@coldjoint,
Quote:I have, and I have proven everything I said about Islam.
No. You haven't proven anything. You've simply pasted quotes from the many anti-Muslim hate sites which are popular with right-wing extremists, conservative evangelicals, and white nationalist "flaggots". These passages are specifically selected for their shock value and often used out of context.
It's easy to find embarrassing passages in old religious texts. And it's easy for angry, resentful people who feel oppressed to use these passages to justify acts of violence and hatred. Ironically, this is just what coldjoint and others of his ilk do by incessantly stoking the crudest sorts of anti-Muslim paranoia. They wish to promote intolerance and ethnic tension. Kind of like the jihadists.
I'm not a fan of fundamentalist religions — any of them. Nor do I hold much truck with supernatural explanations for physical phenomena. But, as anyone can see, human beings like their ancient magical stories and forms of communal worship. Might as well face the fact that religions, if not here forever, are at least going to be here for a long time to come. Obviously many Muslims today have no difficulty separating the more obnoxious historical aspects of the faith from the actual practice of their religion — most modern Christians and Jews manage to do the same with respect to their religions.
Blanket condemnation of an entire religion as somehow "evil" and indicting its practitioners as potential terrorists is just another form of magical thinking, as if Islam is so seductive, so powerful, so diabolical that anyone who follows the faith is a potential killer, compelled by the mystical powers of Koranic verse to commit violence. There's a fallacy which underlies this bigoted, but common, attitude — radical Islam doesn't
cause sectarian violence. Rather it's used to
justify sectarian violence. The desperate, the resentful, the fearful, and the ignorant are the people most prone to committing acts of political violence — it's not surprising that radicalized Muslims would attempt to rationalize their psychopathology with the words from their holy book, just the way Christians, Hindus, and Jews have done. This practice is not exclusively Islamic and has been around ever since men of faith realized their political power and taught their followers not merely to distinguish between Us and Them but provided the rationale to kill Them as well.
