To: tgiles
I used to agree with this assessment, based upon my personal acquaintances with individual Muslims. But the stats have finally beaten down my personal prejudices. There's too strong a correlation between Islam and violent behavior. It cuts across races, cultures and geography. For example: Filipino Muslims are racially identical to the Christians, but their average demeanor is worlds apart. Consider European Muslims (in the Balkans). Why are they so different from other Europeans?
I know for a fact that individual Muslims can be the best people on earth. But I can't escape the conclusion that Muslim societies are, almost without exception, the worst on earth, almost as if they exerted a perverting influence on the people in their midst.
I know an 80 year old man who was an ex-SS troooper, and he is decent. When you think about it, the law of averages guarantees that some individual Nazis were actually good men. But Nazism as a whole was wholly without redeeming features. I suspect this is the same with Islam. There are indivually worthy Muslims, but Islam as a whole is condemning itself daily, by its behavior, by its dysfunction and by its brutality. I'd like to think well of all religions, but Islam is really making me stretch.
To: wretchard
I'd like to think well of all religions, but Islam is really making me stretch. There's no need to stretch ... Islam is not a religion - it is a cult. (Religions do not advocate the murder of innocents; cults do.) So you have no need to think well of Islam.
587 posted on
02/22/2002 3:41:34 AM PST by
bimbo
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