Religion of Peace, My Ass! (Part 20)
Just an update on a recent example of tolerance and peacefulness as practiced by very religious observers of the RoP (thru Michelle Malkin).
Hundreds of protesters brandishing swords and sticks gathered outside Khartoum’s presidential palace Friday to vent their anger against a British teacher jailed for allowing children to name a teddy bear “Mohammed.”
About 600 Islamic demonstrators piled out of mosques, chanting: “By soul, by blood, I will fight for the Prophet Mohammed.” Some of the protesters demanded the teacher’s execution, according to The Associated Press.
The agency reports that some chanted: “No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.”
I'm sure these adherents to the RoP represent only themselves. They are not examples of a huge number of their fellow believers. Right?
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By the way, my previous post elicited an anonymous comment which was appreciated, but really not on point. "Interesting, so if the IRA blows up airports in London in the name of a Catholic Irish land free of "protestant" British rule, according your logic, that means all catholics are peace hating terrorists. Interesting"
This is not the first time the whole Irish catholic/protestant nightmare has been brought up. I've always felt that religion had damned little to do with that. There's much more history that was and is involved. Frankly, the Irish would kill (and have killed) each other and others regardless, based so many past real and perceived slights and injuries. So I responded: "Oh, come off it, anonymous. What the hell did religion have to do with the IRA killings and other atrocities? It was clan, not religious conviction. Religion only came into the picture as a cover for secular, clannish brutality. Hell, the same is true with muslim on muslim violence. It's not religion (mostly) but years of hatred, stored up until the fuse is lit."
Religion, like explosives, can be a dangerous thing in the hands of children and child-like cultures. Many religions have been misused to harm others.
Eventually the Irish have (mostly) stopped killing each other. Even during the worst of the senseless violence, there were no catholic banners saying that protestants should be killed in the name of the pope. And no protestant religious leaders stood in front of their members and said "Christ commands you to kill (fill in the blank). And when you do, you get a free pass into heaven."
For all the problems I personally have with christianity, I well know that it was founded peacefully. Its holy book, the new testament, does not preach violence against others. Much wrong has been done in the name of christ; but that was centuries ago and due to the depravity of man. I think that so many more of the truly peaceful muslims should look at islam's current orthodoxy as practiced by its true believers.
(Yeah, some day I'll start up again on my problems with christianity, past and present. But since I'm already sounding like a 'hater,' that's for another time.)
Hundreds of protesters brandishing swords and sticks gathered outside Khartoum’s presidential palace Friday to vent their anger against a British teacher jailed for allowing children to name a teddy bear “Mohammed.”
About 600 Islamic demonstrators piled out of mosques, chanting: “By soul, by blood, I will fight for the Prophet Mohammed.” Some of the protesters demanded the teacher’s execution, according to The Associated Press.
The agency reports that some chanted: “No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.”
I'm sure these adherents to the RoP represent only themselves. They are not examples of a huge number of their fellow believers. Right?
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By the way, my previous post elicited an anonymous comment which was appreciated, but really not on point. "Interesting, so if the IRA blows up airports in London in the name of a Catholic Irish land free of "protestant" British rule, according your logic, that means all catholics are peace hating terrorists. Interesting"
This is not the first time the whole Irish catholic/protestant nightmare has been brought up. I've always felt that religion had damned little to do with that. There's much more history that was and is involved. Frankly, the Irish would kill (and have killed) each other and others regardless, based so many past real and perceived slights and injuries. So I responded: "Oh, come off it, anonymous. What the hell did religion have to do with the IRA killings and other atrocities? It was clan, not religious conviction. Religion only came into the picture as a cover for secular, clannish brutality. Hell, the same is true with muslim on muslim violence. It's not religion (mostly) but years of hatred, stored up until the fuse is lit."
Religion, like explosives, can be a dangerous thing in the hands of children and child-like cultures. Many religions have been misused to harm others.
Eventually the Irish have (mostly) stopped killing each other. Even during the worst of the senseless violence, there were no catholic banners saying that protestants should be killed in the name of the pope. And no protestant religious leaders stood in front of their members and said "Christ commands you to kill (fill in the blank). And when you do, you get a free pass into heaven."
For all the problems I personally have with christianity, I well know that it was founded peacefully. Its holy book, the new testament, does not preach violence against others. Much wrong has been done in the name of christ; but that was centuries ago and due to the depravity of man. I think that so many more of the truly peaceful muslims should look at islam's current orthodoxy as practiced by its true believers.
(Yeah, some day I'll start up again on my problems with christianity, past and present. But since I'm already sounding like a 'hater,' that's for another time.)
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