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originally posted by: WarminIndy
originally posted by: babloyi
a reply to: WarminIndy
Join up? Join up what? Islam? Yeah, because OF COURSE every convert did it for that. It is almost like you went to and got straight As in Hate-Islam Propaganda school.
I'd be amazed if you found even a single muslim convert who joined up because they "get 72 virgins in heaven". Interestingly enough, particularly in Europe, the vast majority of converts are local women (and no, before you say "they were forced to marry muslim men", conversion to Islam is not a requirement for women who want to marry muslim men).
What were you promised for converting?
Surely these people weren't convinced that no drinking is the prime reward of converting.
Honestly?
A belief system more meaningful than one that tries to legitimise and justify the brutal blood sacrifice of a completely innocent man to self-fulfill some made up rule.
What were YOU promised?
If I were tomorrow to join a group that I KNEW was preaching hatred and violence, then I should be as guilty as all in the group, because I KNEW what the group believed.
The peoples of the Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific and Puerto Rico’s Vieques Island are perhaps the best-known examples, but there were also the Inughuit of Thule, Greenland, and the thousands of Okinawans and Indigenous peoples of Micronesia. During the harsh deportation of the Micronesians in the 1970s, the press took some notice. In response to one reporter’s question, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said of the Micronesians: “There are only ninety thousand people out there. Who gives a damn?” This is a statement of permissive genocide.
Between 1968 and 1973, the United States and Britain, the latter the colonial administrator, forcibly removed the indigenous inhabitants of the islands, the Chagossians. Most of the two thousand deportees ended up more than a thousand miles away in Mauritius and the Seychelles, where they were thrown into lives of poverty and forgotten. The purpose of this expulsion was to create a major U.S. military base on one of the Chagossian islands, Diego Garcia. As if being rounded up and removed from their homelands in the name of global security were not cruel enough, before being deported the Chagossians had to watch as British agents and U.S. troops herded their pet dogs into sealed sheds where they were gassed and burned.
Why do so many members post like they took a hard blow to head and they have no intelligence what so ever? Is this thread about converting anyone? Are there no American Muslims? If so why is Islam the fastest growing religion in the States, how can it be if there are no American Muslims? With stupidity that I have witnessed in my life and stupidity witnessed here on ATS I am ashamed to be human
originally posted by: Seede
Some people are Americans and some people just live in America. Yes this thread is about conversion in sympathy towards Muslims. That is its foremost inferred purpose. Firstly, if one is an American then they are an American first above all other identification. Not Christian or Muslim or Jew or any other such allegiance. Simply love America and its freedom that it offers.
originally posted by: InhaleExhale
originally posted by: SomePeople
a reply to: babloyi
Dude. You don't see athiests making girls burn alive for not wearing baseball caps. Stop playing around and just get used to the fact that religion is destructive and must be #ing stopped.
How about getting used to the fact that its people not religion that are destructive, people interpretation and actions that destructive.
Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.
Apologists cater to their preferences with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do not stand up to scrutiny. Still, it is important to note that the problem is not bad people, but bad ideology.
www.thereligionofpeace.com...
originally posted by: Rustami
Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.
Apologists cater to their preferences with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do not stand up to scrutiny. Still, it is important to note that the problem is not bad people, but bad ideology.
When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girga#es and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them” (Deuteronomy 7:1-2)
When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby. Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you. (Deuteronomy 20:10-17).
18:34
He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
You have given me your shield of victory. Your right hand supports me; your help has made me great.
You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.
I will pursue my enemies and overtake them; I will not turn back till they are destroyed.
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.
18:39 You have armed me with strength for the battle; you have subdued my enemies under my feet. (Psalms 18:34-39)
"Muhammad is a narcissist, a pedophile, a mass murderer,
a terrorist, a misogynist, a lecher, a cult leader, a madman
a rapist, a torturer, an assassin and a looter."
Former Muslim Ali Sinawww.thereligionofpeace.com...
“Islam is a religion of peace”. This is what our politically correct politicians keep telling us. But what is politically correct is not necessarily correct. The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of hate, of terror and of war. A thorough study of the Quran and Hadith reveal an Islam that is not being presented honestly by the Muslim propagandists and is not known to the majority of the people of the world including Muslim themselves. www.faithfreedom.org...
The historical Muhammad was the savage leader of a gang of robbers from Medina. Without scruples they looted, raped and murdered. The sources describe orgies of savagery where hundreds of people’s throats were cut, hands and feet chopped off, eyes cut out, entire tribes massacred. www.frontpagemag.com...
To the great Turk and King at Algiers: together with a Postscript of George Pattison's capturing the Turks, and freeing them on their own shore.
In the name of the Great God, and Lord, creator and king of all things, in heaven and earth, do I write unto you. And I do take Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Lot, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph, and Moses, and David, and all the prophets of the great and most high, dreadful and terrible God, who is a consuming fire to the wicked, and John, as you say in your Koran, page 30, chapter xxxiii.—I say, John the son of Zachariah, that did affirm Christ to be the Messiah, and to be the word of God, that great and chaste just prophet, and Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, with all his holy apostles, and your own Mahomet and your Koran, to be witness against you, and some of your practices that are practised among you, at the dreadful day of judgment of the great God, when you shall all give an account of your words, deeds, and actions, and be rewarded; who will reward every man according to his works, whether they are good or evil. For I say of a truth, that the great God and Lord of heaven and earth, and all things therein, is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, he that fears God, and works righteousness, is accepted of him.
Did ever Mahomet give you authority to rob, spoil, and take the goods of those who do you no harm, and keep captives the bodies of them, and sell them; or to beat upon the feet, belly, or back, them which are so taken, to make them promise more money for their ransoms than they are able; or to beat upon the feet with one, or two, or three hundred blows, and hang up by the heels, and beat them which you have taken captives, because they refuse to lie with your men, as a man lieth with a woman. And is it not contrary to your very wild bulls, horses, rams, and he-goats, and other wild creatures and brute beasts?
And notice that not one single time in my post have I preached anything remotely Christian
Umm, I wouldn't know anything about that, would I?
So when the bible calls for violence, it doesn't count, but when the Quran calls for peace, it doesn't count? Nice! Some interesting passages from the Bible, since you like quoting it so much: Sounds pretty open-ended and eternal to me. Then we have some nice Battle Psalms for Christians and Jews to sing while slaughtering the heathens: "The righteous will be glad when they see vengeance, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked." (Psalms 58:10), “Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked” (Psalms 3:7), “Strike them with terror” (Psalms 9:20), “let death seize my enemies” (Psalms 55:15), “trample our enemies” (Psalms 60:120), “destroy them!” (Psalms 74:11), “terrify them” (Psalms 83:15), and “let them perish in disgrace” (Psalms 83:17), and of course, the famous one about blessing those who smash heathen baby heads on the
originally posted by: WarminIndy
AND just when was the Quran written?
Remind us again.
Oh that's right, UTHMAN burned half of it before compiling it with only the verses he chose. Yes, Mohammed authored the Quran, yeah, uh huh. Nope, UTHMAN was responsible for that. So if you want to argue about the actual verses, show us the actual verses from Mohammed. Can you do that?
Nope, impossible. There isn't a single word in the Quran that comes from Mohammed, because Uthman took care of that little problem.
originally posted by: WarminIndy
You've been fighting this war since the 640s and the Golden Age of Islam is over. Don't pretend we are the ignorant ones, we've been dealing with this since then. But hey, if you don't believe me, how about George Fox's Letter To the Turks?
originally posted by: Seede
What you have chosen from the Hebrew literature is not accounted to Christianity when Christianity did not even exist at the time of this literature which you show. What you have shown is to judge the God of the Hebrews who became the same God of the Christians but this is not to say that both Hebrews and Christians have the same covenants.
You can not show any Greek or Hebrew literature that shows the Christ Jesus of the Christians as in any agreement to the death or harm of any people. The doctrine of Christ Jesus is not marred with any violence whatsoever.