[QUOTE="JackMcSexbeard"][QUOTE="MayorJohnny"][QUOTE="JackMcSexbeard"][QUOTE="n_kors"] [QUOTE="JackMcSexbeard"]Why do people keep lying about Obama being muslim, as if that were any reason not to vote for him? Are they just dumb and believe that, or do they want to play off of the racism, fear and ignorence that exists in our society?MayorJohnny
Well, it actually would be reason not to vote for him because Islam breaks many US laws that were created with freedom from religous oppression in mind. Muslims are required by the q'uran to do certain things that break US laws, so don't expect to see a pronounced muslim be running for US pres any time soon.
Not really. Islam does not provoke the breaking of any US laws anymore than any other religion. I have many muslim friends that i Have grown up with and they have never done anything out of their religion to break the law.
Islam is not some backwards restrictive religion, its the extrmeist who twist it as a means of controling people and using them for their own means. What are these things required by the koran that cause muslims to break the law b/c all the muslims I know are law abiding people.
Sharia Law. Recently, the Arch Bishop of Cantebury said that the UK will need to recgonize it. At least some aspects of it, because there are a lot of Muslims in Great Britain.
Yes I do.
What asspects of it will be recognized?
I agree though that radical Islam is a terrible thing and it must be stamped out just the radicalism of all faiths.
However you proceed to put all or even most muslims under this umbrella of extrmeism and suggest that they are untrustworthy. I dont know any that follow that form of extremest views and the numbers are not very large. The same could be said for extremeist christians preahing creationism or indoctrinating children with fanatical beliefs.
Teaching how God created us and that abortion is wrong... You compare that to murdering "infidels"? Oh my goodness. :|
Yes I should have stated that more clearly, What I was attempting to highlight was the that christian fundamentalism should be looked at with the same lense we look at Islamic Extremism. Large parts of The fundametalist Movement want to train kids from a young age to be prepared to die in the name of jesues, just like the terrorists we see on television are indoctrinated w/ those beliefs by their own extremists. I was meaning to show that this really does exist in the us yet it is ignored. A good place to start if you wanted to learn more would be to watch Jesus Camp you can find it on youtube, its a great critically acclaimed doc. on the rise of the extremist elements of the religious right, or perhaps try to find CNN special called God Warriors.
Anyway, I saw on the news at a protest in GREAT BRITAIN that one Muslim was holding a sign that said "God Bless Hitler There were other signs against Jews, as well.
So you saw One muslim holding a sign saying god bless hitler in a huge demonstration. Everyday I see protests on the news with white kids saying Bush is a Nazi, You can see the KKK march down streets and spew the sam message and someone who lives in a different country will see these images and assume this is waht america is like. Do you ever get upset at foreigners b/c they make broad generalizations about Americans, where do you think they get them from?
You don't have to be a killer to still have radical ideology.
I agree and it needs to be stopped but the only way it can be stopped is through education. We cannot win a war against terrorism no matter how advanced our technology is. This is an ideology the harder we push the more it grows and the less support we get, You cannot beat it head to head you need to stop it ats its source, the schools and the education they recieve.
Anyway, why do a lot of Muslims get special treatment? Yet, Christians are given a hard time? In America, we always get the "Separation of Church and State" line.
I dont see muslims getting some kind of hugly disproportionat level of special treatment, besides couldn't that critique be leveled against any minority group? However I would say christian do get a harder time b/c we are in a positon to change things we make laws and policies off of our beliefs yet others dont so when criticising a certain group its the ones makeing the policy that get the flak.
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