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Posted on 07/01/2002 4:32:35 PM PDT by What Is Ain't
Farrakhan's "Nation of Islam" is a flying saucer cult with a dash of Islam thrown in. Muslims in general, particularly African American converts, consider them heretics at best.
That's very true.
Would you care to document your claim that there were wholesale lynchings of blacks going on in the 1960's American South? Sound like you are conducting a wholsale lynching of the American South!
Are you equating a few slack-jawed rednecks attacking people based on skin color to a religious cult desiring to forcefully convert and/or kill the whole wide world? You of all people, going the moral equivalency route. I miss you on the WOD threads.
Western culture has its Scientologists and wackos like Jim Jones; its high time that Islam had the same.
Factually incorrect. The Papal Inquisition was started in 12something and is technically still in business. At various times it operated in most countries of Western Europe.
The Spanish Inquisition, BTW, spent most of its energy going after lapsed Jewish converts to Catholicism and captured Protestants, not lapsed converts from Islam.
DYODR.
Western civilization, at a peak with the formation of The United Sates, is superior to all others. We are conservatives, in the sense that:
We champion liberty above all; the freedom to do what you please, without government telling you, "no."
We value taking responsibility for yourself, including your stupid decisions. We believe that someone else's stupidity does NOT mean you can reach into MY wallet and give them My money, without my direct permission.
We believe that people should stand on their own two feet, and produce or not. People who work hard to create wealth should get rewarded. People who freeload should get nothing.
Any questions?
Yes ---and actually the Mayan culture was already over when the Spaniards came and wiped out the culture of the Aztecs whose culture consisted of mass human sacrifice of other Indians ---who were actually glad for the Spaniards changing that around.
Very good observation. What sort of people would allow 4 horny old men to gang rape an 18 year old, then ridicule her as she ran home naked?
Any torture lately?
So your respect for a culture is based solely on the concept of "What have you done for me lately." Charming. Shallow, but charming.
No need to label me "charming" or "shallow" for noting the dimension of time.
All events in history did not occur today.
Were that the case, FR Breaking News would have Incan and Mayan articles.
The gang rape is in fact recent.
The Incas and Mayans are not.
Cultures which correct terrorist practice are to be noted.
Yet Arafat and others in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestinian Authority areas continue to train children to strap on explosives and murder civilians.
The photo above of the woman being shot in the head for some Islamist crime illustrates a current event.
No one in the photo is Incan or Mayan.
"desiring to forcefully convert and/or kill the whole wide world." Sounds like very conquistador-like behavior to me.
I don't know of any public lynchings, in the real sense of the term, in the 60's South. Their heyday was from 1900 to the 40's, gradually diminishing with each decade.
The term has sometimes, inaccurately, been used when whites murdered blacks and got away with it due to public and law enforcement attitudes favoring their actions.
No dodos or passenger pigeons in those pictures either. Hmmm - wonder why?
And I would guess neither do these tribes. They practice exactly what these blowhard bigots practice: tribal justice. "A Muslim knifed my brother so therefore I must knife a Muslim." or "Someone from that clan stole from me and therefore I am obligated to steal from someone of that clan." or "All Muslims are evil, their religion is evil, because some Arab nationalist extremists chose to use Islam as an excuse for their murder." It's an old, tired, and bloody story of humanity, but it is not the story of God's moral Law as promulgated by Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What kind of culture did the conquistadors destroy when they destroyed the Aztec culture? And they had help from other Indian tribes who were glad to see it end.
Nahh. If I remember correctly, the last case was in 1850s or 60s Rome, when it was still under the rule of the Pope. But I could certainly be wrong about that.
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