like a tangent, to me.
You go to hell, sir.
Considering mainstream Islam doesn’t in fact teach that, this assertion of yours is a non-starter.
None whatsoever. ISIS openly rejects traditional Islam (branding most other streams of Islam as false Muslims even) and made up its own sui generi brand of self-serving ignorant bullshit. The guys who shot up Charlie Hebdo not only never read the Koran, but by the admission of the very guy who “indoctrinated” them in prison, never really cared to learn about Islam as a religion - they only cared about it in the sense that it provided them means to “fight the West”, through the logistics of the various terrorist networks their garage imam was affiliated with. Osama Ben Laden wanted to ignite a great war that would unite the various Muslims countries in the Levant into a coherent whole that could rival existing superpowers. And so on.
The current geopolitics have extremely little to do with religion and everything to do with, well, geopolitics.
As **Aïsha **observed, quite a few of them are Buddhist bloody monks. It’s difficult to be more Buddhist than that :p. Not that they’re the first violent Buddhist monks - Japan has quite a few historical warrior-buddhist temples for example. And believe you me, these guys did not fuck around.
Pssst. A mod. Better make it clear that Eucliding.
He’s tough, he can take it.
But I suppose I could find a different angle in the future.
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Just don’t be obtuse.
This is certainly the right oh God I can’t go any further
You are wise to stop. People have gone to prism for less.
Thales well that ends well. The puns end now, right ? RIGHT ?
If that one didn’t kill it, nothing will.
Dear gawd, let’s hope.
You’re always fear-mongering.
You think you can mentor us.
I bet growing up you had a friend who complained that you’d ruin every game of Monopoly he’d run.