[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Sloth wrote:
I have little respect for Islam as it is taught and practiced through much of the mid-east. Don’t give me the you can’t judge, it’s just a different culture, crap. The widespread oppression and violence against women in the name of Islam, apostacy laws, destruction of ancient buddhist statues (example), violence against the innocent whenever anyone dares to say something critical of Islam.
By this logic you would also have “little repect” for Christianity or Judaism. Both religions have been around longer than Islam and therefore have commited way more attrocities against civilization.
Ho, hum.
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You know, I really get a chuckle out of this arguement. I realize the misdeeds that’ve been carried out under those religions. But see, I live in the here and now, the present. For instance, today the Pope’s greatest threat to another religion is, oddly enough, words.
Today, it’s Islam in the mid-east that is largely enforced and practiced in the most vile of ways. I refuse to hold my tongue because of evil committed by a minority christians and Jews. Or, by many cristians and Jews, in the past. Is that your arguement? It doesn’t work with me.
If your arguement is that I should despise Christians and Jews today, well that’s just silly. But, I do despise the Majority of muslims in the Mid-east. I make no bones about it. They treat women as cattle. Apostacy laws, censorship of the highest order, horrible treatment of religious minorities/non-religious, funding for seperatist groups and terrorists throughout the world, suppression of education, blah, blah, blah.
The west isn’t their oppressor. Their clerics are. The clerics in turn tell them it’s our fault. The Great Satan!
We’re told extremists are the minority. No, the extremists are the majority. Terrorists, might be the minority, yes. But the extremists are aplenty.
Ever look into how many women are the victims of domestic violence throughout the mid-east? The numbers are staggering. Beatings are a tool, taught by the clerics, to bring a woman back to heel. If every woman wanted to wear a Burqa, why the laws and the stonings? By the way, rape isn’t rape, when you’re the property of your husband, you know.
Hell, rape outside of marriage is almost impossible to prove. Furthermore, it’s often the victim who get’s the worst punishment. There was a story recently, told in many media outlets, of a girl put to death in Iran. She was raped. Yet, she was the one hanged while he recieved lashes. Can’t have them teenage whores causing, otherwise Allah-fearing, men to stray temporarily.
Honor killings of girls who’ve shamed their families has even reached Europe. The poor Police have a hard time with those cases because even the “moderates” don’t like giving up muslims to the infidels.
Why, if the vast majority of Muslims in the mid-east are moderate, do they watch all these acts committed against fellow humans and do jack shit? Are they cowards? A big screw you to the cowards, if that’s the case. But it isn’t.
