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Demography & Radicalism; Martin Kramer

That is a good point you raise. I think poverty, while not necessarily a direct cause on an individual basis, certainly helps spur radical ideology in general (I'm not just thinking of radical Islamism, but other instances as well). Then after a time when that type of ideology becomes more entrenched in certain sectors of society (even of if those sectors are doing ok financially), middle class and wealthy people can be affected by it.
generally agree, but have a bit of a different take.

I think in most societies, historically, the lowest classes generally have little influence on overall events and movements. Now they may have, for small times (e.g., slave revolts), but it is largely the upper classes and, in more recent times, the large middle classes, that have been the real agitators for social change or the drivers behind social movements.

And I think this is no exception. The real driving force is I think largely what was proposed in the OP, which is facilitated both by the "uselessness" of swathes of society combined with the tribal culture, which is increadibly honour focussed and hirearchical with a completely fused religious dogma that has been part and parcel of the tribal society for more than a thousand years.

This is somewhat different from other places and may therefore help explain the daylight between results in different palces. It is also, to be blunt, only fairly recently when these societies have pulled themselves out of the dark ages which set in upon the area with the death of any elightenment values. While those values existed in this region long before Europe, they died in those long before Europe took full advantage of them.

This shows up in a whole bunch of indicators, from scientific advancements and patent filings to democratic deficits and institutional capacity and so on. So you add the uselessness of an educated, financially ok class, combined with an honour culture where accepting blame or self-criticism is a foreign concept, the prosperity of the western world with its indifference to Koranic laws, its debauchery in terms of civil liberties and, perhaps critically, the west's complete refutation of the tribal concept of women's roles in society and relationships with the heads of household, and you have an environment where the religious dogma, born in violent expansionism to begin with, is easily mobilized to extremism.
 
You are the one "ignorantly and naively misapplying" your bigoted views of Muslims and "making silly, stupid, and asinine assumptions" about me, what my views are and where I'm from.

Bigoted views? You care to back up your infantile accusations? In other words, can you put your money where your mouth is and prove that anything I have ever said about Muslims and Islam isn't true and hence is illegitimate, and ignorance is no excuse. Or are you one of those hit and run adolescent and immature posters who is always throwing out silly juvenile allegations you can't possibly hope to back up. I'm guessing it's probably the latter.


You must be staring at yourself in the mirror!

When have I ever said Muslims "somehow desire and value the same things that we in the West do"?

Read your own post...you more than insinuated it. And then you did it again below:

They might want security that comes with peace and non-corrupt government, a sense of self-worth that comes from being employed and able to support their family, like nearly everyone on the planet but their value are apparently different, as my values are different from yours.

Uhm...there you go again, projecting your own idiotic perceptions of the world and ignorantly assuming once again that Muslims think, act, want, and value the same things that we in the West do. I'm here to tell you that when it comes to Muslims and Islam you are about as ignorant as ignorant gets, yet like a juvenile you have the audacity to call me an idiot and label me a bigot. Wow...I'm impressed. You really should learn not to have preconceived notions.

Only Muslims commit "Islamic motivated violence", because only people who practice Islam are Muslims. Why the hell would a Buddhist or a Jew want to commit "Islamic motivated violence"?

I'm not surprised the reality that Muslims by far commit the most acts of terrorism in the world relative to any other religious or ethnic group despite the fact that as a group Muslims are far from being the only religious or ethnic group afflicted by poverty sailed right over your head, and that's because poverty and despair play absolutely no role whatsoever in motivating Muslims to violence. Not to mention, was the Christmas terrorist poverty stricken? How about the Fort Hood terrorist, was he also poverty stricken? How about the 9/11 terrorists, were they poverty stricken too? Is OBL poverty stricken?

If Islam is the single reason for the violence, why are not all Muslims up in arms or acting as suicide bombers.

While, of course, it is obviously true that some Muslims elect to become terrorists and partake in violent jihad, the vast over whelming majority of Muslims, on the other hand, elect to fulfill their holy obligation for jihad via non-violent stealth forms of jihad such as demographic conquest, campaigns of dawa, or using the money weapon to purchase influence, to name a few examples.

Ever been to Malaysia, Brunei etc? Why are these relatively prosperous, Muslim countries peaceful?

Why is Saudi Arabia relatively prosperous? It is because of a geologic accident of nature.

In any event, let me ask you a question since you brought up peaceful and moderate Malaysia...how many Christian churches did the peaceful and moderate Muslims in Malaysia burn down last month? How about in peaceful and moderate Indonesia?
 
When I bring them up you try and Excuse them away with Ridiculous excuses.

It's "ridiculous" because you've already made up your mind. You are like a creationist. It's already "obvious" that God created everything, any other explanation are just silly. It's already "obvious" that Islam is the root of all evil, so any other explanation is just "ridiculous". :roll:


There's a Partial list below which should keep you busy though.
It's length alone however will betray the long list of excuses needed.

Maybe you can Start with the TWO Genocides in Sudan. The First (1983-2003) with a 'civil war' Killing 2,000,000 Christians and animists and displacing Millions more;
The second the more known/trendier Ethno-Religous Darfur, against the Muslim but BlackER Fur people by the more Arabo-Muslim NIF (National Islamic Front)/North.

The Khartoum government is obviously bent on the violence. But you conveniently hide the fact that the Christian South also has a part in the fight. It helps that there are oil involved. But let us put the blame where it belongs, with the Khartoum government. In WWII Hitler brought about even worse violence: Are you going to accept an arguement that WWII and Hitler was about Christianity being a violent religion?


And in those two countries.. who are Jews and Christians [coincidentally!] fighting? :^)

Would it be the same group the Hindus are fighing in India and Kashmir? How bout that!

I call it The Long Islamic Frontline.. and it works for ME, not you, to point it those two. Israel being just a tiny overpublicized spot on that line.

So when Muslim engage in violence it's because of Islam. But when other groups engage in violence it's nothing to do with their religion, because they are fighting with the Muslims. Shows how you are really objective there.

The Three I pointed to above.
East Timor, Thailand, philipppines you tried to excuse away


So "plenty of pure Blatant anti-Muslim violence" is trying to "excuse away"? You wrote it yourself, dude.

That's 7!
You already beat your own two, Brunei (LOL) and Malaysia.

See what I mean? You have no idea what goes into statistics.

But even (and here we go!) even in paces like 'moderate' Egypt The Copts are persecuted.
The Bahai's and others in Iran.
Saudi Arabia prohibits all other religions and even discriminates against Shia Muslims.
There's War in the Western Sahara/Mauritania et al.
200,000 have died in the Algerian Civil War.

Sharia Conflict/Muslim Violence in Nigeria.
And Ivory Coast and Chad and have similar but smaller violence.
Ethiopea/Eritrea.
Sudan (above)
Somalia

Azerbijan/Armenia.
The Balkans.
Daghestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, etc.

India/Pak/Kashmir
I hear Bangladesh having some probs too.

Israel/Palestine
Lebanon is Dar al Harb, with a million Maronites gone.
Christians purged from most of the Muslim/arab world except those mentioned above and they on their way out.
Assad I's various Syrian massacres like Hama (20,000 .. a tough week)

Iran v Iraq and Iraq v Kuwait before us.
Afghanistan, we just Interrupted that one.
Sunni v Shia as we speak, and responsible for Tens of Thousands (if not 100,000+) already.

And lesser known stuff like the Separatist Uighurs in Western China.

those just added of course to the '3' above'
Philippines
Thailand
Indonesia

And Malaysia Is pretty decent but just a few weeks ago...

This is the tactic often used in this topic. You lump everything together. Discrimination become lumped with actual terrorist attacks/violence, sprinkled with basket cases in Africa like Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, to try to give the impression that the majority of Muslims are violent individuals. It doesn't even seems to matter that in some of those conflicts Muslims are the victims. Maybe that's how you really see it, then your judgement is clouded.

Take Egypt, answer the question: If the majority of Muslims are violent, why do the Coptic Christians still able to live in Egypt, why aren't they wiped out? If the majority of Muslims are violent, why was a relative new religion able to be established in Iran and survive till today? I don't deny that the Saudis government is a despotic regime, have you ever thought that the problem is with the despotic tendency and not Islam? After all there are Islamic countries that don't ban all religion and elect their leader democratically, what about that side of Islam? (oh right, they aren't really Islam :roll:) What about the violence on the Christian side of the Algerian war? Those on the Hindu side of the conflict in India and Bangladesh? The Buddhist side of the violence in Thailand? The Jewish side in Israel? The Russian (Christian) side of violence in the the Balkans and Chechnya? Each side is as much to blame as the other, and yet the violence is only a reflection of Islam, not the other religions, why is that?

As a demonstration, I can compile the same list of violence America engaged in from the 20th century: WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. These without mentioning the smaller violent interventions the American took in Africa and South America. Then inside the country, violent protests in the 60's and Civil right protests, terrorist bombing, and school shootings. Clearly Americans are a bloodthirsty lots. Is it because they are Christian? And going by recent history, Americans really hate poor Muslims in the world. God knows how many thousands Muslims they have killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Do a Dozen Mosques get Torched in any Christian or Jewish countries?
And that's your Shining Star.

No, they don't burn Mosques, instead they bulldoze or bomb the whole community, but hey they went and do it in a Muslim country so it must be the Muslims' fault. :roll:


Just look.. It's there!
And that's by no means a complete list; Just this PM's recall.



It's got Names and numbers. Call it what you like, but you haven't dented it
, tho Indonesia has improved.
Tho there's still persecution against Christians (and Ethnic Chinese).

Another illustration that you don't know what goes into statistics. Just because some guy on the internet have "names and numbers" (which one can't even tell if it's reliable) does not make a "quantitatively demonstrable" prove. Far from it, since both you and him are drowning in logical fallacy. If we pick up cases of seriously disturbing homicides and use that to judge humanity, we are all monsters. This is what is done here with Muslims. Sure there are atrocious things done by Muslims, but what about the other side? The majority of that 1 billion people who never do anything violent in their whole life?


And Conspicuously NO Comment from you onm the WSJ article:

Because it's an opinion that's no better than that site. Just up there we see that other countries with other religions engage in violence too. And the US chief among them. If that is not a reflection on Christianity, why should I accept that those done by Muslims are a good reflection of Islam? What about the other factors that those countries have in common besides Islam? What is their income, employment situation, government corruption etc.

I realise you don't get that. But that's the point of the OP, and which you have not been able to contradict at all. Because all you have is a list of exaggerations and half-truth, and you refuse to think deeper about why the conflicts arise. I think it's because you fear that you will have to accept that they are more complex than "Islam is violent", and it's easier to just say "other reasons are ridiculous".


The point being one can always use rationlalization, but the case is Overwhelming and Causation has been shown.

The point is that the causation has not been shown. And in fact, an objective examination of the facts would not suggest that Islam is the only reason for the violence.
 
Bigoted views? You care to back up your infantile accusations? In other words, can you put your money where your mouth is and prove that anything I have ever said about Muslims and Islam isn't true and hence is illegitimate, and ignorance is no excuse.

Easy. Done:

Karl Rove said:
There is no radicalism or extremism except in the context that Islam itself is a very radical and extreme ideology that uses religion as a mask to hide behind, and everyone that adheres to this radical and extremist ideology is a radical and extremist. Which means that practically every Muslim, if they are indeed devout, are radicals and extremists. However, don't take my word for it, educate yourself by studying the contents of the Koran, Hadith, and Sira and also learn how they are traditionally interpreted and understood by the vast majority of Muslims.


^that isn't "isn't true and hence is illegitimate". In fact your post display a definite bigoted view of Islam.


Or are you one of those hit and run adolescent and immature posters who is always throwing out silly juvenile allegations you can't possibly hope to back up. I'm guessing it's probably the latter.

Look who's "throwing out silly juvenile allegations you can't possibly hope to back up". All you've done so far is make silly assumptions about me. Take for example, I have more posts than you in this thread and have answered those addressed to me by mbig, before you even show your face again, and you are still thick skin enough to accuse me as being: "those hit and run adolescent". If you can't even see what's right in front of your face, I don't wonder why you hold such shallow views.


You must be staring at yourself in the mirror!

When you look into a mirror, what you see is what you are, now what do you see?


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Read your own post...you more than insinuated it. And then you did it again below:[/quote]

I didn't. Any "insinuation" you think is there is because of your overactive imagination. When I say 1, I mean 1. I don't mean "1... and then 2". If you choose to read it as that. It's your problem. Don't impose on me what you chose to add yourself. It makes you a lair. Clear enough?


Uhm...there you go again, projecting your own idiotic perceptions of the world and ignorantly assuming once again that Muslims think, act, want, and value the same things that we in the West do. I'm here to tell you that when it comes to Muslims and Islam you are about as ignorant as ignorant gets, yet like a juvenile you have the audacity to call me an idiot and label me a bigot. Wow...I'm impressed. You really should learn not to have preconceived notions.

Except I didn't write: "Muslims think, act, want, and value the same things that we in the West do." So I still say that you are an idiot.


I'm not surprised the reality that Muslims by far commit the most acts of terrorism in the world relative to any other religious or ethnic group despite the fact that as a group Muslims are far from being the only religious or ethnic group afflicted by poverty sailed right over your head, and that's because poverty and despair play absolutely no role whatsoever in motivating Muslims to violence. Not to mention, was the Christmas terrorist poverty stricken? How about the Fort Hood terrorist, was he also poverty stricken? How about the 9/11 terrorists, were they poverty stricken too? Is OBL poverty stricken?

Still confusing extreme cases for the masses, I see. Well, can't help you much there. You either get the concept or you don't. :shrug:

If you were to add up, in the last few years Americans might be up there in terms of violence, most of those they killed being Muslims. That obviously never entered your head.


While, of course, it is obviously true that some Muslims elect to become terrorists and partake in violent jihad, the vast over whelming majority of Muslims, on the other hand, elect to fulfill their holy obligation for jihad via non-violent stealth forms of jihad such as demographic conquest, campaigns of dawa, or using the money weapon to purchase influence, to name a few examples.

Wrong forum. The conspiracy forum might accept your bigoted conjectures, but not me.


Why is Saudi Arabia relatively prosperous? It is because of a geologic accident of nature.

In any event, let me ask you a question since you brought up peaceful and moderate Malaysia...how many Christian churches did the peaceful and moderate Muslims in Malaysia burn down last month? How about in peaceful and moderate Indonesia?

In the tens. And what about all the years when there was no problem and they live peacefully together? See what I mean about confusing the outliers for the masses/average?
 
the one difficulty that I see with this line of argument is that we see a whole swatch of middle class/upper middle class/upper class men joining/participating/leading these terrorist organizations.

I haven't done one, but I suspect that an analysis of the demographic sof terrorists would show young, male, reasonably well educated (maybe not for the suicide drones, but for everyone else) and in the top 3 quintiles of the population by income.

Not consistent with the poverty as a cause, but entirely consistent with lack of opportunity for status as a cause, no?

Well, if you can show that the average terrorist is a middle class, university going young men who have career prospect, I would of course have to accept that in fact poverty and employment is not a reason why they are drawn to the cult of the extremists and violence. The situation is complex, and even as I see that there are violence in other countries, it's not set in stone that those by Islamic extremists and those in other poor countries are of the same nature. I mean, it's wrong rationally to lump Chechnya or the Philippines with the likes of those terrorists trained in Yemen or from the Saudis etc. Their aim are different even if they all fall under the umbrella of Islam.

I see that the use of Islam seems to resonate among a lot of these people, but I just don't see Islam as the root of the problem - i.e. Islams teaches violence, so Muslims engage in violence as those the other two posters seem to be saying. The Middle Eastern culture (to some Islam and ME are synonymous) might be a contributing factor because of its views of both men and women, their "honor" system, and also the reliance on religious "authorities". I think any religion that worship the saying and directions of imam or priests/cardinal etc have potential for violence because the believer become like sheep. However that is not the book itself, but the way people use it.
 
Easy. Done:

Yeah right! A legend in his own mind.

that isn't "isn't true and hence is illegitimate". In fact your post display a definite bigoted view of Islam.

Really, then please explain how the following Koranic verses aren't radical and extremist in your book. Not to mention that the following Koranic verses were some of the last verses issued by Muhammad. Thus, meaning, per the principle of abrogation, which all sects of Islam fully embrace and all schools of Islamic jurisprudence fully endorse and advocate, the later verses issued by Muhammad in his career abrogate, that is supersede and replace, the verses issued earlier in Muhammad's career.

9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.
8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allah desires (for you) the Hereafter. And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

9:33. It is He {Allah} Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) hate (it).

You see Muhammad's early career as a prophet began very inauspiciously, as in the first half of his career in Mecca Muhammad was only able to attract about a hundred followers. However, after the Hirja, Muhammad's migration to Medina after being banished from Mecca, his career as a prophet began to really take off, as Muhammad morphed from wannabe holy prophet, to brigand robbing caravans and then to eventually becoming a very powerful warlord, destroying many kafir infidel villages in the process.

As a matter of fact, the Hirja as an event in Islam marks the beginning of the Islamic calender, as Muhammad's early career in Mecca before the Hirja, when Muhammad was a very unsuccessful prophet who could only attract approximately 100 followers who were the outcast and misfits of society, doesn't even count as for as Islam and Muslims are concerned.

Therefore, all the Koranic verses issued during that period, which includes all of the peaceful verses of the Koran and the very same exact verses that Muslims love to cite to deceive useful idiot kafir infidels, have been abrogated by the verses issued later on in Muhammad's career, when he was a strong and very powerful warlord.

Moreover, the Koran unlike the Bible is believed to be the uncreated words of Allah as delivered by Muhammad, Allah's final messenger, and as such it is immutable and cannot ever be replaced or changed, because Muhammad was Allah's final messenger whose message also supersedes all the prophets that preceded him.

Not only that but Islam as opposed to all other religions is a religion of submission. In fact, the word Islam in Arabic means to submit. Thus, each Muslim is required to submit to the will of Allah at the same time that they also must surrender their own free wills. Therefore, the freedom of conscience in Islam is haram (forbidden).

In other words, if a Muslim so much as questions the word of the Koran, which all devout Muslims consider to be the express will of Allah, that Muslim will be considered a blasphemer by other Muslims and if he doesn't repent, the penalty prescribed for blasphemy in Islam is death.

Likewise, once a Muslim always a Muslim as apostasy in Islam, like blasphemy, is also punishable by death, as again the exercise of the freedom of conscience in Islam is haram (forbidden), as all devout Muslims are in effect slaves of Allah.

In Islam you either submit to the will of Allah and become his slave or you don't, and if you don't you better do it secretly if you don't want to be killed by other fellow Muslims. Indeed, no one kills more Muslims than other Muslims. It is Islam's way of maintaining peer pressure and very strict discipline.

Hence, if my post is bigoted in any way, then please prove that anything I've cited and said above is inaccurate and therefore bigoted since it constitutes illegitimate criticism because it isn't true.

In addition, you will also have to prove at the same time that the above Koranic verses that I cited verbatim and that all call for perpetual jihad against kafir infidels until there is no more Fitnah (i.e., worshipping others besides Allah) and all religion in the world will all be for Allah alone, didn't come from the Koran.

Moreover, I further submit to you that any religion that calls for perpetual jihad against all kafir infidels until there is no more Fitnah in the world and all religion belongs to Allah is indeed very radical and exceedingly extreme, and any person or persons, Muslim or otherwise, who adheres to those Koranic verses is a radical and an extremist.

Finally, what would you call a person who calls and labels others bigots and idiots at the same time that he makes idiotic and stupid assertions based on silly preconceived notions, yet himself is obviously absolutely as clueless and oblivious as it gets?

Look who's "throwing out silly juvenile allegations you can't possibly hope to back up". All you've done so far is make silly assumptions about me. Take for example, I have more posts than you in this thread and have answered those addressed to me by mbig, before you even show your face again, and you are still thick skin enough to accuse me as being: "those hit and run adolescent". If you can't even see what's right in front of your face, I don't wonder why you hold such shallow views.

Uhm...I didn't make silly juvenile allegations that you can't possibly backup, you did, and as for as silly assumptions go, read your own damn stupid and idiotic posts. I learned a long time ago never to assume or to have preconceived notions.

When you look into a mirror, what you see is what you are, now what do you see?

I see a very bright and educated individual unlike what you are and see when you look into the mirror.

Clear enough

The only thing that is clear enough, is that when it comes to Islam and Muslims you are about as ignorant as ignorance gets, yet you are personally attacking others as if you are some sort of leading authority steeped in the knowledge of Islam and Islamic culture, at the same time the best you can do is to spew silly, idiotic, and asinine preconceived notions that are completely antithetical to Islam and Muslims. Indeed, it is rare to observe someone slit his own throat so thoroughly as you have done in this thread.

Except I didn't write: "Muslims think, act, want, and value the same things that we in the West do." So I still say that you are an idiot.

I didn't either, as you are deliberately misrepresenting the above cited quote and also intentionally citing it out of context, but nonetheless you stupidly assumed that Muslims want and value the same things that we in the West want and value, when Muslims believe that we in the West are decadent, and that is about as ignorant as ignorance gets, and it's all based on your own silly preconceived notions. Read your own stupid posts. Nevertheless, can you back up your silly and asinine assertions, like I have mind?

Still confusing extreme cases for the masses, I see. Well, can't help you much there. You either get the concept or you don't.

The only concept I'm getting is that when it comes to Islam and Muslims you are about as ignorant as ignorance gets, yet at the same time you personally attack others and call them bigots and idiots that happen to disagree with you.

In any event, if poverty and despair is the root cause of Islamic violence as you stupidly insist, then why is it practically only Muslims today that commit terrorist attacks around the world and not any of the other religious and ethnic groups that are also afflicted with endemic poverty and despair?

Moreover, at the same time please also explain why Muslim terrorists always go out of their way to justify their terrorist attacks by citing Islamic texts and why they don't claim that it is because they are poverty stricken and in despair.

The reality is obvious, you are misapplying your own westernized preconceived notions of the world to Islamic culture and society and nothing could be more stupid or idiotic. Why can't you drop the silly preconceived notions and then approach the subject of Islam with a completely open mind, and why must you personally attack anyone who disagrees with you?

If you were to add up, in the last few years Americans might be up there in terms of violence, most of those they killed being Muslims. That obviously never entered your head

Because I'm not self hating and filled with nonsensical guilt like you are and also not nearly as ignorant as you either. Not to mention that in both Iraq and Afghanistan, most of the deaths that have occurred was via Muslim on Muslim violence.

Indeed, I propose that we get out of their way and let Muslims continue to kill each other. As a matter of fact, I propose that we seek out more cracks and fissures within Islam and then exploit them so that it will result in more Muslim on Muslim violence. It makes a hell of a lot more sense than the way we are currently pursuing the war, which is about as idiotic as it gets.

Wrong forum. The conspiracy forum might accept your bigoted conjectures, but not me.

Yeah right...and you are the one who keeps insisting ad nauseum that poverty and despair are the root causes of all Islamic motivated violence in the world and not those Koranic verses that I cited above, and that Muslims want and value the same things that we in the West do, which is why, of course, that the majorities of Muslim immigrants to the West are forming Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia and in direct contravention to the laws of the states in which they reside, instead of assimilating and integrating and trying to emulate us in the West because they value and want the same things that we do. Give me a break. You couldn't be anymore ignorant!

And what about all the years when there was no problem and they live peacefully together?

When have Muslims not persecuted, discriminated against, and violently oppressed non-Muslims living inside Muslim majority countries? The institution of Jihad and its corollary the institution of Dhimmitude is as old as Islam itself. As a matter of fact, most of the ancestors of present day Muslims in the world today were themselves converted to Islam via the harsh and very humiliating institution of dhimmitude. Damn...you couldn't be anymore oblivious if you tried?

See what I mean about confusing the outliers for the masses/average?

No I don't see, since it is you who has unequivocally and repeatedly demonstrated that you are about as ignorant as ignorance gets with respect to Islam and Muslims! Yet, you have the audacity to personally attack anyone and everyone who isn't as equally as ignorant as you are. Indeed, I don't think I've ever witnessed a greater act of stupidity in my life as I have with respect to your posts.
 
Well, if you can show that the average terrorist is a middle class, university going young men who have career prospect, I would of course have to accept that in fact poverty and employment is not a reason why they are drawn to the cult of the extremists and violence. The situation is complex, and even as I see that there are violence in other countries, it's not set in stone that those by Islamic extremists and those in other poor countries are of the same nature. I mean, it's wrong rationally to lump Chechnya or the Philippines with the likes of those terrorists trained in Yemen or from the Saudis etc. Their aim are different even if they all fall under the umbrella of Islam.

The 9/11 terrorists all came from middle class to upper middle class families and most of them were college educated or still attending college. The Madrid bombers were also all middle class and college educated. The London 7/7 bombers also were middle class and college educated. Not to mention that the second biggest attack in the UK was perpetrated by Muslims that were doctors, engineers, and attorneys. The Christmas terrorist lived a very opulent and jet setting life and not only had studied engineering abroad in the UK but also came from a very prominent family in Nigeria. The Fort Hood terrorist was a psychiatrist that earned a six figure income and was only able to get away with his deed because of political correct useful idiots who believed like you that terrorism is rooted in poverty and despair and not in religion.

Indeed, during the height of the Islamic insurgency in Iraq, thousands of Muslims didn't flock to Iraq for martyrdom operations because of poverty and despair. They flocked to Iraq because they were looking for a one way ticket to Allah's version of carnal paradise.

The fact of the matter is if you look at the bloody borders of the Dar al Islam, wherever it borders the Dar al Harb or the abode of disbelief, all you see is Muslims waging jihad against non-Muslims, and in every case the Muslims, not by coincidence but by design, always portray themselves as being the victims. Yet, in every case the reality is they are actually the aggressors.

In any event, if poverty and despair are really the root cause of terrorism and not the text contained in the holy Koran and the Sunnah, which Muslim terrorists themselves always religiously cite to justify their many Islamic motivated terrorist attacks, then please explain why is it almost only Muslims exclusively the world over perpetrating all of the terrorist attacks around the world and at the same time why it is that other religious and ethnic groups that are also equally afflicted by poverty and despair are not perpetrating terrorist attacks like exclusively only the Muslims are?

The fact of the matter is you can't explain it and the reason you can't explain it is because poverty and despair have exactly zero to do with terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims, as Muslims only commit terrorist attacks in what they believe is for the good of Islam.

Moreover, anytime that Muslims fight, whether it be against kafir infidels or against fellow Muslims, they always resort to the tactics of terrorism, or, in other words, total warfare, because all Muslims the world over are inculcated to emulate the Prophet, Muhammad, the uswa hasana, the most perfect Muslim that ever lived and an excellent example for emulation.

Indeed, Muslims don't even hesitate to become willing human shields for Muslim terrorists, because they believe that should they be killed in the process that they will receive a one way ticket to Allah's version of carnal paradise. A Muslim's only purpose in this earthly life is to be a slave and servant of Allah and if he serves Allah well and is loyal, he will be justly rewarded in Allah's carnal paradise, which he believes will be his real life.

However that is not the book itself, but the way people use it.

How can you make that stupid and idiotic assertion? I mean it is obvious that you don't even know what is contained in the Koran or how what is contained in the Koran is interpreted and disseminated by the majority of the Muslims in the world, much less what is contained in the Hadith and Sira, which together comprise the Sunnah.

Indeed, the Sira, the biography of Muhammad, is one of the most blood curdling books I have ever read. Trust me...it is not for the faint of heart. However, if you read and study the Sira, which contains nothing but deceit, treachery, murder, and mayhem, you will begin to understand how Muslims think and why they do the things they do, instead of misapplying stupid, idiotic, and asinine Westernized preconceived notions to Muslims that hate and despise everything about Western culture and civilization as they have all been inculcated to believe that it is very decadent and stems from jahiliya.
 
It's "ridiculous" because you've already made up your mind. You are like a creationist. It's already "obvious" that God created everything, any other explanation are just silly. It's already "obvious" that Islam is the root of all evil, ..
Strawman Alert!
Not the "root of all evil", but an inordinate problem with persecution/violence most places it exists.
I've "made up my mind" due to evidence such as, but not limited to, the list I posted previous.
In fact, even many frank and sober Muslims will admit there's a problem, while the West's numb-nuts PC crowd is still apologizing away.

nonpareil said:
The Khartoum government is obviously bent on the violence. But you conveniently hide the fact that the Christian South also has a part in the fight. It helps that there are oil involved. But let us put the blame where it belongs, with the Khartoum government. In WWII Hitler brought about even worse violence: Are you going to accept an arguement that WWII and Hitler was about Christianity being a violent religion?
Fallacious reasoning # 2 Alert! (perfect so far) .
Hitler wasn't acting in the name of Christianity.
He, unlike the NIF, didn't initiate the conflict by Invoking the Chrisrtian equivalent of "Sharia Law". (as in Sudan or Nigeria)

nonpareil said:
So when Muslim engage in violence it's because of Islam. But when other groups engage in violence it's nothing to do with their religion, because they are fighting with the Muslims. Shows how you are really objective there.
Fallacious response #3. Still 'perfect'
No one claimed that.

nonpareil said:
So "plenty of pure Blatant anti-Muslim violence" is trying to "excuse away"? You wrote it yourself, dude.
NO, this is not what I wrote.
We've gone beyond Fallacious into Dishonest quotes now.
me said:
The Three I pointed to above.
East Timor, Thailand, philipppines you tried to excuse away


nonpareil said:
See what I mean? You have no idea what goes into statistics.
Oh I think my math sjkills are pretty good.

Not to mention Logic.
Let's not forget when presented with the specter of inordinate Islamic violence, you Plopped up 2 countres. Brunei and Malyasia.
AS If that's some sort of rebuttal.
:^)

nonpareil said:
This is the tactic often used in this topic. You lump everything together. Discrimination become lumped with actual terrorist attacks/violence, sprinkled with basket cases in Africa like Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, to try to give the impression that the majority of Muslims are violent individuals. It doesn't even seems to matter that in some of those conflicts Muslims are the victims. Maybe that's how you really see it, then your judgement is clouded.
I know, it's just a coincidence. When a good majority of the World smsulim countries have problems with persecution/intoleranceViolence/War... it's just a coincidence.

nonpareil said:
Take Egypt, Answer the question: If the majority of Muslims are violent, why do the Coptic Christians still able to live in Egypt, why aren't they wiped out?
Gladly!
How many times are you going to make Fallacious/NONSENSE responses. (I'm Losing count)
nonpareil Now alleging because the Copts are merely Persecuted, instead of Genocided/"wiped out", that means that Islam has no problem with other religions and things are just fine in Egypt!


nonpareil said:
If the majority of Muslims are violent, why was a relative new religion able to be established in Iran and survive till today?
At a certain point, Fallacious becomes Fel... never mind.
A Majority of Muslim governments or their citizens either, carry out, or condone discriminatory policies toward the Non-muslim minorities or conflict with non-muslim neighbors
Let's get our Claims straight.
So far every single response has been Mischaracterization or Fallacious/strawman.

nonpareil said:
I don't deny that the Saudis government is a despotic regime, have you ever thought that the problem is with the despotic tendency and not Islam?
Have youy looked at their policies? They're not Just "despotic" they're despotic twoards other RELIGIONS.
It was the 'prophet' after all who said "Two religions may not dwell on the Arabian Peninsula".
And so, NOT coincidentally, it's law that countrry.


nonpareil said:
What about the violence on the Christian side of the Algerian war? Those on the Hindu side of the conflict in India and Bangladesh? The Buddhist side of the violence in Thailand? The Jewish side in Israel? The Russian (Christian) side of violence in the the Balkans and Chechnya?
We'll go past fallacious into Backfire now.
Funny, everyone ELSE just seems to be fighting with Islam. Russians, Christians, Hundus, Jews. Coincidence.
Oh and of course even doctrinaire Sunni are fighting Shias!

And let's not forget the New emerging frontier of Islamic Violence the 'Shia Crescent' (Iran, Nuclear Iran, and it's proxies) v the Arab/Gulf States and Israel.

nonpareil said:
As a demonstration, I can compile the same list of violence America engaged in from the 20th century: WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
Finally a clear demonstration of Violence having NOTHING to do with religion.
...in fact one of those was saving Bosnian Mulsims.
Alas, it was in defense of the USA and CANNOT be said of Islamic violence.
Ooops.


nonpareil said:
... Far from it, since both you and him are drowning in logical fallacy. If we pick up cases of seriously disturbing homicides and use that to judge humanity, we are all monsters. This is what is done here with Muslims. Sure there are atrocious things done by Muslims, but what about the other side?
It's you who are drowning in Logiocal Fallacy. I can't even keep up there are so many in this post alone.
We are talking violence committted by Muslims/Muslim Governments in the NAME of Islam agianst non-Muslims (or other sect Muslims), not random crime.
People often use this inapt/Fallacious comparison using, ie, USA murder rates, that have Nothing to with Christianity.
While I AM pointing to violence in the name of Islam v other religions.


nonpareil said:
Because it's an opinion that's no better than that site.
Actually, for that reason it's not as good as the other site. Agreed (finally).
Of course, the other site has names and numbers.
Also Untouched by you.

The only tangible piece of rebuttal you've tried is the naming of two relatively mild Islamic countries (One/Brunei a small rich, remote, sultanate!).. while complaining about fallacious logic.

I realise you don't get that. But that's the point of the OP, and which you have not been able to contradict at all. Because all you have is a list of exaggerations and half-truth, and you refuse to think deeper about why the conflicts arise. I think it's because you fear that you will have to accept that they are more complex than "Islam is violent", and it's easier to just say "other reasons are ridiculous".

nonpareil said:
The point is that the causation has not been shown. And in fact, an objective examination of the facts would not suggest that Islam is the only reason for the violence.
That was MY OP. It it suggests that high population/low-median age makes these groups more susceptible to Radicalization/ISLAMIZATION, and is acknowledged, as I and the speaker said, an alternative opinion. (to the more accepted 'indoctrination')
But even then, does Not contradict that Islam is a problem, merely that young overpopulated Islamic countries are a WORSE problem.
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Strawman Alert!
Not the "root of all evil", but an inordinate problem with persecution/violence most places it exists.

:doh Change the "root of all evil" to anything you like and it's the same, you made up your mind already so anything else is "ridiculous".

I've "made up my mind" due to evidence such as, but not limited to, the list I posted previous.
In fact, even many frank and sober Muslims will admit there's a problem, while the West's numb-nuts PC crowd is still apologizing away.

And the problem is what exactly? That Islam is a violent religion or that there is some fundamental problems in the ME such as consistent war, poverty, young men having no job or self-worth without turning to the fundamentalist's doctrines? I mean this is a thread discussing why Muslims young man turn to terrorists, of course there's a problem, the point is: what is the root of the problem? I say religion can't explain all, because other religions engage in the same type of violence too.. :doh

Fallacious reasoning # 2 Alert! (perfect so far) .
Hitler wasn't acting in the name of Christianity.
He, unlike the NIF, didn't initiate the conflict by Invoking the Chrisrtian equivalent of "Sharia Law". (as in Sudan or Nigeria)

Except the religion is an just excuse. Sudan and Nigeria are both oil rich countries. Only a small part of Nigeria want to have Sharia law, so again you've fallen to exaggerating. Hitler in the same way used race to push his war. So do we blame the tool or the wielder?

Fallacious response #3. Still 'perfect'
No one claimed that.

No one claim what? That "Muslim engage in violence it's because of Islam" or that "other groups engage in violence it's nothing to do with their religion, because they are fighting with the Muslims". If the first, then what the hell have you been arguing with me about? Idiot. And if the second, fine, I assumed, because while you put down Islam, you don't do the same with other religions.

NO, this is not what I wrote.
We've gone beyond Fallacious into Dishonest quotes now.

You are the dishonest one, it's what you wrote in black and white:

mbig said:
Inaccurate Excuses one and all. There's plenty of pure Blatant anti-Muslim violence in those three.

mbig said:
The Three I pointed to above.
East Timor, Thailand, philipppines you tried to excuse away



Oh I think my math sjkills are pretty good.

Not to mention Logic.
Let's not forget when presented with the specter of inordinate Islamic violence, you Plopped up 2 countres. Brunei and Malyasia.
AS If that's some sort of rebuttal.
:^)

You can't read your own posts and you obviously didn't read mine either. Evidently you are too lazy intellectually to engage in a real honest discussion, so you're just going to willy-nilly say "fallacious" to everything. If you can't argue against the arguement I put up, just stop posting. Don't waste everyone's time.

And you obviously don't know how accurate and reliable statistics are done if you think counting on your hand and feets countries with "Islamic violent" is the way to go. Maths is not statistics, btw.

I know, it's just a coincidence. When a good majority of the World smsulim countries have problems with persecution/intoleranceViolence/War... it's just a coincidence.

Who said anything about coincidence? Talk about "fallacious".:roll:


Gladly!
How many times are you going to make Fallacious/NONSENSE responses. (I'm Losing count)
nonpareil Now alleging because the Copts are merely Persecuted, instead of Genocided/"wiped out", that means that Islam has no problem with other religions and things are just fine in Egypt!

And things are mostly fine in Egypt. Here's the thrust of my arguement again:

nonpareil said:
That's the thing, people who claim that Islam is the root of the violence have never been able to provide anything that approached "quantitatively demonstrable". Take a look at all the Muslim countries, very few have endorse or have the vast majority of their population engage in violence. If they were, there would be even more blood shed. Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq can be said to be stuck in a very violence phase, but Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq are an in/direct result of the US's anti-terror war, and Somalia and Sudan are basket cases. The rest of the countries may have culturally and politically objectionable practice to you, but for the most part people live in more or less in peace. Let's take the case of Iraq, if most Muslim Iraqis are violent individuals who want to kill infidels, a few hundred thousand US soldiers are not going to stop them. But obviously, they want just to live a peaceful live much as others in a country with a different religion. Take Egypt, if most of the Muslims were set against driving out and killing all the Coptic Christians they wouldn't be able to live there still after thousands of years, You people confuse the outliers for the masses. The problem is that you simply don't understand what statistics are made of.

I don't know what the heck you are arguing against at this point, but that's what I've been talking about.


At a certain point, Fallacious becomes Fel... never mind.
A Majority of Muslim governments or their citizens either, carry out, or condone discriminatory policies toward the Non-muslim minorities or conflict with non-muslim neighbors
Let's get our Claims straight.
So far every single response has been Mischaracterization or Fallacious/strawman.

:roll: Yeah, that's why you are unable to answer or refute anyone of them except with a stupid comment like below:

Have youy looked at their policies? They're not Just "despotic" they're despotic twoards other RELIGIONS.
It was the 'prophet' after all who said "Two religions may not dwell on the Arabian Peninsula".
And so, NOT coincidentally, it's law that countrry.

And how do they treat their own people? The women, even the men who they suspect of working with the terrorist group, or any perceived dissenter? It's a despotic regime all round.


We'll go past fallacious into Backfire now.
Funny, everyone ELSE just seems to be fighting with Islam. Russians, Christians, Hundus, Jews. Coincidence.
Oh and of course even doctrinaire Sunni are fighting Shias!

You are the one who brought up cases of Islam. I responded in kind by showing that there is an opposite side to the fighting. There are Christians fighting Christians (see south America for examples), Hindus fighting Buddhists (Sri Lanka), Buddhist fighting Buddhist (that spat in Cambodia-Thailand border, unrest in China), Jews - well they only have one country and lots of Islamic neighbours. You are the one engaging in fallacy here. Like a politician, if something is unspoken, you twist it your way. What's the point of bringing up all the relevant facts for an honest discussion, right?

And let's not forget the New emerging frontier of Islamic Violence the 'Shia Crescent' (Iran, Nuclear Iran, and it's proxies) v the Arab/Gulf States and Israel.

So is Kim Jong Il a closet Muslims, that's why he wants Nuclear, and is a dictator? Or are they dictators and that's why they want Nuclear weapons?


Finally a clear demonstration of Violence having NOTHING to do with religion.
...in fact one of those was saving Bosnian Mulsims.
Alas, it was in defense of the USA and CANNOT be said of Islamic violence.
Ooops.

Thanks for showing to us your inability to see things objectively.


It's you who are drowning in Logiocal Fallacy. I can't even keep up there are so many in this post alone.
We are talking violence committted by Muslims/Muslim Governments in the NAME of Islam agianst non-Muslims (or other sect Muslims), not random crime.
People often use this inapt/Fallacious comparison using, ie, USA murder rates, that have Nothing to with Christianity.
While I AM pointing to violence in the name of Islam v other religions.


But you haven't, by pointing to countries like Thailand, Phillipines, Chechnya, the discrimination in Egypt and Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia etc, you are making a general statement that Muslims are violent, not pointing out "violence in the name of Islam", because those conflict aren't about Islam. And I have been at pain to show that but you either don't read anything before replying to them, or too "religious" about your belief that Islam is the problem to see this issue objectively.

Actually, for that reason it's not as good as the other site. Agreed (finally).
Of course, the other site has names and numbers.
Also Untouched by you.

"Name and numbers" does not a statistic make. I said before, and I say it again: you are confusing the outlier for the average.

The only tangible piece of rebuttal you've tried is the naming of two relatively mild Islamic countries (One/Brunei a small rich, remote, sultanate!).. while complaining about fallacious logic.

I did more than that, you just didn't read it, or it didn't sink in through the thick layer of prejudice you hold.

I realise you don't get that. But that's the point of the OP, and which you have not been able to contradict at all. Because all you have is a list of exaggerations and half-truth, and you refuse to think deeper about why the conflicts arise. I think it's because you fear that you will have to accept that they are more complex than "Islam is violent", and it's easier to just say "other reasons are ridiculous".


That was MY OP. It it suggests that high population/low-median age makes these groups more susceptible to Radicalization/ISLAMIZATION, and is acknowledged, as I and the speaker said, an alternative opinion. (to the more accepted 'indoctrination')
But even then, does Not contradict that Islam is a problem, merely that young overpopulated Islamic countries are a WORSE problem.
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It doesn't mean that Islam is the source of the problem either, which is the view point you have been pushing.
 
Yeah right! A legend in his own mind.



Really, then please explain how the following Koranic verses aren't radical and extremist in your book. Not to mention that the following Koranic verses were some of the last verses issued by Muhammad. Thus, meaning, per the principle of abrogation, which all sects of Islam fully embrace and all schools of Islamic jurisprudence fully endorse and advocate, the later verses issued by Muhammad in his career abrogate, that is supersede and replace, the verses issued earlier in Muhammad's career.

9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.
8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allah desires (for you) the Hereafter. And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

9:33. It is He {Allah} Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) hate (it).

You see Muhammad's early career as a prophet began very inauspiciously, as in the first half of his career in Mecca Muhammad was only able to attract about a hundred followers. However, after the Hirja, Muhammad's migration to Medina after being banished from Mecca, his career as a prophet began to really take off, as Muhammad morphed from wannabe holy prophet, to brigand robbing caravans and then to eventually becoming a very powerful warlord, destroying many kafir infidel villages in the process.

As a matter of fact, the Hirja as an event in Islam marks the beginning of the Islamic calender, as Muhammad's early career in Mecca before the Hirja, when Muhammad was a very unsuccessful prophet who could only attract approximately 100 followers who were the outcast and misfits of society, doesn't even count as for as Islam and Muslims are concerned.

Therefore, all the Koranic verses issued during that period, which includes all of the peaceful verses of the Koran and the very same exact verses that Muslims love to cite to deceive useful idiot kafir infidels, have been abrogated by the verses issued later on in Muhammad's career, when he was a strong and very powerful warlord.

Moreover, the Koran unlike the Bible is believed to be the uncreated words of Allah as delivered by Muhammad, Allah's final messenger, and as such it is immutable and cannot ever be replaced or changed, because Muhammad was Allah's final messenger whose message also supersedes all the prophets that preceded him.

Not only that but Islam as opposed to all other religions is a religion of submission. In fact, the word Islam in Arabic means to submit. Thus, each Muslim is required to submit to the will of Allah at the same time that they also must surrender their own free wills. Therefore, the freedom of conscience in Islam is haram (forbidden).

In other words, if a Muslim so much as questions the word of the Koran, which all devout Muslims consider to be the express will of Allah, that Muslim will be considered a blasphemer by other Muslims and if he doesn't repent, the penalty prescribed for blasphemy in Islam is death.

Likewise, once a Muslim always a Muslim as apostasy in Islam, like blasphemy, is also punishable by death, as again the exercise of the freedom of conscience in Islam is haram (forbidden), as all devout Muslims are in effect slaves of Allah.

In Islam you either submit to the will of Allah and become his slave or you don't, and if you don't you better do it secretly if you don't want to be killed by other fellow Muslims. Indeed, no one kills more Muslims than other Muslims. It is Islam's way of maintaining peer pressure and very strict discipline.

Hence, if my post is bigoted in any way, then please prove that anything I've cited and said above is inaccurate and therefore bigoted since it constitutes illegitimate criticism because it isn't true.

In addition, you will also have to prove at the same time that the above Koranic verses that I cited verbatim and that all call for perpetual jihad against kafir infidels until there is no more Fitnah (i.e., worshipping others besides Allah) and all religion in the world will all be for Allah alone, didn't come from the Koran.

Moreover, I further submit to you that any religion that calls for perpetual jihad against all kafir infidels until there is no more Fitnah in the world and all religion belongs to Allah is indeed very radical and exceedingly extreme, and any person or persons, Muslim or otherwise, who adheres to those Koranic verses is a radical and an extremist.

Finally, what would you call a person who calls and labels others bigots and idiots at the same time that he makes idiotic and stupid assertions based on silly preconceived notions, yet himself is obviously absolutely as clueless and oblivious as it gets?



Uhm...I didn't make silly juvenile allegations that you can't possibly backup, you did, and as for as silly assumptions go, read your own damn stupid and idiotic posts. I learned a long time ago never to assume or to have preconceived notions.



I see a very bright and educated individual unlike what you are and see when you look into the mirror.



The only thing that is clear enough, is that when it comes to Islam and Muslims you are about as ignorant as ignorance gets, yet you are personally attacking others as if you are some sort of leading authority steeped in the knowledge of Islam and Islamic culture, at the same time the best you can do is to spew silly, idiotic, and asinine preconceived notions that are completely antithetical to Islam and Muslims. Indeed, it is rare to observe someone slit his own throat so thoroughly as you have done in this thread.



I didn't either, as you are deliberately misrepresenting the above cited quote and also intentionally citing it out of context, but nonetheless you stupidly assumed that Muslims want and value the same things that we in the West want and value, when Muslims believe that we in the West are decadent, and that is about as ignorant as ignorance gets, and it's all based on your own silly preconceived notions. Read your own stupid posts. Nevertheless, can you back up your silly and asinine assertions, like I have mind?



The only concept I'm getting is that when it comes to Islam and Muslims you are about as ignorant as ignorance gets, yet at the same time you personally attack others and call them bigots and idiots that happen to disagree with you.

In any event, if poverty and despair is the root cause of Islamic violence as you stupidly insist, then why is it practically only Muslims today that commit terrorist attacks around the world and not any of the other religious and ethnic groups that are also afflicted with endemic poverty and despair?

Moreover, at the same time please also explain why Muslim terrorists always go out of their way to justify their terrorist attacks by citing Islamic texts and why they don't claim that it is because they are poverty stricken and in despair.

The reality is obvious, you are misapplying your own westernized preconceived notions of the world to Islamic culture and society and nothing could be more stupid or idiotic. Why can't you drop the silly preconceived notions and then approach the subject of Islam with a completely open mind, and why must you personally attack anyone who disagrees with you?



Because I'm not self hating and filled with nonsensical guilt like you are and also not nearly as ignorant as you either. Not to mention that in both Iraq and Afghanistan, most of the deaths that have occurred was via Muslim on Muslim violence.

Indeed, I propose that we get out of their way and let Muslims continue to kill each other. As a matter of fact, I propose that we seek out more cracks and fissures within Islam and then exploit them so that it will result in more Muslim on Muslim violence. It makes a hell of a lot more sense than the way we are currently pursuing the war, which is about as idiotic as it gets.



Yeah right...and you are the one who keeps insisting ad nauseum that poverty and despair are the root causes of all Islamic motivated violence in the world and not those Koranic verses that I cited above, and that Muslims want and value the same things that we in the West do, which is why, of course, that the majorities of Muslim immigrants to the West are forming Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia and in direct contravention to the laws of the states in which they reside, instead of assimilating and integrating and trying to emulate us in the West because they value and want the same things that we do. Give me a break. You couldn't be anymore ignorant!



When have Muslims not persecuted, discriminated against, and violently oppressed non-Muslims living inside Muslim majority countries? The institution of Jihad and its corollary the institution of Dhimmitude is as old as Islam itself. As a matter of fact, most of the ancestors of present day Muslims in the world today were themselves converted to Islam via the harsh and very humiliating institution of dhimmitude. Damn...you couldn't be anymore oblivious if you tried?



No I don't see, since it is you who has unequivocally and repeatedly demonstrated that you are about as ignorant as ignorance gets with respect to Islam and Muslims! Yet, you have the audacity to personally attack anyone and everyone who isn't as equally as ignorant as you are. Indeed, I don't think I've ever witnessed a greater act of stupidity in my life as I have with respect to your posts.



Congratulations, you have written me into the ground. I honestly can't be bothered to read that much rambling nonsense, I stopped after I see that you can't be be honest enough to accept what you wrote in black and white and is more keen on calling me names. Have a good day.
 
:doh Change the "root of all evil" to anything you like and it's the same, you made up your mind already so anything else is "ridiculous".
I admitted to "making up my mind".. Based on Evidence.
so far, untouched.
And now you are forced to fold on your strawman. Splash 47.

nonpareil said:
And the problem is what exactly? That Islam is a violent religion or that there is some fundamental problems in the ME such as consistent war, poverty, young men having no job or self-worth without turning to the fundamentalist's doctrines?...
The Problem is Literalism to a book that that is Not tolerant and whose enemies, Unlike those of the OT/NT, are still alive.

Manji (practising Muslim Reformer) Posted on PAGE 2 of THIS string. (for the 100th Unrebutted time)

me said:
Irshad Manji

"... The trouble with Islam today is that Literalism is Mainstream.


Even Moderate Muslims take the Koran as the final word of God: unfiltered, unchanged and unchangeable.
This Supremacy Complex inhibits us from asking hard questions about what happens when faith becomes dogma.
Such a path can lead only to a dead end of More Violence...

The Australian: Irshad Manji: Denial is scourge of Islam [August 23, 2005]

nonpareil said:
Except the religion is an just excuse. Sudan and Nigeria are both oil rich countries. Only a small part of Nigeria want to have Sharia law, so again you've fallen to exaggerating. Hitler in the same way used race to push his war. So do we blame the tool or the wielder?
Absurd again.
Hitler had nothing to do with advancing Christian dioctrine while Sudan and Nigerian violence DID have to do with advancing Sharia.


nonpareil said:
No one claim what? That "Muslim engage in violence it's because of Islam" or that "other groups engage in violence it's nothing to do with their religion, because they are fighting with the Muslims". If the first, then what the hell have you been arguing with me about?
Idiot.
And if the second, fine, I assumed, because while you put down Islam, you don't do the same with other religions.
"Idiot" is a clear violation and inaccurate unless you want to shout at the mirror.

I absolutely Do the same with other Religions!
Not only are you Wrong on Everything, you are STUPENDOUSLY WRONG.
Me just a few days ago to Ultra-othodox Jew 'you':

http://www.debatepolitics.com/middle-east/64540-g-dless-claim-jewish-land-2.html#post1058542072
So what shall Israelis do?
Give the Land back to the "Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, and the Jebusites" who No longer exist?
(It's Bible Theme Park time!)

Then again landless/defenseless, themselves then be Lead back the Gas Chambers/Genocide by the Ultra-Orthodox Pied Piper Freaks of self-annihilation? The Suicidal Neturei Karta et al, who should/I demand be first into the showers they loosed.

"G-d", the basis of your theories is BS!
MYTHOLOGY has NO standing.
It's the Same "G-D" of the sickest fringe of settlers, who have no more/no less claim on reality than you. Which is No claim.

Holy Books are False Gods in a Real world where there aren't any Gods.

Only Just states like Israel whose claim to the land is based on continuous presence and significant settlement, and backed by the risking of the lives of it's citizens....
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Another to a Torahaic wonder (and I am Ethnically Jewish and Pro-Israel):

http://www.debatepolitics.com/relig...and-his-purpose-mankind-s.html#post1058242766

mbig said:
andersbranderud said:
....Religions that contradict" תורה (Torah), therefore, are the antithesis of the Creator.

What a load of CRAP!...

I doesn't get any Better than that in Rebuttal... and there's Tons More to Religionists/God-ists of ALL sects.
As in the rest of this string, you're not only Wrong, you're up to your ears in/posting baseless Dog Crap.



nonpareil said:
You can't read your own posts and you obviously didn't read mine either. Evidently you are too lazy intellectually to engage in a real honest discussion, so you're just going to willy-nilly say "fallacious" to everything. If you can't argue against the arguement I put up, just stop posting. Don't waste everyone's time.
Everything you've said is Fallacious or wrong, in fact 90% of the time, Both.

And things are mostly fine in Egypt. Here's the thrust of my arguement again:
No you tried the Fallacious assertion that because there are still Copts ALIVE/not "wiped out" in Egypt that Islam/that country doesn't discriminate.
This remains not only wrong.. but Fallacious.. and laughable. Again.


nonpareil said:
You are the one who brought up cases of Islam. I responded in kind by showing that there is an opposite side to the fighting. ...
Uh.. of course there's an opposite side. That's what fighting is.
Diving below Fallacious now I see.
The point was Muslims are fighting with Everyone worldwide.. and not coincidentally. That's statistically and logically consistent.

So is Kim Jong Il a closet Muslims, that's why he wants Nuclear, and is a dictator? Or are they dictators and that's why they want Nuclear weapons?
Yet more Fallacious garbage.

But you haven't, by pointing to countries like Thailand, Phillipines, Chechnya, the discrimination in Egypt and Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia etc, you are making a general statement that Muslims are violent...
I haven't?
It was me who brought them up! But pointed out many others as well.
Still unanswered.

"Name and numbers" does not a statistic make. I said before, and I say it again: you are confusing the outlier for the average.
No. I'm posting typical/rampant worlwide for average.

I did more than that, you just didn't read it, or it didn't sink in through the thick layer of prejudice you hold.
that's called knowledge.. while you just try and Bluff your way through with semantics.

It doesn't mean that Islam is the source of the problem either, which is the view point you have been pushing.
I know. Just more 'Coincidence' in the face of overwhlming evidence.
 
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I admitted to "making up my mind".. Based on Evidence.
so far, untouched.
And now you are forced to fold on your strawman. Splash 47.


The Problem is Literalism to a book that that is Not tolerant and whose enemies, Unlike those of the OT/NT, are still alive.

Manji (practising Muslim Reformer) Posted on PAGE 2 of THIS string. (for the 100th Unrebutted time)




Absurd again.
Hitler had nothing to do with advancing Christian dioctrine while Sudan and Nigerian violence DID have to do with advancing Sharia.



"Idiot" is a clear violation and inaccurate unless you want to shout at the mirror.

I absolutely Do the same with other Religions!
Not only are you Wrong on Everything, you are STUPENDOUSLY WRONG.
Me just a few days ago to Ultra-othodox Jew 'you':

http://www.debatepolitics.com/middle-east/64540-g-dless-claim-jewish-land-2.html#post1058542072
Another to a Torahaic wonder (and I am Ethnically Jewish and Pro-Israel):

http://www.debatepolitics.com/relig...and-his-purpose-mankind-s.html#post1058242766



I doesn't get any Better than that in Rebuttal... and there's Tons More to Religionists/God-ists of ALL sects.
As in the rest of this string, you're not only Wrong, you're up to your ears in/posting baseless Dog Crap.




Everything you've said is Fallacious or wrong, in fact 90% of the time, Both.


No you tried the Fallacious assertion that because there are still Copts ALIVE/not "wiped out" in Egypt that Islam/that country doesn't discriminate.
This remains not only wrong.. but Fallacious.. and laughable. Again.



Uh.. of course there's an opposite side. That's what fighting is.
Diving below Fallacious now I see.
The point was Muslims are fighting with Everyone worldwide.. and not coincidentally. That's statistically and logically consistent.


Yet more Fallacious garbage.


I haven't?
It was me who brought them up! But pointed out many others as well.
Still unanswered.


No. I'm posting typical/rampant worlwide for average.


that's called knowledge.. while you just try and Bluff your way through with semantics.


I know. Just more 'Coincidence' in the face of overwhlming evidence.


Blah, blah, blah, "fallacious", "fallacious", whine, whine, "fallacious", "fallacious", blah, blah...you're like nails on a chalk board. It's so grating. And nothing of substance at all. I saw no arguement against the points I made what so ever. And what was I supposed to do, check all your posts in this whole forum? You had a chance to say that other religions are capable of violence too, but you were too busy writing your pointless list to be intellectually honest. One last thing, giving me opinion pieces of some people I don't know is not proof, you want to argue that Islam is violent and Muslims take the Koran literally, show us that the majority of Mulsims in the world do engage in violent as a result of following the Koran, but you haven't been able to do that so you're left with non-arguement like "you are so fallacious" in that whiny tone. It's actually quite amazing how whiny you manage to sound even through writing, but I guess some people are just born with it.
 
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Countries: 16
Religions: 5
Dead Bodies: 683

Critically Injured: 1251

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and above obviously just partial, as no one can watch in places like Nigeria, Chad, Pakistan, Mauritania, philippines, etc, etc, etc, on a regular basis. Just hope to keep up thru published reports, which may be a Small sample.
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A little Follow up.

1. 'ElectronicIntifada' on what you saw in the OP:
ei: Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births
"Calls for Genocidal measures"!
and there was some back and forth between the parties after the ei screed.

2. Martin Kramer has some fun with it using his questions and selected quotes as answers.
Links for thos quotes are embedded in the answers at Jpost link below.

Inside the Middle East: Gaza Q&A: Palestinians answer
JPost.com | BlogCentral | Inside the Middle East | Gaza Q&A: Palestinians answer
Martin Kramer // Mar 09, 2010

Q: Martin Kramer spoke of Gaza's "superfluous young men." Is anyone in Gaza "superfluous"?

A: "I don't mind if Gazans continue producing babies, but they will have to move somewhere else. They simply will Not fit into their Current geography - forgetting about feeding and employing them, too."
(Dr. Hassan Abu Libdeh, president, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2000.)


Q: Okay... Well, if that's the situation, wouldn't it make sense for Gaza's government to promote family planning?

A: "Unlike the West that practices family planning, we encourage having children for Political reasons."
(Dr. Abd al-Aziz Rantisi, co-founder of Hamas in Gaza, 2003.)


Q: Political reasons? For couples having children?

A: "Marriage is the same as Jihad. With marriage, you are producing another generation that believes in resistance."
(Muhammad Yousef, member of the Qassam Brigades in Gaza, the Hamas underground, 2008.)


Q: I hadn't thought of that. So would you say the present Israeli sanctions are starving the "resistance" in the cradle?

A: "It's not a humanitarian crisis. People aren't starving."
(Khaled Abdel Shaafi, director, UN Development Program in Gaza, 2008.)
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Mormons tend to have large families often times, but you don't see them strapping bombs to themselves and waging war in the name of their God.

That's because the average 8th or 10th child in a Mormon family tends to have access to the same resources and status as the first child.
 
A little Follow up.

1. 'ElectronicIntifada' on what you saw in the OP:
ei: Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births
"Calls for Genocidal measures"!
and there was some back and forth between the parties after the ei screed.

2. Martin Kramer has some fun with it using his questions and selected quotes as answers.
Links for thos quotes are embedded in the answers at Jpost link below.

Inside the Middle East: Gaza Q&A: Palestinians answer
JPost.com | BlogCentral | Inside the Middle East | Gaza Q&A: Palestinians answer
Martin Kramer // Mar 09, 2010

This makes me think about the children being born into desperate poverty and family violence in the American inner cities, and the corresponding war zone of those streets. In my opinion, many young men find purpose in killing each other because they have no hope of entering mainstream society and succeeding. Family planning and family educational levels is huge when it comes to preventing violence longterm.

Really interesting food for thought, Mbig. Thanks for posting it.
 
The Gazan population is up 40% since the First humorous Q&A answer (yr 2000) in the Martin Kramer's Jpostblog I just posted.
It was Overcrowded then.
It's Way Overcrowded now.

The whole conflict has a Demographic nature, certainly on the Palestinian side.

there were 700,000 refugees in 1948, and there 4.5 Million 'refugees' now, even though there are virtually no real/original refugees left.

With Palestinian Birth rates they would be refugees from any 'palestine' from overcrowding anyway.
It's no wonder they want the 'Right of Return'... to Israel.
They're Jammin even within the 1948/1967 border they want and Palestinians will necessarily have to emigrate, creating yet more So-called 'refugees' somewhere else.
Welcome to UNRWA-ism (OP mentions) for which WE are paying/The USA is the biggest donor.
And people don't like paying welfare mothers here!
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With Palestinian Birth rates they would be refugees from any 'palestine' from overcrowding anyway.
It's no wonder they want the 'Right of Return'... to Israel.
They're Jammin even within the 1948/1967 border they want and Palestinians will necessarily have to emigrate, creating yet more So-called 'refugees' somewhere else.
Welcome to UNRWA-ism (OP mentions) for which WE are paying/The USA is the biggest donor.
And people don't like paying welfare mothers here!
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Overpopulation is a problem in almost all 3rd world nations, where large families are equated with male status and virility. I actually think that the answer lies, not with men, but with programs like the micro lending program, that give women financial power.

What do you think about that?
 
I think we should be Promoting Family Planning in a Major way.
At even current population levels, I'm dubious the standard of living the world currently has can be maintained.

I think Population, ergo, Family planning (FP)/Birth control is the planet's biggest problem.
Pollution, Global Warming, etc, are Derivative problems from it.

We have philanthropies like the Gates Foundation saving millions/tens of millions in Africa and Asia from Malaria, etc.
But for what?
To cut down the last of the rainforest to use as firewood and plant crops on?
There's no room for them now.
Send and promote Condoms, it's 1000x cheaper and better for the planet.
(I emailed the Gates Foundation on this)

I would send No aid to countries who don't adopt FP and take NO Immgrants from them unless they do.
We are NOT the dumping ground for the babies of other countries who can't manage themselves and make no effort to.
We are NOT/Shoudn't be the Nursery Annex for Mexico, Haiti, Pakistan, etc!

Part of China's current success was it's "Brutal" one-child policy. Imagine if there were another ¼ Billion Chinese though. They took some responsibility for the simple Math other countries won't confront. It worked.
If Gaza did it 30 years ago, and with 40% of the population, the place would be downright roomy.

FP suffered tremendously under the Bush Regime and has still not recovered and I see no major new effort in that direction.
Nor do I see any Significant constructivism on any other global environment issue that will forestall the nasty consequences.
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