Posted on 09/16/2003 7:55:14 AM PDT by Lance Romance
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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There you go again. Absurd. I haven't been preaching anything. I have claimed no 'faith' in anything. You have touched no nerve in me. I simply reject your ignorance of Islam.
I am intolerant of ignorance. Your ignorance of Islamic doctrine. Islamic intolerance of non-Muslims as proscribed in their doctrine. Your ignorance of what other 'religions' believe as evidenced by your assertions about Buddhism.
In case I didn't make that clear, that too is ignorance.
No one said they were morons; but the fact that they are brainwashed is self-evident. They are taught from birth to blindly follow the rules of Islam, and know the punishment for failing to follow those rules.
In any case, your argument is nonsense and you are being foolish to even consider it. Having one billion followers doesn't make Islam a positive religious movement any more than having one billion followers makes Chinese Communism a desired political movement.
I judge groups by who I know. I know good Christians and I know good Muslims.
Then you judge poorly. And either you have a very poor definition of "good", or the Muslims you know aren't good Muslims. Muslims are required by their faith to perform certain tasks; among them are things any freedom-loving american would find quite vile. If your friends don't believe in such things, all that means is that they are not good Muslims (or, more likely, simply following the practice of al-taquyah so they can deceive the foolish until they obtain the necessary numbers and power to achieve their goal of Dar al Islam, and the destruction of the United States).
I most certainly am; if the "problem" is people who refuse to accept and embrace a murder cult that calls itself a religion, and points out that fact to those fools who insist otherwise.
You have already admitting that you are arguing from ignorance. But rather than educating yourself about the true history of Islam, a religion born in robbery and murder (the first band of Mohammed's followers supported themselves via banditry, and Mohammed himself murdered hundreds, and usually kept 20% of what was stolen from his murdered victims), you instead try to insist that those who refuse to embrace such barbarism are "intolerant".
What you fail to realize in your ignorance is that intolerance of evil is a virtue, not a vice.
Yes, you've already said that, along with admitting that you know nothing of Islam and are basing your opinions on a few Muslims that you think you know. But that doesn't change the fact that Islam requires lying and murder as a duty of its followers. Perhaps you have fallen to such depths of moral relativism that you don't being lying and murder are actually "inherently evil"...
I know too many good Muslims
No, you know too many "bad" Muslims. If they don't follow the teachings of Islam, then to true muslims they are infidels, whom the Quran orders true Muslims to kill. More likley, however, they are merely following the same strategy Muslims have followed for over a thousand years, that of deliberately lying to non-Muslims about what Islam teaches. Your ignorance of al-taquyah doesn't make you immune from it.
I can only assume your own religious bias' cloud your view
Then you are being foolish again, making moral judgements in absence of facts. My "bias" is merely that I have studied the history of Islam, and know far more than you about the subject.
That's for you to deal with.
No, you still don't get it. I'm not the problem; you are. Your inability to recognize a clear and present threat to national security in the guise of a religious movement is as dangerous as some typhoid-infected luddite fool who believes disease is spread by not thinking happy thoughts. Just because you don't believe in the disease you are unwittingly helping to spread doesn't make it any less real, and ultimately the damage that you cause is going to affect far more people than just yourself.
being = believe
That I "THINK" I know???
Your arrogance knows no bounds.
Yes, that you THINK you know. Your ignorance on the subject of Islam is so great that you simply cannot grasp the fact that Muslims have a religious duty to "make friends" with non-Muslims, lie to them about what Islam says and believes, and then later betray them when it is beneficial to Islam to do so. That this has happened time and time again throughout history seems to not matter at all to you; you somehow think that your ignorance magically protects you from the scourge of Islam and the demands it places upon its followers.
Perhaps you are simply lucky and your "muslim" friends really are "bad" muslims and infidels to the faith who feel no need to actually follow its teachings. If they are not, then you are being as foolish as those simpletons who think that the 1-900 number astrologer or card-reader they routinely call is their "friend". But even if they are infidels to the faith, you are being a fool to judge the character of a religion by those who DON'T follow its teachings.
If at first you don't succeed, get out of the kitchen.
Anyone elses brand of worshiping = Bad.
Good to meet you, God.
I don't have an "Argument" with anyone...I'm right.
So, only you are allowed to be right? Nice to meet you, God.
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