Originally posted by Deon
Well, I am not islamophobic. I am just seeing the fact that Muslims tend to mess politics up with their religion or belief, like the communists, which
does sometimes go against the fundamental beliefs of us modern civilized world, Countries like Iran, for instance, creating instability, regional
threats, incubating terrorism (I've seen news reporting on N Korea trafficking weapons to Iran), lots of money and blood needs to be spent to tackle
them.
Okay, I have many issues with this post. First, Communism has nothing to do with religion, it is anti-religion. The whole foundation of communism,
Marxism, is against religion and belief like this.
Secondly, I don't understand why you think America is any better than the Muslims in this regard - about half the country is against gay marriage
because "The Bible says it's bad". Politics and religious belief are constantly mixed up
everywhere.
Thirdly, the United States, even though we're "A Christian Nation", are just as much of terrorists as the Muslim radicals. The only difference is
that our terrorism is sanctioned by all the religious people who think that if you are not a Christian you deserve to die. That is, of the radically
conservative Christians in this country, of which there are many.
Fourthly, if the US is what you consider "civilized", then I worry for humanity. Sure, we may have more technology and infrastructure, but we use it
in just as much of an animalistic way as the young Muslim teens who believe that suicide is better than life where they live. The US and the Muslim
world are not so different; fundamentally, we are all out to bring as much happiness to our close friends and family as we can, and we both
misguidedly think that killing other people is the way to bring it about.