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ProfJohn

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Originally posted by: CKent
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: CKent
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
I'd like to live in a world in which bigots like Kent don't exist.

Perhaps before I die such a world will happen (mostly)

A bigot is someone who believes something without much if any reason.

On Sep. 11, 2001 I was given 2998 reasons to hate Islam.

Besides which, I've explained my reasoning in detail in this thread.

A world where people weren't stupid, and so read threads before spouting their puerile knee-jerk reactions would be much more ideal...
Hitler gave me 50 million reasons to hate Germans, and yet I don't hate them...
Godwin. You lose.
Yes, because some obscure internet 'law' absolves you of your bigotry.

The person who loses is you because you are filled with an irrational hatred that you will never be able to explain. You are the true loser.
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: CKent
I like to think I'm not surrounded by idiots. I like to think that people get caught up in the heat of the moment and dont' think rationally.

But in my heart of hearts, I realize that the first five minutes of Idiocracy is what's really going on.

You see. skin color is something we're born with. We can't change it, and it doesn't mean anything except what color our skin is.

Religion is a philosophy. It's something we can think about at great length and change if we see reason to.
How many people did the Catholic church kill during the reformation?? I guess I can hate all Catholics.

How many people did Japan kill during WW 2? I guess I can hate all Japanese.

How many Americans did the British killing during the revolution or War of 1812? I guess I can hate all Brits.

You are the idiot around here. A very small group of crazies hiding behind their twist version of Islam were responsible for 9-11. There are millions and millions of Muslims in the world who find their actions just as revolting as you or I do.

We are descended from a common ape-like ancestor. It goes without saying our past is barbaric; in the animal world, the phrase "kill or be killed" is at the forefront. We can only learn from that and try to build the present world into the best one we can. Most of us achieve this. Muslims do not.

You are the idiot for apologizing for a mentality which, while mostly (somewhat) moderate, spawns extremism responsible for atrocities committed by no other religion or common mentality. This is something I explained in my other posts, if only you'd read them before running your stupid adolescent mouth... but I'd imagine that reading makes your head feel all hot and headachey, what with your low IQ and all....
 

ProfJohn

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bigot, noun
a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices ; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

Yeap... seems to fit you rather well. You can try to explain it away all you want, but you are a bigot and there is no denying that fact.

Explain away all you want, but you certainly have the hate and intolerance part down pretty god.
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: ProfJohn
bigot, noun
a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices ; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

Yeap... seems to fit you rather well. You can try to explain it away all you want, but you are a bigot and there is no denying that fact.

Explain away all you want, but you certainly have the hate and intolerance part down pretty god.

"racial or ethnic group"

Islam is neither.

Try again, idiot.

While you waste your time I'll be enjoying some scotch and a film. If I'm bored enough, I'll repond tomorrow. Don't hold your breath for a response. Of course, if you want to feel free. A Darwin award would be a nice conclusion to this thread ^_^
 

sandorski

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Originally posted by: CKent
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
bigot, noun
a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices ; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

Yeap... seems to fit you rather well. You can try to explain it away all you want, but you are a bigot and there is no denying that fact.

Explain away all you want, but you certainly have the hate and intolerance part down pretty god.

"racial or ethnic group"

Islam is neither.

Try again, idiot.

Quit trolling already. You are displaying Bigotted behaviour. If you don't like it, stop being a Bigot.
 

Riceninja

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long story short: ideologically run governments are better than religiously run ones.
 

0roo0roo

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Originally posted by: ProfJohn
bigot, noun
a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices ; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

Yeap... seems to fit you rather well. You can try to explain it away all you want, but you are a bigot and there is no denying that fact.

Explain away all you want, but you certainly have the hate and intolerance part down pretty god.

he is not. being against a bigoted ideology does not make you a bigot. muslims are not a race. it is an ideology and in many aspects far worse than other religions. its not to say other religions arent bad, islam is simply far more defective. there is critical biblical scholarship whether you like it or not, and there has been for quite a while because all the bible accounts are second hand writings of disciples, many contradictory. jesus neither took political power or wielded military force. this is in stark contrast to the musilm scripture which is direct from god as it gets through mohammed, and thus far harder to quibble with when it comes to all the f*cked up sh*t contained within. mohammed behaved rather badly, taking state/military power and even marrying a child. not to mention it is self described as a whole system of living, not just a religion. it is far worse than most any other ideology around.

as for it being a small group, give me a break. there are many many more in that group that believe things only a half step removed from those that actually go through with attacks. this extremism doesn't sprout from no where.
 

TheChort

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Originally posted by: sandorski

Quit trolling already. You are displaying Bigotted behaviour. If you don't like it, stop being a Bigot.

But he'll never see it that way.
CKent is the American equivalent to the Muslim extremists. His blinders are on, and the only ending is a dead end.
 

0roo0roo

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Originally posted by: TheChort
Originally posted by: sandorski

Quit trolling already. You are displaying Bigotted behaviour. If you don't like it, stop being a Bigot.

But he'll never see it that way.
CKent is the American equivalent to the Muslim extremists. His blinders are on, and the only ending is a dead end.

some people have bent themselves over so far that intolerance of the intolerant becomes bigotry. that is the real dead end.
 

mrSHEiK124

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CKent, if I wasn't sure you were a bigot before, I am now.

It's funny how every fucking example you can think of to turn Muslims into barbarians, is only representative of Saudi Arabia, maybe Iran. Saudi Arabia doesn't let their women drive, stones them for rape without touching the men, has a horribly flawed "sharia" system (hint, the sarcastic air quotes mean it has nothing to do with Sharia), and throws kids in jail for texting the opposite gender. I'd like you to READ UP on the history of Saudi Arabia, and see that the House of Saud tried and failed TWICE to implement their ass backwards idealogy on an unwilling people and ONLY succeeded with the help of the West post WWI.

Idiot.
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: TheChort
Originally posted by: sandorski

Quit trolling already. You are displaying Bigotted behaviour. If you don't like it, stop being a Bigot.
But he'll never see it that way.
CKent is the American equivalent to the Muslim extremists. His blinders are on, and the only ending is a dead end.
If I were the equivalent of muslim extremists, I'd be killing people, not bitchslapping stupid little kids on an internet forum. I've never killed anyone and don't plan to.

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
CKent, if I wasn't sure you were a bigot before, I am now.
You were sure before: "What raisin? Whatever the hell you're talking about is flying over my head. And what do you know, done with all 5 prayers of the day and I didn't strap a bomb to my chest or fly a plane into any buildings. Quite the opposite actually, trying to find a nice deal on a C2D laptop with some decent discrete graphics. Get a life, bigot. It's assholes like you that give Americans like me a bad reputation around the world for being a loudmouthed, close-minded, racist, bigoted dumbass."

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Can you try to be a little more original please? Your spiel is redundant and boring.

ps - let me know when large groups of nonmuslims group together and carry out attacks targeted at civilians.
 

irishScott

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Originally posted by: CKent
Originally posted by: TheChort
Originally posted by: sandorski

Quit trolling already. You are displaying Bigotted behaviour. If you don't like it, stop being a Bigot.
But he'll never see it that way.
CKent is the American equivalent to the Muslim extremists. His blinders are on, and the only ending is a dead end.
If I were the equivalent of muslim extremists, I'd be killing people, not bitchslapping stupid little kids on an internet forum. I've never killed anyone and don't plan to.

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
CKent, if I wasn't sure you were a bigot before, I am now.
You were sure before: "What raisin? Whatever the hell you're talking about is flying over my head. And what do you know, done with all 5 prayers of the day and I didn't strap a bomb to my chest or fly a plane into any buildings. Quite the opposite actually, trying to find a nice deal on a C2D laptop with some decent discrete graphics. Get a life, bigot. It's assholes like you that give Americans like me a bad reputation around the world for being a loudmouthed, close-minded, racist, bigoted dumbass."

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Can you try to be a little more original please? Your spiel is redundant and boring.

ps - let me know when large groups of nonmuslims group together and carry out attacks targeted at civilians.

You're bitchslapping no one. You're simply insulating yourself because you're wrong. You see the attacks you're taking here as justification that you're right, while blatantly ignoring the facts. That's exactly what extremists of any kind do.

As for your PS, you mean like the Russians in Chechnya?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...War#Storming_of_Grozny

When Russians besieged Chechen capital, thousands of civilians died from a week-long series of air raids and artillery bombardment in the heaviest bombing campaign in Europe since destruction of Dresden.[17]

Or the Chinese at Tiananmen Square?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...t_crackdown_and_deaths

The assault on the square began at 10:30 p.m. on 3 June, as armored personnel carriers (APCs) and armed troops with fixed bayonets approached from various positions. These APCs rolled on up the roads, firing ahead and off to the sides, perhaps killing or wounding their own soldiers in the process. BBC reporter Kate Adie spoke of "indiscriminate fire" within the square. Eyewitness reporter Charlie Cole also saw Chinese soldiers firing Type 56 assault rifles into the crowd near an APC which had just been torched and its crew killed, killing and wounding many that night.[17] Students who sought refuge in buses were pulled out by groups of soldiers and beaten with heavy sticks. Even students attempting to leave the square were beset by soldiers and beaten. Leaders of the protest inside the square, where some had attempted to erect flimsy barricades ahead of the APCs, were said to have "implored" the students not to use weapons (such as molotov cocktails) against the oncoming soldiers. Meanwhile, many students apparently were shouting, "Why are you killing us?" Around four or five the following morning, June 4, Charlie Cole reports to have seen tanks smashing into the square, crushing vehicles and people with their tank treads.[17]

The number of dead and wounded remains unclear because of the large discrepancies between the different estimates. According to initial reports from the Chinese Red Cross, there were 2600 casualties.

Or how about Rwandan genocide? And before you ignorantly say "but they're Muslim".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Rwanda

The Muslim population before the genocide was 4% which was unusually low compared to that of neighbouring countries.

According to the 2002 census, the Muslim population constitutes 1.82% of the total population of Rwanda.

The list goes on. Fail.
 

BoomerD

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The only solution is to kill everyone who doesn't look like me, doesn't believe what I do, or have the same political/social ideas as I do.

This is why my kind and benevolent gawd invented nuk-u-ler bombs...to take care of the inferior people of the world...:roll:
 

CKent

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All of your examples are escalations of preexisting tensions. Only Muslims come ouf ot left fucking field and think "There's a drought / bad weather / earthquake / etc. This is obviously America's fault. I'll fly planes into their buildings". These are people who believe in magic after all.

And I'm certainly bitchslapping the kid. No one older than 12 would say "I have no problems calling you names. I called your wife plenty of them last night." thinking it's an insult.
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
The only solution is to kill everyone who doesn't look like me, doesn't believe what I do, or have the same political/social ideas as I do.

This is why my kind and benevolent gawd invented nuk-u-ler bombs...to take care of the inferior people of the world...:roll:

That's a pretty stupid outlook. Much better to only kill people who murder us for no reason.
 

BoomerD

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Originally posted by: CKent
Originally posted by: BoomerD
The only solution is to kill everyone who doesn't look like me, doesn't believe what I do, or have the same political/social ideas as I do.

This is why my kind and benevolent gawd invented nuk-u-ler bombs...to take care of the inferior people of the world...:roll:

That's a pretty stupid outlook. Much better to only kill people who murder us for no reason.

Nah...why wait for them to decide they hate us enough to do that? Preemptive strike NOW! :roll:

(btw...check the batteries in your sarcasm meter)
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: CKent
Originally posted by: BoomerD
The only solution is to kill everyone who doesn't look like me, doesn't believe what I do, or have the same political/social ideas as I do.

This is why my kind and benevolent gawd invented nuk-u-ler bombs...to take care of the inferior people of the world...:roll:

That's a pretty stupid outlook. Much better to only kill people who murder us for no reason.

Nah...why wait for them to decide they hate us enough to do that? Preemptive strike NOW! :roll:

(btw...check the batteries in your sarcasm meter)

The meter's working fine ;)
 

TheChort

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: TheChort
Originally posted by: sandorski

Quit trolling already. You are displaying Bigotted behaviour. If you don't like it, stop being a Bigot.

But he'll never see it that way.
CKent is the American equivalent to the Muslim extremists. His blinders are on, and the only ending is a dead end.

some people have bent themselves over so far that intolerance of the intolerant becomes bigotry. that is the real dead end.

Touche

 

irishScott

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Originally posted by: CKent
All of your examples are escalations of preexisting tensions. Only Muslims come ouf ot left fucking field and think "There's a drought / bad weather / earthquake / etc. This is obviously America's fault. I'll fly planes into their buildings". These are people who believe in magic after all.

And I'm certainly bitchslapping the kid. No one older than 12 would say "I have no problems calling you names. I called your wife plenty of them last night." thinking it's an insult.

You do know I've been going after both you and chort this whole time right? You just happen to be a little more vocal.

Anyway, there are very VERY (give or take a very) few Muslims who think that way. And of those that do, why do you think that is? They're brainwashed. As far as they're concerned there are/were escalations and preexisting tensions. Maybe whatever form of radical Islam they practice made them more suceptable, but that's just it. They're radicals. To lump all Muslims in with them is like lumping all Christians in with the Westboro Baptist Church. Including the Catholics and other non-protestants.

For another example with the same characters, it's like saying Christianity made the Westboro Baptist Church members like they are. Has nothing to do with the fact that they're just fucking crazy. :roll:

In short you're over-generalizing. Which is stupid, and, since you don't like "bigoted", "ideologically biased" to the extreme.
 

TheChort

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Originally posted by: irishScott

You do know I've been going after both you and chort this whole time right? You just happen to be a little more vocal.

Don't throw you're troubles my way!
If you can't stand the heat, don't play with matches.
 

CKent

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Originally posted by: irishScott
Anyway, there are very VERY (give or take a very) few Muslims who think that way.
True, but there are a great deal who think 9/11 was just punishment for... god knows what, these people scapegoat us for everything... even if they themselves wouldn't have taken such drastic measures. There's a popular quote "The militant muslim is the one cutting the infidel's head off. The moderate muslim is the one holding the victim's feet". While you can't deny people their opinion, it seems obvious that the general muslim mindset fuels extremism.

And of those that do, why do you think that is? They're brainwashed.
Ah, so it's that simple. No personal responsibility whatsoever, they're just puppets looking for someone to pull their strings. It's ironic that I give their intelligence more credit than you do.

They're radicals. To lump all Muslims in with them is like lumping all Christians in with the Westboro Baptist Church. Including the Catholics and other non-protestants.
That's really not far off the mark... Look at prop 8. Look at the Pope sentencing his African followers to death by AIDS by telling them condoms don't work. Mainstream Christians are seriously fucked up and hate-filled people, but at least they don't fly planes into buildings.

For another example with the same characters, it's like saying Christianity made the Westboro Baptist Church members like they are. Has nothing to do with the fact that they're just fucking crazy. :roll:
The bible doesn't repeatedly prescribe death to nonbelievers and for almost every sin committed by believers. The Quran does. This is why the WBC is nuts while muslims are just following their book.

In short you're over-generalizing. Which is stupid, and, since you don't like "bigoted", "ideologically biased" to the extreme.
I really have no issue with the term bigot. I don't think it fits, since it implies baseless hatred while I feel I have good reason, but "mild bemusement" best describes my feelings as the same few posters keep spitting the word at me as if it's some sort of weapon.
 

ddjkdg

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CKent, you're what's wrong with America, and the world really. What's ironic is that if you were on the other side of the fence and grew up in some Wahhabi village or Palestinian camp, you'd be the one strapping a bomb to yourself to go blow people up, because your simple-mindedness and lack of any critical thinking ability whatsoever gives others the power to control you.
 

0roo0roo

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Originally posted by: irishScott

Anyway, there are very VERY (give or take a very) few Muslims who think that way. And of those that do, why do you think that is? They're brainwashed.

making excuses

http://www.channel4.com/news/a...+truth+about+77/545847
"24% believe the four men identified as the July 7th bombers were not actually responsible for the attacks. "

"40% of british muslims want sharia law"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...-sharia-law-in-UK.html

"urning to issues of faith, 36 per cent of the young people questioned said they believed that a Muslim who converts to another religion should be "punished by death." Among the over 55s, the figure is only 19 per cent.

Three out of four young Muslims would prefer Muslim women to "choose to wear the veil or hijab," compared to only a quarter of over-55s.

Support was also strong for Islamic schools, according to the Populus survey of 1,000 people commissioned by Policy Exchange. "
http://islamineurope.blogspot....tish-muslim-youth.html

its only worse in actually islamic countries. where everything from 9/11 denial to holocaust denial is rampant.