(July 5, 2017 at 12:01 pm)Court Jester Wrote: If Islam is suppressed then the fear may be that in time, Christianity would be suppressed by the same people. “Religious freedom is religious freedom. If religious freedom is taken from them, then if can be taken from me.”
Pisser of the argument is though; the Muslims are more apt to take their religious freedom away more than most others.
UGGGGGGGGGGG
I really hate how people on all sides miss the bigger picture in that power shifts over long periods of time and any religion has the potential to be come an active volcano.
Nobody should advocate giving Islam, OR ANY religion for that matter, a taboo status to where it never gets picked on.
It still remains, whatever CURRENT arguments one can make about the CURRENT state of the middle east Islam still did not invent human cruelty. Our behaviors as a species have always been in us, and we had the capability of cruelty prior to Islam being invented. And the Koran itself is merely Abraham 3.0. It still stems from the same tribal God of Christianity and Hebrews. And the Hebrews themselves got their Yahweh character from the very tribal polytheist Canaanites.
And again, I also pointed out Asia's history too which was also not free from tribal brutality. The Taracotta(sp) Warriors were very superstitious, and very 1984 Big Brother mindset in their ranks and any dissent within their ranks was met with torture or death.
YES everyone SHOULD criticize Islam it should not get a pass. But in doing that our species should never lose our own sense of compassion for the individual, least we repeat the horrors we say we want to avoid.
