[quote]Shoebolt wrote:
olderguy wrote:
tmoney1 wrote:
Just because a few people promote religion in a negative light, you can’t base the whole religion off of this. There are not that many people in the protest compared to the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.
Islam is a peaceful religion, so you can’t let a few people be the basis of an entire religion. Every religion has good and bad.
To tmoney and shoebolt,
I am not knocking all of Islam and am aware that there are a lot of Muslims that would like to live in peace and have no part in the radical aspects. But please don’t try and say it’s only a “few”. A small percentage of 1.5 bil
is more than a few.
If you aren’t saying the video is over the top, then you would have to say they could make the world a very dangerous place. Even a small percentage of them.
Again, I know what I think and I think the world is in trouble.
We aren’t talking about the KKK here.
I hear you man. The video is more disturbing for me than it is for you, because I realise how sickeningly misguided those people are.
And yes, we have a serious problem on our hands. The bigger danger is that due to American foreign policy combined with Saudi influence, this attitude is spreading, and it will continue to spread until Muslims leaders open the doors to culture, learning, education and tolerance the way caliphs back in the medieval Islamic world did so many years ago.
I’m more scared than you man, firstly because as an educated Muslim if I speak the truth I will be attacked by rabid crowds such as this. Secondly, the backlash against Muslims and Islam feels too familiar to the anti-Semitism preceding the Holocaust.You already have enough people on THIS board touting lines such as kill the muslims, or convert them all, or Islam is a religion of hate and war.
…Total bigotry and lack of understanding and knowledge.[/quote]
I like your post and agree with most of it. I don’t think there are many on this board that want to kill all muslims. I could be wrong. Just like TMoney could be wrong that it’s only a few. Who really knows what one is thinking but themselves.
Don’t think for a second that I think the US government is some wonderful entity that has the betterment of that world as it’s number one priority. The US and every other country has been sucking the blood of the oil producing nations from day one. Along the lines of “I’ll give you a bag of stones for Manhatten Island”.
The world is a better place than if that power were in the hands of Russia, China, or any number of countries. I would say if Sweden had half the economy and military of the US, they would be someone that had to be heard and dealt with.
Thanks again for the honest post. [/quote]