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time for the whole damned world to unite and go after them
They'll get theirs........live by the sword, die by the sword

Payback normally is a Bitch............






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They'll get theirs........live by the sword, die by the sword

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Most of the predominantly muslim nations on earth are out for their blood now but you wouldnt think it by some of the moronic posts by people on here that claim that the muslims have failed to condemn acts by these nutters.

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Most of the predominantly muslim nations on earth are out for their blood now but you wouldnt think it by some of the moronic posts by people on here that claim that the muslims have failed to condemn acts by these nutters.
they unelected muslim council for Britain need to do far more as do other muslim leaders across the UK and the world. the quran does NOT say all non muslims are infidels who should be killed and these muslim leaders need to loudly and boldly pronounce this and denounce these psychotic misinterpretations of their book
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they unelected muslim council for Britain need to do far more as do other muslim leaders across the UK and the world. the quran does NOT say all non muslims are infidels who should be killed and these muslim leaders need to loudly and boldly pronounce this and denounce these psychotic misinterpretations of their book
I 100% wholeheartedly agree.......and have been saying this for ages. These leaders need to stand up and publicly declare that the Quran does not say in any interpretation that Non Muslims should be killed.

By not declaring this it is adding suspicion and fear to millions of non Muslim people who witness the terrible events carried out by these extremist fanatics.

In fact it should be the first thing these Muslim leaders actually do...but they don't........nothing.........only silence...





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Muslim Council of Britain Express Solidarity With Jewish Community After Paris Kosher Supermarket Deaths

Paris Murders are a Greater Insult to Islam: Muslim Council of Britain Statement on Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Terrorists Can Not Divide Us: Muslim Council of Britain Organises Inter-Faith Solidarity Meeting After Paris Attacks

Alan Henning’s Murder a Despicable Act, Offensive to Muslims

Not in our Name: British Muslims Condemn the Barbarity of ISIS

Muslim Council of Britain Condemns Yet Another Murder in Iraq



Took me literally 5 minutes to find these and many Muslims groups are repeatedly denouncing extremism and at the forefront of attempts to combat radicalisation in the UK. The reality is also though that Islam is not a homogeneous entity whose nature is preprogrammed, it can manifest itself in literally hundreds of different ways, it's silly to try and group all Muslims together as if they bear some sort of collective responsibility
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Paris Murders are a Greater Insult to Islam: Muslim Council of Britain Statement on Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Terrorists Can Not Divide Us: Muslim Council of Britain Organises Inter-Faith Solidarity Meeting After Paris Attacks

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Took me literally 5 minutes to find these and many Muslims groups are repeatedly denouncing extremism and at the forefront of attempts to combat radicalisation in the UK. The reality is also though that Islam is not a homogeneous entity whose nature is preprogrammed, it can manifest itself in literally hundreds of different ways, it's silly to try and group all Muslims together as if they bear some sort of collective responsibility
Sorry, but denouncing extremism is NOT good enough, these leaders are only denouncing the methods these extremists use NOT their ideals.

This is the core of the problem, the critical issue, they must proclaim their faith , their Holy Book does NOT in any interpretation allow the killing of Non Muslims/Infidels.

This is where they must start, they have to reform their faith, explain to ALL concerned that it does not advocate murdering innocent people.

By not embarking on a Nationwide media offensive to show Islam as a peaceful religion that can coexist with all other religions, they speak volumes to Non Muslims who are left fearful and mistrustful of the real aims and ambitions of this sinister faith.




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Sorry, but denouncing extremism is NOT good enough, these leaders are only denouncing the methods these extremists use NOT their ideals.

This is the core of the problem, the critical issue, they must proclaim their faith , their Holy Book does NOT in any interpretation allow the killing of Non Muslims/Infidels.

This is where they must start, they have to reform their faith, explain to ALL concerned that it does not advocate murdering innocent people.

By not embarking on a Nationwide media offensive to show Islam as a peaceful religion that can coexist with all other religions, they speak volumes to Non Muslims who are left fearful and mistrustful of the real aims and ambitions of this sinister faith.




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There is plenty of theological and scriptural opposition to extremism as well but of course the Quran has been used in different ways, by different people, in different countries, in different time periods, to justify different things. I can't admit to ever having read it but I'm sure if you wanted to you could trawl through it to find evidence of Islam being peaceful or evidence of Islam being violent.
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I would of thought that the present teachings in western Mosques are preaching about their ideals regarding Islam. Apart from very specific Islamic newspapers that only Muslims read, there isn't a newspaper in this country that would be interested in publishing a Muslim clerics article on the truisms of Islam and even if they did, I doubt it would be read by the masses.

I don't know if anyone has noticed but our main media channels have calmed down about what its publishing. Its refusing to give ISIS the publicity it needs which is fantastic. Unfortunately, social media sites are still giving a huge amount of publicity to this barbaric group and in doing so we are indiscriminately helping their case.
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Never thought I'd agree with Farage so strongly: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-10057749.html

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These comments and the objections of a dozen MPs were simply brushed aside by a media consensus that our political class must be right. I am in no doubt that Libya after our intervention is in a far worse state than it was under Gaddafi. I know that when I say these things, I will be portrayed as being a Gaddafi supporter. But not only is that untrue, it is also not the point.

Libya is one of an endless series of military interventions in which we have left things worse than before we intervened. And you only need to look as far as how Christians are targeted across the Middle East and North Africa region to see what kind of road we have paved for the terrorists of Isis. In Iraq, in Syria, in Libya and beyond, Christians have not only been thrown to the lions as a result of our hasty, shoestring interventions, but what are we doing to assist them now that our government has created the conditions in which they can be so easily rounded on? I would say whatever it is, it is nowhere near enough given our complicity in their slaughter.

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There's plenty of resentment and denouncement towards Isis from the Muslim community and it's no wonder, Muslims have suffered at IS' hands more than anyone.

It annoys me when people say that Muslims aren't vocal enough against Isis, they are it's just that the media, by large, are not interested in making muslims look sympathetic. The sad thing is, if the mainstream media isn't covering a story than a large part of the public will simply believe it's not happening.

I do actually agree with Farage, Gadaffi and Saddam were evil but by removing them (and not setting up stable replacements) we've created a power vacuum in the Middle East which has given rise to Isis. There's very little point in blaming Islam as a whole when we're largely to blame for Isis' current position of power in the world. Isis would still exist without Islam but they wouldn't exist as they are today if it weren't for our help.
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There's plenty of resentment and denouncement towards Isis from the Muslim community and it's no wonder, Muslims have suffered at IS' hands more than anyone.

It annoys me when people say that Muslims aren't vocal enough against Isis, they are it's just that the media, by large, are not interested in making muslims look sympathetic. The sad thing is, if the mainstream media isn't covering a story than a large part of the public will simply believe it's not happening.

I do actually agree with Farage, Gadaffi and Saddam were evil but by removing them (and not setting up stable replacements) we've created a power vacuum in the Middle East which has given rise to Isis. There's very little point in blaming Islam as a whole when we're largely to blame for Isis' current position of power in the world. Isis would still exist without Islam but they wouldn't exist as they are today if it weren't for our help.
Good post Dezzy, its time we stopped trying to pass the buck. Most people with more than a couple of brain cells fully understand that Islam does not = ISIS and those that don't wouldn't bother reading what British Muslim Clerics have to say. Muslim people over here are no more accountable for what is going on in Syria than the rest of us and they certainly don't need to justify their faith to us.

My sister lives in Leeds and tells me that many Muslim women are abandoning the head scarf because they fear being treated like a pox on this country.
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Good post Dezzy, its time we stopped trying to pass the buck. Most people with more than a couple of brain cells fully understand that Islam does not = ISIS and those that don't wouldn't bother reading what British Muslim Clerics have to say. Muslim people over here are no more accountable for what is going on in Syria than the rest of us and they certainly don't need to justify their faith to us.

My sister lives in Leeds and tells me that many Muslim women are abandoning the head scarf because they fear being treated like a pox on this country.
Ordinary Muslims all over the world, are not culpable in the inhuman atrocities being carried out in the name of Islam by IS, ISIS, or ISIL, or Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist group, so it is immensely regrettable that some Muslim women in Leeds are abandoning the head scarf because they fear being treated like a pox on this country Demo.

To put this fact into perspective though, I feel that they are fortunate to be living in a democracy where their only fear is the imagined derision or rebuke by the odd mindless moron who may perceive all Muslims to be to blame for terrorism, and thus far, there is no evidence that any such feared rebuke has occurred.

Unlike the Christians in Syria and Iraq and Nigeria, who are being beheaded and crucified in their thousands by Islamic extremists simply for being Christians. They do not have the freedom to simply remove a piece of clothing in the hope that it will render identification of their faith more difficult, and the penalty for being identified as Christian is not mere rebuke or insult, but torture and death.

These Christians are living, breathing, human beings with families, who have done no wrong to anyone, but who are having their heads severed and being crucified by terrorist demons who are, after all, Muslims.

The Muslim women in Leeds - and elsewhere in the UK - can at least move around freely and live their lives without fear of being abducted and sold as sex slaves by Muslim terrorists as in Nigeria, or raped and slaughtered by their Muslim brothers simply for belonging to the wrong branch of Islam as in Syria and Iraq.

And what of Jews?

Whilst I see repeated condemnation on this forum for anyone who is even (wrongly) perceived to be tarring "all Muslims with the extremist brush", I do not witness the same principle being applied to the poor innocent Jewish people throughout the world who are now suffering verbal and physical violence at the hands of anti-Semitic thugs and cretins, who are blaming them for the actions of Israel.

Yet, non Israeli domiciled Jews are no more to blame for what is occurring between Israel and Hamas/Hezbollah in Israel/Palestine, than ordinary Muslims are for the acts of ISIS.

Another very relevant fact is, that Israeli military actions - no matter whether one views them as offensive or defensive - fall within the parameters of recognised and accepted orthodox 'warfare' and is strictly confined to that tiny area of the Middle East which is Israel/Palestine, whereas the actions of all Islamic terrorist groups exceed even the hitherto accepted definition of the word 'terrorism', and its malignancy spreads all over the world like a cancer.

Further, of course, the barbaric slaughter by Islamic Jihadists of innocents is not merely confined to Christians or Jews, but other Muslims, other religious groups and even atheists, or indeed any other humans who do not fit in with their ideologies.

So the imagined fears of some Muslim women living in Leeds, is regrettable, but let's keep it in perspective.
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Whilst I see repeated condemnation on this forum for anyone who is even (wrongly) perceived to be tarring "all Muslims with the extremist brush", I do not witness the same principle being applied to the poor innocent Jewish people throughout the world who are now suffering verbal and physical violence at the hands of anti-Semitic thugs and cretins, who are blaming them for the actions of Israel.
As the far right grows across Europe, unfortunately we are going to see more and more of this. Jews, Muslims, blacks and Asians will all be targeted. I was talking about Muslims here because this is what this thread is about.

what I was referring to in my last post was about British Muslims taking more responsibility for what is happening in Syria. Muslims have spoken out but for some here its not enough, they want to see more. My initial argument was and still is; no main stream media will give these people prime time tv spots or tabloid space. When I recently mentioned a Muslim cleric at Speakers Corner, it was scrutinized and condemned as irrelevant. If the media won't give these people the space for expression, what are they to do?

Lets not name deaths by a persons religious following but by the word "human" many thousands of humans have been killed at the hands of ISIS and Boko Harem rebels. Both ISIS and BH are evil terrorists who need to be stopped. Religion doesn't put more value on a life; murder is murder...life is life.

All of us who live in a democracy are fortunate but some of us are more fortunate than others during this conflict in Africa and the Middle East. As unrest in the west escalates we will undoubtedly witness more anti-Islam attitudes. As a none Muslim I don't wake up in the morning worrying if my family are safe back in Syria or Nigeria; nor do I wonder if I can ever go back to the country I or my mother was born in. I would have to accept an amount of hatred towards me if I was a Muslim or a Jew living in Europe.

If you google papers written on the sudden growth of far right Britain, there is plenty of documentation regarding fear of Muslims and fear from Muslims living here.
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There's plenty of resentment and denouncement towards Isis from the Muslim community and it's no wonder, Muslims have suffered at IS' hands more than anyone.

It annoys me when people say that Muslims aren't vocal enough against Isis, they are it's just that the media, by large, are not interested in making muslims look sympathetic. The sad thing is, if the mainstream media isn't covering a story than a large part of the public will simply believe it's not happening.

I do actually agree with Farage, Gadaffi and Saddam were evil but by removing them (and not setting up stable replacements) we've created a **** Iraq and Syria. wer vacuum in the Middle East which has given rise to Isis. There's very little point in blaming Islam as a whole when we're largely to blame for Isis' current position of power in the world. Isis would still exist without Islam but they wouldn't exist as they are today if it weren't for our help.
Two points:

No one on this forum has ever blamed Islam as a whole for ISIS or terrorism.

There is no way that ISIS could exist without Islam. It actually means; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
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No one on this forum has ever blamed Islam as a whole for ISIS or terrorism.

There is no way that ISIS could exist without Islam. It actually means; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Quite a pedantic point, they would still be the same group but with a different name. The Islamic angle is just for control and recruitment, if Islam wasn't a thing they would just pick another religion to use to justify their actions and radicalise people into joining them.
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Perhaps the way forward is to realise that any religion based on a fictitious and expansive book will always be open to any interpretation you care to apply and that because of that we shut down churches and mosques and start educating children that gods do not exist?

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Because the minute you drive religion underground more and more of these religious extremist groups will appear...
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Are you seriously suggesting LT, that the Judeo Christian bible is on a par with the Quran? Or that its text can be wrongfully interpreted today to cause Jews or Christians to become extremist and embark on a catalogue of terrorist inhuman atrocities similar to IS, ISIL, ISIS, Boko Haram or Al Qaeda?

Do you really think that if Christianity and Judaism disappeared overnight along with all Synagogues and Churches, and Jews and Christians, that IS, ISIL, ISIS, Boko Haram or Al Qaeda terrorists would just as suddenly down weapons and cease their mission to Islamify the entire world?

And I have posted lengthy and factual posts which prove that wars fought because of religion account for less than 12% of all recorded wars, and half of this figure is made up of Islamic wars, so only 6% is attributable to other religions. Obviously, this means that 88% of all recorded wars have secular causes. So where would the eradication of all religion lead to a more peaceful or even rational world?

Why mention Christianity in the same breath as Islam anyway? And why close churches?

It is not Christians who are shooting hundreds of innocent little schoolchildren, setting innocent schoolteachers ablaze, beheading thousands of terrified innocent non-combatants, crucifying Christians, and abducting and raping hundreds of schoolgirls then selling them off as sex slaves.
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Are you seriously suggesting LT, that the Judeo Christian bible is on a par with the Quran? Or that its text can be wrongfully interpreted today to cause Jews or Christians to become extremist and embark on a catalogue of terrorist inhuman atrocities similar to IS, ISIL, ISIS, Boko Haram or Al Qaeda?

Do you really think that if Christianity and Judaism disappeared overnight along with all Synagogues and Churches, and Jews and Christians, that IS, ISIL, ISIS, Boko Haram or Al Qaeda terrorists would just as suddenly down weapons and cease their mission to Islamify the entire world?

And I have posted lengthy and factual posts which prove that wars fought because of religion account for less than 12% of all recorded wars, and half of this figure is made up of Islamic wars, so only 6% is attributable to other religions. Obviously, this means that 88% of all recorded wars have secular causes. So where would the eradication of all religion lead to a more peaceful or even rational world?

Why mention Christianity in the same breath as Islam anyway? And why close churches?


It is not Christians who are shooting hundreds of innocent little schoolchildren, setting innocent schoolteachers ablaze, beheading thousands of terrified innocent non-combatants, crucifying Christians, and abducting and raping hundreds of schoolgirls then selling them off as sex slaves.
Yes, if you don't think that the Bible isn't as brutal as the Qu'ran then you must not have read it very well. Any religion has the potential to be used to justify radical and terrorist actions. For all we know the next big terrorist threat in the future could be from an extremist Christian or Jewish group. Any and all the religions have the potential to be misused to create the next Isis, religious terrorism is not a new thing and it did not begin with Islam and it won't end with it either.

You are purposely misrepresenting his point to suit your own argument. LT said ALL religion, not just Christianity and Judaism so it's downright silly just to focus on those two to discredit him. You would still get groups like Isis because even now, they only use Islam to radicalise the jaded and because it benefits them. Isis weren't created by Islam, they were created by our actions in Iraq and Syria. Aside from that though, a world without organised religion would largely be a better place to live.

It's not just about war, Religion is a big reason why homophobia exists and why not everyone in this world is equal and all religions have been used to justify crimes at some point. Organised Religion is the root of most of the evil in this world.

It's not the Muslims either, just an extreme minority of them so why are you trying to tar them all with the same brush? Do you think all Catholics should be held accountable for the actions of a few priests? Should all Christians have to answer to terrorist attacks by White Supremacist groups who often use the slavery related passages in the bible to justify their cruelty? I'm guessing you don't so I don't know why you think it's okay to pick and choose. All religions are ultimately the same, just worded differently, so you can't pick or choose which ones are 'evil' and which ones are 'good'. It's all or nothing.

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Yes, if you don't think that the Bible isn't as brutal as the Qu'ran then you must not have read it very well. Any religion has the potential to be used to justify radical and terrorist actions. For all we know the next big terrorist threat in the future could be from an extremist Christian or Jewish group. Any and all the religions have the potential to be misused to create the next Isis, religious terrorism is not a new thing and it did not begin with Islam and it won't end with it either.

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It's not the Muslims either, just an extreme minority of them so why are you trying to tar them all with the same brush? Do you think all Catholics should be held accountable for the actions of a few priests? Should all Christians have to answer to terrorist attacks by White Supremacist groups who often use the slavery related passages in the bible to justify their cruelty? I'm guessing you don't so I don't know why you think it's okay to pick and choose. All religions are ultimately the same, just worded differently, so you can't pick or choose which ones are 'evil' and which ones are 'good'. It's all or nothing.


What are you talking about? This post is yet an other example of hysterical over reaction, which barely suppresses an irrational anger, and is littered with fallacies and misrepresentation. For example:

FALLACY No. 1) "You are purposely misrepresenting his point to suit your own argument.
LT said ALL religion, not just Christianity and Judaism so it's downright silly just to focus on those two to discredit him."

FACTS: I am quite certain that LT is intelligent enough to answer for himself, and to know that I have made no attempt to "discredit" him. I responded civilly and intelligently to his post with valid points based strictly upon what he said.

His "we shut down churches and mosques" can mean nothing other than Christianity and Islam because ONLY Christianity has churches and ONLY Islam has Mosques. Therefore, by including these two in the same sentence, LT was "mentioning them in the same breath". THEREFORE, WHEN I WROTE:

"Why mention Christianity in the same breath as Islam anyway? And why close churches?"

My response and the question in it, are perfectly reasonable and not "silly" as you falsely claim.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No.2: "LT said ALL religion, not just Christianity and Judaism".

FACTS: LT most certainly did NOT say ALL religion; he actually said;

" Perhaps the way forward is to realise that any religion based on a fictitious and expansive book will always be open to any interpretation you care to apply"

And 'ALL RELIGION', and "ANY RELIGION BASED ON A FICTITIOUS" book are completely different in intent, meaning and implication, because the former means ALL religion, whilst the latter specifically means ONLY religion based upon a Holy Book, which, given the FACT that LT includes only CHURCHES and MOSQUES in the latter part of his statement, can ONLY MEAN that "ANY religion based on a fictitious book" is CHRISTIANITY and ISLAM, and CAN ONLY MEAN that the Holy Books referred to are The Judeo Christian HOLY BIBLE, and the Islamic QURAN.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No. 3: "It's not just about war",

FACTS:

In the context of this thread IT IS ALL ABOUT WAR. In their own words and by their own declaration, a war started against the rest of humanity by Islamic Fundamentalist demons inspired by both their religion and the un-corrupted words of Allah directly received by their Holy Prophet Muhammad from the Arch Angel Gabriel.

So we can hypothesise all we want, but it is redundant and ridiculous to do so when we have the Jihadist's own repeated testimony that is that this is indeed a war.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No.4: "Organised Religion is the root of most of the evil in this world."

FACTS: There are no facts to corroborate your statement but plenty which refute it:

From R. J. Rummel’s work ‘Lethal Politics and Death by Government’:.

Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost
• Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
• Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
• Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
• Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
• Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
• Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
• Pol Pot - 2,397,0003

Rummel says: “Almost 170 million men, women and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed or killed in any other of a myriad of ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not germs.”

What of Non-State murders?

Abul Djabar killed 65 men and boys in Afghanistan by strangling them with turbans while raping them and was suspected of over 300 murders.

Javad Iqbal Mughal killed 100 boys Lahore, Pakistan.

Luis Garavo killed 172 children in Colombia but suspected of over 400 murders.

The historical list totals many thousands and include many more familiar names, from Americans such as Gary Ridgeway (90 victims) and Jeffrey Dahmer, to home-grown monsters such as Harold Shipman (up to 297 victims) and Peter Sutcliffe and Fred and Rose West, and all with not a religious motive in sight.

But hey, let’s not stop here; perhaps our streets and homes would be safer if we rid the world of all religion?

Let’s just look at a couple of statistics from The Office of National Statistics for 2014:

• Latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) show that, for the offences it covers, there were an estimated 7.0 million incidents of crime against households and resident adults (aged 16 and over) in England and Wales
• The numbers of rapes (24,043) and other sexual offences (48,934) are the highest recorded by the police since 2002/03.

7 Million Incidents of crime in one year, and this is just ‘reported’ crime AND NOT ONE RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED CRIME IN SIGHT.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No. 5: "Isis weren't created by Islam, they were created by our actions in Iraq and Syria".

FACTS: As I - and others - have already stated many times; the West's interference in Libya, Syria and Iraq, did create a 'power vacuum' which aided ISIS's growth, but it is totally ridiculous and dangerous, to claim that WE CREATED ISIS. Islam did not even create ISIS - rather that ISIS claimed Islam to excuse its barbaric and demonic war on the rest of humanity - including Muslims.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No. 6: "It's not the Muslims either, just an extreme minority of them."

FACTS: Extreme or not, ISIS ARE MUSLIM.

So NEXT:

FALLACY No. 7: "so why are you trying to tar them all with the same brush?"

FACTS: Please stop accusing me of this ridiculous CLICHED crap that I am "tarring all Muslims with the same brush" It is thoroughly dishonest and unfair and - once again - I CHALLENGE YOU TO SHOW ME AND OTHER READERS OF THIS THREAD JUST WHERE I HAVE EVER SAID THIS OR DONE THIS, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT. THEREFORE IT IS DISGRACEFUL TO KEEP REPEATING THIS SAME LIE.

So NEXT:

FALLACY No. 8: "Yes, if you don't think that the Bible isn't as brutal as the Qu'ran then you must not have read it very well. Any religion has the potential to be used to justify radical and terrorist actions."

FACTS: I have read the BIBLE and the QURAN, own my own copies of both, and still read both almost daily.

The Old Testament of The Judeo Christian Bible does contain violence, but I have posted very detail FACTUAL posts on this subject on other threads which you have subscribed to, so why do you persist in trotting out this same fallacy? Ah well; an excerpt:

"NOWHERE in the New Testament is there any incitement for followers to go out and maim, kill, or subjugate other races, creeds or non-believers and I defy anyone on here to provide evidence to the contrary.

Even the violence within the Old Testament is solely bound by historical context and specific only to the era in which the text was written, as distinct from the open-ended commands throughout the Quran which compel faithful Muslims to to go out and maim, kill, or subjugate other races, creeds or non-believers. These commands are not era specific, and have no predetermined time limit, so are as relevant and applicable for faithful Muslims today as they were to faithful Muslims in Muhammad's time. Which explains the demonic atrocities still being perpetrated in Allah's name after 1500 years."

Big difference uh?
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What are you talking about? This post is yet an other example of hysterical over reaction, which barely suppresses an irrational anger, and is littered with fallacies and misrepresentation. For example:

FALLACY No. 1) "You are purposely misrepresenting his point to suit your own argument.[/COLOR] LT said ALL religion, not just Christianity and Judaism so it's downright silly just to focus on those two to discredit him."

FACTS: I am quite certain that LT is intelligent enough to answer for himself, and to know that I have made no attempt to "discredit" him. I responded civilly and intelligently to his post with valid points based strictly upon what he said.

His "we shut down churches and mosques" can mean nothing other than Christianity and Islam because ONLY Christianity has churches and ONLY Islam has Mosques. Therefore, by including these two in the same sentence, LT was "mentioning them in the same breath". THEREFORE, WHEN I WROTE:

"Why mention Christianity in the same breath as Islam anyway? And why close churches?"

My response and the question in it, are perfectly reasonable and not "silly" as you falsely claim.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No.2: "LT said ALL religion, not just Christianity and Judaism".

FACTS: LT most certainly did NOT say ALL religion; he actually said;

" Perhaps the way forward is to realise that any religion based on a fictitious and expansive book will always be open to any interpretation you care to apply"

And 'ALL RELIGION', and "ANY RELIGION BASED ON A FICTITIOUS" book are completely different in intent, meaning and implication, because the former means ALL religion, whilst the latter specifically means ONLY religion based upon a Holy Book, which, given the FACT that LT includes only CHURCHES and MOSQUES in the latter part of his statement, can ONLY MEAN that "ANY religion based on a fictitious book" is CHRISTIANITY and ISLAM, and CAN ONLY MEAN that the Holy Books referred to are The Judeo Christian HOLY BIBLE, and the Islamic QURAN.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No. 3: "It's not just about war",

FACTS:

In the context of this thread IT IS ALL ABOUT WAR. In their own words and by their own declaration, a war started against the rest of humanity by Islamic Fundamentalist demons inspired by both their religion and the un-corrupted words of Allah directly received by their Holy Prophet Muhammad from the Arch Angel Gabriel.

So we can hypothesise all we want, but it is redundant and ridiculous to do so when we have the Jihadist's own repeated testimony that is that this is indeed a war.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No.4: "Organised Religion is the root of most of the evil in this world."

FACTS: There are no facts to corroborate your statement but plenty which refute it:

From R. J. Rummel’s work ‘Lethal Politics and Death by Government’:.

Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost
• Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
• Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
• Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
• Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
• Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
• Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
• Pol Pot - 2,397,0003

Rummel says: “Almost 170 million men, women and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed or killed in any other of a myriad of ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not germs.”

What of Non-State murders?

Abul Djabar killed 65 men and boys in Afghanistan by strangling them with turbans while raping them and was suspected of over 300 murders.

Javad Iqbal Mughal killed 100 boys Lahore, Pakistan.

Luis Garavo killed 172 children in Colombia but suspected of over 400 murders.

The historical list totals many thousands and include many more familiar names, from Americans such as Gary Ridgeway (90 victims) and Jeffrey Dahmer, to home-grown monsters such as Harold Shipman (up to 297 victims) and Peter Sutcliffe and Fred and Rose West, and all with not a religious motive in sight.

But hey, let’s not stop here; perhaps our streets and homes would be safer if we rid the world of all religion?

Let’s just look at a couple of statistics from The Office of National Statistics for 2014:

• Latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) show that, for the offences it covers, there were an estimated 7.0 million incidents of crime against households and resident adults (aged 16 and over) in England and Wales
• The numbers of rapes (24,043) and other sexual offences (48,934) are the highest recorded by the police since 2002/03.

7 Million Incidents of crime in one year, and this is just ‘reported’ crime AND NOT ONE RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED CRIME IN SIGHT.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No. 5: "Isis weren't created by Islam, they were created by our actions in Iraq and Syria".

FACTS: As I - and others - have already stated many times; the West's interference in Libya, Syria and Iraq, did create a 'power vacuum' which aided ISIS's growth, but it is totally ridiculous and dangerous, to claim that WE CREATED ISIS. Islam did not even create ISIS - rather that ISIS claimed Islam to excuse its barbaric and demonic war on the rest of humanity - including Muslims.

So, NEXT:

FALLACY No. 6: "It's not the Muslims either, just an extreme minority of them."

FACTS: Extreme or not, ISIS ARE MUSLIM.

So NEXT:

FALLACY No. 7: "so why are you trying to tar them all with the same brush?"

FACTS: Please stop accusing me of this ridiculous CLICHED crap that I am "tarring all Muslims with the same brush" It is thoroughly dishonest and unfair and - once again - I CHALLENGE YOU TO SHOW ME AND OTHER READERS OF THIS THREAD JUST WHERE I HAVE EVER SAID THIS OR DONE THIS, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT. THEREFORE IT IS DISGRACEFUL TO KEEP REPEATING THIS SAME LIE.

So NEXT:

FALLACY No. 8: "Yes, if you don't think that the Bible isn't as brutal as the Qu'ran then you must not have read it very well. Any religion has the potential to be used to justify radical and terrorist actions."

FACTS: I have read the BIBLE and the QURAN, own my own copies of both, and still read both almost daily.

The Old Testament of The Judeo Christian Bible does contain violence, but I have posted very detail FACTUAL posts on this subject on other threads which you have subscribed to, so why do you persist in trotting out this same fallacy? Ah well; an excerpt:

"NOWHERE in the New Testament is there any incitement for followers to go out and maim, kill, or subjugate other races, creeds or non-believers and I defy anyone on here to provide evidence to the contrary.

Even the violence within the Old Testament is solely bound by historical context and specific only to the era in which the text was written, as distinct from the open-ended commands throughout the Quran which compel faithful Muslims to to go out and maim, kill, or subjugate other races, creeds or non-believers. These commands are not era specific, and have no predetermined time limit, so are as relevant and applicable for faithful Muslims today as they were to faithful Muslims in Muhammad's time. Which explains the demonic atrocities still being perpetrated in Allah's name after 1500 years."

Big difference uh?
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