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Do you agree with this womans comments against radical Islam?

Do you agree with this womans comments against radical Islam?

  • Im a right leaning American, no.

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I didn't think you would be honest enough to actually address anything I said or peruse the information I provided.

I address the points that apply to what I'm talking about. Not your Straw Man that I'm defending the killing of people who leave Islam.

Why do you support the killing of people who leave Islam?

:lol:
 
The extremely ignorant and reactive portions of the left,anyway.

I am left of center, but actually support liberal values unlike these illiberal leftists.

Well if you associate with hardcore lefties then I know for certain you are taking heat for your views. To me being intellectually honest is paramount.
 
I address the points that apply to what I'm talking about. Not your Straw Man that I'm defending the killing of people who leave Islam.



:lol:

You made an extremely ignorant statement that 25% of Muslims are not radical, yet a percentage higher than that support killing people who leave Islam. As such, by very definition you see these views as perfectly acceptable since you are the one who defined them as such.
 
Well if you associate with hardcore lefties then I know for certain you are taking heat for your views. To me being intellectually honest is paramount.

The majority of my friends are liberal and well educated. I live in a very liberal University town known. None of my friends talk like so many of these leftist kids do on these forums,and I suspect one of the reasons why is that they are mostly 50-65 years in age rather than 16-25 and actual liberals instread of mindless apologists.
 
That's a silly answer-so very wrong as well....its because we meddled first:peace

This explains all the acts of terror committed around the world, by nations who have done absolutely nothing-no meddling.
To Islamists the fact that we exist means we need to be conquered and destroyed and subjugated.

I say we send em to allah in style.
 
Show me where I'm inconsistent. Are you saying Jerry Falwell was a good representative of Christianity? The guy who blamed 9/11 on homosexuals? Because I sure as hell don't.

Jerry Falwell does not represent Christianity to me, and I have no problem condeming his 9/11 comment. Your inconsistency is in you condeming her as fear mongering by speaking ill of some muslims, while your sig speaks ill of some christians. Yes Jerry Falwell has said some ridiculous things but he never committed acts of terrorism, yet you attack him?? Yet the people who do condone the mass murder and are willing to look the otherway you defend and when these people are called to task by this woman you label her as "a fear monger". This is not consistent thought.
 
They need to do more. A LOT MORE

We don't have many Muslim members on DP, but those we have are almost 100% damning in their condemnation of Islamist extremists. I've never met a moderate Muslim who didn't.
 
I know enough about Islam. And I don't converse with people like you, who are beyond conversing with. Anyone who buys into Brigitte Gabriel's tripe is a FOOL.
And your posts are DISHONEST and you Cannot address anything I said or make any post of substance.
You merely Paste up stuff others say.

Again, You are NONCONVERSANT on this topic. It's not just that you refuse, it's that you are Unable to debate this or any other.
You have a PC-stance but Zero Sub-stance.

THIRD Time Unanswered/Unaddressed:

The problem here is the use/meaning of 'radical'.
Certainly 25% of Muslims aren't "terrorists" .. the old strawman we see in this string and in the rigged youngturk youtube in the post above mine.
Terrorists would be under 1%.

But how many are Fundamentalist? Literalist? Is that "radical?
If we use those terms the way we use it on Christians it would be a healthy Majority.
The same healthy Majority that supports Sharia worldwide and elected the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, with the more "Radical" Salafis second. Between them 70%.
Salafis, Coincidentally (Not), won 25% in 'Moderate' Egypt!

Do you consider the MB "radical"? Salafis?
So her claim is Not at all off base.
Many Muslims and Muslim govts financially support terrorists radicals: Saudi, Pakistan, Hamas charities, etc.

Christians are persecuted and Cleansed in Most Muslim countries by their peoples AND Governments.

So 'radical'? Would you call Falwell/Robertson Radical? Because I would say about 2/3++ of Muslims are at least that 'radical'.
Then, of course, you have the problem of Literal or Radical to What?

Being Literal to the NT would cause what counterproductive behavior exactly? Teaching creationism instead of evolution?
Being literal to the Koran, OTOH, has many Violent repercussions we do see worldwide.
People die Every day in the NAME of Islam/it's scripture.
What would Falwell proscribe for Adultery, Counseling? While a Majority of Muslims support Stoning to Death for Adultery as prescribed by Sharia.

A Christian Fundamentalist is a missionary, a Muslim Fundamentalist Kills him.​

And THAT is the state of the 'debate' between me and Amadeus. He is Unable to address/converse on Anything.
His youtubes inane and even his copy/pasted excerpts failed as well.
He cuts off the meat of my posts in his 'quotes' because he Cannot address them.
He just reiterates himself and ad homs.

Gardener has also posted more on the Intolerance/Radicalism of even average Muslims: Death for Apostasy etc. Also Unanswered by Amadeus.
 
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This explains all the acts of terror committed around the world, by nations who have done absolutely nothing-no meddling.
To Islamists the fact that we exist means we need to be conquered and destroyed and subjugated.

I say we send em to allah in style.

Agreed, how was Singapore, Chechnya, and Malaysia meddling??? Just to name a few.
 
Agreed, how was Singapore, Chechnya, and Malaysia meddling??? Just to name a few.

What gets me is they WANT to believe that, because they can understand it. The fact that they want to destroy you JUST BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE, is something very hard for some to comprehend. What did those nigerian school girls do? Well they were Christian and therefore could be taken and sold into slavery, or forced to convert. We see that in Sudan as well. And Egypt, where some of the Earliest Christian churches are destroyed. What did they do? Well they are not islamists. How about the Hindus in India? Yep-not Muslim. Look at the worlds conflict zones-its mostly where there are islamists.
 
What gets me is they WANT to believe that, because they can understand it. The fact that they want to destroy you JUST BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE, is something very hard for some to comprehend. What did those nigerian school girls do? Well they were Christian and therefore could be taken and sold into slavery, or forced to convert. We see that in Sudan as well. And Egypt, where some of the Earliest Christian churches are destroyed. What did they do? Well they are not islamists. How about the Hindus in India? Yep-not Muslim. Look at the worlds conflict zones-its mostly where there are islamists.

I actually believe the left has a fear of taking on evil, or they just plain dont believe it exist? Just like during the cold war they were against the anticommunist not the communist. Or like today the "evil" for the left is carbon emissions or the saying of the pledge of allegiance in public schools. While the real evil in the world (islamic radicalism) they almost want to look away from? Or just pretend its just a small group of criminals and its really
Not that big of a deal.
 
I actually believe the left has a fear of taking on evil, or they just plain dont believe it exist? Just like during the cold war they were against the anticommunist not the communist. Or like today the "evil" for the left is carbon emissions or the saying of the pledge of allegiance in public schools. While the real evil in the world (islamic radicalism) they almost want to look away from? Or just pretend its just a small group of criminals and its really
Not that big of a deal.

They have done studies that show that liberals have a smaller amygdala-which is the threat assessment center of the brain. Perhaps this explains why they side with and defend serial killers and dictators, and terrorists (as long as they aren't white).

Thats possible but I think more likely its a combination of being naive and insular in who they interact with-they ONLY get news from liberal sources, and only spend time with other liberals. To these people an episode of Young Turks or Rachael Maddow is lucid reality. :doh

Im sure if we took a poll here today liberals would list global warming, racism, and capitalism as the biggest threats to the US. Only an environment as wonderful as the Pax Americana could give the world people like this. :lol:
 
You made an extremely ignorant statement that 25% of Muslims are not radical, yet a percentage higher than that support killing people who leave Islam. As such, by very definition you see these views as perfectly acceptable since you are the one who defined them as such.

I'm not impressed by this argument. If 15-25% of North American and European Muslims believe in killing people who leave Islam, why isn't there an epidemic of such incidents?

Isn't it true that the problem of radical Islam, or radical religion in general (see Evangelicalism in Uganda), shrinks in proportion to the development of a society? Islam doesn't really preach anything that Judaism doesn't. Read the Bible. Islam is a branch of Judaism, and even incorporates elements of Christianity.

If it's not a religious problem (see Judaism), and it's not a racial problem (right?), then it's a societal problem. And if you're saying that 15-25% of Muslims are extremist radicals who believe in killing infidels, then what you're really saying is that ALL MUSLIMS be looked at with suspicion. In effect, Islam is not welcome in America.
 
I'm not impressed by this argument. If 15-25% of North American and European Muslims believe in killing people who leave Islam, why isn't there an epidemic of such incidents?

Because of our western laws. Your defense of totalitarianism is the antithesis of liberalism,and your attempt to limit the discussion to "north american and European"Muslims which make upsuch a tiny percentage of Muslims is such a snivelling and pathetic attempt at subterfuge,you appear more like Poe saying intentionally stupid things in order to reflect poorly on liberals than anything else.
Islam doesn't really preach anything that Judaism doesn't.

How utterly idiotic. . Judaism has no concept similar to Jihad and did not spread by the sword. It does not seek converts, nor is it based upon one, single prophet. Just because you are completely ignorant, you should not presume others are.


If it's not a religious problem (see Judaism), and it's not a racial problem (right?), then it's a societal problem. And if you're saying that 15-25% of Muslims are extremist radicals who believe in killing infidels, then what you're really saying is that ALL MUSLIMS be looked at with suspicion. In effect, Islam is not welcome in America.

Why you keep trying to turn the discussion in to one of Jews is anybody's guess ,but it is quite apparant that you just rattle off any stray thought that enters your head instead of thinking. Your dishonesty here is simply too much to give you any credibility at all.
 
I actually believe the left has a fear of taking on evil, or they just plain dont believe it exist? .

I wouldn't say it is THE left so much as it is a certain portion of the left -- the less intelligent and more reactionary members who do not base their politics upon what they are for,but only on what they are against.

As we have seen in this thread, instead of Islamism being addressed on its own merits, all certain people are capable of doing is guaging their reaction to it according to whether they frame its critics as left or right. All they need to know is that Gabriel is a "right winger",and so,by golly, they will take up the opposite position.Since she criticizes Islamism, they will support it. If these people stood FOR something, namely liberal values, they would see that it is Islamism that is the great boot that would stamp on the human face forever and represents the very antithesis of liberalism. Since they stand for nothing, however, and only know what they should oppose,they are little but blind apologists for that which they are incapable of ever understanding.
 
Your defense of totalitarianism is the antithesis of liberalism,and your attempt to limit the discussion to "north american and European"Muslims which make upsuch a tiny percentage of Muslims

I don't defend totalitarianism, I simply despise bigots like yourself. Extremism is a problem in general the Middle East. It's not a problem in America. You said that OVER 30% of Muslims are radicalised. You didn't specify that it was location-dependent, you just made a blanket statement about Muslims.

How utterly idiotic. . Judaism has no concept similar to Jihad and did not spread by the sword. It does not seek converts, nor is it based upon one, single prophet.

What does Islam being based on a single prophet have to do with anything? Jesus is the Messiah of Christianity (a prophet in Islam), and anyone who does not believe in him goes to Hell. According to the New Testament, I am eternally damned.

Why you keep trying to turn the discussion in to one of Jews is anybody's guess

I said Judaism, not Jews. Islam and Christianity are both branches of Judaism, and thus Judaism is absolutely relevant when discussing scripture.

but it is quite apparant that you just rattle off any stray thought that enters your head instead of thinking. Your dishonesty here is simply too much to give you any credibility at all.

You didn't address my point. Do you think that Muslims in America should be looked at with suspicion?
 
As we have seen in this thread, instead of Islamism being addressed on its own merits, all certain people are capable of doing is guaging their reaction to it according to whether they frame its critics as left or right. All they need to know is that Gabriel is a "right winger",and so,by golly, they will take up the opposite position.

It's not that she's a right-winger, it's that she's a bigot, a fear-monger, and a demagogue.
 
Brigitte the Bully vs. Moderate Muslim

 
Is she eligible to be president? Would she consider running for president? No idea what her party affiliation is, but I would vote for her in the blink of an eye.

I dont think so, she was born in Lebanon. But the honesty and directness is refreshing. She's a female and a minority so she's immune to the lefts cries of racism. :doh
 
lol at comparing Benghazi to the holocaust. Classic. Also, that statistic is false. According to a Gallup study, 93% of Muslims in the Middle East do not have radical sympathies.

Moderate vs. Extremist Views in the Muslim World

So, you do the math. How many are radicals at your proffered percentage? By my calculation that would be roughly 70 million radicals. That is more than the population of most of the United States' largest cities all added together. Ahh.........peaceful islam!

List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are none so blind as those who will not see.
 
I dont think so, she was born in Lebanon. But the honesty and directness is refreshing. She's a female and a minority so she's immune to the lefts cries of racism. :doh

Over and above all that, she has likely felt first hand the brutality of radical islam.
 
Haven't seen any Christians stepping up to stop radical Christians from furthering persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.

How many 'radical Christians' have beheaded homosexuals?
 
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