sir prince duke alevine wrote on Sep 29
th, 2017 at 9:55pm:
Oh sure, extremism exists in all religions. But it isn't the same type of extremism. Extremist Christians and Jews don't go around slaughtering non-believers not because 'their government is doing it for them' but simply because they don't interpret their religion in that fashion anymore.
Indeed alevine, and why do you think that is? Is it as FD and most others here argue that Islam is, as a doctrine, just so much more evil than any other religion? Or would you prefer to actually think beyond 5 year old logics, and look at some relevant socio-economic and political contexts? Do you think, for example, the Christians and Jews would rediscover their "God wants me to kill the heathen" beliefs if Europe or the US was periodically occupied and economically and politically under the thumb of say Saudi Arabia - for decades on end?
Quote:And how do we know this? Because even before the US and allies committed themselves to wars, Christians and Jews weren't the ones running around bombing people on the basis of their religion. Are you telling me their bloodlust before the wars was fullfilled by something else?
Let me put it this way - do you agree that the number of innocent civilians killed by the US and their allies in the post war era pales by a long long way in comparison to the number of innocent civilians killed by muslim terrorists - regardless of intent?