First off, I agree the muslems can build their mosque in the US under freedom of religion, just as Nazis and the KKK have a right to build a meeting hall. However, it does not allow them the right to plot, conspire, and act out against any other group of citizens for their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
[quote=Ren]Oh, I’m not torn enough that I don’t agree with you.
I’m only torn on whether or not we would be better off with a benevolent dictatorship, with Me at the helm.[/quote]
This sounds like someone from the past – Saddam…
He was a benevolent dictaorship that allowed sunnis, shiites, and christians to live in peace. Only because he ruled the country with an iron fist and did not want any group to assert his power of death and control. Everyone knew in Iraq, if you were killed, it was because Saddam or his regime wanted you killed. There was no terrorism except that from the State. Now that Saddam has been displaced and no freedom of religion was not put into Iraq’s constitutional law, the christians are being displaced by mainly the shiites. In Iraq, most sunnis accept the christians and do not actively pursecute them.
The sunnis rely on the christian in two ways. First, the christians are a buffer from the shiites. The shiites will more readily attack the christians than their bothers of Islam. However, once most of the christians are removed, the focus of the more attacks will be against the sunnis. Second, from the time of babylonia, the chaldeans-assyrian have been a source of business and entrepreneurial capitalistic spirit.
[quote=Ren]The “out of context” thing isn’t an excuse, and it is true, although of course that doesn’t help solve the problem. In general, they are not as culturally advanced as western states, so more of them take religious works literally. If you removed Islam from the equation and put Christianity in its place, you would have entire mid-eastern countries treating women exactly the way they were treated in the Old Testament, and stoning people, and crucifying people. In other words, exactly what they’re doing now, which is what Christians did for centuries. It’s the primitive thinking of the people, not the religion, in my opinion. I do think that Islam is mostly responsible for reversing their progress. At one point, they were quite advanced and made Europe look pathetic by comparison, as the mid-east looks to us now.[/quote]
In the past, Iran and Iraq were leaders in the eyes of western civilization. The Iraqi hospitals had newer, better equipment the most US hospitals in the early eighties. Iran has been going backwards since it has become a religious state. If Saddam did not attack Kuwait, Iraq could still exist in its greatest state. But, as the intellectuals have fled Iraq since the first gulf war. Iraq has also been reversing progress.
The difference between the christians and the muslims is christians will openly condemn the acts of other christian’s actions done in the name of God. Whereas, muslims will not because it is against their religion as an act of betrayal and they will be punished by their God or by other muslims.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
It becomes very difficult to treat others as equals when they do not perform their duties as responsible citizens.
Lucky In OC
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” – Winston Churchill
