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Reply #75 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:43pm
 
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moses, do you not see the logical inconsistency of citing what a minority of muslims believe and do as the embodiment proof of what the Quran says?

Don't you think it makes more sense to base it on what the majority believe and do?


But it is proof gandalf.

Of course you cite them and the verses they quote as their justification.

They are a huge worldwide problem, they take the qur'an literally and innocents endure unimaginable pain and suffering because the qur'an ordained it.

You then say oh we are going to *rationalize* the cause.

This will never work gandalf, as there will always be those who don't *rationalize*, which in turn means that the bloodshed is never ending.

I reiterate;

muhammad never preached using symbols, parables, numbers etc., he told you it's taught in a simple way and easy to understand, yet you turn yourselves inside out trying to make out there is some deep hidden spiritual meaning.

islamic terrorism is ideological terrorism gandalf, there is only one way to overcome it (if you want to) and that is to denounce the many and varied evil verses in the ideology.   
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Reply #76 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 6:33pm
 
moses wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:43pm:
But it is proof gandalf.


But how?

Try and answer this by specifcally explaining your logic that the beliefs and behaviour of a minority is somehow a better representation of a religion than the beliefs and behaviour of the vast majority.
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Reply #77 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:06pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:13pm:
moses, do you not see the logical inconsistency of citing what a minority of muslims believe and do as the embodiment proof of what the Quran says?

Don't you think it makes more sense to base it on what the majority believe and do?

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 1:35pm:
Your sincerity would be a bit easier to accept if you did not save your "peaceful interpretations" exclusively for non-Muslims. Even if we accept your sincerity, by itself it is not enough. It is the sincerity of the useful idiot western convert who refuses to see what he has signed up for, and whose efforts only serve to misrepresent Islam to those who might actually provide a real challenge to the Islamofascists.


To be honest, this doesn't make much sense to me, but it sounds like you are accusing me of irresponsibly "signing up" to Islam without knowing what it is about - and this act somehow undermines reformists within Islam. I'm not very clear on the process here. Please can you elaborate on this with more specific details? Thanks.


You are not reforming Islam. You are reforming the public perception of Islam among non-Muslims. You are not merely failing to achieve the positive change you claim to champion, you are hindering it and excusing the very people who would jail you for your opinion.

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Reply #78 - Mar 12th, 2019 at 11:08pm
 



WWW search....
"Is It Really Human Beings Doing This?"
Persecution of Christians, January 2019
by Raymond Ibrahim
March 10, 2019
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13851/christians-persecution-january

[see the article.
in 2017, the UK offered asylum to     eleven     Christian Syrian refugees.
Q. how many Yazidi refugees did the UK offer asylum to in 2017 ?
and how many moslem Syrian refugees ? see the article.
Q. who in the UK government/Home Office has the influence and authority to be approving acceptance to the UK, of what are, predominantly, large numbers of moslems refugees ?]

"Muslims are one ummah (community) to the exclusion of all men. Believers are friends of one another to the exclusion of all outsiders." WWW search
"And those with him [Mohammed] are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves....."
Koran 48.29




WWW search....
Ohio: Muslim who tried to join ISIS asks for leniency: “I was confused but my intent was to be part of the solution”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019

[ISLAM is the solution.   because ISLAM is peace. ]

'ISLAM is the answer'
IMAGE....
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ArDjN9ECEAAm36A.jpg




WWW search....
Italy: Muslim migrants stabs two passersby in train station, cops say it’s not terror-related
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019

['cops say it’s not terror-related'  ....in all Western nations, the cops invariably do say that.
because today, all serving police are trained to be 'sensitive', and politically 'progressive' in their public manner,
and it is not 'progressive', [to confront the truth, and] to admit that all moslems are moslems [followers of ISLAM].
coz, such a conclusion would be 'counter-productive'.]

"Fighting [against disbelievers] is prescribed for you, and [if] ye dislike it.....Allah knoweth, and ye know not."
Koran 2.216
"O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him)."
Koran 9.123




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Philadelphia mosque where imam preached Jew-hatred says they’re “shocked and outraged” that he did
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019

["We are shocked and outraged..." i tell youse, that one of our guest speakers     got caught     making reprehensible anti-Jewish remarks!
coz everyone knows that ISLAM teaches to only extend peace and tolerance, towards those who are not moslems. ]

"......the curse of Allah is on those without Faith."
Koran 2.089
"....Lo! Allah is an enemy to those who reject Faith."
Koran 2.98
"....those who reject Allah have no protector."
Koran 47.008
v. 8-11




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Accused blasphemer Asia Bibi still trapped in Pakistan, denied medical care
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019

['by hook or by crook' we will kill this infidel blasphemer.]




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Islamic State Muslima grabs uncovered hair of female reporter: “Have you not read the Qur’an, are you not ashamed?”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019

[Q. why do the enthusiastic followers of ISIS believe        that forcing infidels to obey ISLAMIC law "....has everything to do with Islam, and [why do followers of ISIS] constantly cite Islamic texts to support its....policies and positions."  ??? ]




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Philadelphia: Muslim cleric says “the Jews are the vilest people”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019

[Q. why does he say such a thing ?    could it be, because all 'disbelievers' are so decribed, in the Koran,
and therefore, Jews 'qualify' too ? ]

disbeliever = = 'the worst of creatures' - google it
Koran 98.6

disbeliever = = 'the vilest of animals' - google it
Koran 8.55




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ISIS jihadi vows “new conquests in the future. We will seek vengeance, there will be blood up to your knees.”
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019

[but, but, ISIS is finished now,   isn't it ???
too naive !!
hey dreamer, wake up!      every moslem is a moslem [a followers of ISLAM].
and ISLAM's imperative, is that its followers should all take part in the never-ending [sometimes hot, and sometimes cool] war upon all mankind, until ISLAMIC law has been imposed everywhere [so as to assure an age of secure peace for all of mankind].
'Let us do evil, that good may come.'   ]

"Fighting [against disbelievers] is prescribed for you, and [if] ye dislike it.....Allah knoweth, and ye know not."
Koran 2.216

Koran 2.98,  Koran 47.08-11,    Koran 4.74-76




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Germany: Muslim screams “Allahu akbar” at funeral service for woman murdered by Muslim migrant
By Robert Spencer on Mar 10, 2019
"Many people at the church, hearing these screams of “Allahu akbar,” fled."

[coz, ISLAM is peace.]

Allah's Apostle said,
"I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy)...."
hadith/bukhari #004.052.220

Allah's Apostle said,
".....I have been given superiority......; I have been helped by terror (in the hearts of enemies):....."
hadithsunnah/muslim/ #004.1062



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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
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Reply #79 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 1:18am
 
freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:06pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:13pm:
moses, do you not see the logical inconsistency of citing what a minority of muslims believe and do as the embodiment proof of what the Quran says?

Don't you think it makes more sense to base it on what the majority believe and do?

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 1:35pm:
Your sincerity would be a bit easier to accept if you did not save your "peaceful interpretations" exclusively for non-Muslims. Even if we accept your sincerity, by itself it is not enough. It is the sincerity of the useful idiot western convert who refuses to see what he has signed up for, and whose efforts only serve to misrepresent Islam to those who might actually provide a real challenge to the Islamofascists.


To be honest, this doesn't make much sense to me, but it sounds like you are accusing me of irresponsibly "signing up" to Islam without knowing what it is about - and this act somehow undermines reformists within Islam. I'm not very clear on the process here. Please can you elaborate on this with more specific details? Thanks.


You are not reforming Islam. You are reforming the public perception of Islam among non-Muslims. You are not merely failing to achieve the positive change you claim to champion, you are hindering it and excusing the very people who would jail you for your opinion.

You polish, so that others may eat.


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Reply #80 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 11:40am
 
freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:06pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:13pm:
moses, do you not see the logical inconsistency of citing what a minority of muslims believe and do as the embodiment proof of what the Quran says?

Don't you think it makes more sense to base it on what the majority believe and do?

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 1:35pm:
Your sincerity would be a bit easier to accept if you did not save your "peaceful interpretations" exclusively for non-Muslims. Even if we accept your sincerity, by itself it is not enough. It is the sincerity of the useful idiot western convert who refuses to see what he has signed up for, and whose efforts only serve to misrepresent Islam to those who might actually provide a real challenge to the Islamofascists.


To be honest, this doesn't make much sense to me, but it sounds like you are accusing me of irresponsibly "signing up" to Islam without knowing what it is about - and this act somehow undermines reformists within Islam. I'm not very clear on the process here. Please can you elaborate on this with more specific details? Thanks.


You are not reforming Islam. You are reforming the public perception of Islam among non-Muslims.


The two are not mutually exclusive FD. Of course I am attempting to "reform the public perception of Islam among non-Muslims" on this forum - as I'm the only muslim here, attempting to defend Islam against an almost exclusive membership of hostile non-muslims. What else would you expect me to do here?

When I engage in "reforming Islam", I certainly wouldn't do it here. And if I did I would be rightly told to "go tell it to your co-religionists".
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Reply #81 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 11:43am
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:13pm:

moses, do you not see the logical inconsistency of citing what a minority of muslims believe and do as the embodiment proof of what the Quran says?


Don't you think it makes more sense to base it on what the majority believe and do?







gandalf,

Are       the 'majority'      of moslems, followers of ISLAM ?



gandalf,

Are you a moslem ?

Are you, a follower of ISLAM ?

As a follower of ISLAM what facts and historic testimonies define your religion ?



Do you know who Mohammed, Allah's messenger, is ?

And what did he teach ?

Did Mohammed go on raiding 'partys', and kill men, and take their women, and have sex with them ?

Did Mohammed kill men and women, because they criticised him, publicly ?



gandalf,

Who is Allah ?

And what defines his character ?

Does Allah encourage his followers to fight those who reject his religion ?




gandalf,

What is the Koran ?

Have you every heard its name ?

Does the Koran contain the inerrant and immutable words of Allah ?

What does Allah command his followers to do,      again, and again, and again, in the Koran ?



.



THE HADITH....

"...the Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him."
- DEAD.
hadithsunnah/bukhari/ #004.052.260



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Reply #82 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 12:59pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 11:40am:
freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 7:06pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 3:13pm:
moses, do you not see the logical inconsistency of citing what a minority of muslims believe and do as the embodiment proof of what the Quran says?

Don't you think it makes more sense to base it on what the majority believe and do?

freediver wrote on Mar 12th, 2019 at 1:35pm:
Your sincerity would be a bit easier to accept if you did not save your "peaceful interpretations" exclusively for non-Muslims. Even if we accept your sincerity, by itself it is not enough. It is the sincerity of the useful idiot western convert who refuses to see what he has signed up for, and whose efforts only serve to misrepresent Islam to those who might actually provide a real challenge to the Islamofascists.


To be honest, this doesn't make much sense to me, but it sounds like you are accusing me of irresponsibly "signing up" to Islam without knowing what it is about - and this act somehow undermines reformists within Islam. I'm not very clear on the process here. Please can you elaborate on this with more specific details? Thanks.


You are not reforming Islam. You are reforming the public perception of Islam among non-Muslims.


The two are not mutually exclusive FD. Of course I am attempting to "reform the public perception of Islam among non-Muslims" on this forum - as I'm the only muslim here, attempting to defend Islam against an almost exclusive membership of hostile non-muslims. What else would you expect me to do here?

When I engage in "reforming Islam", I certainly wouldn't do it here. And if I did I would be rightly told to "go tell it to your co-religionists".


Reforming the image of Islam among non-Muslims does nothing at all to actually reform Islam. You avoiding arguing with the other Muslims while they were still on this forum. I am only aware, by third hand accounts, of you trying to debate with Muslims on that Aussie-Muslims forum, and they swiftly banned you.  Yet you somehow manage to defend the jailing of Ahok on blasphemy charges as if it has no significant impact on freedom of speech.

What we see is you doing exclusively one, not the other. And this is not unique to you. If Muslims spent half as much time actually trying to fix the problems with Islam rather than trying to convince non-Muslims there is nothing to see here, we would not be having this debate.

Instead, all we see is the taqiyya merchants on the pulpit, and the apparently sincere but naive western converts who signed up to an idea of Islam that has barely any connection to the reality.
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Reply #83 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 2:15pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 12:59pm:
Reforming the image of Islam among non-Muslims does nothing at all to actually reform Islam. You avoiding arguing with the other Muslims while they were still on this forum.


Firstly, I have no intention of "reforming Islam" on this forum. Why would I? The very idea of doing so on a forum where I am the only muslim makes absolutely no sense. What I try to do here is pick up on the mistruths and flawed logic written about Islam and muslims, and present an alternative view. Secondly, Abu was the only muslim on this forum when I joined, and he was gone within about a month. Yet even within that time I pulled him up on several BS claims and arguments. To say I "avoided" talking to the one muslim who was here for all of a few weeks of me joining - is simply wrong. If anything I targeted him - as I targeted him on another forum he retreated to for a while afterwards.

freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 12:59pm:
Yet you somehow manage to defend the jailing of Ahok on blasphemy charges


Completely false.

freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 12:59pm:
What we see is you doing exclusively one, not the other. And this is not unique to you. If Muslims spent half as much time actually trying to fix the problems with Islam rather than trying to convince non-Muslims there is nothing to see here, we would not be having this debate.


Of course I only do "exclusively one" here FD - for the reasons I've already explained. And with respect, you don't have the first clue what I do or don't do when I am in the company of muslims. But while ever I'm here and being confronted by blatant mistruths and unfair smearing of muslims, I will refute it. And if ever there is another muslim who joins us and starts spouting crap in defence of Islam, I won't hesitate to refute them as well.'

Your exposure to what gandalf the muslim does or doesn't do in talking about Islam is restricted to a single forum where he is relentlessly bombarded by attacks against muslims and Islam. And I conduct myself accordingly, as civily and politely as I can. This is but a tiny window of the whole gandalf story, the vast majority of which you have no idea about  Smiley
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Reply #84 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 3:10pm
 
gandalf wrote Reply 76 yesterday at 6.33pm
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But it is proof gandalf.
gandalf wrote Quote:
But how?

Try and answer this by specifcally explaining your logic that the beliefs and behaviour of a minority is somehow a better representation of a religion than the beliefs and behaviour of the vast majority.


Because gandi, the argument has been, the qur'an needs glossing over ignoring or rationalizing and reinterpreting, in order for islam to catch up to Judaism and Christianity in the world peace stakes.

The minority you speak of, who follow the qur'an literally, are the ones who have the entire globes attention right now.

Their obedience to the literal word of the qur'an has / is causing untold amounts of grief bloodshed and death, around the world right now today 2019.

They have the attention of every nation on this earth because, as they tell us, they are following their sacred destiny of jihad against the unbeliever the apostate and hypocrites.

Gandi the qur'an has a majority theme of muslim supremacy and oppression of the unbelievers.

islam divides the world into two realms: 

1/.dar al-Islam the house or region of submission, those lands under muslim rule.

2/.dar  al-Harb  the house or region of war, those lands where muslims are  in  the  minority. 

For  muslims  peace  will only be achieved when the whole world is dar al-Islam. Until that time there will be conflict in dar al-Harb.

The qur'an totally supports this surmise, with the jihadists who are devoted to turning the globe into dar al-Islam can 100% cite the very teachings which praise cause and motivate their global jihadist terrorism.

For you to tell us that you're going to reinterpret rationalize disregard glossover (name your preferred excuse here) the qur'an to stop the jihadists, is to admit that the book is flawed and needs tampering with.

So we have the jihadists who accept the qur'an in its present form and are the global terrorists today.

Or the *moderates* who won't denounce the evil which actuates islamic terrorism, instead saying they are going to reinterpret rationalize disregard glossover (name your preferred excuse here) the qur'an.

You will never stop islamic terrorism by falsely saying oh it all means something else, we'll just ignore those bad bits.

Because gandalf, there will always be muslims who are not prepared to use a manufactured excuse. They will follow the literal qur'an to the very letter.

Which means that islamic terrorism will perpetuate.
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Reply #85 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 3:12pm
 
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What I try to do here is pick up on the mistruths and flawed logic written about Islam and muslims, and present an alternative view.


You don't merely present an alternative view, G, you present the correct view. I don't know how many times you've picked up Moses' ludicrous misinterpretations or FD's porkies. It is essential in a debate to point out the facts to start from.

The belief that Islam decrees suicide bombing and taking out non-Muslims is completely misguided. You show how these beliefs are incompatible with the Quran. Muslims are forbidden from killing people outside the field of battle and a formal declaration of war. Suicide and the killing of innocents is classed as murder. Muslims must obey the local law of whatever place they find themselves in. Forced conversion to Islam is against Islamic teachings, and on and on and on.

From what I can see, your reading of the Quran is simply the accepted Muslim view. Every Muslim I've ever discussed these things with has said the same. I'm not sure about Abu, but even he would say that tough times deserve tough measures, acknowledging that his views go beyond Islamic teachings.

You're not practicing Taqiyya, which apart from granting permission to flatter, was only ever a way for Muslims to deny they were Muslim under torture or threat of death.  It is completely against Islam to lie about the teachings.

Nor are there two versions of Islam as FD pretends - a liberal version for the Western converts and a backward tribal one for the tinted races.

When David Hicks converted and indicated he wanted to go and fight to defend Muslims, no Muslims supported it. He was repeatedly talked out of this by his imam, his Muslim community in Australia, and the travelling prayer group he joined in Pakistan. As he said, it was impossible to become a Jihadist through the conservative mainstream community.

So much for the highest grade of Muslim being those who slay and be slain. And contrary to the usual hissies here about why Muslim leaders sit silent every time some terrorist attack happens, leaders in Australia are constantly condemning such attacks as unIslamic, both to the media and in their mosques. And God forbid they ever say they get weary condemning ISIS for the hundredth time. If they do, there's the next Daily Mail headline: Muslim leader refuses to condemn Islamic terrorism.

As far as I can see, G, your reading of Islam is mainstream Islamic teaching. Do you find this in the Muslim community you belong to, or do you find yourself correcting extremist views along with the imams?
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Reply #86 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 4:01pm
 
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Because gandi, the argument has been, the qur'an needs glossing over ignoring or rationalizing and reinterpreting, in order for islam to catch up to Judaism and Christianity in the world peace stakes.


The non-peaceful parts of the Bible have not been corrected or "renounced", dear. The Torah and the Bible are seen by Judaism and Christianity as the unerring, unalterable word of God.

Indeed, it was so unalterable that the Old Testament was handed down through the generations by word of mouth. Not a word was changed.

Christians don't have to renounce St Paul's views to allow female ministers or accept gays into their congregations. Jews don't have to renounce Leviticus to justify not stoning adulterers to death. Indeed, many religious Jews don't even circumcise their sons (or any servants they may have). They certainly don't all sacrifice lambs at Passover.

It is quite possible to be a modern subject and have an ancient religion without "renouncing" anything. Jews sometimes conduct a symbolic bris for their sons without the circumcision. They hold to the belief that it's the thought that counts. Jews will even put "symbolic" blood on their doorsteps for Passover - quite an evolution for a religion based on a blood covenant.

The Quran, of course, outlines no such specific laws or rituals. The 5 pillars is it. Even circumcision is just a recommendation.

So I'm curious. Why should only Muslims have to renounce their book? Why not Jews and Christians?

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Reply #87 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:14pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 2:15pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 12:59pm:
Yet you somehow manage to defend the jailing of Ahok on blasphemy charges


Completely false.


You defended it by downplaying it's significance for freedom of speech and the "free market of ideas" you claim exists in Muslim countries, and misrepresenting every criticism that was made of it. You somehow replaced my argument with "every single person in Indonesia will self censor as a result".

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Of course I only do "exclusively one" here FD - for the reasons I've already explained. And with respect, you don't have the first clue what I do or don't do when I am in the company of muslims


I can only tell you what I see from you and other Muslims Gandalf - a "reform agenda" that could be either deliberate taqiyya merchants or sincere but naive converts who somehow managed to see something good in Islam but are too polite or scared to confront other Muslims with it - either way, the outcome is the same. Great effort to present a face of Islam to non-Muslims that is completely at odds with the reality, and an absence of genuine reform in Islam.
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Reply #88 - Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:37pm
 
freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:14pm:
You defended it by downplaying it's significance for freedom of speech and the "free market of ideas" you claim exists in Muslim countries


Even if that was an accurate description of what I did it would be a falacious logical leap. Defending Ahok's gaoling would be saying or implying that its ok and/or appropriate - not downplaying its significance (in anything). But what it means in this case, is that because I dispute your baseless claim that one case of a politician going to gaol for trumped up blasphemy charges means that there can't possibly be free and open religious debate across the whole of Indonesian society - I am therefore defending it.

freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:14pm:
You somehow replaced my argument with "every single person in Indonesia will self censor as a result".


You have yet to offer an alternative interpretation to your blanket opaque claim that "people [without qualification] will self censor" - to the extent that the entire society is an "Islamofascist oppressive shithole". But I'm happy to concede "almost every single person" if you like.

freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:14pm:
I can only tell you what I see from you and other Muslims Gandalf


Thats the problem here FD - you are trying to tell me what I do in contexts in which you *DON'T* see me, and therefore have no idea about.

freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:14pm:
a "reform agenda" that could be either deliberate taqiyya merchants or sincere but naive converts who somehow managed to see something good in Islam but are too polite or scared to confront other Muslims with it


Phew - just as well you are only telling me what you *SEE* from muslims eh FD! Do you have hidden cameras set up at my local mosque?  Wink
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Outlawing the enemy's uniform - hijab, islamic beard - is not depriving one's own people of their freedoms.
 
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Re: If you care, PAY ATTENTION, to what they say
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polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:37pm:
freediver wrote on Mar 13th, 2019 at 6:14pm:
You defended it by downplaying it's significance for freedom of speech and the "free market of ideas" you claim exists in Muslim countries


Even if that was an accurate description of what I did it would be a falacious logical leap. Defending Ahok's gaoling would be saying or implying that its ok and/or appropriate - not downplaying its significance (in anything).


So you "logical" argument is that you were not defending Ahok's jailing because there is only one possible way to defend something?

You make it your job to polish the turds of Islam. You have your work cut out for you.
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