[quote]Sloth wrote:
shookers wrote:
This has nothing at all to do with “religion”
Islam is a faith yes, but more importantly it’s an ideology. Like communism, it resorts to barbaric practices that have no place in the free world. Islam should not be allowed to hide behind the false facade of freedom of religion to continue its heinous practices.
A religion that does not explicitly fights against freedom does not deserve to be protected by it.
If non-radical “westernized” Muslims want to believe and practice, thats perfectly fine. But in the world today, Islam is not simply a religion but a militant ideology threatening to wipe all of us out.
But the crusades?! And the conquistadors! We simply don’t have the moral highground.[/quote]
They’re all fucking ridiculous. There are probably more deaths committed in the name of Christianity than those in any others.
But either way, all things being equal, one is not more militant than the other. I doubt many of the people here that criticize Islam really have read anymore than what works with them to prove their points.
The difference is that extremists have done with Islam what Ho Chi Minh did in Vietnam when he folded the two causes of nationalism and communism into each other when in reality, the two ideas are very contrary to each other. But by making the biggest, strongest group of nationalists the NVA/Viet Cong/NLF, he made them one in the same.
They’ve done a similar thing in the Middle East, folding the hatred of the US/Israel together with Islam. It’s actually a very intelligent thing to do.
But either way, the thought process that Islam is inherently dangerous makes no sense because the million of Muslims living in the US rarely show any hint of overt violence. I’ve found that most Muslims are interested in being very peaceful. That they would be willing to give their lives for something shouldn’t seem strange, because we’ve got our chickenhawks on this very board telling us all to kill in the name of country all the time.
However, I think it’s kind of like taking Micky Featherstone out of the West Side of Manhattan- take’em out of that environment that breeds and fosters violence, and that side is quickly forgotten. Leave them in, however, and you’ve got several factors combining to make them into killers because that’s what they’re coming up in.
No one needs to prove that they’re a religion of peace, especially not to some cunts on a message board or some jerkoff editorialist for a tremendously biased periodical.
Their magic space god isn’t any more right or wrong then yours, fellas. Hate to break it to you, but you’ve got the same shot at proving Christianity is based on anything more than legends written by dope fiends and hookers.