You've just proved my point. This thread is about everyone wanting to kill/get rid of/whatever all muslims in this country. Change the country and the name of the religion and apply it your first statement. Try that "tolerance" in America!
I do not have much of an issue with muslims in this country, it is the ones overseas that are wanting to kill/get rid of/whatever me and my country based on their zealous religious beliefs.
Try that "tolerance" in Iran where they are a huge majority, and living under Sharia Law.
It just tickles me down to my balls when ALL religions are lumped in together. Muslims are about 1% of this country's population, and they co-exist with you! That's WONDERFUL! I imagine you co-exist with the jews and christians, too? LOL!
You've just proved my point. This thread is about everyone wanting to kill/get rid of/whatever all muslims in this country. Change the country and the name of the religion and apply it your first statement. Try that "tolerance" in America!
You won't hear this in the US media because it doesn't fit the Official template that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance...Note that he's willing to die for his religion but won't blow up any women and children in the process. An Afghan physiotherapist will be executed within three days for converting to Christianity.
Said Musa, 45, has been held for eight months in a Kabul prison were he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by inmates and guards.
Mr Musa, who lost his left leg in a landmine explosion in the 1990s, has worked for the Red Cross for 15 years and helps to treat fellow amputees.
Yet I still manage to co-exist with the majority of them on a regular basis. This whole tolerance thing is just crazy!
Try that "tolerance" in Iran where they are a huge majority, and living under Sharia Law.
It just tickles me down to my balls when ALL religions are lumped in together. Muslims are about 1% of this country's population, and they co-exist with you! That's WONDERFUL! I imagine you co-exist with the jews and christians, too? LOL!
Honestly when it comes to religion, I'm pretty damn unbiased. I can make a catholic priest, a jewish rabii, a muslim cleric, and athiests all mad. You want to know why? Because all of them are lying to us. If you would bother to read the Quran and the Bible both you would know they were all lying.
I'm an atheist. Does this mean I should be killed like the muslims?
Honestly when it comes to religion, I'm pretty damn unbiased. I can make a catholic priest, a jewish rabii, a muslim cleric, and athiests all mad. You want to know why? Because all of them are lying to us. If you would bother to read the Quran and the Bible both you would know they were all lying.
And just why are they all lying? Well it's in The Bible in plain language for anyone to read. It doesn't requires some sort of mystical supernatural power to understand or interpret, and neither does the Quran.
And guess what, your Methodist pastor is lying to you when they tell you that we all worship the same god. It's pure utter BS at it's very best.
Good job of not answering my question for the 2nd time by the way. Would you like to get your 3rd strike out of the way again?
Why do they scream their god is greatest right before they blow themselves up if everyone worships the same god? ..... still waiting.....
Once you understand this simple and easily verifiable fact, then you understand a whole lot about world religion.
He's also a black rock which is kept in the Ka'aba.
Of course since GSR guys believes the lies they tell him, he will never know this.
GSRguy, go read the Quran. You'll see it gives them permission to lie to non believers. You're just dumb enough to believe the lies.
I like how the first sentence in your main quote talks about being qualified to read it. This is the same argument the clerics use to enslave Muslims. Bravo!
This is the biggest lie perpetuated by religion and Islam in particular. If they are the same god, then why do they have different names, and why pray tell do Islamists scream their god is greatest when they blow up crowds? Why?
Why would anyone proclaim in any two identical items that one was greater than another?
If they were indeed the same god, then claiming one is greater makes absolutely no sense. To think that this doesn't make sense at all is just ignorant.
The Jews and Christians have a God, and it sure as hell is not Allah. Muhammad most certainly was not one of their prophets. To confuse this is just plain ignorant. You really need to read more and stop spreading the lies that have been told to you.
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Islam is a fourteen-hundred years old way of life. One simply can't take the scripture of Islam, which is the Qur'an (also spelled Koran), and make sweeping generalizations about the religion, particularly when one lacks the qualifications to interpret the Qur'an.
The Qur'an makes reference to different groups of non-Muslims. First, the Qur'an recognizes the natural diversity of humanity, "O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)." (Qu'ran, 49:13)
There is also the recognition that human beings are religiously and ethnically diverse, "For, had God so willed, He could surely have made you all one single community; however, He lets go astray him that wills [to go astray], and guides aright him that wills [to be guided]; and you will surely be called to account for all that you ever did!" (Qur'an, 16:93)
What then does the Qur'an say about "infidels?" First, what does the term infidel mean? It is not a Qur'anic term. It is a term that Christians have historically applied to non-Christians, particularly Muslims. Christian doctrine simply did not recognize the legitimacy of Islam. Hence, Muslims were "infidels," and usually placed in the same category as "pagans" and "savages."
The Qur'an speaks of "kuffar," or those who disbelieve, or cover up the truth, or deny the truth of God and His messengers. However, it is incorrect to translate "kafir" as infidel. The Qur'an also does not label all non-Muslims as kuffar, or unbelievers.
The Qur'an talks about a group of non-Muslims called "Ahl al-Kitab," or People of Scripture. These are people who have received divine revelation, particularly Christians and Jews. Therefore, the Qur'an automatically recognizes previous Abrahamic faiths and accords special status to the adherents of Christianity and Judaism. What is ironic is that Christian and Jewish doctrine makes no provision for the recognition of Islam; however, Islam recognizes both Christianity and Judaism as divinely-revealed religions. But it is Islam that is always accused of intolerance!
Let's look at one of the most misunderstood passages of the Qur'an:
"And fight in the cause of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out..."
Most people usually only quote the first part.
Here's the entire passage:
"And fight in the cause of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque (in Makkah) until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the reward of the unbelievers. But if they desist, then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the oppressors." (Qur'an, 2:190-192)
Let's look at the interpretation of the above verses. First, examine the historical context. These verses were revealed at a time when Islam was under siege, when the small Muslim community was fighting for its very existence against powerful polytheists. The biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Allah bless him and give him peace, makes it very clear that the Prophet preached peacefully for the first 13 years of his mission. He left Mecca for Medina to make a new start. Even when the polytheists in Mecca were persecuting Muslims and looting their houses, the Prophet hesitated to fight. He only took up arms when God gave him permission:
"Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed, and most surely Allah is well able to assist them." (Qur'an, 22:39)
You can interpret that as you wish. If you wish to believe that every Muslim in the world wishes you dead, so be it.
The God of Abraham is the same for Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism, and Islam. Whether you choose to accept that is another thing entirely. And like has been said MANY times, the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades were both bloody wars fought in the name of God, by Christians. So yes, the violence going on now is being done by Muslims... but it's not like worse hasn't happened in the past.
This is the biggest lie perpetuated by religion and Islam in particular. If they are the same god, then why do they have different names, and why pray tell do Islamists scream their god is greatest when they blow up crowds? Why?
Why would anyone proclaim in any two identical items that one was greater than another?
If they were indeed the same god, then claiming one is greater makes absolutely no sense. To think that this doesn't make sense at all is just ignorant.
The Jews and Christians have a God, and it sure as hell is not Allah. Muhammad most certainly was not one of their prophets. To confuse this is just plain ignorant. You really need to read more and stop spreading the lies that have been told to you.
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