Hahaha - oh.

[blufive]

It's not a joke, he's serious. Reuters:

"The policies of my opponent [Kerry] are dangerous for world peace," [George W.] Bush said. "If they were implemented, they would make this world not more peaceful, but more dangerous."

Hrm.

[yikes! look what grew when I was away]

Comments

[typhonian.livejournal.com]

"But Islam doesn't dictate that"

The Hadith do:

Bukhari, volume 9, #17

"Narrated Abdullah: Allah's Messenger said, "The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Messenger, cannot be shed except in three cases: in Qisas (equality in punishment) for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (Apostate) and leaves the Muslims."

http://answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/apostasy.htm

Now I would agree with you about the equal bloodthirtsyness of the other monotheist religions. I grew up in a fundamentalist christian family, I have first hand experience of how bad it can be.

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

But the Hadith are not the word of God, they are a scholars interpretation - there is some latitude there. And you can't jump from a selective quotation of one collection of Hadith to writing off a whole religion. Otherwise you could apply the same logic to any religious group.

I'm not going to defend the Koran (after all I'm an atheist) but I object to the vilification of a whole religion based on the actions of a very small minority of nutters.

[typhonian.livejournal.com]

I didn't - you'll note I specially referred to Wahabbist Islam. Which only accounts for a few percent of Muslims worldwide at most. There is much in certain aspects of islam to be commended, as indeed in certain parts of Judaism and Christianity.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I didn't - you'll note I specially referred to Wahabbist Islam. Which only accounts for a few percent of Muslims worldwide at most.

...and which you appear to be extremely ignorant about.

[typhonian.livejournal.com]

You know, I take no pleasure in all of this, but it is you who is ignorant about the wilder extremes of Islam.