(May 30, 2015 at 6:30 pm)abaris Wrote:Quote:His T-shirt pretty much says it all: "F--- Islam." Some of the counterprotesters wore shirts that said, "Love Thy Neighbor."
Directly from the CNN article. And suffice to add that the rally was held in front of the Islamic Community Center .
People like that are not fit to lick the boots of Charlie Hebdo, who creatively attack left, right and center. And I pretty much have it with cause and effect and "muslims". It's radicals who do the threatening. Even though god Harris claims there are no moderates, the majority of the 1,6 billions go about their business as usual, as can be easily checked by looking up Europol and FBI statistics.
Maybe it's my jewish descent that makes me extra sensible to the use of certain words and blanket statements about whole groups, but suffice to say, I have less of a problem with idiots bathing in their bigotry than with pseudo intellectual justifications from the top of the Ivory tower.
Saying "Fuck Islam" isn't bigotry.
In fact, it's a sentiment I agree with. Fuck Islam. Fuck Islam. Fuck Islam.
Islam is a barbaric, hateful, backward, violent, dangerous religion. There I said it. That doesn't make me a bigot because I don't hate Muslims. I hate their religion. Muslims are not their religion. They are indoctrinated and mentally enslaved by their religion. I don't hate slaves. I hate slavery.
And I've pretty much had it with "hey, c'mon it's only the radicals who do these things." Aside from the fact that that's a cold comfort to the dead, the radicals ARE the religion. With any ideology, show me your radicals of any ideology and I'll show you what the ideology teaches in its purest form. By definition, extremists take their ideology to an extreme, meaning they don't water it down with foreign elements or weigh it down with doubts. The moderate Muslims are "sort of" Muslims. They, by definition, water down their faith with foreign elements like modernity, science and their conscience. That's what "moderate" means, by definition.
If Islam was a religion of peace, radical Muslims would be pacifists.
Also, there's a reason why these people don't have "draw Buddha" or "draw Krishna" contests. Because Buddhists and Hindus, whether they are radical or moderate, don't kill people for drawing them.
Action. Reaction. As predictable as a swinging pendulum. Christians act like tyrannical dickheads and thus the "militant angry atheist" movement is born. Muslims murder cartoonists for blasphemy and suddenly everybody's going out of their way to blaspheme against Islam. Don't whine "bigotry". This is just nature taking its course.
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