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Originally Posted by 5ive
The problem these people have is this:
1. They believe ISIS et al are evil. I mean, duh, no argument there. This would be a short discussion.
2. That's not good enough, though. They want to believe Muslim immigrants/refugees and, in turn, simply Muslims, are evil.
At least half of Muslims hold vile beliefs. I don't know if that qualifies as "evil" to you (why are you using that word?), but anyone who think it's "sometimes ok" to murder your wife or daughter because she exhibits sexual or religious freedom, or talks back too much, I'm comfortable classifying as a pretty vile human being.
So yes. Most Muslims are vile human beings, who have beliefs deeply incompatible with Western values. Do you really want to argue that with me? You've seen the Pew Polling. You see what's done to hundreds of millions of women in Muslim countries.
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3. They can't argue that most Muslims are secret radical Islamists, because duh again, that's obviously not true.
That's not even relevant. I'd say 20-30% of Muslims are radical Islamists (in the sense of supporting the vilest, most fundamentalist laws, and tactics to help expand that view and end of Islam), and aren't secret about it. A further 40% or so on top of that would tacitly support an Islamic party that wanted to bring about an Islamic state with its misogynist Sharia laws. I mean, we have the facts here on what Muslims believe and want.
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4. So, to tie things together somehow, they need to somehow rewrite a good 1/3 - 2/5 of the history of Islam. This works "better" than saying every modern Muslim is a terrorist sleeper agent, but it still fails miserably as we're only talking about less than 1.5 centuries of history, not 10s of thousands of years. That results in the bull**** spouting we see by TS et al.
I don't understand your 1.5 centuries of history. The Arab slave trade, especially in female child sex slaves, goes back 1400 years. There is nothing comparable for most of history. The history of Islam is one of slavery, piracy, misogyny, terror, barbarity (relative to its contemporaries), and attempts to create a global caliphate.
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5. These historical facts are pointed out to the derpbots, which causes a hard reset, and the cycle starts over.
What historical facts? The only thing I've seen mentioned is the "golden age" of Islam, which ended 8 centuries ago, during which they had some wealth, and books, etc gleaned from lands that they overran in their bid to establish the caliphate. I don't understand why you think that a flowering of a civilization 8 centuries ago under a particular religion means that religion is therefore ok. That flowering came from Greek books. The Greeks like to bugger boys, yet are basically responsible for much of the later learning and thought from the Islamic to the Christian world - does that mean NAMBLA is ok, and boy-buggery is a good philosophy?
You really don't have any reasoning here. Nazi Germany was a powerhouse of innovation and cutting edge thought - that doesn't make Nazi philosophy ok.
I've never said that Islam is incompatible with mathematics (it's not - in fact many Islamic designs use math in interesting way), nor have I said it's 100% evil. So I'm not sure why you think you're playing some trump card here. I simply ignore this when you mention it because it's completely irrelevant and a non-point. I don't understand why you think you're making a meaningful point when you mention the Islamic Golden Age. It has nothing to do with anything and refutes nothing that's been claimed. That's why I don't respond to it - it is of no relevance.