Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Originally posted by: jimkyser
Originally posted by: Meuge
In either case, even the urban areas are full of something I haven't seen in more developed parts of the world - crowds celebrating people's deaths. It's sickening. I mean after 9/11 I saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets in celebration. What was more disturbing is that I saw some crowds in heavily-Arabic neighborhoods of New York celebrating as well (and this I saw with my own eyes). Now it certainly wasn't the majority of the population doing that, but it was a substantial enough minority to give me food for thought.
And the US military gave medals to the bomber pilots who killed innocent civilians in the early part of OIF when they had bad intel, contrary to the press secretary's assertion of 'credible and verifiable', that Saddam was in two different locations and blindly bombed the places to smithereens. So the entire US military was celebrating the 'success' of the mission.
People celebrate other's losses all the time, even when the loss is serious.
Are you going to tell me that there were no happy people hanging around any of the lynchings in the south before the civil rights amendment?
I've been in a church where the minister, in his sermon, praised people who were attacking abortion clinics and the doctors who worked there. So I know 'Christians' do this kind of thing, too. I would never set foot in that church again, by the way.
Agreed.
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Originally posted by: Proletariat
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Originally posted by: CSMR
Originally posted by: jrenz
Originally posted by: Vegitto
Current (radical) Islam is like Christianity ~400 years ago, only a tad worse.
Except that Christianity, along with just about every other religion in the world, advanced and evolved past these archaic ways, whereas modern day Islam has not.
When did Christianity or Judaism support laws disallowing self defense from rape?
I have answered this go back and read the thread to understand what is really going on in here this has nothing to do with Islam.
It only happens in the Islamic world, that doesn't mean anything to you?
Abortion clinics are only bombed here, doesn't that mean anything to you ?
I have only seen kids within Church institutions being molested by relegion men , does that mean all Chrisitans support it or believe it's right ?
Does the stuff above mean that all Christians are like that ??
You guys need to seriously stop and look at the generalizations you guys are making.
The stuff going on within such remote areas are due to lots and lots of factors that have nothing to do with Islam, it has to do with poverty, the lack of education, lack of true Islamic authority, the reasons are too many to list.
it is rather telling you have to make such a stretch to come up with anything you think is even remotely comparable to the horrors in the middle east thanks to islam.
all the evidence of the horrors of islam staring you in the face and you will still deny it to the end like a true zealot. you are nothing but an apologist for a flawed and evil ideology. it is a cancer upon humanity, and the best it can hope to be is to become a benign tumor in remission.. amoung religions islam is most resistant to reason and change. it is fundamentally incompatible with modernity considering the role of the founder as the head of state and maker of war. its writings are unquestionable and direct from god, no second hand recordings to be interpreted by modern people in ways that allow for common sense. it is flawed to the core. you apologist for nonsense.
The Golden Age of Islam is a Myth
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4626
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/index.html
http://www.islamreview.com/articles/islamicintolerance.shtml
http://jihadwatch.org/
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/index.htm
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/ibn_al-rawandi/review.html
http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/
http://www.faithfreedom.org
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf15.html
http://www.a-voice.org/discern/islam.htm#jews
http://www.answeringislam.org/NonMuslims/rights.htm
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=13123
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9000
http://answering-islam.org/Gilchrist/Vol1/8d.html
http://answering-islam.org.uk/Index/A/apostasy.html
Wow your sources surely look credible and unbiased and supported their arguments with pure logic example :
Why Mohammed was not a prophet:
One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad?s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives and their ?right hand possessions? (Quran 33:50) He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way. Muhammad was a narcissist like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.
Hmm so Mohammad was a "thug", "pervert","robber", ok when was the last time I saw a robber who had authority over the most powerful army at that time, and he used to barley have anyhting that he owned ???? I mean if his true aspirations were power and women and what not he was offered all of that by the ppl of Mecca, in fear of his message spreading in the future they told him, we will give you all you want of money, power, women , ownership...etc if you just stop preaching the message of Islam , he told them that if they would to put the sun on one of his hands and the moon on the other he would not stop spreading his message, I mean look up this man, when was the last time you saw a man with so much power and influence and never used all of that to get himself some property ? He had no money for himself ! He had no possesions. All he had was a humble little house and that was it, he never build himself castles nor had fancy clothes he was just a man with no desires for this world, he came with a purpose and a message he accomplished his purpose and spread his message that was all his job.
"his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child."
Oh please , do you know why Mohammad is considered one of the greatest men of all time ?
If you want an example of a leader that has seen everythign there is no other than Mohammad to sho you how :
- His Dad passed away before he ever saw him.
- His mom Died when he was something like 6-7.
- He moved to live with his relatives, and all of those started dying one after the other,
- He was a completely illeterate man, didn't know how to read nor write, nor he ever read a single book before.
- He grew up started working in trade with his relatives, he became very popular because he was known to be the man who can be trusted with anything, he gained his name through being fair, honest and trustworthy.
- After all of that he became a husband , not so much after that lost his wife to death, now he is a widowed man.
- Before his wife dies he gets the message from Gabriel, that he is chosen to be the prophet of God.
- He is ordered to spread his message amongst his people (in secret at the begining).
- He and his followers were tortured beyond what you can imagine, not only tortured but boycotted no one was allowed to do trade with them, they had no one to supply them with water and food, they were dying of one by one.
- He got rejected by his own people even his own rich uncle rejected him and helped those who have hurt him.
- He moves to Madina, and then at that point is where everything took a turn, the whole city welcomed his message.
- The idol worshipers feared that his message might get even more popular than that, they start fighting him through a series of battles that he himself participated in and was so close to dying many times.
- After several battles that took a lot of time, he came out victorious. Snd declared an end to the age of ignorance.
and then he lives in Mecca till the end of his life, during which he had remarried and had children and all his boys die.
So this man refuses power and fortune for the sake of his message, he was an orphan, a father, a trader, a messenger, an honest person, a widow, a leader, a husband a fighter an example a PArent who lost his children, aperson who lost his family, a person who got rejected by his own people and treated like a shame. See the beautiful thing about Mohammad is that this man not only was able to preach his message through that hard circumstance that he had to go through, but got to apply all of that in his own life for all to see, this is a man that if he said he did.
So ya your sources seem pretty credible how can a man after lviing through all of that not feel for others ?
Hadn't he felt for orphans through his experience as an orphan ?
Didn't he feel for the week ? He was week amongst his people, he was mocked, disgraced and hurt.
He was a forgiving man, he returned to Mecca with an army capable of making every person that had hurt him when he was weak just vanish, still he ordered his troops that upon returnign to MEcca, that no one not carrying a sword aganist them will not be hurt !! Compare that to Stalin or Hitler they would just vaporize those people and not spare them for antoher second.
"Why Quran is not from God:
Muhammad produced no miracles and when pressed he claimed that his miracle is the Quran. Yet a cursory look at the Quran reveals that this book is full of errors. Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. It is badly compiled and it contradicts itself. There is nothing intelligent in this book let alone miraculous. Muhammad challenged people to produce a ?Surah like it? or find an error therein, yet Muslims would kill anyone who dares to criticize it. In such a climate of hypocrisy and violence truth is the first casualty. "
So the Quran has no miracles eh ? And science doesn't prove that the Quran is from a supreme being . OK let's watch this
video and see if it does or not.
"The Quran is full of errors" OK show me one ? Even non-Muslim Arabs agree that the Quran is the most linguisticly extensive and error free piece of Arabic litareture ever! I defy you guys to find me an error or a contradiction in any place in the Quran, I got to warn you though you never will.
What kind of info is this man ?
I bet you I can get you same quality stuff about any relegion, I can't count how many haters can make a website and post it and talk about why they don't like Islam, Judaisim, Christianity, Buhdisim....etc
So Islam is the evil of the whole world, and all of what western civilizations have caused of destruction and anihlation of races and nations is just something forgiven, let me tell you Islam made more of a positive influence on the world than any western civilization and gave others of other relegion more freedom to practice their relgion, look at Spain before Islam and after Islam you will get a good idea of what I mean.
Even women were given more rights than any other civilization in Europe did.
Tell me in this country when did we give African-Americans full equal rights as other people ? Yes it wasn't untill some decades ago. Slavery was abolished immediatley after Mohammad had enough power to do it, before he rised to power he used to have his followers collect money in secret and they used to go to people who own slaves and buy them then free them and let them be at peace.
I really don't see where the cruelty lies in Islam . Islam existed at times where war was how everything is dealt with , I don't think you could have had a UN meeting between Mohammad and the Roman Empire so they can discuss their options.