(January 1, 2015 at 7:45 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(January 1, 2015 at 7:31 am)mralstoner Wrote: Fact 1 - There are 90 verses in the Koran which command Muslims to imitate the prophet Mohammed.
Fact 2 - Mohammed beheaded a whole Jewish tribe, the Banu Qurayza.
Fact 3 - Mohammed beheaded poets who criticised him.
Fact 4 - Mohammed sanctions sex slaves as the spoils of war.
Fact 5 - Mohammed ordered or supported 43 assassinations.
Fact 6 - Mohammed commanded 65 military campaigns, and fought in 27 of them.
Conclusion 1 - Islam is a religion of "peace".
Conclusion 2 - A significant percentage of every Muslim population will follow the "peaceful" example of Mohammed and blow up unexpectedly.
The question for Downbeat is: how big does our Muslim population have to get before we have a serious problem (if we don't already have one)?
You can point to just as many horrors in the bible. The problem is not muslims its islam. If Christians can ignore the horrid bits in the bible then the muslims can do the same in the Koran. It's the devout ones that are the problem and they are the minority.
Obviously, the vast majority of Christians in the US are much better human beings than their ideology might suggest, something also true of the relativly few Jewish and Mormon people that I know. There are no Muslims in my circle, but I would assume the same holds true.
All religious ideology poses a potential threat, warping the people who hold into harming the people who don't. But that threat is evident in very few religious followers.
