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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
If you tell me that the religion is one of terror or domination, then I can justifiable assert that I know you are wrong, because I have studied the religious texts in question and gotten to know the people of that faith.
I'm very happy you said this.
I am not talking about Muslims at all; I am talking about a political doctrine that is worse than Nazism.
Islam is the way of Muhammad. The Muslims who do not murder other people are nominal, cultural, Muslims. They do not follow the way of Muhammad nor the teachings of the Imams. My opinion or your opinion about Islam or Muslims do not matter. The only opinion that matters is Muhammad's. According to Muhammad and to the widely accepted doctrine, Muhammad was a warlord who commanded his followers to proselytize by the sword. Muhammad's latter actions and teachings have abrogated everything else.
The primary victims of Islamism are Muslims. It's because they're apostates who aren't following Muhammad. Calling ISIS a group of genocidal maniac extremists paints an incomplete and misleading picture of the them. They are the reformation of Islam back to the teachings of Muhammad.
A fruitful discussion would be to consider whether or not there is any hope for Islam as a religion. I'd certainly like there to be, but there is a common theme that runs through religions that suggests there isn't. That theme is that the (perhaps) only way religions reform is by returning to the scriptures and interpreting more literally, purely, and with abrogation of previous teachings. Islam is in a terrible place because the purpose for its creation was the subjugation of all into its ways. Islam can't go back to the scriptures to find peace because there is no peace to be found in Muhammad. I have no idea what the solution is to this, but it certainly is not to give a violent political ideology a pass.
Attacking me based on my statements is like attacking somebody who claims Nazism is awful as instead saying the German people who were also Nazis were awful. I am saying no such thing about Muslims. Muslims are normal people like you and me. But Islamism is one of the most destructive political forces in human history and in the world today. It is not that way due to its adherent just being bad, but because of the teachings of Islam itself. We in America are fortunate in that the vast majority of Muslims here are very nominal and they don't believe this stuff because they're, well, nominal and cultural Muslims instead of adherents to the doctrine.
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