You destroy your own point. Of course the fanatics in such countries can kill more people - when they have the government behind them. Phelps doesn’t refrain from killing people because he’s nice; he does so because people with guns and clubs would show up and throw him in a cage if he did. The Christians do abuse gays on a very large scale as far as they can get away with it. They aren’t better people, they are just being restrained.
Christian fanatics have certainly proven they can be just as murderous when given the power of a government to do it with.
That’s trivially easy. That’s why the Nazis made such a point of killing Jews after all; the longstanding Christian hatred of them. The Christians had killed Jews in large numbers for centuries, the Nazis weren’t some aberration that way, they differed only in scale.
I am sorry that you are not able to comprehend what has been written on the topic.
There were demonstrations in several cities, but it hardly included the “entire nation” and most of the deaths were the sort of violence that arises when different factions in a violent country clash. The only murders that occurred were a specific terrorist act that was not a spontaneous action by the protestors, but carried out by a small band, (estimated by one official at about 15 men), that joined the protestors.
Well, I have said nothing that places any blame on Jones, so that red herring is silly, but the xenophobia is the sort that you share with the demonstrators. Some people fear and hate that which is different from themselves and your effort to lump the actions of a handful of terrorists who joined a larger protest group first to the larger group and then to extend it to the “entire nation” is pretty clearly an expression of fear and hatred of people who are different and it rises to a level of hyperbole that meets my defintion of “apeshit.”
This is great. You admit, (finally), that the actions are those of a tiny minority, yet you still feel the need to blame the billion Muslims of the world while ignoring centuries of history in which that sort of “Muslim” action never occurred, pretending that the Salafists/Wahhabists, (who arose at around the same recent time as what would become Fundamentalist Christianity), are representative of all Islam in all history.
I suppose that works in the way that bin Laden’s accusations against “the West” work, because, of course, all we nasty secularist and Christian Westerners are guilty of moral turpitude. That is your logic, of course. As I already noted, your thought patterns very closely match the patterns of those you fear and hate.
Really, what about the first WTC attack? What about 9/11? What about the Ft Hood Shooting? What about the Maryland sniper shootings. What about the Spanish train bombing? What about the London subway bombing? What about The Bali Bombing? What about the Mumbai hotel attack in India. I’ll stop now because my fingers are tired.
Clearly there is a problem with radical Islam and it is not restricted in any way to the Middle East. But focusing on the Op we can look at the Middle East to see Muslim on Muslim violence. It is brutal beyond measure but no different than anywhere else. All it says is that there is a higher concentration of radical Islamists.
No one would argue that there’s not a huge problem with radical Islam. But the OP is taking the position that there is no Islam except radical Islam, and that any Muslim who doesn’t want to murder infidels isn’t a “real” Muslim. That’s an utterly absurd position to take, particularly given the fact that, while violent radicals may make up a larger proportion of Islam than other major religions, they’re still a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of the over all world Islamic population.
The hand waving of this by you is unbelievable. I’m not even going to read the rest of your post because you can’t even bother to research the subject. The initial riots killing random people was in Mazar-e Sharif. 12 people were murdered. The following day 9 people died in riots and 73 were injured in Kandahar. They burned cars, set fire to buildings and destroyed a school for girls. These are not peaceful demonstrations. They are shouting “death to America”. Putting aside the suicide bomber attacks this situation is anything but peaceful. The only reason more people haven’t died is because of police protection and even then there was a rampage of murders of innocent people by a policeman.
If you think the outer provinces are any more tolerant about blasphemy you can post your cites.
I took the meaning differently and maybe the op can clarify it. To me the argument made is along the lines of the 80/20 rule. Only in this case the ratio would be more like 97/3. We currently can’t have Islam without a small percentage of highly motivated crazy people creating havoc. It’s a package deal. On one side is a huge population of Muslims who are indistinguishable from any other demographic. On the short side is a ruthless group of people who demand total subservience to their ideals and beliefs.
If that is the argument then addressing the core problem involves the religion in some way. As the Reverend Jones has unnecessarily pointed out, we’re not allowed to criticize the violent nature of the religion that is the root cause. He put the religion on trial and a random group of people were executed because of it. It is blasphemy to point out that Mohamed executed people who were blasphemous. It’s a real problem when someone who doesn’t want freedom of speech thinks another nation shouldn’t have it either.
It is a slogan that we only see in English language speakers discourse, and I see it more among the Islamophobes than others. It is, it
As for other religions and slogans, you evidently have never been in a place where the Christians are evangilising, otherwise you would not write such as no other religions have slogans.Christian evangilising slogans in Africa are everywhere and very irritating too in their vulgar style. You are mrely ignorant of this as Christian things are natural to you as a hard Christian.
I see. You won’t read my post because it might conflict with the ideas that you have invented to ascribe to me. That is about par for the course. (Note, I have made no claim that there were any peaceful protests. I simply noted that the murders were carried out by a terrorist group using the demonstration as cover. You have still failed to demonstrate that any “entire nation” has gone “apeshit” and I stiil consider the way that you paint an entire religion with your broad brush to be pretty much equivalent to the way that some members of that religion paint “the West” with their broad brush.)
The royal wedding today was a perfect opportunity for terrorists, but so far at least, none of the estimated 1.6 million muslims living in the UK have exploded. Sablicious doesn’t seem to realise there are a large number of these chemically-inert fake muslims about.
Hi Ramira and thank you for your post. Could you give a example of these slogans (translated into English). I am aware from my travel to Haiti of the saying Jesus is King, which is displayed in many places, but that it more of a sign of respect and Love to the King, not a attempt to evangelize.