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Originally Posted by Daemonius
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Deamonius, currently residing in the world's safest country...
I realise that not every muslim thinks like this, but most do.
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There are more than two billion Muslims.
If most of them thought like that there would be no one left alive since they'd have killed everyone else.
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The fact is that the Islam is a very dangerous religion, which you can't deny. It's outdated an inhumane, having verses saying that you must kill an infidel even if he tries to befriend you and a verse that states that you beat your wife if she doesn't want to sleep with you.
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I don't deny that it's dangerous.
But then, so is Christianity; the Bible has remarkably similar passages to those ones.
Seriously, read my first post here:
Most terrorists are Muslims is true.
Most Muslims are terrorists is not.
I'm also puzzled by this "us" and "they" mentality.
There is no "us" or "they" in this issue. Having a "they" implies that every Muslim is responsible for the actions of every other Muslim, which is ludicrous.
It's thinking like that that leads to stuff such as what happened in Ireland a decade or so ago, with suicide bombings and wars over religion. It's simple: One of "them" kills your friend, so you kill a different member of their "group" in revenge.
Except, the person you've killed has no connection to the one who killed your friend, save religion.
It's the exact same thing here. Extremists do something bad, so you assume that most every Muslim must be the same.
That's ludicrous to the extreme.
My proof? Canada. 2% of the Canadian population is Muslim.
That doesn't sound like much, but it's a significant number of people.
Guess what? We don't have daily (or even centennial) terrorist attacks, we don't have riots over religion, people don't have their free speech taken away because they've offended a Muslim (admittedly, that was tried recently, but public outcry, from within even the Muslim community, has been huge.) we aren't all murdered as we walk down the street, we haven't been forced to adopt sharia law, etc.
That seems to blow this guy's thesis out of the water, doesn't it? The only reason you need to protect your country is because of your previous efforts to protect your country. If you didn't discriminate against Muslims so that they can't get good jobs, and if you didn't stereotype them all as criminals, I bet they'd be far less vocal about what they see as oppression, and probably be less criminally inclined.
You've gone and made your bed. Now it's up to you to lie in it, not blame the hotel for giving you the wrong coloured sheets.