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Sure, there are political components, but then Islam was always a political religion which explicitly attempts to take over governments and forcibly convert the people, or allow Christians or Jews to pay the jizya, or kill them if they refuse to either convert or pay. This policy has never been abnegated, and is still official Islam. Convert, pay, or die.
Yup and they have open disdain for democracy because they consider man's laws to be an offense to god. Therefore, a democratic society must not allow islamists to form parties and partake in a democratic process just like they must not allow communists to run (because communists consider dictatorship of proletariat to be a proper form of government and view democracy as a tool by the wealthy elites to fool the masses into false class consciousness). It sounds great and all to allow these movements to partake in elections, the problem is if either one of them win, there will not be any more elections in the future and hence no opportunity to reset and start over should dissatisfaction occur.
I don't see how you can even think for a moment that 9/11 was not about religion.
Osama bin Laden's declaration of a holy war against the United States, and a 1998 fatwÄ signed by bin Laden and others, calling for the killing of Americans,[10] are seen by investigators as evidence of his motivation.[40] In bin Laden's November 2002 "Letter to America", he explicitly stated that al-Qaeda's motives for their attacks include
U.S. support of Israel[41][42]
Support for the "attacks against Muslims" in Somalia
Support of Russian "atrocities against Muslims" in Chechnya
Pro-American governments in the Middle East (who "act as your agents") being against Muslim interests
Support of Indian "oppression against Muslims" in Kashmir
The presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia[43][44]
The sanctions against Iraq[45]
It's about ISLAM. Why are people too scared or too PC to call it out, instead of lumping up ISLAM's dysfunction as "Religion"? There is only 1 major religion on this planet that is incapable of coexisting with the rest of humanity.
BTW - most of Bin Laden's grievances are bunk.
- America risked the lives of our pilots and soldiers to save Sunni Muslims in the Balkans (twice) against Genocide.
- America risked the lives of our soldiers to try and end famine and genocide in Somalia
- US Troops were INVITED into Saudi Arabia to protect religious Sunni Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Gulf States and Kuwait from "Secular" Saddam Hussein
- Sanctions in Iraq were implemented to prevent Saddam Hussein from attacking his religious Sunni neighbors. But sanctions and No-Fly-Zones also protected Shia and Kurds which are not the "right kind of Muslims"
- America sides with Israelis over nutter Sunnis like Hamas. What's the difference between Hamas and ISIS?
On top of all that, America supported Afgans against the Communists in the 1980's, favored Pakistan over India and simply packed up and left when the Communists retreated. And for that, the fucking ingrates attacked us on 9/11?
The most interesting thing is how little effort or interest, other than a few words here and there, Wahabis put into Israel.
They seem far more interested in converting Shi'a or insufficently pious Sunni Muslims.
Hamas is not a Wahabi Sunni organization.
Hamas is not a Wahabi Sunni organization.
Hamas identifies as Salafists - as does ISIS.
"Article 5 Demonstrates its Salafist roots and connections to the Muslim brotherhood. [21]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant
But it's not Wahabi, right?
They say there is essentially no difference.
http://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/10559/what-is-the-difference-between-wahhabism-and-salafism-are-they-different
Hamas just has better PR and more fanboys in the West because they sell their fight only to the Jews in Israel. When in fact, Hamas wants the same caliphate over all the land they lost from the Crusades and fall of the Ottoman Empire like ISIS purports to want.
They say there is essentially no difference.
There is a difference. Wahabism is more extreme and puritanical than Salafism. The foremost Scholar on the Middle East, Bernard Lewis:
So what you are getting now in the Muslim world, all over the Muslim world, and more particularly among the Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries is the spread of the Wahhabi version of Islam, which, as I said, is about as typical of what you might call mainstream Islam as the KKK of mainstream Christianity. Wahhabism is the major trend of that sort. There are others, the so-called Salafia. It’s run along parallel lines to the Wahhabis, but they are less violent and less extreme – still violent and extreme but less so than the Wahhabis.
Islam is the scorpion. It will sting the fox carrying it across the river even if they both drown as a result because that is its nature. We have been fooled long enough by protestations of peace.
Salaam is a lie when the word for your religion means "submit."
That's a relief! The Salafists are "still violent and extreme, but less so than the Wahhabis".
The Salafists probably have a court proceeding of sorts before they throw gay people off tall buildings.
Islam is the scorpion. It will sting the fox carrying it across the river even if they both drown as a result because that is its nature. We have been fooled long enough by protestations of peace.
That's a relief! The Salafists are "still violent and extreme, but less so than the Wahhabis".
So the conclusion is, why are we friends with Saudi Arabia, not only the homeland of extreme Wahabism, but the #1 exporter of Wahabism.
Saudi Arabia IS backing fundamentalist terrorism against Assad, just like they backed fundamentalist "Foreign Fighters" in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Libya, etc.
They're so desperate have their Fundy pals win in Syria, they offered the Russians OPEC membership and a cut in oil output.
Saudi Arabia funds Wahabi Militant camps in Yemen. It bombs the fuck out of universities, hospitals, etc. Anything to demoralize the Shi'a. The funny this is, when not flying above the clouds bombing from above in their US-provided F-15s and F-16s, Saudis can't piss themselves and run away fast enough when confronted with enemies on the ground.
There is nothing funnier than an encounter with the Saudi National Guard, whose motto is "We advance in a different direction, Inshallah!" They fled from Saddam's forces when they were inside M-60 Tanks with US Air Support against export grade stripped down T-55s with their ammo half duds - that's how inept they are.
If you support Christendom or the West, you ought to be behind Assad, also. There are no democracy activists in Syria, only shades of Salafyi/Wahabi groups. We already witnessed a huge chunk of alleged "Freedom Fighters" marching off to join ISIS after months of US training and equipment provision.
Jesus was the mother of all socialists. If you hate socialism, you hate Jesus.
I don't see how you can even think for a moment that 9/11 was not about religion.
To Osama Bin Laden this wasn't about religion, this is about power and control. About his ego and about his hatred toward America. Religion was a convenient pretext excuse, if there was no religion he would have called it something else.
To Osama Bin Laden this wasn't about religion, this is about power and control.
Cop out. All religion is about power and control. That's the entire mother-fucking purpose of religion.
Name one religion that doesn't say how people should behave, who people should fuck and when, and how society should be structured, and who should in charge.
Religion was a convenient pretext excuse, if there was no religion he would have called it something else.
Example 1: Angus declares that Scotsmen do not put sugar on their porridge, to which Lachlan points out that he is a Scotsman and puts sugar on his porridge. Furious, like a true Scot, Angus yells that no true Scotsman sugars his porridge.
Example 2: Fort Wayne declares that religious people don't do evil in the name of religion. Dan points to 9/11 and says the terrorists who crashed planes into the towers did evil in the name of religion. Wayne claims those terrorists aren't religious because their actions were evil.
When facts contradict your assertion, change the facts to fit your assertion. It's worked for religion for tens of thousands of years.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the blatant hypocrisy of Wayne and others calling atheism bad because Stalin and Mao were atheists. There is nothing in atheism that says commit genocide. In contrast, the religious beliefs of the 9/11 hijackers was absolute and undeniably intrinsic to their decision to kill themselves and others for the glory of their god. The religious are such hypocrites when they attack atheism.
Blasphemy!! Jesus was light skinned with blue eyes and never got married or had kids and never worked. He just walked around with his crew preaching the word of GOD and nobody thought any of that was unusual.
He just walked around with his crew preaching the word of GOD and nobody thought any of that was unusual.
In other words.....Unemployed drunk pest.
Liberals (like Dan) hate religion these days passionately, they would do anything and write anything to destroy it or it's credibility.
Another problem with liberals is their love of personal attacks.
To Osama Bin Laden this wasn't about religion, this is about power and control.
Cop out. All religion is about power and control. That's the entire mother-fucking purpose of religion.
Name one religion that doesn't say how people should behave, who people should fuck and when, and how society should be structured, and who should in charge.
FortWayne, you are way off on this. Bin Laden was worth some $260 million. He used all of it for his religion. His only goal in life was to obey the world of Allah based on a literal translation of the Koran.
Christianity was not much different until it came under the control of secular democracies. All religions have blood on their hands. The only path for the world to progress and live in harmony is via a Secular Capitalistic Democracy with an ability to evolve, in order to keep up with a rapidly changing world.
Does the pope shit in the woods?
No - the woods are crowded with liberals shitting all over the wildlife.
Blasphemy!! Jesus was light skinned with blue eyes and never got married or had kids and never worked. He just walked around with his crew preaching the word of GOD and nobody thought any of that was unusual.
He probably had long hair, too, and had some unrealistic pacifist philosophy of kissing commies and other enemies! Longhaired Hippie Faggot!
I know that guy. He's my mechanic.
Jesus drank wine. This guy looks like he's into Tequilla.
Cop out. All religion is about power and control. That's the entire mother-fucking purpose of religion.
You know nothing about religion Dan, that's just "left-wing" communist propaganda which you are so fond of.
You know nothing about religion Dan
Feel free to provide justification for your assertion. List out precisely what you think I got wrong and why. That's how real debate works.
I'll stand by everything I've said.
You know nothing about religion Dan
Feel free to provide justification for your assertion. List out precisely what you think I got wrong and why. That's how real debate works.
I'll stand by everything I've said.
Here is the first one on the list.
As an atheist you should be glad you know nothing about religion. It's a damn waste of time.
You know nothing about religion Dan, that's just "left-wing" communist propaganda which you are so fond of.
FortWayne.....how much do you know about other religions?
As an atheist you should be glad you know nothing about religion. It's a damn waste of time.
Once again, you demonstrate a complete lack of reasoning abilities. One studies history not to repeat it, but rather to prevent the mistakes of history from being repeated.
Religion effects the laws we have to obey, the education of our children, the policies of government, whether or not we go to war, and many important things that it should not effect. Ignoring this problem does not make it go away. Vocal atheists are vocal precisely because they know a lot about religion and its perverse effects on society. A person who despises genocides is more likely to study the holocaust and how it came about in order to prevent another one.
As an atheist you should be glad you know nothing about religion. It's a damn waste of time.
Once again, you demonstrate a complete lack of reasoning abilities. One studies history not to repeat it, but rather to prevent the mistakes of history from being repeated.
Religion effects the laws we have to obey, the education of our children, the policies of government, whether or not we go to war, and many important things that it should not effect. Ignoring this problem does not make it go away. Vocal atheists are vocal precisely because they know a lot about religion and its perverse effects on society. A person who despises genocides is more likely to study the holocaust and how it came about in order to prevent another one.
How does you knowing everything about religion help the situation? We were mostly raised with secular values, and we fully understand that violence, bloodshed, and genocide are not welcome. Religious books are silly fairy tales devoid of any common sense.
I know that guy. He's my mechanic.
Jesus drank wine. This guy looks like he's into Tequilla.
Feel free to provide justification for your assertion. List out precisely what you think I got wrong and why. That's how real debate works.
I'll stand by everything I've said.
Dan, I don't think you care much, but Christianity is about love.
Dan, I don't think you care much, but Christianity is about love.
I see no love by Christianity towards gays.
I see no love by Christianity towards gays.
Chrisitans want gays to be better, to better themselves, and to not commit sins or adultery. That is love, that's not hate.
If they hated gays, they'd let them keep making mistakes over and over and not say a word about it. But out of love we don't want these folks to fail.
Drugs, Adultery, Homosexuality, Murder, etc... all of those are sins, bad things, and we want to improve our society so those do not happen.
I see no love by Christianity towards gays.
Chrisitans want gays to be better, to better themselves, and to not commit sins or adultery. That is love, that's not hate.
If they hated gays, they'd let them keep making mistakes over and over and not say a word about it. But out of love we don't want these folks to fail.
Pretty good answer. Stumped me for the first minute.
Other religions like Islam say the same thing. How much love do you see in them?
If religions are about love, why do you see so much hate among the religious?
If religions are about love, why do you see so much hate among the religious?
Hate is everywhere, you don't have to be religious to hate. Just look at Dan, he hates religion and he hates America and everyone in it. Religion just tries to cure that human mistake of hatred by showing how love can fix everything better. But we are all still human, and we prone to making mistakes.
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"Deliberate or subconscious, showing these images during worship, displaying them around a sanctuary, showing them as singers sing, is a form of racism and white supremacy. Jesus didn't look like that."
Most Christians are racist?