islam, the religion of love...

Originally Posted by El Ray Fernando

You are joking right. Since when do they choose to make themselves stand out... Lots of words...

So by your logic, it should be totally ok for me to move to Iran and open a pub and lapdancing club right? They'd be totally opressing me when they came to behead me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Janus X

really? What other senses can we make out of ''a man lying with a man as with a woman is an abomination; they shoudl be killed''? and the several passages calling for the utter massacre of people not believing in the right god? and the ones calling for the women to be quiet and submit to their husbands?

There's a fair old amount of that shit in the Old Testament too. Remember how God wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah just because the guys there enjoyed a bit of bum fun and swinging now and then?

Smiting and massacres were the in thing back in the days when most religious texts were written and the authors would obviously want to play to their audience. Suggesting that God would like you to enter into a civilised discourse and schedule some meetings to reconcile your differences with your enemies to a 12th Century warlord is unlikely to have got you a new monastry so the religious types spread happy tales of fire and brimstone. Even when the Christians revised their policy with the happy-clapping New Testament, they still left in the old stuff and still managed to engineer an excuse to pillaging in the Holy Lands. I'm sure the percentage of Muslims who choose to interpret the writings of the Qu'ran as an excuse to blow people up and shit is comperable to the percentage of Christians who use the Bible as an excuse to set fire to gays.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Disney Overflow

*ahem*

I believe that the following is what we in the cartooning world like to call "tit for tat"

Miles is totally going to get jihaded now.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Janus X

Ok, let me rephrase: our culture is based on the rule of law which has evolved over the years

And all that has got us is a ludicrous society of blame where companies have to warn fucking idiots that the cup of coffee they just bought is hot in case they sue the vendor when they burn themselves on it and you can't send people to jail anymore in case you infringe their human rights.

To you, Sharia law might seem barbaric but to them, our and America's laws probably seem incredibly soft and no deterrent to criminals (Which by and large they no longer are). Just because something is different to your experiences doesn't mean it's automatically bad or wrong and you shouldn't look at stuff in such black and white terms. You're basically an un-educated bigot and each post you make, makes you look more of an idiot. If I were you, I'd quit while I still had a choice.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Meth

The thread should be re-titled: islam, the religion of love, interpretations of the fulfillment of Judaic law, and the practicality of taxidermy.

It doesn't fit in the box.

I was speaking idiomatically.