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So i see that their is a need to show respect for Islam and lead by example. Right? Maybe the Pope was equally addressing the christians to show respect to Islam but that would be too much to ask for..
Secularism does not favour one god over another, rather manifests as a belief in a supreme power present in all humanity, said spiritual leaders Dalai Lama and Dada J P Vaswani of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission, as they came together on one stage on Sunday as part of the week-long celebrations of Dada Vaswani's 95th birthday.
Muslims are upset about Israeli atrocities? Pot/kettle. What is so awful about the Jews having a small, TINY piece of land in that region?
Palestinian ones being told to
recite "We hate the Jews" when they're barely able to put together
sentences!
you just condemning the actions of your government is not enough,
I DO REALIZE IT!
you should also go a step ahead and realise that what mulims are doing is a reaction to the actions that you condemn.
Tell it TO THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT!
You perceiving muslim reactions as a new action and believing that its their religion who teaches them violence is completely wrong!
Originally posted by logical7
Muslims are upset about a lot of things maybe because its them and their brothers & sisters that are dying! And they see very clearly what is causing it.
CT has posted a set of statistics that demonstrates the real violence against Muslims, it is not Jews, Christians or even America that is leading the pack in Muslim Genocide, but rather other Muslims. These numbers (almost 10 million killed by other Muslims) defy rationality and surely anyone with half a brain can see where the real problem lies. Islam may or may not be a peaceful religion, but the people who dominate the religion and are the face that the world sees as representation of the religion, surely are far from peaceful.
And there’s a third lie to this claim of Muslims as victims of the West: Nearly every one of the tens of thousands of Muslims killed in the last few years has been killed by other Muslims, in Syria and Iraq in particular.
There is something of great significance to be learned from this. In the Muslim world today, it is hatred of the West — not love of (or even concern for) fellow Muslims — that animates Muslim atrocities and terror against the West. Just as it is Arab hatred of Israel rather than Arab love of fellow Arabs that animates the Arab world.
Every Muslim and every Western leftist who perpetrates the lie that Islamists commit acts of terror because the West kills Muslims is aiding and abetting that terror.
Even after thousands of people have been killed in suicide bombings by religious extremists, a large number of Pakistanis still have misplaced sympathies for extremists or fail to hold them accountable. This mindset needs to be challenged and the myth that “Muslims don’t kill other Muslims” needs to be debunked once and for all. Otherwise, if this attitude of denying the problem and deflecting the blame on RAW, CIA, BLA, Mossad, etc continues, there is no plausible way that an effective counter extremist movement can be conceived in Pakistan.
It is a sad fact, but Muslims have been killing Muslims from the early days of Islam. Out of the first four caliphs, three had Muslims involved in their murder, two of them were killed in a mosque and one was murdered while offering his prayers. The first Islamic Civil War, also called the first Fitna, started in 656, just 14 years after the Prophet Mohammad’s (pbuh) death and lasted for 5 years. A number of battles were fought during this period, in which scores of Muslims were killed by other Muslims. Unfortunately, there is precedent for Muslims killing Muslim in Islamic history.
If one wants to ignore history and just look at the present, there are still numerous examples of Muslims killing other Muslims in Pakistan. Recently, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for an attack in Quetta that killed at least 26 people and injured over 60 in two suicide attacks, targeting the residence of the deputy chief of the paramilitary force. If one goes a little further in the past (like a month), the TTP claimed responsibility for a devastating suicide attack on a mosque in Khyber Agency that killed over 50 people. Most recently, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reached a new low by attacking a school bus, which killed four children. This attack was considered to be revenge against the residents of Kala Khel for forming a lashkar against the TTP. The large number of occurrences of such events makes it difficult to deny that ‘Muslims’ are carrying them out.
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Originally posted by colbe
wildtimes posts a lot of anti-Catholic threads, it gets old. Maybe she does it for the attention, for sure wildtimes knows nothing of the faith.
Pray for her conversion.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
There will never be a perfect time for the pope to make a statement of peace and respect to the Muslim people. That part of the world is always in chaos. Ya' know?? He's just gotta' say it and hope that something sticks (which I doubt anything will)
Originally posted by colbe
wildtimes posts a lot of anti-Catholic threads, it gets old. Maybe she does it for the attention, for sure wildtimes knows nothing of the faith.
When God shows her personally Catholicism is THE faith (Rev 6:15-17, 1 Cor 3:13)....blah blah literalist tosh/bollucks
Originally posted by FlyersFan
reply to post by TheOd
I think that THIS POPE is a man of peace and who is trying to walk the walk.
If THEY would stop being terrorists, THE ATTACKS WOULD STOP.
Convince the leaders of Al-
Qaeda, the Taliban, Hammas,
Hezbollah, and all the other related thug groups, and you'll have solved
the world's problems.
I don't have any trouble with that. Each is judged individually.
God does not play favourites we muslims know this by Qur'an.
This opens an important line of discussion, but let's save it for another exchange. First, what do you think about this response?
Qur'an tells me to speak the truth, stand up against wrong even if its against myself or my family. Also God says not to accept oppression for the fear of death because its God who has already ordained the time and manner of death for each and none can escape it.
Originally posted by TheOd
Until you shake those -insert any religion- binds, you will continue on a non-spiritual path that is leading you purposefully in the wrong direction. As Jesus said "I am within - seek him there.
I am not hateful of the Pope, I hate what the Pope stands for as I do what the Church stands for. All religions for that matter are human-made obstacles to drawing close to the Creator. They serve primarily those who propagate them.
Why listen to power-hungry men when the spirits have spoken directly to us about the afterlife, how to spiritually ascend and the illicit nature of religion?