(September 18, 2016 at 4:39 pm)RobertE Wrote:(September 18, 2016 at 4:36 pm)Aegon Wrote: All I am reading here is a straw man argument. I never said anything about Islamaphobia nor did I accuse you of being Islamaphobic.
My argument here is that there is nothing inherently different about Islam when compared to Christianity and the atrocities committed in the name of Yahweh. I'm not excusing anything, what I am doing is saying that there is nothing worse about Islam just because the terrible things it's doing are happening now instead of farther back in history. If we both hate Christianity and Islam for causing so much death and destruction, then we actually agree on the matter.
Next time you deliberately misrepresent my argument I won't bother responding. Arguments and discussions work better when you don't automatically assume things about the other person and talk down to them like children. By the way, I don't identity myself as liberal.
If that was the case, I wouldn't have responded to half of the responses I have received here then. So yeah, if Obama could do us a favour and take out IS and other groups like them , then I guess a few billion people will be able to sleep better at night. Furthermore, you cannot compare the incomparable i.e. the Islam of today compared to Christianity of a thousand years ago.
But why not? It seems like the same story, just a different chapter. A religion which has control over a significant region of the known world attempts to expand its region as far as possible, forcing everybody in its path to convert or die. There are significant differences though, mostly due to technology like I said earlier. The Islamic State is able to recruit from all over the world thanks to the internet. The weapons they posses are capable of causing a significant amount of death and destruction. But their goals are still the same.
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