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Why do people on here act as if Islam if no worse than any other faith?
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RE: Why do people on here act as if Islam if no worse than any other faith?
Anomalocaris Wrote:
Minimalist Wrote:I disagree with the premise.  Right now, islam is the worst.  They are where the jesus freaks were 500 years ago.

It's not that Islam is the worst.  It's that other religions are currently tethered by shorter leashes not of their own choosing.    Don't think for a second many of them, Many strains of Christinity foremost amongst them, are not straining as hard as ever they can, seeking to break the leash and obtain for themselves for the freedom to surpass Islam in oppression, intolerance, and appeal to iron age primitivism and superstition.

For example, Cruz is a Christian Dominionist, they literally want to turn the USA into a Christian theocracy, and he's a presidential frontrunner. Many Dominionists aim to bring back Old Testament punishments for crime; like stoning for adultery.

Saudi Arabia was effectively conquered by Wahhabis a century ago, and then they got oil money to finance spreading their particularly fundamentalist and militant doctrine all over the Middle East and North Africa. That's a gross oversimplification, but the best I can do in one sentence.  

The problems we're getting from the region have as much to do with oil, Western interventionism, and tribal desert cultures as with religion; and I strongly suspect if Islam had never existed, we would be having similar problems today, only with Middle Eastern and North African Orthodox Christians, and we might be a little more hesitant to assume that it's their religion at the root of our grief.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Why do people on here act as if Islam if no worse than any other faith? - by Mister Agenda - April 21, 2016 at 10:48 am

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