GO AHEAD…. BLAME ISLAM
© Provided by Al Jazeera Let’s be honest about how much all of our most cherished ideals have contributed to the death and destruction around us.
A friend from Gaza posted the following apocryphal story on facebook as news broke of the Paris attacks:
“An ISIL member stopped the car of a Christian couple.
ISIL member: Are you Muslim?
Christian man: Yes, I’m Muslim.
ISIL Member: If you are a Muslim, recite a verse of Quran.
Christian Man recites a verse from the Bible.
ISIL member: Okay, you can go.
Later his wife tells him: Why did u tell him you are a Muslim? If he knew you were lying he’d have killed us both!
‘Do not worry!’ answered the husband. ‘If they knew the Quran they wouldn’t kill people.'”
It’s a nice story, but it’s also entirely besides the point. To be sure, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant doesn’t equal “Islam”, a reality demonstrated by its daily brutality against fellow Muslims. And yes, Muslims are the biggest victims of Muslim terror (and most everyone else’s terrorism too, it’s worth noting). [Read more]
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Interesting intellectual interpretation….. Inciteful !
Religion opium of church/synagogue/mosque.
attend to obtain your “fix”….
“let’s figure out how to recapture the sense of justice, mercy and compassion that have always existed – – at the core of Islam, Judaism, Christianity”
Regret to say yes I know of those in Christianity and Judaism only.
Secondly, Richard Dawkins, a known athiest, might say they are all a bunch of false belief systems.
The dam thing is that there might be enormous collateral damage if Christianity and Judaism were remove but we have the damage with Islam in place.