Why does Islam seem so intolerant?

[Texmaster]

<< "My friend, you REALLY need to do some reading. Your facts are so off its sickening. Russia and China Armed Saddam, we were under fire by Russian weapons NOT American weapons. Gaddafi buys Russia and Chinese arms as well and recently purchased 20 North Korean Billistic Missiles capable of Hitting Italy and Southern France."

The united states gave Iraq a lot of weapons back in the 80s. If you dont believe me, Ill get you some links. >>



Oh I don't doubt at some point they received American weaponry but if it was so vast, why didn't they use it against us? And why did we stop providing weapons?

 

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I believe the big question that should be asked is what has the Muslum religon done for its followers?? What has other religons done for their followers? It looks simple to me the Muslum religon has kept its people stuffed into a box of ignorance, most cannot even read the Koran so the Mullas can tell them what it says. It is just the opposite with most other religons in the world. Notice I said Most.

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[zod]

Its social and political, not intrinsic in the religion.

In the Koran, Jews and Christians were designated as "people of the book" and were to be tolerated.

Islam in itself is more tolerant than Christianity. Islamic nations are not (these days).

700-1200 years ago, there were no better places to live than in an islamic nation, like Spain or in Baghdad.

 

[Mavrick]

<< Yeah, those Muslims sure are intolerant.... not like us Christians, who gave us such tolerant figures as Adolf Hitler and such wonderfully tolerant things like the crusades aimed at wiping out the infidel Muslims from the Holy Land. 😕
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Hitler hein? wait a minute, isn't that the one that was defeated by us (allied western countries)? Oh yeah, that's it! Now I remember, we fought him because he was inhumanely intolerant. Well, people seemed quite happy to see that this regime of hatred and terror collapsed. Why can't we now fight the other intolerant regimes? Is it that white people can only fight white people and leave the others alone? Or modern country should be allowed to fight each other but not countries in development? Or is it just that a few deaths and repressed lives (women) aren't worth the war?

Anyway, yes, we are a lot more tolerant here (in fact, America is by far the most open place on Earth), and that's what makes us strong! For me, few things are nicer to see than seeing whites(english and other european roots), blacks, jews (I know it's a religion, but still...), asians and arabs all living together with the same rights, respecting and even helping each others, and even sometimes, fighting side by side. I think that's much closer to a true utopia than anything communism ever achieved..

And, for the rest of your post, I won't even answer....