To: fporretto
I just love guys like Hooper who talk as if there are major Jewish or Christian movements like the Islamic Jihads and Al Qaedas. There simply AREN'T. It's not like some guy killed a bunch of people because he thought aliens told him to do so and he HAPPENED to be Muslim. They're killing people FOR their religion, and not just in one place, but all over.
Besides, the idea that it's not Islam is preposterous. Please show me the passages in the Lotus Sutra or anywhere else in Buddhism that call for the slaughter or deception of your enemies. Please point me to the massive Buddhist terrorist organizations bent on world domination.
When Islam apologists can do that, maybe i'll consider their case.
I think of it like this, compare Mohammad's life(according to the stories, at least) with Jesus or with Buddha. For all that, compare his life to Kung fu'tze or Lao tze. I can't think of a major religion that has as its CENTRAL figure someone so violent and who sanctions violence as the direct wish of God(let's not get into the Old Testament)
11 posted on
11/13/2002 6:09:11 AM PST by
Skywalk
To: Skywalk
I just love guys like Hooper who talk as if there are major Jewish or Christian movements like the Islamic Jihads and Al Qaedas. There simply AREN'T.
Hooper has had more than enough time to study and deliver specifics if he wished... the lack of substance in his stance is quite revealing. The adopted defense of Islam that he's chosen could well be summed up as "nuh uh....I know you are, but what am I?"
To: Skywalk; All
I can't think of a major religion that has as its CENTRAL figure someone so violent and who sanctions violence as the direct wish of God(let's not get into the Old Testament) Actually, it's quite instructive to compare the Old Testament with the New Testament. The Sermon on the Mount is a devastating line-by-line refutation of Moses's ministry, and, as such, is one of the secondary reasons the Rabbis loath Jesus to this day.
To: Skywalk
RE #11
Muslim invaders to India slaughters thousands of Buddhist monks because they were infidels. These monks did not fight. They were responsible for the demise of Buddhism in India. It flourished elsewthere in S.E. Asia and E. Asia but in India, it was gone.
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