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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Where are these Muslims with whom you would be comfortable letting them select your next government?
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For the thousandth time, people are not solely their religious belief. You keep saying 'Muslim' like it's the entirety of their identity. Those select few that are, yes, they present a problem. Thank god/allah/science they are a vanishingly small minority. Need a point of comparison with white people? The Bible bans: pre-marital sex, menstruating women in the camp, poly-blend fabric, being jealous of your neighbor, insulting your parents/elders, marriage with members of certain ethnic groups, sharing atheistic or agnostic ideas with children. All of these are punishable by death. The Bible allows for: genocide of non-Jewish ethnic groups, the selling of your children into bondage, [men] taking as many wives as you can provide for, [women] being subservient in all things to your husband, the owning of fellow humans, war against people who don't believe in your god. Most of these actions brought immediately reward from God. Now how many Christians break those bans and reject those proscriptions? 99.9% of them, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE MORE THAN THE RELIGION THEY IDENTIFY WITH
I will happily go blow for blow between the holy books for horrific atrocities and laudable aspirations. You don't live in a Muslim country. You probably don't have many if any Muslim friends. Your ignorance of the way people practice Islam leads you to apply the the actions of the most extreme to everyone.
Rostasi, elphenor, and others have put forth both logic and evidence to support the position that Islamic inspired terrorism is a warping of societal forces to pressure and trick young, dumb men into killing themselves for a higher power. But actually it's the political ambition of these leaders that drives them. We've pointed you to books to check out, books written by experts, books quoting the writings of bin Laden, Zarqawi, Zawahiri, al-Bahgdadi, etc. where they lay out their SECULAR plan for EARTHLY power modeled on religious and societal laws that have existed for over a thousand years. Easier to mold an existing system to your ends than creating a new one from scratch.
But you and others here are convinced that behind every smiling Muslim face is a man, woman, or child that can't wait to rip out your throat in the name of Allah. That's why you're a bigot.