Soldato
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The arguments pro and anti on religion in this thread leads to only one conclusion.
'A plague on all your houses'.
Given current times, your wish has already been granted...
The arguments pro and anti on religion in this thread leads to only one conclusion.
'A plague on all your houses'.
If you can provide a link to the stats involving English-on-English murders over cartoon drawings that would be great.
Ah yes, the classic "but they aren't real/proper Muslims" deflection.
Executing people for simply not believing seemed to be 'reason' enough for Muhammad...
Surah 4:89 "...So do not take them as allies unless they emigrate in the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and do not take any of them as allies or helpers,"
I think that's a bit harsh, he probably had no choice in his religious upbringing.
I did think that after I posted, I decided not to elaborate though. My point stands.Given current times, your wish has already been granted...
Chapter 9 verse 5
And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
Yeah religion of peace. It literally says kill non Muslims unless they convert and pay tax to Muslims.
Shall I also quote the bit where it states it's okay to beat your wife / woman.
Do we really need to see how the so called prophet lived his life?
Having sexy time with a 12 year old.
He also raped a woman after killing her husband and her dad.
The above are facts.
Sounds like something millions should be following.
I wasn't denying English-on-English murders, you brought it up by appearing to say how it's really only terror-related murders that make the front page - generally, and I'm going on quite a big assumption here, the vast majority of murderers aren't out to cut someone else's head off over a drawing.What? There are 600 murders in the UK a year. You know as well as I do that there is only handful of terrorist murders every year.
The vast majority of Muslims do not believe in terrorism. It is a very small number who do. Religion has powered aggression for millennia, there are always those who find a reason to kill for what they believe. Some people just get aggressive if their belief is questioned.
I really don't think it is reasonable to punish all Muslims for their religion.
Is that where it continues along the lines of "if the non-believers don't submit then fight them"?LOL keep reading on and see what else it says, you should work for the Daily Fail
LOL keep reading on and see what else it says, you should work for the Daily Fail
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Why should anyone get aggressive for simply being questioned - is it because they are taught that behaviour or that an almighty being can't stick up for himself?
I think that some people just need any old excuse. It's like in the Crusades. The Catholic church declared that non-believers in the Christian God were not human so could be treated as such. The massacre that followed was horrific. All the people needed was a good excuse and they made Conan the barbarian look positively civilised.
Serious question, do you know Islam better than Muslims?
I agree in general, but millions of Muslims appear to have a different understanding so just wondering.
I don't get it, people are happy to be like "Those Westboro Baptists peeps be crazy, thankfully most Christians aren't like that", but then also be like "All Muslims are murderererers!!"
I don't get it, people are happy to be like "Those Westboro Baptists peeps be crazy, thankfully most Christians aren't like that", but then also be like "All Muslims are murderererers!!"
All over the world atrocities are being carried out in the name of islam. By people who claim to be following the religious teachings of islam. By people who profess to be muslims. Encouraged by people calling themselves imams.
In Africa, in the middle-east, in Asia, and now in the West.
People who haven't read the various islamic texts will probably just know the usual verses that get quoted, and the usual arguments surrounding those versus (talking about context and interpretation, etc).
But none of that matters when we can all see what's going on around the world. This isn't a purely academic exercise. People are being beheaded, stoned to death for blasphemy, murdered in honour killings, and all sorts of good stuff. You can argue that some of this is cultural and not religious. But a lot of it sure does seem to stem from their religious beliefs (+ the typical, ie conservative, interpretations of said doctrines found in the cultures in which they grew up).
And religious beliefs sure do influence culture and cultural values in any case. They are interwoven. Western culture is no doubt influenced by Christianity mixed with little pagan beliefs that Christianity absorbed.
Now, I've not read the quran and nor do I intend to, tbh. Or the sunnah or whatever the other texts are called. I'm not really interested.
Perhaps the "true muslims" (I don't think that term is accurate but other's have used it in this thread) should figure out how to stop their religious texts from being "misinterpreted" (if indeed there even is a "true" interpretation) so *routinely* by various cultures, and branches of islam.
There's a German fella you would've gotten along with
Did you just happen to "forget" the whole Crusades thing we did in the name of religion?
It's not a good look trying to act all superior when we've done the same nasty **** ourselves, many, many, many, many times over. - Let's not forget just HOW we became "The British Empire".
It doesn't justify the actions, that's for sure... but it's rather hypocritical to be acting all "holier than thou" when you look back at the **** we've done to entire countries, isn't it?