Not everyone that raises concerns about religion or Islam is a "hater". I would defend the rights of Muslims to their freedom of religion.
When your religion tends to characterize unbelievers as worthless, and considers people who want to leave it as unworthy of life, terrorism is one likely result, as long as socio-political conditions favor any kind of warfare.
simple, so you can find a reason to invade us, and the first reason of, is, media, easy, the answer is media.It's a thread about Muslim/Arab bias, and you don't want to discuss the origins of possible bias?
okI'm not saying that the Quran explicitly tells Muslims to kill unbelievers
but it does illustrate certain conditions under which it might be acceptable.
yes, but say nothing about killin them, hearting them, or anything...It also repeatedly characterizes unbelievers as an enemy of God and by extension Islamic people.
.I understand that there is an Islamic tradition of respecting religion to the point of absurdity
While I do support freedom of religion, I do not support the notion that it is a subject which is beyond discussion or criticism, certainly no religious person feels the same inhibitions when discussing the validity of a scientific theory or the wisdom of certain political decisions.
war on iran, is coming sooner or later,
but iran want be the only country that would be in war, it would be a huge war, i bet many other muslim countries will be with iran
if it was their war, a huge war, and deffereenlty israeil will loose, because iran is stronger than israeil, and israeil, if it use nuclear that means it sucieded. iran can get over a nuclear hit,n but israeil can't.
Iran would not have allies willing to involve their militaries on the side of Iran.
Israel has a high tech military. Israel can win a high tech war against Iran but Israel would gain little from such a war.
if i were a sunni nation i'd secretly support an Israeli strike against irani power plants
I agree. If however Israel had to go it alone, its practically inevitable that the US would be dragged in. Netanyahu is called "bomber boy". :m:The people of the USA don't want another war and don't particularly like the wars they have. This is why the groups in the USA that want the USA to attack Iran must spread more fear and hatred of Iran and Muslims. There is a lot of fear and hatred of Muslims and Iran in the USA now but not enough fear and hatred to get the American people to agree to another war.
A substantial strike against Iran will re-ignite and bump up to another level, the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spill unpredictably over into Pakistan.The Muslim people will be with Iran but their governments will not. The USA and Israel can not occupy nations successfully but they can bomb them to dust if they choose to do so.
but nirakar, what happened to make this thread? i mean what happened to you in other threads maybe, i mean, anyway you got what i mean, so, ?
For me the OP the story of this thread begins in the World Events forum.Since I haven't been following this thread, perhaps this has already been asked: what's the point? What do you want to see happen? What do you hope to accomplish with this thread?
Shadow1 made a thread tittled " Shocking news! islam/middle east!" and his OP was "now that i got your attention, why do you always when you see any threat with a word "islam" in it, you all go running to it?!"
People chose ignore what he was saying and just attack him. But Shadow1 is not a confrontational sort of person so the thread meandered somewhat aimlessly.
Hypewaders locked the thread.
I could see what Shadow1 was saying and he was correct.
The thread was http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=103308
Here are some threads from that forum When shadow 1 made his thread:
Iran "Adultureress" may be executed
Iran TV airs 'confession' from woman facing stoning
Iran digging Mass Graves for US Troops
Iran To Execute 18-Year-Old On False Charge Of Sodomy
Islam and Terrorism
There seems to be no point to these threads other than to say "Muslims bad" or Iran bad". The threads themselves seem like trolling but Shadow1's more meaningful but sardonic thread gets accused of being trolling locked for being pointless.
There used to be a few anti-Muslim thread-spammers who completely dominated the Word Events forum by starting most of the threads with quotes from and links to news stories that made Muslims look bad. I did not like that.
I see a world heading towards a hellish future not because we lack the intelligence to create a wonderful world but rather because we let our normal human chimpanzee-like tribalistic instincts dominate our thinking. Tribalism needs to go because we can't afford it any more unless we are willing to damn billions of future humans to hell.
Nobody is helping Iran or Muslims by acting hateful towards them. But the point of all this anti-Muslim stuff is not to help them. We are just chimpanzees making threatening noises at the neighboring band. There is no more intelligence than that involved here. It is just instinct. I see it for what it really is.
I can't do much about what I know. Basically future humanity will just have to suffer because our animal emotions won't let us use our intelligences to collectively solve the world's logistical soceoeconomic and environmental problems. But I never expected to see the USA elect a black man president. How the hell did that happen. Maybe I underestimate humanity. I think I will continue to waste my time calling out tribalism in it's various forms when I see it here at Sciforums.
I tittled my thread: " Shocking news! Islam/middle east! Part 2" and put it in World events. Hypewaders retitled it and moved it to this forum.
Hypewaders is a decent and fair minded guy and I did not mean to be offensive to Hypewaders when I made a part 2 to a thread that he closed. But as decent and fair minded as Hypewaders is I don't think he sees the Muslim bashing for what it is.
kmguru started a few of the threads which is sort of sad because he is one of the few people that I expect to be able to see below the surface of things.
Iranians needs to fix Iran. If the Muslim bashers wanted to fix Iran I would cut them some slack but I trust my intuition that the bashers don't have a clue what they are doing and are just following their instincts. The Muslims are reading the Wests hostility correctly when they perceive it as hostility rather than as a loving concerned neighbor who wants to help.
israel is a "1 strike country". a hiroshima sized yield outta finish it off. what say you?
I agree. If however Israel had to go it alone, its practically inevitable that the US would be dragged in. Netanyahu is called "bomber boy". :m:
A substantial strike against Iran will re-ignite and bump up to another level, the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spill unpredictably over into Pakistan.
I did not like the way your " Shocking news! islam/middle east!" thread was treated. Those other pointless threads about Iran were treated with more respect than they deserved and your thread making a meaningful joke about those threads was given less respect than it deserved.
My answer to a similar question earlier:
I think we are programmed to attack the other tribes and take their land when they are weak. This "us them hatred bio-psychological programming" helps us clarify who is part of our network of allied tribes off limits to attack and who is from a tribe not part of the alliance and therefore should have their territory taken from them if they are not strong enough to put up to great of a fight.
OMG, you still want to find reasons for actions...
I am attracted to looking for reasons for actions. If you want to make a joke thread sure to attract me make the thread tittle something about reasons for actions.
but because people are always very attracted to those subject, so by that headline i bet anyone who passed by taked a look at, but he was disepointed to find that it says why are you all attracted to those, and always discuss about those, don't you ever get bored of?
People seem to think that if you can't say something bad about Muslims or Arabs then you should not say anything about them at all. I don't like that attitude so I say bad things about the people who want us all to think bad things about Muslims and Arabs. They say Arabs and Muslims need to see and stop their evilness and I say these people who complain about Arabs and Muslims need to see and stop their own evilness.aaaaah, i seee, soo.. you say.. you should never have any respect to muslims or arabs christian were or muslims, hmm.
just a side question: why do you have complexes in your minds?