RE: Islamic Religious Leaders call for Hanging of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh
May 7, 2013 at 3:08 pm
(April 25, 2013 at 8:35 pm)Dawud Wrote: Well most Muslims arent terrorists and people read into these stories an age old image of 'us the civilised and them the uncivilised' and not much is gonna change til an openness to "this doesn't mean Muslims are scumbags".
But it sure does seem to be that most terrorists are Muslim.
Yes, there are plenty of moderate Muslims in the world. Maybe even the majority are.
But until they begin to step up and speak against these extremists, they aren't doing the PR of Islam any good, are they?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
