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Originally posted by gladtobehere
reply to post by mobiusmale
Well, there you have it.
If an organized military attacks, invades and occupies, its war or a "military operation". If a small group of people do the same thing, its "terrorism".
Originally posted by charles1952
reply to post by buster2010
Say buster2010, when you're done with jiggerj, I'd appreciate your opinion on this post. It's a little earlier on this page.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
how does the average Muslim guy feel about this?
How does a typical average Muslim man see women?
Um...Abbas, whom I quoted, said that what Nabi Shaath claims Bush said in the meetings
Originally posted by mideast
Islam is not religion of being sheep. It is not religion of surrender.
The Myth:
Lesser educated Muslims sometimes claim that the root word of Islam is “al-Salaam,” which is “peace” in Arabic.
The Truth:
An Arabic word only has one root. The root word for Islam is “al-Silm,” which means “submission” or “surrender.” There is no disagreement about this among Islamic scholars. al-Silm (submission) does not mean the same thing as al-Salaam (peace), otherwise they would be the same word.
Submission and peace can be very different concepts, even if a form of peace is often brought about through forcing others into submission. As the modern-day Islamic scholar, Ibrahim Sulaiman, puts it, "Jihad is not inhumane, despite its necessary violence and bloodshed, its ultimate desire is peace which is protected and enhanced by the rule of law."
In truth, the Quran not only calls Muslims to submit to Allah, it also commands them to subdue people of other religions until they are in a full state of submission to Islamic rule. This has inspired the aggressive history of Islam and its success in conquering other cultures.
Myths of Islam
Originally posted by mobiusmale
Originally posted by Malynn
reply to post by spacedog1973
The persons responsible for the atrocities committed in the ME are the Americans, British, and any other western nation using Africa and the Middle East as a resource farm for white people. They are us and we are them. How's it feel? Being one of the bad guys?
I confess I do not know what a "resource farm for white people is'...perhaps you can fill in the blanks on that one. But, if you were paying attention...at all...to the facts/figures referenced in this thread, you would realize that in fact the persons responsible for the majority of the atrocities committed in the ME these days - are the Islamists themselves - and for the most part directed against other Muslims.
I'm keeping a tally that I started on June 7th of all the ignorance, racism, and bigotry in regard to Islam on this forum. Then next year on that date I'm gonna post a thread titled "ATS Bigotry, a Primer".
And yes it is all the same people over and over again getting together to stroke each other's hate pleasure centers. It's obscene.
Interesting...I look forward to your report this time next year. But, when you are compiling it, I recommend that you confine your reporting to actual instances of "ignorance" (reporting facts would not qualify), "racism" (pointing out that a certain identifiable strata of the global population are committing an inordinate percentage of the overall atrocities in the world does not qualify - and I am not sure that Muslims are a "race" anyway), and "bigotry" (people who notice that something (if it is a fact) is going on with a certain category of people, are only noticing that something is going on with a certain category of people)
"Hate pleasure centers" cute...I suppose if this is true, then all those who took up arms in WWII against the Nazi's were just stroking each other's hate pleasure centers, as it relates to opposing people who were intent on takinmg over Europe...and then the world...whilst at the same time wiping out Jews, Gypsies, the infirm (and otherwise imperfect people).
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
reply to post by mobiusmale
Um...Abbas, whom I quoted, said that what Nabi Shaath claims Bush said in the meetings
Your source is what exactly? Taipeitimes as you posted here?
That seems to be the only source as of now....
So what do we do with all the other sources that claim Bush indeed said that?
The 280 million people who were slaughtered by Muslims over the last 1400 years MIGHT disagree with that.
I have no idea what you are talking about. You must be thinking of someone else. I don't believe I've linked to any website with pictures. Erase that from your mind and let's try again.
Here is an incident from your site:
Clearly, your web site has a biased agenda.
A caption from your site under the main picture:
Freedom of expression meets the Religion of Peace in Turkey.
The premise being that every violent act of the Turkish government is based on a religion. We'll never know and your web site is less than "intellectually honest".
Do you believe that everything Al-Qaeda does is at the behest of the US? You know the US sends aid to many Muslim countries, why not say modern Islam is the tool of the United States? I'm sorry, I can't take your position seriously.
2013.06.10 (Taji, Iraq) - An al-Qaeda bomb at a fish market leaves seven dead.
So Al-CIAeda killed more people. At this point, there's very little doubt that Al-qaeda was an invention of the United States. Even if you dont believe this premise, its clear that Western governments are now openly arming and funding Al-CIAeda. Coincidence? I doubt it.
I don't know if a new approach will be of any benefit. Lord knows we've tried about everything else and gotten nowhere. This isn't the way I wanted to go, but no one seems to be responding to the significant points, just nit-picking minor details. So let's try this:
ISLAM ON THE GROUND
Forget, for just a minute, what the Quoran has to say. You can even set aside that it exists. Look for a moment at what Muslims are actually doing, for whatever reason.
We know that Christians and Jews are being pushed out of Muslim countries. The "massive" figure of 25,000 Jews in Iran that people like to use to show how tolerant Muslims are? The latest Iranian government survey (2011) shows there are fewer than 9,000. Two thirds have vanished in the last decade.
We know Coptic Christians are being sliced and diced. Christians in Africa are having churches burned down and worshippers killed. Boko Haram and Al-Shabab are shooting left and right. Persecution of non-Muslims is going up.
Just the Sunnis alone commit more terrorist acts than all other groups in the world combined, and are responsible for more than 2/3 of the deaths caused by those attacks. I don't have figures for what the Shias are adding to the count.
Speaking of Shias and Sunnis, I understand there are about 200 different Islamic sects. They can't all be true Islam, but leave that aside for a minute. Let's compare that to Catholics, another one billion plus member religion. How many sects do Catholics have? None. And how many thousands of terrorist attacks are Catholics launching in the name of their religion? I'd be surprised if there were 20.
So, two world wide religions of over a billion adherents. Both have long histories. One has 200 sects, the other has none. One launches a dozen terrorist a day, the other doesn't even launch one a day. And of the terrorist attacks committed by one religion, many occur in countries that have done them no harm. It seems the only purpose in those attacks is to gain concessions, drive out or kill non-believers, and seize territory.
Now, do you see even a small part of the problem?
HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR?