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| Arabia |
| Kingdom Blasts Hostage-Taking |
| 2004-09-07 |
| Naturally, there weren't any explosives involved... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Kingdom Blasts Hostage-Taking Yeah, right. And al Qaeda is a Zionist plot. Aren't their heads supposed to explode when they say shit like this? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-07 3:22:11 PM |
| #1 Islamic principles are based on justice, mercy and tolerance. They prohibit actions harming innocent people. Islam has banned the killing, threatening and torturing of innocent people,â What no muslim seems to realize is that this is all just talk so long as they also believe that they must revere and emulate mohammed (piss be upon him) The net result of mohammeds big talk in imitation of other religions and his actual actions results in a nullification of any claims to occupying the moral highground with other religions. It goes something like this. Example 1- mohammed said not to kill or harm innocent people. He even taught muslims to be gentle to trees. (What a sweet and gentle man!) Then he condones the beheading of 500 Jewish men and the enslavement of their wives and children although they didn't actually do anything. They were punished because they weren't supportive enough of his cause and he took that to mean they meant treachery. Net result is that islam teaches that one must never harm the innocent unless the situation calls for it. Example 2 mohammed taught let there be no compulsion in religion but he compelled a lot of people to become muslims or else be put to death. He made it a law to kill anyone who renounced islam. He introduced a whole host of discriminatory practices that gave muslims every advantage and those of other religions converted under pressure to provide a better life for their families. net result- other religions are tolerated in islam as long as they quietly allow themselves to be slowly strangled to death without making a fuss. And if they make a fuss, then they must be brutally eliminated. I could go on and on if I had the time. But in every way mohammed contradicted his own teachings with his own actions and amply demonstrated that he had no real moral authority unless the standard of morality is lowered to the point where it is hopelessly contradictory. Only then can mohammed be seen as a moral exemplar. Contrast this to the founders of other religons who acted consistently with their teachings. Jesus went to the Cross, the most unholy and brutal form of execution ever invented rather than contradict his teachings. But when the going got tough or inconvenient for mohammed, all the fine talk went out the window. islam is all fine talk with no firm or consistent foundation. That is why no thinking person can ever take it seriously as a moral authority. It stands for nothing except whatever it takes for it to win and dominate the world. So what it stands for changes with the wind and the situation and the context. It is wholly bankrupt as a religion and all the rest of us must pay the price for all its empty high flown rhetoric and its pathological denial of its own actual results. |
| Posted by: peggy 2004-09-07 3:05:25 PM |