Ulysses90 said:Quote:
You can't look at everything from a short term perspective though, especially not religious zealotry, since it has been happening forever and will continue to happen long after we're all dead and gone. If you do, you'll get the current group-think that seems to be propagating throughout these forums - get rid of the other side.
It's not a short term perspective. It's a millenium and a half of data recorded in blood.
There is no equivalency that can be made under the general heading of religious zealotry betweenIslam and other religions. Violence under the label of zealotry committed by Buddhists, Christians, and Hindus is denounced universally by the leaders of those religions around the globe.
The inherently violent nature of Islam is a central feature of Islamic orthodoxy. It's the fringes. Muslims get violent when they start taking their scriptures. Beheading apostates and infidels, endless jihad, executing male prisoners, enslaving the conquered women and children of the conquered, dhimmitude and jizya, the term 'martyr' applied to mass murderes, are all doctrine from either the Koran or the hadiths that Muslims cannot renounce without placing themselves under judgment as an infidel.
Islam isn't like Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Judaism. It cannot simply coexist among other religions because jihad is an obligation to assert dominance over and then to eradicate competing religions by means of jihad.
Islam in its 'peaceful' state will over time decay into a state of jihad with the same certitude as the halflife of the nucleus of a radioactive isotope . It's going to happen, the only question is when. As we have seen with Britain, France, and all of the European countries that have allowed unassimilated Muslim ghettos to metastacize, the jihad is inevitable when the Muslims achieve a local majority if not sooner.
Well stated. Especially that first 2 lines.
I would be ok if 100% of them got to the place where they thought they were gonna get 72 virgins.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
