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It is against the power-mongering party leader who had plans to overthrow a democratic government and impose his own law system by force.
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Such types tend to be
endemic to sharia. Though I don't agree with this article's Christian slant on things, it is commendably well-documented in its criticism of the Qur'an. Read that and then tell me with a straight face that we shouldn't oppose sharia law.
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Originally Posted by Virtigo
*snip sourceless bull**** about how the Jyllands-Posten riots weren't really about the cartoons*
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I'd love to see even a shred of evidence that proves that. Especially since my source, not to mention common ****ing sense, decimated your viewpoint already. Little side note: When Catholics protested Dogma,
nobody died. It doesn't matter what they were depicting Muhammad doing, it doesn't even matter if the cartoons were real or not; over a hundred people died because a significant portion of the Islamic community doesn't want to play by the rules. The reaction was absolutely unacceptable and should not (and
will not) be tolerated by any civilized society.
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Too bad that such an argument doesn't make sense, nor is acceptable by standards of freedom.
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It makes complete and total sense to ban books that
incite ethnic violence,
promote sexism,
condone slavery,
allow the treatment of women and children as property,
attempt to crush any and all dissent with violence, depict a murderous God responsible for crimes against humanity including but not limited to:
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ordering numerous military attacks on civilian targets
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striking an entire tribe with plagues for the "sins" of one man (who has a
legitimate rap sheet of his own and is called
a man after God's own heart)
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pranking people into almost killing their own children
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doing it himself
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committing mass genocide without being cool enough to invoke the Sephiroth Memorial Escape Clause
as a just and loving figure,
advocate the murder of homosexuals,
encourage people to unlawfully execute thousands of innocent women for the supposed crime of "witchcraft", and form the motivation for
certain political cabals which seek to
subvert the lawful government of the United States and replace it with a theocratic regime. In fact, given all of that, I can scarcely think of any book more deserving of being banned than the Bible, if only because Christianity has more adherents and influence than Islam. But we're getting off the subject.
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Furthermore, what objection? You speak of Wilder's movie that argues like the hundreds of odd online polemics with badly reasoned criticisms and out-of-context sourcing of verses as if it was a legitimate point. They neither fuel extremism among Muslims nor is there, with actual reading of the surahs, an objectionable portrayal of violence.
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You want an actual reading of the surahs? Fine, I'll play ball. As I stated earlier, the Pentateuch (theological term for the first five books of the Bible) is also taken to be part of the Qur'an, so every atrocity that is part of them (the curse of childbirth, the Great Flood, Abraham and Isaac, the ridiculous laws in Deuteronomy which prescribe death for just about every crime worse than jaywalking) can also be leveled against the Qur'an as well. It also has objectionable verses of its own, many of which are quoted (quite within context, contrary to your spurious claims) in Fitna. A selection of the most damning of said verses follows:
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Lo! Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment. Quran 4:56
They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that ye may be upon a level (with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them. Quran 4:89
Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom. Quran 2:7
Because of the wrongdoing of the Jews We forbade them good things which were (before) made lawful unto them, and because of their much hindering from Allah's way, And of their taking usury when they were forbidden it, and of their devouring people's wealth by false pretences, We have prepared for those of them who disbelieve a painful doom. Quran 4:160-161
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Sorry, but there aren't a whole lot of ways "Allah will burn unbelievers in hell forever" can be taken out of context.
Is every Muslim a violent extremist? Obviously not. But it should be very clear by now that some doctrines do tend to produce more wackos than others.