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2013-04-01 Home Front: WoT

Frum: Salon to Atheists: Be Nicer to Islam!

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Posted by tipper 2013-04-01 15:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 And the natural result will be a more violent Christianity.

And I, for one, won't blame them a bit.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-04-01 16:10|| 2013-04-01 16:10|| Front Page Top

#2 It's kind of hard when you're a Christian *not* to look at how the liberals cringe and cower away from Islam and think: Hummmmmm....

You still should of course. That's not the way of Christ, or his faith. But still: the Muslims sure know how to handle them, don't they?

Posted by Secret Master 2013-04-01 16:16|| 2013-04-01 16:16|| Front Page Top

#3 When the choice is the total suppression of Christianity and maybe taking "I come bearing a sword" a little more seriously...

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-04-01 16:50|| 2013-04-01 16:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Hm... let me think about that.
My decision is "No" based on the fact that they won't be nicer to us.

So fuck you and the inbred donkey you rode in on Muhammad.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-04-01 17:56|| 2013-04-01 17:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Message to athiests: Either you think ALL religion is bullshit, or you don't.

If you say you hate religion, except for I-slam, you're a pathetic poseur who isn't willing to stand up for your "beliefs" when said "beliefs" might get your head chopped off.

You're just trying to impress the "cool" kids (who aren't cool at all). Losers.

Posted by Barbara 2013-04-01 18:13|| 2013-04-01 18:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Militant Christianity is emerging. Or should I say reemerging?

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2013-04-01 18:31|| 2013-04-01 18:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Atheists think God is bullshit.
They can have differing opinions about different religions.

Not sure how you could have a good opinion about Islam, but then a lot of people are still of the marxist faith.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-04-01 19:22|| 2013-04-01 19:22|| Front Page Top

#8 The writer of the Salon article appears to be a professional "Islamophobia" monger. In other words, a blithering idiot.

Posted by DJ Curtis C 2013-04-01 19:58|| 2013-04-01 19:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Well wait: the piece in Salon has Dawkins and the other 'New Atheists' ripping Islam. The author of the piece, Nathan Hale, takes particular care to make the New Atheists look as foolish as he can. For example, he spends several paragraphs pointing out that Dawkins admits to not having read the Qu'ran and yet rips Islam.

It goes on and on, and you certainly get that Mr. Hale is out to make the 'New Atheists' as odious as he can in their [clear to him] Islamophobia.

The question then, what the hell is Frum talking about?

Hale does NOT say that it is ok to be an atheist so long as you omit Islam from your list of religions to which you object. Mr. Hale is disturbed by 'islamophobia' -- he's written books about the subject, apparently -- and is going after the 'New Atheists' not for their lack of religion, or any hypocrisy contained therein, but specifically for their 'hatred' of Islam.

Mr. Hale, it appears, would go after anyone, atheist or believer, who hates Islam.

So Mr. Frum misses a useful opportunity to call out Mr. Hale by focusing on something Mr. Hale didn't say, as opposed to what he did say.

But that's David Frum for you.

Posted by Steve White 2013-04-01 20:03|| 2013-04-01 20:03|| Front Page Top

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