Cu Chulainn wrote on Jan 5
th, 2019 at 8:46pm:
Bam wrote on Jan 5
th, 2019 at 8:26pm:
Cu Chulainn wrote on Jan 3
rd, 2019 at 1:23am:
Bam wrote on Jan 2
nd, 2019 at 11:53pm:
freediver wrote on Jan 2
nd, 2019 at 7:32pm:
Islam is the greatest modern threat to freedom and democracy.
If by Biblical law you mean some kind of "Christian" law, you are wrong. Christianity is on the other end of the spectrum to Islam. The very concept of biblical law is antithetical to Christian doctrine.
Which is of course why it is Muslims, not Christians, raping and pillaging their way across the middle east.
Why are there some Christians in the USA openly calling for people to be killed? Did you even read the articles? Denying the problem is not going to make it go away.
It doesn't matter if it's Muslims seeking to impose Sharia law or Christians seeking to impose Biblical law. In both cases, a small minority of fanatics want to kill people in the name of their faith. Both must be opposed with equal vigour.
There's a huge difference between the two, one of them has wealthy countries that fund them all over the world and are supported in their views by up to 20% of the other >1.2 billion or so adherents, the others are looked on with with disdain by most people of their faith, and will never get their way and do nothing more than talk. One is far more dangerous than the other.
The problem with your post: it's not possible to tell which group of dangerous fanatics is which.
True and seeing as Islam has a higher percentage, up to 25% of 1.8 billion that think extremism is OK, which should we be more concerned about? We don't have Christians going around the world killing people as much as some like to run at the mouth, on the other hand...
Tell me which is more of a threat.
That is a silly argument full of fallacies. Christian terrorism is different - cross burnings, murders of specific people, massacres of people in their places of worship, bombings and so on: many targeted attacks killing and injuring small numbers of people, rather than indiscriminate attacks that kill hundreds or more.
In the USA, Christian terrorists are the bigger threat by number of attacks (far right terrorism is the biggest threat), and if dangerous Christian fanaticism was allowed to spread, it would be a danger elsewhere. Christianity and the far right is a particularly dangerous combination.
Islamic fanaticism has about a 30-year to 40-year head start on Christian fanaticism, but that doesn't mean Christian fanaticism isn't a threat. For example, more terrorist attacks in the USA have been perpetuated by Christians than Muslims in the past 30 years. Muslims have the single most deadly attack of course, but don't make the mistake of assuming from that that Muslims also hold down positions 2 to 10 on a list of top 10 deadliest attacks on US soil. They don't.
We should not make the mistake of ignoring the threat of Christian terrorism, Islamic terrorism, far right terrorism or any other known threat. We need to be mindful of
all known threats, not just pick one and ignore the rest.
I never said to worry about just one although it makes sense to pay particular interest to the one that kills the most people around the world, don't you think? You seem to be only using the US for your argument.