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How Tolerant is Islam?
myself | Not yet | 2banana

Posted on 10/08/2001 6:24:57 AM PDT by 2banana

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41 posted on 10/21/2001 3:29:57 PM PDT by timestax
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To: 2banana
You forgot one: when the Indonesian Muslims rioted in Jakarta in 1998, their 100 percent exclusive targets were ethnic Chinese, who are for the most part Christians (even Mochtar Riady professes Christianity, for goodness sakes).

The "tolerant" Islamic treatment of ethnic Chinese included burning their homes and business; multiple rapes of ethinic Chinese women; beatings, killings, etc. The normal "tolerant" Islamic stuff.

Not to mention that the "tolerant" Muslims of Indonesia are now targeting Westerners and particularly Americans in their nascent hallucinatory campaign of terror (e.g., the "jihad").

As one who is not particularly religious, I nonetheless find current Islamic expresssions of "faith" to border on the Satanic. There is something deeply evil at work within Islam.

If Islam really is inherently "peaceful and tolerant", Muslims should recognize that it is being enveloped by evil incarnate.

And that is not a metaphor. Evil has taken deep root within this "religion."

43 posted on 10/21/2001 3:43:50 PM PDT by angkor
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To: abwehr
Prolly won't be too long before they show up.....
44 posted on 10/21/2001 3:44:38 PM PDT by timestax
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To: abwehr
Prolly won't be too long before they show up.....
45 posted on 10/21/2001 3:45:06 PM PDT by timestax
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To: 2banana; JeepInMazar
Article today, Sunday - The Washington Post - "Outlook" Section B, by Michael Skube, entitled: "Either You Are a Believer or an Infidel."

As you know we can't post the compost here, but it is an good read! One quote: "Blood feuds and assassinations punctuate Islam's history from the very beginning."

46 posted on 10/21/2001 3:49:05 PM PDT by TrueBeliever9
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To: 2banana
Since many of the suicide terrorists were from our "friends" in Saudi Arabia I believe we need to develop a litmus test to identify who our enemies are.

I propose that any nation that uses civil law and the threat of death to enforce religious orthodoxy is a terrorist nation.

There is a moral equivalence in the acts of someone who kills infidels by ramming a plane into a building and the actions of a government using lethal force on someone who converts from Islam.

If any government denies freedom of religion and freedom of speech to it's people then that government is the enemy.

It's not a fluke that many of the terrorists came from Saudi Arabia. The immorality behind terrorism is institutionalized there.
47 posted on 10/21/2001 4:36:07 PM PDT by UnChained
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To: UnChained
What you have written makes a lot of sense to me.
48 posted on 10/21/2001 4:58:13 PM PDT by JeepInMazar
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To: 2banana
Do you have any info if other nations besides Saudi Arabia treats the various crimes you list as capital offenses?
49 posted on 10/21/2001 8:36:06 PM PDT by UnChained
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To: 2banana
it's NOT tolerant
50 posted on 10/22/2001 8:48:21 PM PDT by timestax
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To: lavaroise
The only possible way I can see at ultimately ending this conflict is simply threatening Islam's holy places. Start with the least holy and work your way up. If you harbor terrorists and they attack the United States, one cruise missle will be sent to the least holy site. This is what they hold dear (holy places), it is a deterrent, kills very few, and would definitely get noticed by Islamic states that sit on their hands.
51 posted on 10/23/2001 12:09:09 PM PDT by Feret
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To: 2banana
bttt
52 posted on 10/23/2001 7:20:32 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Feret
bump to the top!!
53 posted on 10/23/2001 7:21:07 PM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
bttt
54 posted on 10/23/2001 11:29:25 PM PDT by timestax
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To: UnChained
Good post.
55 posted on 10/23/2001 11:32:01 PM PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: Feret
Amen!
56 posted on 10/23/2001 11:33:29 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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To: Feret
bump to the top!
57 posted on 10/23/2001 11:34:33 PM PDT by timestax
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To: 2banana
Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world. It is much more sinister than Nazism or Communism. We must contain it or it will destroy us. If you want to know what Islam stands for, just picture the destruction of the WTC on 9ll. That is the essence of Islam.
58 posted on 10/23/2001 11:36:17 PM PDT by stripes1776
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To: 2banana
thanks for the post.
59 posted on 10/23/2001 11:38:16 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: AppyPappy
Thats exactly right,christians committed horrible crimes in the name of God.But that was CENTURIES AGO!Christians grew up I suppose.I guess the muslims havent.
60 posted on 10/24/2001 12:11:16 AM PDT by cardinal4
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