This is a parody of this thread.
Link.
So long as the Bible supports this, consider me a sworn enemy of Christianity.
not really 
That site hurt my eyes. And I didn’t more than two sentences in before it filled my brain with stoopid.
What was the gist of it?
I wasn’t aware that the KKK was in charge of the U.S. government, in the way theocrats are in charge of Iran and Saudi Arabia. I didn’t know they could carry out judicially sanctioned executions and lashings the way the lunatics in those two countries can. Thanks for pointing that out, that certainly is disturbing!
And that changes my point that it’s wrong to judge an entire religion based on the actions of one fringe group because…?
Yeah, let’s find as many non-germane differences between my parody and the original thread as we can: I know! KKK starts with a “K” and Saudi Arabian government starts with an “S”.
Actually, the country’s convention long form name is Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which, uh, you know… begins with a “K”.
Just sayin’. I’ll head back to GQ now.
And they wear white robes!
Do Saudi courts constitute a “fringe group” ?
Oh, for heaven’s sake.
The point is that the fringe groups of Christianity–The KKK, Fred Phelps, The Dominionists, etc.—are in fact fringe groups. While the KKK’s immigrant bashing upswing is indeed disturbing, their political power is almost zero.
In Iran and Saudi Arabia the “fringe groups” are in charge of the country, which makes them not fringe groups at all, but mainstream. Lunatic Islamists used to be in charge of Afghanistan and are making a comeback. Islamist radicals have a great deal of influence in Pakistan, Egypt and many other countries. They are not on the fringe at all.
The URL of that site is:
http://www.kkk.bz/jesus_christ_warned_his_disciple.htm
with ‘bz’ being the 2 letter country abbreviation for Belize.
Does this mean the Klan has had to deal with “furriners” to get their website going? Or maybe (as I’ve heard) the one thing that brought the KKK to a grinding halt was lawsuits brought against it. Maybe the Klan is joining in the “offshore account” bullshit that everyone is trying to get away with these days.
Well, I will not be spending my vacation dollar in Belize. :mad:
Um, yes. What are you saying? That out of 1.79 BILLION Muslims in the world, that Saudi judges are representative of the entire religion?
Are you people fucking serious?
For heaven’s sake yourself. Islam is not a country. It is a worldwide religion.
If you want to criticize a radical government, go ahead. That’s not the same as condemning Islam.
Gee, you’re right. It was pretty silly of me to judge all of Christianity based on that one fringe group.
They’re certainly representative of the Muslim government of Saudi Arabia, which makes me actively resist any attempt for Sharia law to spread to my relatively utopian and un-barbaric home of Canada (it’s been tried a few times recently). I am fucking serious that this example, among others, makes me distrust any Muslim attempt to blend religion and law (not limited to Muslims, incidentally, but extended to fundamentalist Christians and Jews).
So, yes, I’m judging and mistrusting an entire faith based on what happens when those among them who are sufficiently determined to gain political power and write laws get a chance to do so. You don’t like it, you can go fuck yourself. As for the great mass of moderate Muslims who (I hope) see this travesty as the bullshit it is, they don’t need me to judge them, except for not being outraged enough to rise up in revolt and have all the mullahs hanged.
And damnit! I really want one of those little Hummelesque/Lladro on a shitpile of psilocybin figurines. Dunno what I’d do with it, but I still kinda want one.
Excuse me, was that the question I asked you?
lowbrass, what is your definition of a fringe group? It would seem to me that radical Islam is pretty far from the fringe in the Muslim world.
Well, you lied in response to mine about whether or not Arab courts are a fringe group when you said “yes”. I simply explained why they weren’t, representing as they do the government of what is arguably (if not obviously) the nation of greatest importance to Islam.
Fortunately, once Muslims get out of repressive environments like that one, they tend to embrace western-style rule of law and freedom, still the best games in town.
The KKK, though its nose peeks up through the slime layer at times, has been a joke and without influence even on a state level for decades. When a former KKK leader (David Duke) ran for Senate as a Republican years ago, fellow GOP members fell all over themselves to attack him (he lost). Christian leaders of whatever stripe have denounced the KKK.
I know that all of Islam does not act like the people in the linked thread. What’s disturbing is that they remain in power. “Moderates” make excuses and/or are reluctant to disavow them.
Bad analogy, OP.
Fascists or their equivalent are kinda difficult to get rid of when they’re at the top. Are the SLORC representative of the Burmese people?
Well, Klan-types and those of similar views did hold power in a number of southern U.S. states for a very long time. Getting rid of them was, to understate it grossly, tricky.
I’d like to see a similar process in an Islamic nation that doesn’t just end up replacing oppression with equal or greater oppression.