Christians have done their fair share of creating mass devistation. Crusades, anyone?

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What posesses me to write what you have suffered.
I'm in this mood because of scorn. I'm in a mood for total war.
To the darkened skies once more, and ever onward.

Of course there are violent fundamentalists in other religions, not just Islam, for example, the Christian extremists who murder abortionists. And not forgetting the Crusades.

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Although Islam saya its a peaceful religion how peaceful is it that people blow themselves up in name of Islam.  Terrorists attacks (9/11) are directly related to the teachings and iterpretations.  You dont see Christians blowing themselves up or creating mass devistation in name of Christianity.  Im just wondering how other people feel about this.  I know that everyone who practices Islam arent terrorists but a lot of the terrorism today is some how/some way related to Islam.  

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Note to adminstration, MAKE THE TEST MUCH HARDER

The 9/11 attacks were commited by a fringe group of a fringe group. Wahhabism is only a fraction of the rest of Islam and OBL follows a extremist version of that. His intereprtation is NOT mainstream and has been criticized by Islamic Holy men around the world.

Check out West Burro Baptists before you slam Islam for it's fringe groups.

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Although Islam saya its a peaceful religion how peaceful is it that people blow themselves up in name of Islam.  Terrorists attacks (9/11) are directly related to the teachings and iterpretations.  You dont see Christians blowing themselves up or creating mass devistation in name of Christianity.  Im just wondering how other people feel about this.  I know that everyone who practices Islam arent terrorists but a lot of the terrorism today is some how/some way related to Islam.  

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Lloyd, this is the intellectual forum. We all know this place is somewhat a joke on David's part, but honestly, go away.

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Islams that are out there blowing themselves up for Allah are extremists. The religion really is peaceful, and the sane ones know that blowing yourself up is not the way to get to Heaven.

Christians have done their fair share of creating mass devistation. Crusades, anyone?

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I'm afraid that Islam is anything but peaceful. The leader of Islam, the "holy prophet" Muhammed was a murderous plunderer. It's roots are dug deep in violence and hatred. No religion can remain peaceful with roots like Islam's.

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You dont see Christians blowing themselves up or creating mass devistation in name of Christianity.

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WHATS THIS THING??????

(Edited by ajm51987 at 5:05 pm on Mar. 12, 2006)

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Well damn!

It's immature to generalize an entire culture of people because of a few irrational individuals.

Not all followers of Islam partake in that type of thing. Many have higher placed morals.

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Yeah, my parents talk about this alot, that Islam is a very agressive religion. I'm not saying that it preaches hate but it definetely isn't as accepting and is up for interpretation. It's not that all Muslims are terrorists, but all the recent terrorists are Muslims, you can't honestly say that that is simply a coincidence.

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As accepting as what? As accepting as Puritans and the Westboro Baptist Church?

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As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!............................................

As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!

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Terrorists can come from all sorts of races/religions, and I'm sure Islam teachings don't promote violence. However I do think Muslims (Christians as well) aren't genuine ones if they go out to cause death and destruction.

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What strikes me as interesting, is how apparently quick people are to separate an outlandish fringe group from the culture proper in the interest of preserving its integrity and ability to be reconciled with a peaceful worldview.

But are these possibly violent outlooks just relegated to a few splinter groups?  

What of the bounty placed on Salman Rushdie's head by the theocracy of Iran?  That's a fucking country (spare my language) with political power, not a small splinter group.  In fact, I believe his Italian and Japanese translators ended up being killed by 'extremests' (I'm not sure on thsi detail actually, I know there was a death or two involved, but I'm not entirely sure which).

What of the boycott of Danish goods?  Europe's separation of Church and State is as old as the French Revolution, and is an inherent part of European culture.  Can it not be argued that Arab countries are being culturally intolerant?

That's besides the point, however, and is a little ideological rambling of my own.  As a result of the pictures of the prophet Mohammad, the Lebanese Danish Embassy was torched, and there were violent riots throughout the Mideast (I saw a few pictures, and they certainly were not pretty).  

The point I'm trying to make, is not so much a point as a question.

With such widespread action, how can we say that these attitudes are only held by (conveniently disownable) splinter groups?