Islam in Europe

Chula Vista · 04-09-2017, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Pretty much my point earlier.

Just frosting your cake mate.

Isbjørn · 04-09-2017, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Just frosting your cake mate.

Hot.

Isbjørn · 04-09-2017, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Fixed.

There are approx. 2.2 billion Christians on the planet. Islam is second with 1.6 billion. Secularity is in third place. Hinduism is fourth with 1 billion. Nothing else really comes close.

It bugs the crap out of me when folks blame the religion for the *******s who pervert it to promote their insane ideals.

Just so happens that Islamic *******s are the religious fanatics de jour. That along with the fact they have 21st century weapons at their desposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism

Can you imagine what the Klu Klux Klan would have done with if they'd had today's arsenal? How about the Spanish Inquisition with chemical weapons?

Damn right.

Also, imagine if the West hadn't funded and armed terrorist groups as leverage against the regimes in Aghanistan, in Libya, in Syria? They'd be much smaller.

OccultHawk · 04-09-2017, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Fixed.

There are approx. 2.2 billion Christians on the planet. Islam is second with 1.6 billion. Secularity is in third place. Hinduism is fourth with 1 billion. Nothing else really comes close.

It bugs the crap out of me when folks blame the religion for the *******s who pervert it to promote their insane ideals.

Just so happens that Islamic *******s are the religious fanatics de jour. That along with the fact they have 21st century weapons at their desposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism

Can you imagine what the Klu Klux Klan would have done if they'd had today's arsenal? How about the Spanish Inquisition with chemical weapons?

Dude. Nobody on this board hates Christianity more than I do.

**Frownland** · 04-09-2017, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

yeh, I think that was obvious mate, I have seen enough of his posts to know what his position is even if I was unsure whether it was sarcasm, but the post was just odd. Nobody said anything about making Muslims second class citizens.

Treating them differently than the "normal" citizens inherently puts them in a different class. Especially when so many people point at the religion as a whole to blame for radicalized Arabs. For example, look at how quickly the discussion in here turned to border control—people are confusing the issue and more often than not, "solving" the "problem" harms more people than it helps.

**Frownland** · 04-09-2017, 01:26 PM

I wasn't expecting anybody to bring up the Spanish Inquisition.

OccultHawk · 04-09-2017, 02:05 PM

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Syria has a secular regime and it's still ****ed. The reason it's ****ed is because it's been torn by civil war for six years, which is actively fuelled by imperialist powers. Hell, leaked documents prove that the US government planned to use the IS as leverage against Assad. Same goes for the various rebel groups, including "moderate" ones (read: Al-Qaeda and aligned groups). Extremist groups are not a product of islam in and by itself. They gain prominence because they're armed and funded by the US, Norway, Britain, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia among others.

This reason. That reason. Every place the religion prevails is ****. I don't need the story for every example. I see what they all have in common.

Chula Vista · 04-09-2017, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

This reason. That reason. Every place the religion prevails is ****. I don't need the story for every example. I see what they all have in common.

There's over 7 billion people on this orb. That's 7 thousand million.

Perspective. A stack of 7 billion pennies would be 6,607 miles tall. The number of people killed on 9/11 would be stack less than 0.3% of a mile.

Terrorism sucks. War sucks. But neither define the overwhelmingly vast majority of us.

OccultHawk · 04-09-2017, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

There's over 7 billion people on this orb. That's 7 thousand million.

Perspective. A stack of 7 billion pennies would be 6,607 miles tall. The number of people killed on 9/11 would be stack less than 0.3% of a mile.

Terrorism sucks. War sucks. But neither define the overwhelmingly vast majority of us.

I'm aware of the world's population. I know we're talking about a small fraction of people who act on their stupid ass beliefs. It's still a huge problem.

**Frownland** · 04-09-2017, 02:08 PM

Whoops

04-09-2017, 01:26 PM	#6 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I wasn't expecting anybody to bring up the Spanish Inquisition. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Whoops __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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