I treat all religions the same.
For what possible Earthly reason, since they are in fact not the same at all?
This is, to my mind, a very peculiar position indeed. To illustrate, I oppose slavery in all its forms. But I would not equate the practice of slavery in Virginia in 1850, with the practice of slavery in a Ancient Persia. I can opposes both institutions, but I would have certain problems in moral judgment if I held the same opinion of both.
Religions vastly differ from each other, and command different responses from the religious and the irreligious. And unless you are out of touch with objective reality, which hopefully you are not, you must know this.
You can even test your awareness. Which case in each of these pairs would surprise you more:
- a Catholic Cardinal calling for the eradication of a non-Catholic state, by violence if necessary.
- an Islamic Imam calling for the eradication of a non-Islamic state, by violence if necessary.
- a Jewish youth blowing himself up with an explosive belt in a crowded restaurant of Buddhists because he thinks this will get him into paradise.
- a Muslim youth blowing himself up with an explosive belt in a crowded restaurant of Hindus because he thinks this will get him into paradise.
- A Jehovah's Witness posting a video in which he slowly cuts off the head of a telephone repairman of foreign origin who came into his neighborhood.
- A Muhammadan posting a video in which he slowly cuts of the head off a telephone repairman of foreign origin who came into his neighborhood.
Feel free to keep the results of this little test private, it you don't wish to post the honest results.
I don't buy into this bull**** about Islam being bad. And people that try to build a case against Islam, by saying it is a criminal religion that has to be stopped at all costs, are seriously mentally disturbed. Or they're the biggest *****'s on the planet. I don't fear Islam, I don't fear religions and I certainly don't fear you. I had to leave because I had **** to do.
Again, your ecumenicism is is ill advised. As I have state before, it behooves you to make at least some small study of the tenants of mainstream and militant Islam, before declaring them harmless.
You assessment that people who disagree with you are mentally disturbed is an example of the typical leftist mindset that equates heightened emotion with rational argument.
I do agree that you should not fear me. I am the one trying to present to you a rational, knowledge based position. Reason is not to feared, nor are reasonable people. (In more enlightened times, they are to be emulated.)
I find it very difficult to make a rational response to a position based upon willful blindness. Traditional Islam is a threat to the precepts of Western Civilization. This is a simple fact, whether one has the courage to address the issue, or retreat into comforting denials.
The time may come in your lifetime when you'll have to take a stand and choose a side. It is interesting to wonder what you would do in such a situation.
I find your posts to be classic examples of arrogance and conceit. You think you know and I know you don't! You act like you do, but its just an act. You play this little word game of misdirecting the conversation to being about me. But it's not about me, it's about you and your reaction to me. Why do you feel the need to make stuff up? Why can't you just have a conversation? What are you afraid of? Oh, I remember, Islam.
Very, very good! Perhaps anger will motivate study. This could be a turning point.
I'm not actually terribly arrogant, but I am addressing facts, which are perhaps the most arrogant things in Creation. I do appreciate being thought of as a classic, however.
As for me "knowing," well to be frank, this is the state of mind one enters into when one has spent some time and effort learning facts. I advise everyone to try it.
To be perfectly honest, I have grown very tired of modern liberal thought that seem to believe that denial makes truth, emotional assertion makes fact, and a shallow pronouncement of moral relativism evokes a strong character.
Now once again, if you are serious about making relevant and well founded statements on subjects such as these, I direct you first to a study of the Koran and Hadith, and the principles of traditional Islam, and
certainly the pronouncements of leading militant Muslim clerics which guide the Islamic faithful.
I would expect thatyou can direct your own studies, but I can provide an elementary reading list on request.