RE: Muslim Imam calls for Homosexual death 3 weeks before pulse nigh club shooting
June 28, 2016 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2016 at 3:23 pm by Veritas_Vincit.)
(June 28, 2016 at 3:01 pm)Drich Wrote: Yes we can as Christians do that because Christianity is splintered into over 30K different sects... However Islam is subdivided into 4. The supper aggressive death to infidels are know as the Sunni. The Sunni represent 90% of all Islam. So when the Imam in this video says death to Gays, and the shooter shoots and wounds/kills almost 100 people for being gay, The shooter is simply following his only prescribed path to redemption for his own alleged sin of being gay or having those feeling himself..
That's the thing when a religion is united like Islam there are no fringes there is no "well that's not islam" as all fall under the same umbrella. Jihadist and 'moderates' are both recognized as legitimate members of Sunni Islam. Matter of fact Jihadists are look at as being superior spiritually than to a moderate.
You are wrongly combining your understanding of how Christianity works to a religion that does not follow the same set of rules. As it's infrastructure and control are completely different than what you grew up with.
"We as Christians" is a problematic phrase - when you call yourself a 'Christian' you are not sufficiently defining your position. 'Christian' includes EVERYONE who defines themselves as such, including the Westborough Baptist Church - as vile as they are, their Biblical justification is sound and they have just as much right to call themselves Christian as you do. That's the elephant in the room with their protests - if you want to be considered separate from all the parts of Christianity you dislike then it's on you to use a less broad brush.
The truth is that the God of the Bible explicitly states that homosexual acts are an abomination and punishable by death, and Jesus explicitly states that all of the Old Testament law still stands, so for you to call yourself a Christian but presumably disagree with the word of the Christian God undermines your position and puts the homophobes on stronger ground.
(June 28, 2016 at 3:10 pm)Irrational Wrote:(June 28, 2016 at 3:02 pm)Veritas_Vincit Wrote: This is the symptom of the 'regressive liberal' concept of Islamophobia - the ingenious conflation of Racism and Religious Criticism. If anyone tries to criticize Islam they are automatically branded a racist xenophobic bigot, and shouted down without anyone having to actually confront their legitimate critique of this overtly homophobic religion. Islamophobia is a racist term! It affirms the notion that Islam is basically about Arabian and Pakistani people - they make it about race. Islam is NOT a race, it's a religion followed by people of all 'racial' types.
Donald Trump is winning because of this - the "You're just a racist!" Islamophobia knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Islam means that anyone who is genuinely concerned about it feels like nobody cares, and like they are being condescended to, and the only people who talk about their concerns and take them seriously are far-right extremists and genuine bigots like Donald Trump.
Islam is not a race, but that doesn't mean some people don't hate Muslims out of racism.
True - which is exactly why we should call it 'Racism' instead of 'Islamophobia'
