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2010-11-24 Olde Tyme Religion

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Posted by ryuge 2010-11-24 01:23|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 Islam Misunderstood!

Never a truer word spoken. Politicians keep calling it a religion of peace!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-11-24 06:11|| 2010-11-24 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 we should not generalize Islam due to few mischievous people

That's the ticket. They're not terrorists who kill people en masse, they're just naughty little boys.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-11-24 07:31|| 2010-11-24 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 In other news: Swatztika steadily making comeback in international art world

Posted by Besoeker 2010-11-24 07:38|| 2010-11-24 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 true jihad was about fighting "negative emotions" within oneself.

I guess Mohammed Atta must have been a very emotional man

If a person creates bloodshed they are not Muslims

Ah, the "No True Scotsman Fallacy"

Such mischievous people are there among Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and all religions

Mebbe. We know how the Juice love to fly passenger planes into buildings.

Posted by European Conservative 2010-11-24 08:02|| 2010-11-24 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Dalai Lame-ass. Shark, jumped...again?

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2010-11-24 08:09|| 2010-11-24 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 its true that there are bad eggs in any "religion", but the islamic religion was founded at the point of a sword, unlike any other religion mentioned.

Posted by 746 2010-11-24 09:50|| 2010-11-24 09:50|| Front Page Top

If a person creates bloodshed they are not Muslims...

The Dalai Lama just wrote Mohammed (Piss on Him) out of Islam.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-11-24 10:00|| 2010-11-24 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 another infidel authority on what true jihad is

Even the huge number of academic apologists for Islam in the US have become a bit weary of using the 'greater jihad is the struggle with yourself' tactic.

This is because a 'greater jihad' verse does exists in the Koran and there isn't anything that comes particularly close to such a verse.

If you drill down to the Hadiths and you sum all the verses that could be called 'greater jihad' they come to about 2% of those that call for killing infidels.

Posted by Lord Garth 2010-11-24 10:04|| 2010-11-24 10:04|| Front Page Top

#9 ...we should not generalize Islam due to few mischievous people.

OK, if your talking percentages...fair enough Holy Dude. But if your talking population it's hardly what most would consider a "few". Conservative estimates of the worlds population that subscribes to Salafist jihadism is anywhere between 200 to 500 million. Now, if you extract from that figure the truly "mischievous", at current levels, you have about 3 million in the indiscrimate killing for Islam game. Of course, depending on events, that number could rise exponentially. And it would be foolish to believe that any event would ever lead these guys to give up the splodey bizz for goat farming. So, yeah, maybe the West misunderstands the Shariah and conquest stuff. But, make no mistake, many completly understand the threat.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-11-24 12:09|| 2010-11-24 12:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree that Islam is misunderstood, but totally disagree with the DL on the details of that misunderstanding. Nothing hard to understand about 'death to infidels who do not submit, death to apostates, death to blasphemers, death to those who insult MO, death to uppity women, etc.", is there?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-24 15:38|| 2010-11-24 15:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Pisslam misunderstood - by adherants, politicians, journalists, and lamas. Yes, oh, yes...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-11-24 16:14|| 2010-11-24 16:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Pity... the Dalai Lama could have stuck to the religion he knows about and talked about the need to understand and lessen the suffering we cause ourselves. Some of the adherents of Islam could benefit from that.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-11-24 17:43|| 2010-11-24 17:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Later that evening, in the Kathmandu Hilton...

"Waiter, I said a double scotch. And the good stuff, not that swill you give to the tourists."

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-11-24 18:36|| 2010-11-24 18:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Islam is indeed one of the Great Religions.

Great at enslaving people into servitude of an imaginary "God" and encouraging them to kill each other, hate and make life on Earth an abject misery for millions

Posted by anon1 2010-11-24 18:46|| 2010-11-24 18:46|| Front Page Top

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