RE: Islamic Religious Leaders call for Hanging of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh
April 25, 2013 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 1:36 pm by JesusHChrist.)
The fact that not 100% of Muslims are acid throwing, child killing, bomb throwing terrorists is beside the point. The point is, there is a substantial component of adherents to Islam who ARE those things and worse.
In the OP, we have just such an example of the hatred Islam inspires. In this case, a few atheist bloggers (they claim they aren't atheists but that may be to avoid prosecution) have been jailed and face prison terms of up to 10 years, all while hundreds of thousands of Muslims call for them to be murdered.
Rather than trying to minimize the horrors inflicted in the name of Islam, you resort to a strawman. Do you denounce killing people in the name of Islam? Or do those bloggers have it coming for "insulting" religion?
No one is saying all Muslims are bad. However, Islam itself seems to attract a great many murderous, misogynistic, child killing thugs. Why is that? Where does that impulse come from if not the edicts of the ideology itself? There is no shortage of really nasty passages in the Islamic literature calling for just such acts.
And for the latest, there is a rally today in support of the jailed atheist bloggers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/o...story.html
In the OP, we have just such an example of the hatred Islam inspires. In this case, a few atheist bloggers (they claim they aren't atheists but that may be to avoid prosecution) have been jailed and face prison terms of up to 10 years, all while hundreds of thousands of Muslims call for them to be murdered.
Rather than trying to minimize the horrors inflicted in the name of Islam, you resort to a strawman. Do you denounce killing people in the name of Islam? Or do those bloggers have it coming for "insulting" religion?
No one is saying all Muslims are bad. However, Islam itself seems to attract a great many murderous, misogynistic, child killing thugs. Why is that? Where does that impulse come from if not the edicts of the ideology itself? There is no shortage of really nasty passages in the Islamic literature calling for just such acts.
And for the latest, there is a rally today in support of the jailed atheist bloggers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/o...story.html
Quote:An international consortium of nonbelievers is planning rallies Thursday (April 25) outside Bangladeshi embassies and consulates to demand the release of several Bangladeshi bloggers who were arrested on charges of blasphemy.
The rallies are in support of four Bangladeshi men arrested earlier this month for “hurting religious sentiments,” a crime tied to an 1860 law that can carry up to 10 years in jail.
