AtlasS33 wrote: Wrote:-Is it the brown skin of Arabs?
-Is it the heritage of Arabs?
-Is it xenophobia + Islamophobia?

1. No I like Arabs. There are lots of Arabs that I like. In terms of current events, I admire "Miss Iraq" for her bravery in spite of the criticism of her taking a selfie with Miss Israel. I happen to think that Sarah Idan's has a very nice skin tone. I don't see what the problem with this photograph is (indeed,  there are many people in Israel who are opposed to the actions of the goverment in Gaza):


2. Arabs should be proud of the heritage. They boast many great minds. Jim Al-Khalili is contemporary Arab scientist and he does a lot of good work. I should really catch up with his series on al-Jazeera talking about the scientists of region in centuries past.

3. Can we stop using the term "Islamophobia" to refer to bigotry and racism towards individuals? People sometimes tend to conflate criticism of the Quran with racism and I don't like this. Criticizing ideas is not necessarily xenophobic.  I mean, I just told you how much I like the Arabs.

"Clearly, there does appear to be a real basis for the perception that Islamic societies are oppressive, while Christian societies are not and societies with a high proportion of atheists are not."

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2018/06/...tvmlo.html

(July 2, 2018 at 7:53 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:

Great video!

My answer to his last question would be as follows, if I was a Muslim (or considering becoming one). There seem to be three strategies.

1) Don't be a Muslim. Don't encourage people to be Muslims.

2) Start a new sect of Islam where you edit the books so that they say what you actually want them to say. Encourage other Muslims to join you.

3) Start a new sect of Islam where the books are not considered "the word of Allah", but are instead primitive man's attempts to understand God. Make it clear that nothing in the books is to be taken as commanding, but is instead completely open to individual interpretation. Encourage other Muslims to join you.

If you refuse to do any of these three, then you're propagating the same message as "violent Islam", as described in the video, but just insisting that it isn't actually violent.

"Telling people the truth about Mohammed's teachings is only going to repel people from Islam, that's not good Dawah."

IS claims responsibility for massacring Sikhs, Hindus in Afghanistan

In a statement issued on Monday, the IS claimed that it had targeted a group of “polytheists,” in a clear reference to Sikh and Hindu communities.

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I'm gonna get so much shit from my community for this but miss Israel is hawt

(July 3, 2018 at 3:24 pm)SaStrike Wrote: I'm gonna get so much shit from my community for this but miss Israel is hawt

She's been burned as a witch?

(May 27, 2018 at 10:35 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: What is the source of your problems with Islam?

Let's be honest: worldwide there are so many views that make Islam stand back in the queue of strong sentences.

Let's take the Christian Bible: the old testament advocates pedophilia, slavery, and mass murder.
The Jewish Talmud is even more violent, with sentences that include the pouring of molten lead into the mouth of the condemned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning#Judaism

And execution for grand treason for deserters of the army in secular countries right before 80 years only.

Don't you think that it's quite hypocritical to leave all of that aside, ignore it, and cherry pick the Quran only?
What is the source of your problems with Islam? This is a real question, not sarcastic.

-Is it the brown skin of Arabs?
-Is it the heritage of Arabs?
-Is it xenophobia + Islamophobia?

Because I truly fail to see why the media -and so many biased people- bash Islam for the cultural actions of Middle Eastern people, and ignore in a very rude way the Jewish & Christian insane texts which live up to be worthy of a doctrine for a torture chamber.

Are you speaking to people on this forum? I don't think any of them are ignoring the shit in the Bible. There are threads about it almost everyday.

What a stupid argument. It's like acknoweding Islam sucks goat balls but saying that Christianity and Judaism do too. Then being lazy and stupid by saying "oh it must be racism"

We're atheist. We know Christianity and Judaism sucks. Islam sucks too.