Posted on 11/26/2004 10:09:05 PM PST by CHARLITE
I think you misspelled Mohammedanism. I think the correct spelling is Mohammedemonicism. I am sure the Islamo Fascists in their own language use fewer letters and when spoken it sounds a little like someone barfing up pea soup. You have to spin your head around a little when you do it.
When you say that Christians have been violent, too, you beg the question of roots. Have Christians been violent because it is partof the human condition or is it basic to their religion? When comparing Christians' violence to Moslem then you cannot omit both religions' basic manuals.Its like saying your client is innocent because all the evidence tying him to the murder is some other subject.
Meaningless numbers, if you are counting the European population as Christians.
Of the 20% that are Muslim, many will fight and die to convert nations to Islam.
How many Christians will give their lives to capture Mecca and Medina, and to convert the Arabs to Christianity?
"No one is catagorized because they have a different opinion. People can differ in opinion without making prejudiced, bigoted remarks. Anger is understandable. I'm angry at the terrorists."
I was thinking more along the lines of distinguishing between an angry but atypical remark that has bigoted overtones due to anger at the moment, vrs calmly accepted bigotry that is a constant in a person life.
I think it with differentiating between the two types as one is redeamable and the other less so.
I never spoke about Christian violence.
"I was thinking more along the lines of distinguishing between an angry but atypical remark that has bigoted overtones..."
Some of the people have been here a while and their comments are constant, not atypical. Others who are newer.....depends on what they say. I think you can usually tell, especially if they defend their statements.
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Let's put it this way. It's one heck of a mixed up pagan cult. They couldn't be bothered with putting the Koran in chronological order. That's how the "holy" oral traditions of primitive tribes are. Time line and continuity mean nothing while legend means everything.
Sadly, for almost the last hundred years every time evil rears its ugly head the words Nazi and Hitler emerge. This lends nothing to an intelligent analysis of the challenge and is intellectually equivalent to shouting "poopy-heads" at the offenders.
"President Bush is definitely not beating around the bushes when it comes to the Islamo Fascists..."
Agreed with you on that, but he is giving the impression that he does not recognize the Islamo part of this thing when he entertains them as honored or recognized guests at White House functions. It is also time we stopped all the PC crap regarding airport security etc. That too is his call, it would seem.
A couple years ago passing through Detroit on Northwest, it seemed rather incongruous to have an obvious person of Middle Eastern origin or descent providing "serious" security screening, perhaps even selecting those for additional, rigorous hand searches at the gate area. Just another example of my concerns.
Quite right, I just saw your post first and assumed it WAS first. My apologies.
Belief in God or Jesus cannot be forced on someone; it must come from the heart.
All well and good, but technically neither the Crusades nor the inquisitiorial religious tribunals had anything to do with "Forcing" Catholocism on anyone.
The handbook for manipulation of the masses was written by the Nazi facist political party that controlled Germany between 1933 and 1945 by Adolph Hitler. Michael Aflag, the founder of the Baath Party, adopted that political ideology. In the 1930s and 40s, Baathism’s founder, Syrian-born and French-educated Michel Aflaq, and a handful of his cronies, were “students” and admirers of Marx, Lenin, and Hitler. Aflaq’s alma mater, the University of Paris, produced numerous notable political leaders, such as Cambodia’s Pol Pot. On his return to Syria in 1932 Aflag worked closely with the local communists and wrote for their magazine. In the 1950s, in Iraq, young Saddam was an early Baathist, and in the 1960s became a personal associate of Aflaq. Saddam and the Baath “party” attained dictatorship in a 1968 coup, and, at Saddam’s invitation, Aflaq spent the remaining years of his life in Iraq, where, with irrepressible college spirit, he was on Saddam’s cheerleading squad.
Interesting, but what does all this have to do with bin Laden?
Interesting point. Now here is another tale...
Right after 9-11 my 12 & 13 year old grandchildren flew into Cleveland from Omaha for a visit. On their return they were singled out for an into-everything, baggage & person search. The system is sick.
Very well put. America, and all it stands (stood?) for would be quite compatible with a "religion of peace", but Islam does not appear to be one.
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