Soren wrote on Aug 17
th, 2014 at 8:01pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Aug 17
th, 2014 at 1:26am:
Soren wrote on Aug 16
th, 2014 at 10:04pm:
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What's wrong with being utterly unsympathetic to all its premises and teachings and all the actions committed and performed in its name? Why do I have to like the bloody thing??
You don't but you have to tolerate it and it's adherents when they are not breaking any laws, Soren. Intense dislike, to the point of hatred which is unreasoning is bigotry.
I am tolerating them, numpty. I am not doing any of the intolerant things that the sons of Allah do every day - threaten death, violence and actually carry out violence and murder.
No, you just persecute them because of their religious beliefs, Soren, every day and in every post that you post in this forum.
Quote:I am simply SAYING that Islam has nothing to recommend it.
No, you carry it beyond "simply" saying to persecution. You attack and rail against anything and anybody who is Muslim. One only has to read your responses to Gandalf's reasoned pointed to see that.
Quote:I don't like a few other ideologies. I do not have to like what you think, Brain.
Not asking you to. I am suggesting that you need to give Muslims are fair go though, Soren. Something you demonstrably have not done here, ever, as far as I can tell.
Quote:You can think what you want but I do not have to say 'Oh, that's noice , Brain'. I do not have to think that just because a billion people believe in something it must be therefore OK.
You don't have to think their religion is "noice", Soren. What you do though, have to do is be part of a civil society where people listen to one another's views and not persecute them because of guilt by association with the lunatic fringe of their religion.
Did Fred Phelps represent your version of Christianity? Joseph Koney? Tomas de Torquemada? 'cause they are examples of how you come across, Soren with your continued and determined bigotry against anything and everybody to do with Islam who disagrees with you.
Quote:Insofar as a Muslim can treat his religion as a PRIVATE devotion and not a political program, he is welcome to it and will have no bad word from me.
Funny, that is not the impression I get from your posts where you have attacked anybody who dares to admit to being a Muslim. Nor in the way which you treat anybody you even suspect of being a Muslim. How many times have you accused me and others who preach tolerance of being Muslim, as if that is the greatest insult you can conjure?
Quote:Some old timers are doing just that. It is very thin spiritual gruel but they are welcome to it in peace.
How can they when you are continually posting your vitriol and hatred for them and any other Muslim in the world? Telling them that ALL Muslims, them included are dishonest, followers of a "cult", that their spiritual leader was a paedophile and other insulting things? You really are naive if you think this sort of attitude that you continually express here does not take a toll!
Quote:But ascendant Islam is militant, political and activists. I am totally against it.
I am against you and your ilk, Soren. Always will be. Hatred, intolerance, bigotry - doesn't matter who spouts it, it is still not acceptable in our modern society. Be it a salafist Islamist or you. Both are the same and for the same reasons to - narrow mindedness, ignorance and hatred.