https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlmfZqx9m3Y

lol

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."
~Steven Weinberg
Nobe Laureate


"Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race." [Bertrand Russell]

Nice to see you are still embarrassing yourself around here. Defending the Saudi Arabia "legal" system, lol.

Oh no thekid vs Lily.

What has been suggested by some folks is that while Jews were allowed to live in Muslim majority lands of the past, that they were never treated as equals,


The following source,

Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

Talks about how Jews found justice in Muslim courts during the late 16th century in Jerusalem, this include cases involving Jews and Muslims. You might have a case in the late 16th century in Jerusalem where a Muslim court rules in favor of a Jew, this type of stuff is not talked about often, and its important that it is established that its historically incorrect to suggest Muslims have a history of mistreating others.

https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ...tivity&f=false

Specifically, what claims? Please quote them.


Three of the world's major religions -- the monotheist traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- were all born in the Middle East and are all inextricably linked to one another. Christianity was born from within the Jewish tradition, and Islam developed from both Christianity and Judaism.

While there have been differences among these religions, there was a rich cultural interchange between Jews, Christians, and Muslims that took place in Islamic Spain and other places over centuries.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnec...pagewanted=all

The old take a look at the Quran/Bible approach. I have heard this from many types of people, Athesits whom say look at this Bible/Quran quote, therefore your religion is intolerant, some Christians will say look at these Muslims and Jews, how can they deny Christ? And so on and so forth.

Christ himself talked about staying away from telling others that large groups of peaceful people are out to get.

I feel that it goes against the three religions of Abraham to oppress others, you will hear a different viewpoint from other posters though. I find that Muhammad advocated standing up for justice, you will find that in fact , Muhammad made pacts with non Muslims. Also, it was a fact that Omar(companion of Muhammad ) lifted the previous roman ban on Jews in Jerusalem.

Your telling me to study the nature of the 3 religions before assuming similarities makes them interchangeable.

I have heard some Christians say that Jews and Muslims cant be saved, or that Jews and Muslims are bound for hell, what are your thoughts on this?

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."

The voice of moderate Islam in the UK

http://youtu.be/afdeFuJbK3E

Sad that he won't even condemn death by stoning

This is pretty interesting. It is a list of people that Mohammed had killed, and why. Many of these are for perceived insults such as "opposed Mohammed through poetry."

This list might explain a lot of what we are seeing in the Muslim word concerning their hyper-sensitivity to criticisms of the prophet.

http://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Ki...ed_by_Muhammad

I think most Islamists are a little behind in times.
I think in their culture they marry their cousins right?
Stone woman to death for wearing the wrong socks, right?
Treat their woman like slaves, right?
Kill in the name of god, right?
Child marriage/ child rape is ok, right?
Wonder what I have forgotten?

I think you have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to religion. All claim to be righteous, all claim to be the right religion.

When confronted with the above, all are silent. Like it does not happen in their religion!
I am sure the Koran makes some good points, but the same can be said of 1000000's of other books. Why WHY WHY WHY live your life according to a book that's a 1000 years old? I guess if people need some sort of authority in their lives then this is the way to go, right!

Bump: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...-texas-n352996

I mean this was a stupid event to hold but I really am not sure that even matters a little

The fear and ostracism of apostates

http://www.theguardian.com/global/20...n-crisis-faith

French sociologist Oliver Roy in laicite, French identity, and more

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index...he-myth-of-nat

Listen to these Jewish and Muslim heroes coming together to do the holy work of feeding hungry and homeless people.

How to prevent radicalization

- See more at: http://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comm....xU6UHRDe.dpuf

Bump.

Muhammad was a pedophile who married a 6 y/o girl and consummated the marriage when she was 9. This religion hails a child molester as GOD but yet we aren't allowed to criticize it as a flawed religion encouraging of all sorts of wrong bull****?

How are you not allowed to criticize the flaws of the religion if that is what you are apparently doing?

I feel allowed and think I am allowed to criticize both the flaws of religion and the flaws of criticism of religion.

I do not understand why you would think or feel oppressed in this regard?

Do yoiu understand why someone like Salman Rushdie or a cartoonist would?

That's some serious necromancy

Is Mohammed like a islamic Jesus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uem_0GQP-zY