Even if I carry money with images of slave holders on one side and "In God We Trust" on the other
aamc wrote:FWIW, I think that people here just pick the narrative that supports their beliefs. The clash of cultures narrative, too me is too simple, too broad and really doesn't explain my friends and work collegues. That some how they are all secret 'Daesh' supporters? How does such a view explain Jamel Debbouze and he is not unique, some one off. The graphs show that muslims are on the front-lines against this violence. I think its just a disservice to paint all these people with these broad strokes
Islamophobia:
Who are the
Islamophobes?
The graphs show that muslims are on the front-lines against this violence
The Muslim terrorists who frequently kill "other Muslims" in the name of Allah do so believing that their victims are Munafiqin or kafir (unbelievers). This is a part of Sharia known as takfir, in which a Muslim can be declared an apostate and then executed for their role in hindering the expansion of Islamic authority. (A true Muslim would go to paradise anyway, in which case he or she could hardly be expected to nurse a grudge amidst the orgy of sex and wine).
If Islam is a religion of peace, then why is it the only one that consistently produces religiously-motivated terrorist attacks each and every day of the year? Why are tens of thousands of people willing and able to cut off an innocent person’s head or fly a plane full of passengers into an office building while screaming praises to Allah? Where’s the outrage among other Muslims when this happens… and why do they get more worked up over cartoons and hijab slights?
I agree you should just not use it at all if its so reprehensible to you.
Steve James wrote:I agree you should just not use it at all if its so reprehensible to you.
Glad you agree that slavery and the system that supported it was reprehensible and un-Christian.
Besides, you missed the point, again, as usual. I use the money, and I don't hate the men, Christianity, White people or God, in spite of that history.
Naa, you brought it up as usual
if people dont get it, maybe you should clarify what you mean.
But, c'mon, the anti-Islam rhetoric is meant to justify actions against Muslims. I'm most interested in what happens in the States. I also know that whatever people will do to Muslims, they'll surely do the next group or mine. It's happened before.
Everybody knows what happened. Now, what should we do about the TSA? Or, what should we do in general? Or, is there really anything that can be done about people doing such things?
It wasn't a comparison, just an acknowledgement. It wasn't to argue that Muslims or Islam are good, only that Christians have been just as bad, and many still hold the same ideas.
how is this not a comparison ? Christians are just as bad as what?
But, the point was that people who claimed to be Christian shouldn't be considered representatives of the religion. If I said that the KKK or Westbury Baptist Church represented Christians or Christianity, you might say I was nuts. Then again, is the Donald a ... aw, never mind.
If I said that the KKK or Westbury Baptist Church represented Christians or Christianity, you might say I was nuts. Then again, is the Donald a ... aw, never mind.
"Love your neighbor and pray for those who persecute you."
Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
"If someone strikes you on the right
cheek, turn to him the other also."
(Matthew 5:39)
"Fight everyone in the way of Allah and
kill those who disbelieve in Allah."
Muhammad (Ibn Ishaq 992)
"If then anyone transgresses
the prohibition against you,
Transgress ye likewise against him"
(Quran 2:194
Members of each Abrahamic tradition are quick to point out the rational and moral flaws in the others. I wonder sometimes, what this world might be like if they were as quick to examine the flaws in their own.
In the end, the scholars can agree on one thing: The DNA of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam code for a lot of violence. Whether they can evolve out of it is another thing altogether.
Is the Donald what? what is it that that you feel he is?
The example that you used fails in that there are no written Christian text to my knowledge that support the actions of the KKK or other similar groups regardless of what they use it for.
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