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Permalink Reply by Dakota Hardin on July 11, 2011 at 3:57pm

I just watched the video about the law of homosexuality for Islamic people and that was horrible, I wish all the religious people like in that video should be dropped into a whole filled with nails and tear gas then have a 2 ton block of concrete slowly lowered on them, makes me sick to see any religion think that murder is the answer for punishment, shame on islams, christrians,and every other religion filled with mentally blind beings.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on July 11, 2011 at 4:45pm

Exactly. Unfortunately, most of the Islamic world feels that homosexuals should be executed. You think it is bad for homosexuals in the U.S....

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on June 28, 2011 at 5:38am

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on June 28, 2011 at 5:55am

This short video clip by Musab Hassan Yousef reflects exactly what I have been trying to express in a precise and clear manner:

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Permalink Reply by Dylan Alexander Fick on June 28, 2011 at 2:24pm

I was going to chime in, but then I saw this post and decided I couldn't explain it any better.

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Permalink Reply by Brandy619 on June 28, 2011 at 9:59am

I honestly don't know that much about Islam. I mean, they went over it in school briefly, but I paid little attention aside from what would be on the exam because it was just another religion I couldn't relate to. I remember the details the way I remember Greek or Roman mythology. I don't remember ever really talking to any Muslims about their faith or what it meant to them. The few Muslims I know seem like everyone else aside from the dietary restrictions so I've never given it much thought from an Atheist perspective. My big thing is I don't like to be preached at, and that has not been my experience with the Muslims I've worked with. I don't have any Muslim friends, though not by choice.

I will say that there is a stigma about discussing Islam in a negative way. The mood of our country has been tense for years following 9/11. I have believed what I've been told about non-extremist Muslims because I don't have anything to support the contrary. If you say they are not true Muslims I believe you. But I've always tried to let people be if they don't interfere with my life. I'm not interested enough to read up on it, I'm afraid I'll just get angry and would have no ability to effect change anyway. But I understand your perspective and I agree that most atheists are very Christian-centric in these discussions.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on June 28, 2011 at 6:55pm

thx for your input :)

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on June 28, 2011 at 4:53am

Until Muslims understand that the problem is with the radicals of their faith and their fundamental beliefs, the violence of terrorism will always exist. The biggest problem in the Islamic culture is a lack of personal responsibility and always blaming an "outside party" (particularly Israel, America, and the west) instead of realizing the problem is the Islamic faith and culture itself. It is no surprise that there is not a single true Islamic democracy in the world and that Islamic societies tend to be poor, oppression, and violators of the basic tenets of human rights and women's rights.

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Permalink Reply by Bramlet Abercrombie on June 28, 2011 at 5:21am

And I'd contend that only blind cultural chauvinism could warrant such a response as what you've just given.

 

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on June 28, 2011 at 6:17am

In fact, some cultures are superior to other cultures. That is not "cultural chauvinism", that is reality. Western culture of secularism and independent thought is superior to the culture of Shariah law.

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Permalink Reply by V John Merc on June 28, 2011 at 4:11am

This is true. It's partly because there are more Christians becoming Atheists themselves since Christianity itself really don't have a threat of death for apostates. As much as most atheist would love to Criticize Islam—I would love to—Atheists should do so with anonymity as we have already seen how Muslims will set an example for such Critics... look at Theo Van Gogh Murdered and how Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been in high security and in hiding. 

And of course, as most atheists come from the Christian religion we know little to nothing of Pure, unadulterated Islam. So, before we (ex-christian) Atheists could criticize Islam, we should study it first.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on June 28, 2011 at 4:57am

Great point Vernard and it was great that you mentioned Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Why should such people be murdered and be threatened to be murdered for expressing their beliefs?? Why can't Muslims act civilized in the ways Christians tend to be?? Christians may get offended by a lot of things but they don't act like savage animals.

 

One more thing: you have more and more Christians accepting the possibility of evolution. Even the Pope said evolution may have taken place with "god's guidance". In Islam according to Shariah law, it is punishable by death to make such claims in public as fact.

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