EddieC wrote:afs66 wrote:Woollyback wrote:When was the last time a Christian blew himself up in a crowded public train to get his point across?
When was the last time a Sikh flew a passenger jet into an office building?
When was the last time a Buddhist burnt down a mosque?
When was the last time a Hindu murdered a nun doing humanitarian work?
When was the last time an Jew destroyed an embassy over a cartoon?
When was the last time an atheist passed a death sentence on one of his own citizens for not conforming to his belief system?
Does Howard Kendall blame the middle east crisis on Liverpool FC?
Let me ask some questions mate.And dont worry, i’ll answer those myself.
Q:Which religion’s innocent people were last butchered in the heart of Europe(Bosnia Herzegovina)?Which religion’s innocent women were last raped in the heart of Europe(Bosnia Herzegovina)?Which religion’s innocent children were last hanged up in the heart of Europe(Bosnia Herzegovina)? Which religion’s innocent pregnant women were last stabed up in the heart of Europe(Bosnia Herzegovina)?
A: Islam
Q:Which religion’s innocent houses were last bombed mercilessly in Iraq? Which religion’s innocent men,women,children were last become homeless and helpless in Iraq .Which religion’s country was tumbled to pieces?
A: Islam
Q: Which religion’s country was occupied in Middle East and which religion’s people are continuously being killed in Paletsine?
A: Islam
Q:Which religion’s country were last razed for days in Lebanon?Which religions innocent men,women,children were last abandoned to helpless,to hunger, to aridity by United Nations in Lebanon?
A: Islam
And i dont want to mention about Afghanistan, Chechnya, East Turkestan,...etc.. All of them are Muslims.
Anyhow, I am trying not to be prejudiced and i hope that one day all the world will try not to be prejudiced.
afs66, the difference is everything Woollyback mentioned was done in the name of Islam, everything you mentioned wasn't.
You might try and argue that the Israel/Palestine issue is about religion, and while the root cause of it is, you are talking about Israel killing Palestinians, and when this has happened it has been in retaliation for Israeli deaths, not because they were Muslims. And if you want to get technical about it, the Jews had the land robbed off them, they were living there before Islam existed.
What happened in Bosnia was atrocious, I don't deny it, but it was a civil war over who had control of the country, nothing to do with religion. The fact that one of the sides happened to be Islamic doesn't make it a holy war.
People can argue what the war in Iraq was really about, but it definately wasn't about religion. If it was, we wouldn't be letting a Muslim parliament run the country.
Chechnya again, has nothing to do with religion. The region has a high level of natural resources that the Russians don't want to lose. This is wrong yes, but it is not an affront on Islam.
None of the points you made involved Christians/Jews/Hindus/Sikhs/Buddhists attacking others to enforce their religious beliefs on them. Every instance that Woollyback cited did.
End of.
I mentioned the point that the people who were killed mercilessly or are being killed mercilessly, aren’t just Christians or Americans or British or etc…
You said the reasons of the wars which I had mentioned. And you said those weren’t in the name of a Religion. Ok, I assume you are right about the reasons.
1)Lets name the reason of those butcheries that I had mentioned, are for “Democracy and Freedom”.
2)And lets name the reason of terror events which Woollback mentioned, are for “Islam”.
At this time, I must remind something. Majority of posts in this thread are blaming Islam about austereness and mercilessness according to ideas in “2”. And I must remind another point that those people who had killed innocent people in ‘2’ , aren’t accepted as “Muslims” in the world of Islam. Nonetheless, majority of you are blaming Islam.
Now, don’t you think there is something wrong? Because, majority of you never blame “Democracy and Freedom(in ‘1’)” for being austereness and mercilessness. For ex. If someone opened a thread about “Democracy and Freedom” and if he said “ hey!! democracy and freedom are killing people, lets blame all democratic regimes”, would you behave the same as this thread?
By the way, I am trying to be a little ironic above. Actually I meant that your opinions about Islam and Muslims are wrong. Because you are making the events general, in despite of we(muslims) say that those terrorists cant be Muslims.