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Islam: Is it inherently Evil?

Bintang exactly where did you come across the tag line you use for this discussion?
 

haha... yea, that nice list.

Saddam Hussein was OK when he fought Iran and gas Iranians (and his own people); Kuwait? That evil dictator!

Ey, I even saw a doco where Rumsfeld said how he flew to Baghdad and met Saddam during the Iraq/Iran war, but how reluctant Rumsfeld was and how when he shook Saddam's hand and smile and they sat side by side discussing poetry or something, Rumsfeld remembered how evil and vile Saddam was.

Not sure if the vileness seeth out before or after he authorises weapons to Saddam.

Bin Laden and the Taliban was not too bad when they fought the Soviets and the US supply them arms...


Man, these war and peace and politics and grand strategy and oil and stuff... they sure make strange bedfellows.
 
So trust me, you're wrong about Muslims and Islam

Well nothing that you have ever said about the issue (i.e. the bits I could decipher) makes any sense. I trust you man, but you are dead wrong.

... and man, you do not want to live in a country where the majority think like you do about them or any other group either.

Well they are very lucky to live here. We know they are up to no good, yet we tolerate them and even pay them welfare so that they don't have to work. And we even allow their Jihadist children who have joined ISIS, a safe passage back to Australia after they have learned their evil trade. The government panders more to them, than to the minority who recognise that Islam is evil. What are the apologists for Islam whinging about?

Where do you and Rumpy and Bas get the idea that we are not nice to them?
 

No, not so hard to understand.
 


You know "they" are Australians too right?

Yea, it said so on their Citizenship paper, maybe even birth certificate.

I guess Australian-ness must be in the blood.


But you know, since welfare are just for "them", let's cut it. And those few "real Australian" who need welfare? I think you think they won't mind since it's for the best interests of Australia and real Australians.

Since they have more children, who attend schools, who may even go to uni... let's "deregulate" uni fees and those few real Aussies whose real Aussie children want to attend uni but can't afford it... well we all get the picture.
 
No, not so hard to understand.

No buddy, I said we, the West/US was fine with him when he do what we like; We weren't fine with him when he do the same thing that we do not like.

Got nothing to do with Religion.

We, like all nations, sleeps with anyone that serves our purpose. Sometime we feel bad about it... and sometime feel really really bad for having done it... especially when they jump in bed with others we don't like, or decided to not sleep with us anymore.
 

And in what way exactly does you discourse help us to debate the very weighty matter of whether 'Islam is inherently evil?'
 

So if, say the Japanese, were to bomb us every couple of years; took our land, keep us in open air prisons, control all aspect of our lives.. .and now and then between the big "operations" they kick in our doors and take our brothers or father away in the night.... if they do that to us, are we expected to sing praises of them?

Maybe you ought to look up what Israel is teaching the Jewish Israelis about Arabs at school.


Yea, the French Jewish left France for Israel because of Muslims/Arabs.

haha... You would have thought the sensible thing to do would be to move out of the Arab ghettos or whatever you call them, and live next to nice Christian families IN FRANCE, or Australia, or US.

Doesn't sound smart to be fearful of Arabs and Muslims, then pack and move in next door to literally millions of them, and near hundreds of millions of them; most of whom you've seen on TV are kept in cages but now and then one or two managed to blow something up.

I would have thought they moved there because Israel gave them some $150 000 in tax cuts and assistance; also give them loans where they can keep and not repay if they stay in Israel for ten years or more.
 
And in what way exactly does you discourse help us to debate the very weighty matter of whether 'Islam is inherently evil?'

In that we think it's evil because some of them are fighting against us and our interests.

Saudi Arabia is quite a fundamentalist kind of Islamic kingdom isn't it? No democracy, freedom, none of "our values" there - what with the public head chopping they do weekly it seem... we seem OK with them and always invite them to our parties.

When evil is seen, but it came from a Christian state (Nazi Germany)... did we question evilness there as Christian values?

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I agree that this is a serious matter. But religion or Islam isn't it. What's weighty here is terrorism.


You can explain Islamic terrorism away by debating Islam and how it preaches violence and evilness... that's what we're told to do. So good job.

So sure, they hate us because of our values, because of who we are, because they don't like our women wearing bikinis (who would hate other people's women wearing bikini, seriously?) or going to work or study... That or maybe it's something else.


Sun Tzu said, war are struggles between two forces; hence it is only from knowing both yourself and your enemy will you attain victory. To know yourself but not your enemy; to know your enemy but not yourself... you can only win half the time. What victory is there to speak of when you neither know yourself nor your enemy.


We, the people, do we know what is and has been done in our name? Claimed to be done for our interests?

I doubt we know that.

Do we, the people, know our enemy? Know why they hate us and want to terrorise us?


If our answer is we always do good or do nothing at all; That they hate us because of their religion and their lack of education and their savagery and barbarism...

That's to fight wars, not to win it.
 

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Thanks luutzu,

you've said everything I intended to say, but had trouble focusing my mind on a clear path among all the polemic and hateful commentary so rife in this thread. So thank you for summing it up in a concise manner - again! - far better than I managed in individual replies that were too easily trolled and buried .

If I had a choice, I'd lock this thread because nothing new is likely to be added. But that would only give more ammunition to additional repetitive whinges in the "no more freedom of speech" thread.
 
Even a simple mind like yours must be aware that Islamism is an evil religion/cult, and Bas is obviously smarter than you, who keep posting even when you have nothing to say.
Can't you express your view without being so unnecessarily insulting to another member?
 
Saudi Arabia is quite a fundamentalist kind of Islamic kingdom isn't it? No democracy, freedom, none of "our values" there - what with the public head chopping they do weekly it seem... we seem OK with them and always invite them to our parties.

Well you are focussing in on something quite important. Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Islam. It’s where Mohammad lived his life and it’s the guardian of Islam’s holiest places Mecca and Medina. But a while back we already touched on the reason for the dichotomy of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the West and that is oil. (no surprise here)

But a contributing factor to the dichotomy is the Saudi Royal family who want to remain the lords of their feudal kingdom forever. They live in extravagant luxury while many of their surfs are quite poor. The only way you can maintain something like that forever is by rigid, political control and Islam does that for them perfectly.

However, the Saudis who are mostly Sunni muslims are threatened externally by their Shia cousins such as those over the border in Iran. The hatred and bitterness between Sunnis and Shias goes right back to the immediate aftermath of Mohammed’s death. So for years, the Saudi Royals have needed 3rd party military protection to maintain their extravagantly wealthy lifestyles and totalitarian control. Enter the USA who needed their oil and its win-win all around. (Except for the poor surfs at the bottom of the food chain.)

The internal political control mechanisms that the Saudis use today were invented and perfected by Mohammad during the last 22 years of his life. During this time (610 to 632 AD) he expanded his territorial control by relentless war-mongering and pillaging of neighbouring tribes, until his small group of followers had grown from less than a hundred to tens of thousands and he was in total control of the Arabian peninsula.
 
Can't you express your view without being so unnecessarily insulting to another member?

Sorry to give you cause to reprimand me on Rumpy's behalf. But the truth will out. Incidently my post wasn't insulting but his was intentionally provocative. His reference to me;

The master of denunciation by inference strikes again
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I know I shouldn't respond to provocatory posts. It was a mistake to take Rumpy off ignore.
 
Bintang the tag I am referring to is

"The most authentic form of Islam being practised today is by ISIS."


Just where did you find this line or is just a personal piece of creative writing ?
 
If I had a choice, I'd lock this thread because nothing new is likely to be added. But that would only give more ammunition to additional repetitive whinges in the "no more freedom of speech" thread.

pixel, as far as I am concerned this thread is locked/closed and also the “West Has lost Its freedom of Speech” thread.

When the moderator of a debate displays the level of bias that you have shown there is no point in the debate continuing.

It’s a pity because as events continue to unfold in Europe and the rest of the World I think there will be plenty of new things to add and discuss.

If you object to this criticism please ask Joe to terminate my membership of ASF
 
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