I don’t get how you can think that is my stance. My point is that in today’s world, Islam is the religion that seems to incite the most violence. By far.
It’s something about the Koran. We have a bunch of barbaric animals murdering and maiming innocent people for sport. And they common denominator is that they say they are doing it for Islam, while they shout Allah Akbar. I’m not attributing their action to Islam, THEY are. Clearly. I am not an expert on the Koran, and I really don’t care what aspect of it is what these barbarians respond to. The fact is that they—and not just a handful of guys—see that that book condones, or compels, them to act like animals.
You’re making a mistake in logic. You’re assuming that the problem stated necessarily applies to all of Islam. That’s not correct. If I were to start an OP entitled, “More New York City Marvelousness”, and railed about how fucked up NYC politics are concerning the unions, that does NOT mean that I think all of NYC is a degenerate and corrupt place with no positive attributes.
Knock yourself out. I might join you. But I chose to focus on Islam, because I see that it is not a rare occurrence when some assholes use it as an excuse to inflict some unimaginable barbarism on society.
The Koran. While a great deal of the barbarism from both sides can be attributed to ignorance, one side commits the atrocities in the name of their religion, often while screaming Allah Akbar.
Scope. Much of the Christian violence in the third world is restricted to the third world. The Islam violence flowers there but has spread to the West. I’m forced to deal with it more than the Christian violence.
I also don’t think that the number of severity of barbaric acts is even near similar. Ignorant radical Muslims seem to kick the ass of ignorant radical Christians in that regard.
I was thinking that fell outside my timeframe. But I guess it was still around in the fifties, so I’ll shorten my timeline to the past 50 years instead of the past 60.
Maybe. Maybe not. But, please, do not try to imply that the MAIN reason was anything other than the act itself. Please. It’s just ridiculous.
I agreed already with the Vietnam War. But the assassinations don’t come close. After a short time of mourning all was well with the world. MLK’s assassination might have had a larger impact in that it probably helped the very cause he was fighting for.
Miraculous book, this Koran. Its followers adhere to it to an amazing degree, according to you. Christians are instructed by their Gospels to eschew wealth and worldly goods. And yet Christians are, by and large, quite prosperous. Many Jews are quite secular in their habits and diet, yet are enjoined by Torah otherwise.
But the Muslims are the exception, they follow their Koran with excruciating exactitude (according to you).
Well, why? What remarkable power resides in that book that doesn’t reside in the Torah or the Gospels? God likes them better? God made the Koran special, gave it some extra cosmic oooomf? Or, alternatively, are you full of beans?
“Seem to”? So, this is simply your impression, then?
What you’re talking about was really a fifties phenomenon, though it made it into the early and mid sixties. People weren’t really clamoring to build fallout shelters, but we did have drills in which we were told to get under our desks, which then changed to going into the basement. I pretty much missed the fifties. Another difference is that that attack from the Soviets was a fear never realized. Unlike attacks from Islam.
Maybe its followers are more sheeplike. You’ll have to ask them what it is about that book. The fact is, which you seem to agree with, that Muslims follow it more literally. And when a book is filled with such barbarism, that’s a problem. Unless you don’t think that people acting on the barbarism that may be found in any religious book is a problem. Me? I do.
Are you sucking on your hookah again? Do a Google search and tell me which seems more prevalent to you. And you know that list of cites of barbarism by Muslims I posted recently? I asked people to show me similar atrocities by other religions—Jews, Mormons, Quakers, Buddhists, etc.—and funny thing, no one ponied up. Here’s your chance, big guy. Do your thing.
Oh wait, your thing is to post 99.9% unfunny drivel. Never mind.
Its not one religion at a time. Its Islam. That si why Der Trihs only gets criticized for being unstable while Ashenlady gets criticized for being a racist.
I’ve acknowledged numerous times that there have been plenty of past atrocities by other religions. I will say, though, that it is wrong to attribute the Holocaust to a religion. It was Hitler and Nazism.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you know what the term means? tomndebb knows full well that his psot satidfied the question by that other poster because it was worded poorly. Notice how he did not respond to my response. No one cares what religion anyone is if they are mentally unstable or if they perpetrate an atrocity for some reason other than their religion. We’ve been talking about atrocities and barbarism committed IN THE NAME OF ONE’S RELIGION.
So, if you have any such evidence that Joseph Stack flew the plane into the IRS building for religious reasons, cough it up. If not, I hope you see that your “No True Scotsman” fallacy flag was thrown is flagrant error.