Sure hope Oleg gets with the program

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by mondo

I hope you never get into a position of power or influence. You need to go and travel and educate yourself about Islam by being around some Muslims in an Islamic state, because your ideas on what Muslim peoples are like and what Islam is like is massively incorrect. I personally don't like or favour any religion but at least if I'm going to voice an opinion on one I'll get my facts straight first.

You said, "educate yourself about islam by being around some muslims in an islamic state". You mean Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, or any middle east country where I could be decapitated for having a Christian Bible on my person? I think that being among people that ignorant and intolerant is just about the last place on earth I'd want to be.

[311thCopperhead]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

The Muslims and infidels (as we are called) have never been reconciled with each other since the Crusades.

It isn't about favoring any religion, it is written in the Koran to strike off the head of the infidel. There is no tolerance or peace possible when it is written in the Muslim bible. The only peace possible is temporary or tentative peace.

Europeans and the Brits have large problems with Muslim immigrants now. Kosovo and Serbia have certainly had their differences. The Russians have their problems with Muslims as well. It isn't about who is right are wrong, it is about being Muslim or not.

Religious beliefs are the most powerful motivators, i.e, the Al Queda. Tell me about tolerance, and mutual respect. There is none, Muslim radicals seek the death of all people, governments, etc. that are not Muslim. That is a clear mandate. What do you think when someone tells says they hate you , want to kill you and would do so if possible?

I'd say that is some darn serious chatter, only a fool would ignore such talk.

There are exceptions among Muslim believers that just want to live and let live, but they aren't very persuasive among their Muslim brothers. This may be the type Muslims about whom you are thinking.

You said, "educate yourself about islam by being around some muslims in an islamic state". You mean Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, or any middle east country where I could be decapitated for having a Christian Bible on my person? I think that being in a country like that is just about the last place on earth I'd want to be.

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Personally.....the feeling is mutual.

[mondo]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Sorry mates, i'm not buying it. The US administration doesn't have a beef with Muslims, it has a beef with anyone that's doesn't get along with their tune. Muslims have been in fact used as pawns to promote US interests, both for weakening USSR and Russia in Afghanistan and Caucasus, but also for subverting a possible rise of Europe as a financial power through the Balkan conflicts.

Agreed 100%. Before Muslims it was Communists. When Communism stopped posing a serious threat to Democracy another focus was needed. Why another focus was needed I'm not quite sure but it sure makes people more patriotic when there is a common enemy.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

You said, "educate yourself about islam by being around some muslims in an islamic state". You mean Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, or any middle east country where I could be decapitated for having a Christian Bible on my person? I think that being among people that ignorant and intolerant is just about the last place on earth I'd want to be.

Your the ignorant and intolerant as your using sweeping generalizations about cultures you clearly know nothing about or have ever bothered to visit. Yes, carrying the bible in Saudi is illegal, so what? Its not a death sentence.

Ever heard the term "When in Rome..."? Wearing a head scarf in government or educational establishments is illegal in Turkey (a predominantly Muslim nation with a secular government). People just get on with it, its the local law. Like if I go to the US and jaywalk, that might get me arrested. How daft is that says the man from Britain. But in the US I had to deal with the local intolerance towards pedestrians. I wasn't even carrying anything offensive, just wanting to cross the street, something perfectly legal to do in most of the rest of the world.

Go to Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Pakistan or the majority of Muslim nations and you'll see different faiths living side by side in perfectly tolerant and very old societies. Its unfair to put all Muslims under a generalisation because they are not all the same, not all Muslim nations are the same. And people tend to forget the problems in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, the Muslim nations people tend to always refer to are all because of Western nations interference (mainly Britain, then the USSR and now the US) over the last 80 years.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Religious beliefs are the most powerful motivators, i.e, the Al Queda. Tell me about tolerance, and mutual respect. There is none, Muslim radicals seek the death of all people, governments, etc. that are not Muslim. That is a clear mandate. What do you think when someone tells says they hate you , want to kill you and would do so if possible?

Generalisation again. Extremists make up a very small number of Muslims, a tiny number but they have loud voices. However some of there ideology towards other faiths is not really that much different to the Christian far right in the USA or the Catholic or Protestant churches towards other faiths until quite recent history.

[Bobb4]

There is no such thing as an Islamic Extremist. Islam is a religion of peace. There is no such thing as a Christian Extremist. Christianity is a religion of peace.
But there are people and they are daft buggers who like war. Even at a young age most of us buy our children guns, model tanks and planes and then we wonder why they grow-up and join the army.
So who causes war, daft buggers who buy their kids guns and stuff when they are young Amen.

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by mondo

Agreed 100%. Before Muslims it was Communists. When Communism stopped posing a serious threat to Democracy another focus was needed. Why another focus was needed I'm not quite sure but it sure makes people more patriotic when there is a common enemy.

Your the ignorant and intolerant as your using sweeping generalizations about cultures you clearly know nothing about or have ever bothered to visit. Yes, carrying the bible in Saudi is illegal, so what? Its not a death sentence.

Ever heard the term "When in Rome..."? Wearing a head scarf in government or educational establishments is illegal in Turkey (a predominantly Muslim nation with a secular government). People just get on with it, its the local law. Like if I go to the US and jaywalk, that might get me arrested. How daft is that says the man from Britain. But in the US I had to deal with the local intolerance towards pedestrians. I wasn't even carrying anything offensive, just wanting to cross the street, something perfectly legal to do in most of the rest of the world.

Go to Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Pakistan or the majority of Muslim nations and you'll see different faiths living side by side in perfectly tolerant and very old societies. Its unfair to put all Muslims under a generalisation because they are not all the same, not all Muslim nations are the same. And people tend to forget the problems in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, the Muslim nations people tend to always refer to are all because of Western nations interference (mainly Britain, then the USSR and now the US) over the last 80 years.

Generalisation again. Extremists make up a very small number of Muslims, a tiny number but they have loud voices. However some of there ideology towards other faiths is not really that much different to the Christian far right in the USA or the Catholic or Protestant churches towards other faiths until quite recent history.

You said, "Your the ignorant and intolerant as your using sweeping generalizations about cultures you clearly know nothing about or have ever bothered to visit."

You said, "Yes, carrying the bible in Saudi is illegal, so what? Its not a death sentence."

Then what is the sentence? Deportation after a lengthy prison sentence or worse? I haven't been in Saudi for some time, but they embrace many mundane infractions as forbidden in the the name of Islam.

The Americans on these boards will speak right up. We aren't ashamed of our record, regardless of how other people twist and spin their speculative poisons.

Your Jaywalk analogy is peculiar. Jaywalking laws are practically never enforced, but they aren't stupid. Those laws are to keep pedestrians out of vehiclar traffic to prevent them from getting killed or injured. IMO, they are good laws because I sure don't want to run over someone.

It written in the Koran in so many words to strike off the head of the infidel? It sure as heck is, and those kinds of words in the hands of the wrong people cause problems, mistrust and hatred.

In America, we currently have about 6 million muslims. We get along fine with them and Americans live side by side with them as well. Do you know we don't have any laws to prohibit those persons from carry a copy of the Koran, or owning it in our country. Do you know they actually enjoy all the freedoms of being an American, freedom of speech, freedom to worship as they please, freedom to evangelize other Americans. All things that are forbidden in Muslim dominated middle east countries.

I agree that so-called Muslim extremists are not intune with any religion. They use religion to further their agenda of hatred and murder. They justify their works on the basis of faith, but we all know it's a lie. The media all over the world prefers to use words that apply to religion, because it makes better press. Intelligent people know that, but those ignorant and deceived people that are strapping on those bombs and blowing themselves up don't get it.

Have you read about any vehement denials from Muslim clerics and leaders of those persons discouraging suicide attacks? I don't read of them trying to do anything about it.

An excerpt from PBS frontline:

A madrassa is an Islamic religious school. Many of the Taliban were educated in Saudi-financed madrassas in Pakistan that teach Wahhabism, a particularly austere and rigid form of Islam which is rooted in Saudi Arabia. Around the world, Saudi wealth and charities contributed to an explosive growth of madrassas during the Afghan jihad against the Soviets. During that war (1979-1989), a new kind of madrassa emerged in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region --
not so much concerned about scholarship as making war on infidels. The enemy then was the Soviet Union, today it's America.

Here is video from PBS..

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...etc/video.html

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