entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Agreed, it's pathetic when people start projecting their prejudices onto a very broad religion, a manuscript written 1400 years ago, do they really think that is the cause? It's naive and crude to believe so. Christianity is (by it's own text) extremely peaceful but his followers have exhibited violence throughout history as well. There is no causative relationship between the text of a religion and the violence of some of it's adherents, if anything i think when people start killing randomly for a 'cause' they are already responding to other impulses and live outside of the kind of structures and order that religion was designed to provide.
What a load of rubbish! How many Quakers have set off bombs in civilian areas? How many Buddhists have blown up trains? Where in the Gospel does Jesus tell his followers to shun, kill or in any way harm other people? The reason so many Islamic extrtemsist are violent and intolerant is because there are so many vioent and intolerant verses in their holy texts. Remeber Jews and Chrisitans have developed context and learned to apply their religon to the situations in the modern world. Islam has not doen so. Remember the gates of ijtihad were closed in the 12th centruy so there can be no new interpretations if Islam.
"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.” -Golda Meir
I'm saying Al Qaeda is made up, whats happening here is real, who is behind the attacks is critical, I don't believe a group of people read the Koran and felt it was logical to bombard about with grenades.
I haven't apologised for any terror, what an odd thing to say.
Keep in mind most of the threads in this forum could be deemed "terrorist" activity as it isn't all pro-state.
By joining in on this conversation you could be seen as associating with "terrorists", on a "terrorist" network.
(I put quotes around "terrorist" as I'm not using the literal definition, but the media isn't either)
Most ridiculous, barrel-scraping post of the month. If you want to trade oxford dictionary definitions with yourself, that is up to you, you obviously have nothing of merit to contribute.
Turn on your TV, that is the 'terror' being discussed. And it is Islamic.
In my opinion, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians are all equally capable of violence given the right circumstances.