[font="Arial][size="2"]Most enlightened western people are appalled by the harsh and medieval Sharia-laws of Islam, none seem to see that we find the exact same laws and recommended punishments in the holy Bible.
-- Care to share one single solitary Christian church practicing Sharia-like laws that cause maiming, mutilation, or the death of those who disobey.
Please be specific.
Can't? Then your comment is (as usual) without value.
We shall not forget that it is not so long ago since Christianity also chopped of heads and different limbs and burned people at the stake of deviating faith, and waged holy wars in all directions.
-- Help us out here. How many HUNDREDS of years ago was this?
And
why exactly must Muslims - in this time of enlightenment - wait several hundred years to catch up?
(Hey, the right wing Christian fundamentalist George Bush have just revived the crusade thing. "God bless America" and "Gott mit uns" spells exactly the same to me. Fundamentalism is fundamentalism no matter the religion or no matter if you wear a turban or a stetson hat).
-- Typical Libiot tripe. Obama must believe the "crusade thing" as well since:
- He just offered to leave thousands to troops in Iraq if they ask (going against his campaign pledge to remove them all).
- Increased the number of soldiers by tens of thousands in Afghanistan.
- Has declared that military tribunals will now be held at Gitmo (you know, the place he promised to close in his first year in office)
- Launched an unprovoked war in Libya where he himself admitted that the U.S. had no vital interests and was not threatened by Libya.
An American President, launching an unprovoked attack on a Muslim country (Libya) with the expressed purpose of ridding that country of its leader.
Gosh...that sure sounds like Obama
"just revived the crusade thing" huh?:lol:
Honestly Aspen, whenever you go off-script and show your true liberal colors, you show how hypocritical you are.
The mix of religious fundamentalism and political power has always been the classic recipe for human suffering, atrocities and disaster.
-- Tell me oh sage, what atrocities did you personally suffer at the hands of George Bush's faith?...............thought so.
(Psst...This is where you say that it is the Muslims overseas that actually suffered from atrocities.)
Then tell me oh sage, is Obama a religous fundamentalist?
Because he is currently continuing war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and started a brand new one in Libya.
If those wars are the "human suffering, atrocities and disaster" you are speaking of, then apparently Obama practices "religious fundamentalism."
You are going to have to wait until the paint dries before you can leave your corner.
The most obvious difference between Islam and Christianity, is that Christianity has had 600 more years to lose its secular power in most western societies. [/size][/font]
-- Now it's 600 years? For your last several posts it has been 500. Can't you ever keep your fiction straight?
And the
"most obvious difference between Islamd and Christianity" is that 600 years ago, during a time of seclusion, kings, tyrants, dictators, a widely uneducated populace and lack of personal freedom and free thought, Christianity was able to begin to sluff off the evil it was doing and become a force for good while Islam, during that same time, as well as in this time of great enlightenment, instant worldwide communication, evidence of lasting freedom in non-Muslim controlled lands, etc. etc. etc., still CHOOSES to live like it was 600 years ago.
Holding Muslims to standards in place 500 years ago instead of to the standards of today is insulting to Muslims, and everyone who has to smell what you are shoveling.