Originally posted by Souljah

Originally posted by sal88
well i would feel slightly annoyed that they could in effect be making my religion seem intolerant of others.
But i would give them the benefit of the doubt, bearing in mind the media loves to hype things up, just as i have done in this case, and rightly so, as I can't actually find the bit that you are referring to in the transcript.

Yea ofcourse - but the problem is, that the entire West is suddenly very hostile against an Entire Religion; War on Terrorism turned out to be War against Muslims, people start using terms such as Islamofascists and now even da Pope AKA Der Panzer Cardinal (an Ex-Hitler Jugend) is calling a Muslim Prophet a warmonger?

PLEASE!

Can this be even more Obvious?

what are you incinuating?

Sorry but that's too much of a parallel with people saying that ahmadinejad wants to launch his crusade of 40,000 suicide bombers of whatever the hell it was against all 'unbelievers' or Jews, because he condemns the Israeli regime, and Israel is mostly comprised of Jews, and he quoted Khomenei saying it should be wiped from the map; its getting small bits of information here and there and turning it into anything you want.

Show me where he calls the Prophet Muhammad a warmongerer. As far as i knew the Vatican's stance on Islam had always been a positive one.
He was in Hitler's youth? That doesn't mean anything, the only other choice back then was to be killed, the Nazi's didn't nescessarily succeed in indocrinating the youth either, in fact its commonly said to be the opposite.

"suddenly very hostile" doesn't seem to fit

You know what I think? I think Muslims/Islamics must sit around and listen to all speeches made in the world just so they can bitch about them. The fanatics are a bunch of hypocrite's, it is OK for them to clam there was no Holocaust and wish death on all Jews yet it is not right for anyone to criticize them or even mention their faith

Originally posted by Souljah
And How would You People feel, if a Supreme Islamic Cleric would declare, that Christianity and Judaism is based on Violence and that they preach death and war?

It would not bother me one bit. You see unlike those fanatics most christians realize the cruasades ened years ago and christians changed their ways. You cannot say the same for islam just read the Koran

Originally posted by shots

Originally posted by Souljah
And How would You People feel, if a Supreme Islamic Cleric would declare, that Christianity and Judaism is based on Violence and that they preach death and war?

It would not bother me one bit. You see unlike those fanatics most christians realize the cruasades ened years ago and christians changed their ways. You cannot say the same for islam just read the Koran

Tony Blair and George Bush claim to be Christian, and they read the Bible

War story

According to the US, arabs and islamic extremists are terrorists. According to arab countries US is the terrorist who is destroying them one by one. Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon.

What is weapon of mass destruction. A weapon which can cause a hell lot of destruction.

Amount of people who died in iraq, afghanistan and lebanon is not even comparable to amount of people dead in 9/11.

Americans should experience a real war, then they will truly understand what WAR means.

I am from India but I lived all my life in Kuwait. I was 7 yrs old when Iraq attacked Kuwait. I lived in a small apartment with my parents and my 2 older brothers and an elder sister. We woke up on the morning of 2nd august to the sound of an explosion. We thought it could have been a thunder but it was just too loud and sounded too close. We woke up our parents. My dad assured us it was nothing and went off to work as usual. Half way to his workplace he was sent back home.

There were iraqi soldiers everywhere, people shooting, tanks going off, bombs being dropped. Iraq had attacked Kuwait and had pretty much taken control over it. My dad came home and told us of what we saw. We started panicking and my dad tried to contact his friends to see how we could get out of the country. Airport was closed off. We were scared to leave the apartment. We had heard on the news that Iraqi soldiers were taking yound males prisoners. Esp. young kuwait males. They were randomly going to people's houses and apartments and either just killing them or taking them prisoners.

One day an Iraqi soldier came to our house. He wanted to take my dad and elder bro prisoner. He wanted to take them away. My mom pleaded and begged him not too. She cried a lot and so did the rest of us. Somehow through some miracle he did felt pity or since we were not kuwaiti, he spared my dad and bro and assured us that no other soldier would come to our place. I wonder what would have happened if he had taken them prisoner that day. My life wudnt be the same.


My dad and his friend formed a convoy of cars and we left everything to leave the country by road. At first we were stopped at different borders but finally we were allowed to leave. We had to drive through different countries and live in tents. We were refugess for months. We stayed in small size tents and we slept on a thin cloth through which we wud feel the rocks poking all over our bodies. Occassionally the aid truck wud come by to drop off food for us.

My dad came back to kuwait couple of years later. He was a volunteer for the fire fighting team which was still trying to extinguish burning oil wells. My dad had to drive with his headlights on during the day because the smoke had filled the skies completely. The trees were black. He had to dodge land mines and dead bodies that were all over the place. Even to this day we get reports of people dying or getting injured because of land mines left over since the attack.


In short, think about the people US kills everyday. Bush and Israel have wiped out entire cities. Ppl cry abt 9/11 abut what abt the people being killed everyday. Entire cities getting wiped out. Americans should #ing stop supporting Bush. And ya US does not need to poke its nose in other countries business. People were much happier in afghanistan, iraq, and lebanon before US attacked them. Atleast they were alive, they had homes, and they could go out in the streets. Im so pissed off i cant even right anymore

It's interesting what's happening here.

The Pope is being selectively quoted by people on the Islamic side seeking to increase tension, ironically from a speech encouraging peaceful dialouge.

On the other hand, we see people here on the Western side selectively quoting Islamic leaders' responses, also in an apparent effort to increase tensions.

There are fanatics on both sides looking to provoke a general cultural conflict, one that 90% of those on either side have no interest in and nothing to gain from.

I think it's time for the rest of us, on either side, to take out the fanatics on our own side of the fence before they kill the rest of us with their mindless lust for a genocidal war.

It's us or them - and I'd rather it was them.

[edit on 9/16/06 by xmotex]

Originally posted by saarlonga
I just joined ATS after reading this thread and hearing all about the issue with the Popes' lecture.

You are SO right. There ARE fanatics on both sides of the argument, fanatics in the Western World and fanatics in the Muslim/Islamic world.

However there is a difference.. fanatics in the Western world are often frowned upon and ridiculed by others, who bring a sense of order and debate.

Saarlonga,
Wow thanks!! That is quite the complement.
And thanks for your thoughts on this topic. I do think that video you gave the link to will be a good one to watch. As this topic never seems to go away I am sure it will be a good sorce to refrence back to.

In This Information Age is becoming harder to say anything within your own rights as democracy is about that, one can be wrong one can sound like a moron or one can have truth that hurts. Its a shame that our Western progress is deflecting back at us, we can speak anywhere in the world but we can not say what we want writhing our homes or communities. We are building our own prisons of what can and cannot be said. We either stand by the freedoms or we stay quiet.

Where are the anti-Islamic or democratic parties who appose it and questions whether if Islam has a right to stand and dictate to its people? There is no faith balance and it seems there never will be. What if people are in the harsher mental environments that this Islamic law brings should they not know Life outside Islam or are they forced and afraid to do so? Is the reason why they are always from the biggest minorities in countries that are not Islamic if the West is so wrong? Are they in need of freedoms to breath? If the 7 million Arabs in America or Muslims from the West got together they could go back and change Muslim countries or if not form a party that says it wants more freedoms in Islamic countries. But I guess it more fun to make the West the same prison environments they came from, bringing fear to us so we lose our basic rights.

I went to a Roman Catholics school but our science lessons were about evolution and the Big bang but we had to do Religious Studies anyway. So it was balanced, I am not sure of how Islamic education is run, as I have not looked into it, but I wonder if some things are forbidden to say to children about life outside of Islamic universe.

I hope that the individuals who would contemplate suicide on the command of their Earthly bound masters of manipulation are able to read and comprehend the text of the Pontiffs speech un-edited before committing themselves to a futile act of vengeance over a misunderstanding or worse, purposeful manipulation of content.

I find it most disturbing that a speech meant to encourage peaceful dialoged could instead incite ruthless violence.

Now I haven't read all of these posts so if this is a repeat then sorry. The reason I say this is that I cant be the only one to point out the fact that the Pope says Islam is a religion of violence, then muslims throughout the world go on the rampage burning churches and effigys of the pope, demanding an apology because they say they arent violent!!!

Jeez, you couldnt make it up!

Part of me wants this to escalate to extreme proportions because I reckon the time is right for another 'crusade', and we put these bastards where they belong.

6 foot under!!

Originally posted by Mcphisto
Part of me wants this to escalate to extreme proportions because I reckon the time is right for another 'crusade', and we put these bastards where they belong.

It doesn't really make a lot sense to escalate over the pope's honor being insulted. The current 'crusade' isn't going all that well and escalation doesn't have a lot of popular support.

BTW are you catholic?
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Originally posted by Souljah
Only Bible readers who wear the thickest rose-colored glasses can fail to notice all the blood and violence that fill its pages.

Let me be the first to state as a Christian that, from what I've been taught and believe, all of those mentioned events took place in the Old Testament, BEFORE Jesus Christ came to save us from ourselves.

Bearing in mind that that's what I personally believe, I don't go around telling everyone that they MUST believe as I do, since that's not my job. My job is to live as an example of how my God wanted everyone to behave.

Since Jesus died, we've became emissaries to the people, trying to show them a more peaceful way. Well, that's the way it was SUPPOSED to be. However, some people came along and ruined all of that by stepping in between the people and God, and started interpreting what God was saying to the people. Anyone with a brain in their heads knows that when someone "intercedes" with you and some entity that you cannot see, that you cannot trust them to tell you what they are supposed to be telling you.

While I don't like things some groups do, I don't judge or condemn them for their actions, since that's not my job. I live by a code of morals that extends far above what most would consider tolerable. Part of my belief is to not judge someone for any reason, since their creator will judge them according to their actions when the time is right. If they believe that Mohammad did all of the things they say, and they try to live that the best they can, that's just fine. It only becomes a problem when they start indiscriminately killing innocent people just because they believe in someone else as a savior. When that happens, then the massacres start. Now that's not to say that Christians haven't had their time of massacring, because they have, during the Crusades. No one's perfect, and this should serve as a perfect example of that.

So far as I know, my God has not told anyone to go out and massacre large groups of people for any reason, regardless of what anyone says. That's not the way I understood my teachings. I believe that we must adopt a more peaceful attitude towards everyone, allowing them the room for growth that everyone should have. The only time that I think that anyone should have a problem is when a group gets out of control, and goes around challenging others just because they think they can. Then, and ONLY then, do I advocate the use of force to subdue them. However, as soon as they are subdued, the attackers should cease and desist so that the people can rethink their outlook on life.

It's no one's duty to rule over everyone else. It's the moral responsibility of everyone to try to do the best they can for all of those around them. It's just a sad fact that most people don't think the same way.

TheBorg

[Edited for clarification and grammar.]

[edit on 17-9-2006 by TheBorg]