Closing Statement
I want to thank 128shot for giving me the opportunity to debate him on the topic of violence in Islam. I would also like to give kudos to jhuh for his commitment and fairness as moderator.
Intelligent people can debate about how "innocent" the religion of Islam is but clearly, there is a death cult forming rapidly in the Muslim world. As I have stated several times in this debate, many Muslims are basically rational and tolerant of others, but that seems to be a position that evolves
in spite of the faith rather than
because of it. Those who study world history cannot ignore the large number of Muslim conflicts in recent history: Palestine, The Balkans, Chechnya, Lebanon, Kashmir, Sudan, France, Ethiopia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Spain, England and the United States are some that come to mind.
Religious moderates imagine that the path to peace will be paved once we all learn to respect the unjustified beliefs of the others. So we should respect the Flat Earth Society, and the End of Timers too? The Qur'an contains mountains of life destroying gibberish that is used by its followers to warrant terrorism. At the same time Muslim science and high culture has declined since its early years and is currently in a state of anti-intellectualism.
The Qur'an drives the disturbed mind of Osama bin Laden, who is neither poor nor uneducated, to devote his life to killing as many innocent men women and children as he can, while being content to live in a cave. Why do men like Bin Laden commit their hideous cruelties? The answer is that
they actually believe what they say they believe. Martyrdom is alive and well in the 21st century and suicide bombers are being trained as we speak to commit "sacred explosions" against the enemy. There are numerous Islamic terrorist groups in the world today and Muslim leaders worldwide have both condemned and sanctioned the terrorist attacks against the United States.
I'll end with this quote:
Quote:
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"It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims... We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women."
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(Abdel Rahman al-Rashed "Innocent religion is now a message of hate." Telegraph. 05/09/2004)