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Message #113206 posted by forged registration (Info) March 11, 2008 14:53:47 ET
In Reply to: Re: Should Islam be blamed for 'barbaric' acts? posted by Torog (Info) March 11, 2008 03:42:40 ET
charity is one of the five pillars of islam, and muslims are required to contribute 10% of their income to religious and secular charities...if you try to google muslims philanthropy you're more likely to get paranoid right wing american propaganda about how islam is the wellspring of all evil and responsible for 98.6% of all conflicts in the world today...that is because less scrupulous christians have the home turf advantage, and a couple hundred years head start on technology, and they're not afraid to bear false witness against a competing religion
like muslims, christians can be extremely decent people, but they are not immune to barbarism as you suggest...if you asked some good muslims, they might tell you that western christians are barbaric in the way they treat women (as sexual objects, punching bags, and workhorses), the way they treat eachother (with multilevel marketing scams and guns violence), the way they treat themselves (with drug addiction, street crime, obesity, and pollution), and the way they treat their neighbours (with predatory capitalism, threats, and bombs)
i could pull up dozens of articles about barbaric christians in america and around the world and you would dismiss them all, but you freak out if a university in new york builds a footbath to accomodate its muslim students...neither christianity or islam are perfect, but christianity hasn't evolved as far as you think...you can't even follow jesus christ's basic rules about love and forgiveness: perhaps christians would be a lot more peaceful today if they hadn't 'evolved' away from christ
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