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To: Slyfox

Clearly, the “anti-jihadist” invites violence merely because their assailant was uncontrollably stimulated by their victim’s choice of the object at which criticism is directed.

Islam can never go through the reformation it so desperately needs to enter the 21st Century. Or the 22nd. Or the 23rd.

Their ideology is stuck in the 7th Century, where it seems to be imprisoned.


27 posted on 05/04/2015 9:08:20 PM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: alloysteel
Their ideology is stuck in the 7th Century, where it seems to be imprisoned.

Imprisoned is right. There is no talking with them because they don't want to.

Here is a little history behind the problem of the muslims and their unwillingness to dialogue.

About the time the West rediscovered Aristotle's Ethics and Politics in the twelfth century, Islam had reached it's peak. The top imams at the time decided that Islam would no longer use the elements of philosophy which had been their strong suit for 500 years. So in began their decline when they rejected all that they had been able to glean from the Greek philosophers.

The West then took all that the Greek civilization had and entered into the Renaissance with rather amazing results. The West left the muslims in the dust.

So, when Pope Benedict spoke at Regensburg and got lambasted by the muslims, he was only trying to invite them back to the dialogue they dismissed in the 12th century.

To enter into dialogue in this way means to meet in a spirit of wanting to talk. This talk will reveal what each side has in common and if each side decides to continue in a good spirit then differences can be talked about with the least amount of rancor.

31 posted on 05/04/2015 9:18:33 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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