sergeboi said:
Big_Stacks said:
Hey,The irony that I find in all the mass shootings discussions is the single-minded association of religious extremism with the Muslim faith. Historically, nearly all societies in the world have at some point used religion as justification for performing heinous acts of violence. Whether you talk about the colonization of Africa, Christian crusades, the Thirty Years War in England, the Almoravid crusades, the Panthay Rebellion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,. Ku Klux Klan killings during Jim Crow, etc., they all used religion (to some extent, at least) as a justification. So, the key theme as I see it is the address the psyche behind the use of religion to justify violent, extremist behavior. Some of the remedy, of course, should involve enforcing stricter gun control to keep guns away those who pose dangers to the common good. By and large, I think the major reduction in social discourse between people as a function of greater Internet usage could be a distal source of the issue. It seems to be more difficult to empathize with others when there is a general reduction in social interaction and camaraderie between people. The implication appears to be a lower sense of humanity that the anonymity of the Internet not only allows but perpetuates.Peace,Big Stacks from Kakalak
Yeah, but in recent years Islamic violence accounts for way more deaths than any other religion on this planet. It's not just Islamic extremists killing westerners its Shites and Sunnis massacring each other.
Isis is essentially a medieval ideology that is hellbent on murdering people (including Muslims) who do not swear loyalty to it. Again I am fine with this - it is just a form of population control, however it irks me when liberals try to make excuses that violence is not associated with Muslim culture. Have you read the Quran?
Please channel your inner Aslan Reza and misconstrue factual evidence to make a politically correct counter for the sake of appeasement.
Hi,
I actually read both the Quran and the Bible. Guess I am the only one. Here is the thing, I couldn't really call it, they both have some really disturbing violence. It's not like I was noting down every violent notion I came over, I was just checking out the scriptures of the two largest religions in my country. They are really similar, but I wouldn't except the books of "people of the book" to be that different any way.
It's not easy finding anything close to neutral about this on the internet.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124494788
You kind of remind of of the people in this thing, sergeboi: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3349272/Pranksters-film-people-s-shocked-reactions-reading-violent-passages-Bible-told-Koran.html
You know, slightly ignorant.
