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Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
Minimalist Offline Donators
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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Quote:they will condemn it in public.


Ah, yes. But do they mean it?
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#82
RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 6:49 pm
(October 3, 2010 at 6:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:they will condemn it in public.


Ah, yes. But do they mean it?

By 'they' do you mean politicians?

If "yes', asked and answered.

THIS is true: A few years ago,our then Prime Minister, John Howard, was taken to task for breaking a campaign promise. (no,really).

Speaking slowly,as if to a rather dim child,the PM explained that the issue in question had not been a 'core promise'.What's rather scary is that people actually swallowed that explanation.Thinking
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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Um, no. I was answering Frodo who made the original comment about the majority of muslims.
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#84
RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 7:11 pm
If they do believe it they're kidding themselves.
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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 7:28 pm
All believers willingly kid themselves.
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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 7:58 pm
(October 3, 2010 at 4:32 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: they will condemn it in public.

...but not until they finish celebrating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WptpG_yV...re=related


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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 8:53 pm
I would suggest that pointing to Palestine after 1948, Afghanistan after 2001, and Iraq after 2003 won't quite deliver an objective scientific analysis of the true muslim stance towards the west - that video is more about an occupied nation's reaction towards the misfortunes of their invaders, and their invaders' principal allies. Sad and very shocking, but understandable.
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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Christianity is a threat to the Mid-East as much as Islam is a threat to Christ countries. Two different forms of retardation will cause fighting. Perhaps WWIII this time around? Mad
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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 3, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Not really. Christianity is a spent force in the west, and islam is a religion not a country. The needs of people in the Middle East for resources - land, energy, food and water - and the reaction of western capitalism to those needs are better predictors of war than religious allegiance.
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RE: Islam, a growing threat to the free world?
October 4, 2010 at 4:37 pm (This post was last modified: October 4, 2010 at 5:12 pm by Rayaan.)
(October 3, 2010 at 2:52 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I was shocked to see a person I respect post a video about Islam taking over the world by population growth:
The statistics in the video that you posted are flawed/incorrect.

Here's a more reliable source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/mo...189434.stm

(October 3, 2010 at 4:12 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Allah is not like God.. he gets to be evil and unjust.
What makes you think so?
Don't the Muslims and Christians believe in the same God after all? I thought so.

(October 2, 2010 at 3:18 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Since I started studying Islam and saw there's not a dime's worth of difference between it and Christianity.
No differences in what sense?
I agree that there are many similarities between Islam and Christianity, but there are also many differences, too.
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