Brian Ross wrote on May 10
th, 2013 at 10:33pm:
Lionel Edriess wrote on May 10
th, 2013 at 9:37pm:
Soren wrote on May 10
th, 2013 at 8:51pm:
Brian, are you saying that if one doesn't know a Nazi personally, one should not form a view about Nazism? Or a Communist -Communism? Or the KKK without knowing a klansman personally? Do you actually have to put your hand in the fire to be able to say that it's hot?
You ARE a newby to Brian's arguments, aren't you?
Now he'll ask how hot the fire was and how calloused your hands were - because IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
Global Islamic aggression should be ignored because it doesn't involve ALL Muslims and it is not supported by ALL the various adherents of an interpretive faith.
Sorta makes you wonder what the Swiss Guards might have in the back of their minds, eh?
As usual, Lionel you read what you want into my views.
I don't believe there is such a thing as "Global Islamic aggression" because there is no central directing or controlling person or people within Islam to create it. I believe there is "Islamic aggression", which can be attributed to individual or groups of Muslims. However, that does not mean you can blame all Muslims for what other Muslims do. That is guilt by association and is exactly what the Takfiri Islamists resort to when they attack (verbally/physically/in writing) "the West".
Like them, Lionel, you're boxing at a strawman representation of Islam as a homogeneous, monolithic entity. with all Muslims working together to bring about this sort of "aggression" you perceive.
This is exactly what anti-Semites do with Jews and Judaism. You are basically persecuting people. You're doing it not because of what they have done individually but
because of your prejudices.
That is bigotry.You see Islam as a challenge to your complacent existence because its followers are different and act differently to what you believe is the norm. A norm which I have repeatedly challenged you to define but which you have steadfastly refused to do so because you realise
to do so would mean that your prejudice would be exposed. Brian_Ross,
It is not prejudice or bigotry,
to recognise,
to be cognisant of, the 'inspiration' and influence which ISLAM has upon the behaviour and the attitude of every moslem, towards non-moslems.
You are a
wilfully ignorant man Brian_Ross, imo.
By declaring;
;
.....a moslem, every moslem, is
directly associating themselves with the 'religious' violence which ISLAM justifies,
legitimises, promotes and encourages [as a philosophy].
And every moslem is thereby associating >> themselves << with those violent acts which are purposefully being done,
'in the name of Allah'.i
Koran 2.98
Koran 47:8-11
Koran 4.74-76The content of those three Koran verse groups, together, form a 'virtuous circle'.
Each verse group firstly confirms and then reinforces the ISLAMIC 'religious' paradigm, that;
1/ unbelief [in man] is a serious 'religious' crime, and that,
2/ the 'criminals' [i.e. the 'unbelievers'] deserve every punishment they get, and the 'criminals' are outside of the protection of law, and that,
3/ good moslems have an obligation to, ....'fight in the cause of Allah' , and all good moslems are 'rightly guided' and are justified in their 'crime fighting'.Those arguments [above] are 'logically' demonstrated...
1/
"...Allah is an enemy to those who reject Faith." [i.e. 'Unbelief' [in man] is a crime.].
Koran 2.98
[ - - The enemy of moslems is identified. All of 'unbelieving' mankind, are the declared enemy of moslems.]
2/
"...those who reject Allah have no protector."Koran 47:8-11
[ - - Here, it is clearly stated to every good moslem, that moslem enmity, violence, and warfare, against 'those who reject Faith', is morally justified, and 'lawful'. /sarc off]
3/
"...And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah...Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah, and those who reject Faith Fight in the cause of Evil: So fight ye against the friends of Satan:...."Koran 4.74-76
[ - - Those who reject 'Faith' are ipso facto, 'rightly' deemed as being innately evil by ISLAM, and by Allah. Therefore
those who reject 'Faith', are the rightful targets of moslem enmity, violence, and warfare.
...'those who reject Faith' are also described [Koran 4.74-76], as 'oppressors' and as, 'the friends of Satan'.]
Once again, the ideology which ISLAM inculcates within all moslems, is this;...1/ 'Unbelief' [in man] is a crime.
2/ The 'criminals' have no 'lawful' protection whatsoever.
3/ The crime of 'unbelief' >> must << be punished, and punishment of 'unbelief' is morally justified, because, the 'unbelievers' are in league with evil forces who are the oppressors of the people [stated in Koran 4.74-76].