RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 15, 2015 at 12:26 pm
(July 15, 2015 at 12:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yes, Christians have done that in the past. But that was centuries ago and those people are no longer alive... whereas radical Islam has never stopped. I'm not excusing their behavior, it just seems weird to me that Isis/radical Islam hardly gets brought up.
The 80ies aren't centuries ago.
Also, you might have a look at the countries where radical Islam runs rampant. They're failed states, but that's not the entirety of the Islamic world. It's pretty diverse actually, with Turkey still being a mostly functioning secular democracy and Bosnia being a pretty recent addition. Most of the islamic countries never make the news because nothing newsworthy is happening there.
Then I would like to know where you're getting the hundreds of thousands from. There are serious estimates about the number of people killed in the conflict with ISIS. They range somewhere between 10- and 20.000. Included in this number are casualties as well as outright murders. Compare that to the numbers the website Iraq body count provides, which covers Iraqi deaths since the invasion of 2003. The total has now reached 219.000. Radical Islam is also partly a Western creation. The roots of the Taliban as well as Al Quaeda lie in Afghanistan when bearded men attacking the Russians were still presented as heroes, armed and trained by Western forces.
Then look at Palestine, which is at the root of Islamic terrorism. Only it wasn't islamic until the late 80ies, it was left leaning and secular, in league with leftist terrorist groups rather than with religious radicals. It started, and still is, a territorial conflict, now with religious connotations that were almost totally absent till the first Intifada of 1987.