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Kad said: "Broadway Joe said: "Kad said: "Do you not worry about being shot in a movie theater or a school or a church, like those massacres carried out by non-Muslims in Colorado, Connecticut, or South Carolina?"

All awful events but none of those were done in the name of a religion. Obviously all Muslims aren't terrorists, that's not my point but this religion has a horrible problem with numerous different aspects around the world that shouldn't be acceptable and needs to be changed. "

All were carried out by individuals with radical beliefs. What does it matter if it they were secular beliefs or religious? Doctrines needn't be religious to be followed and stretched to a dangerous extreme. The Third Reich justified their ethnic cleansing through science."

Well said. Christianity still gets stretched to idealogical extremes all the time- just last year a man bombed a Planned Parenthood in Colorado and killed three people. Christianity, through conversion therapy, is responsible for the torture and eventual suicide of how many gay people? All radical ideology is bad, but that doesn't justify singling out one religion or ethnic group. There are ways to combat it, but that isn't helpful.

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Please, Allah--don't let this thread descend into more of qolbinau's inane verbal diarrhea.

Please, Jeebus! Please Yahweh.

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Kad said "...you haven't even been discussing terrorism in this thread. Not every critical comment people make is intended to include"

It's pretty obvious that I'm on the side of discussing terrorism in this thread. I'm part of the group that is being chastised. None of us were named individually, so yes, it is about me.

The chip you have on your shoulder for me is showing.

I thought I had until I saw that last post of Kad's. I'm not the only one who needs to move on, song.

This whole thread should end.

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No one is directly blaming the religion, just as no one would directly blame the religion of christianity for a racist who happens to be christian.

So, this is your first day in the United States? Conservative hypocritical morons ALWAYS blame the religion (as well as any country in the Middle East). ALWAYS. They usually happen to be the racists who claim to be Christians as well. This has been business as usual in the US since 9/11. One must admit and acknowledge the pervasive nature of American Christian ignorance and hypocrisy in order to eventually quash it. Naivety is dangerous and, in every case, downright deadly. SHAME ON YOU.

It has everything to do with Islam.

As long as we raise people with the idea that their identity is defined by a god/religion, we create people disconnected from the human mind and those people will never truly understand right from wrong.

Wrong. It has everything to do with the attacker's ideology they claim to be acting on. You don't know who claims religion is their "full identity" or not. You don't know the extent of any stranger's "identity"/ There are FAR more religious followers that are not terrorists. If you think everyone who follows religion "will never truly understand right from wrong" and that it is religion itself that leads to terrorism, OR that every terrorist claims their religion is their "full identity", then you do not understand how many religious people actually exist in the world. Or how many people are coerced and controlled into their involvement base on political/economic change. Your religious bigotry is part of the problem. Shame on you.

It is time to acknowledge that the religion of Islam is at a time of reckoning and must go through its own reformation; just as Christianity once did.

Yeah. That worked so well. Christianity has only been peaceful and lovely since the year 1685.

It's a religion that hasn't evolved.

You believe all Muslims are the same? If all Muslims were like one of the terrorists, we would all be dead already.

Strength and compassion mean very little if you're dead, and not around to experience/witness it.

That is quite possibly the most pointless, thoughtless, heartless and stupidest remark I've ever read on these boards.

Judaism, Catholicism, Christianity and even Buddhism (to an extent) have gone through a transformation/evolution.

First, Catholicism is part of Christianity. Second, what do you think will be achieved by restoration? You think Christianity and Catholicism are much improved? More peaceful? Which cult do you subscribe to? The Alternative Fact Church of Latter-Day Blame?

Let's be honest, all organised religion causes or has caused mass death, judgment, oppression and more.

Precisely. Pre- and Post-Reformation, as if reformation is indicative of anything.

Since the Quron contains so many verses dealing with waging war on non believers, what prompted the worldwide terrorist attacks we've been seeing in recent years, since 9/11. There have been non believers since day one. I'm guessing it's the change of guard.

Would you rather we do absolutely nothing to stem the radical perversion of the Islamic faith?

adamgreer said: "I'm shocked and appalled that so many people in here want to wipe out an entire religion."

Personally, I'd like to wipe out all of them. Religion is ****ing stupid. There's no big daddy in the sky listening to anyone's insane rantings.

ETA: I won't erase history, or deny that this comment is in accord with my thinking on the matter of religion, but I regret expressing my thoughts in this manner. This is a discussion which can only operate on reason and persuasion, and my comment clearly did not contribute to that. I only want to "wipe out" religion by convincing people to think in a different way, and hostile language like mine is antithetical to that goal.

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Would you rather we do absolutely nothing to stem the radical perversion of the Islamic faith?

That question has nothing to do with your oft-repeated theory of reformation as some sort of a solution. You are the one citing other religions as examples. Since you are so fond of repetition, what is your precedent that reformation reduces extremism and violence in the name of any religion?

I think your repetition needs reformation.

There's no reason to doubt what kind of city you are. Too bad that does't affect terrorists. The beauty of the city probably angers them even more.

Indeed, but they won't win here, not today, not any other day. Seeing every religion, atheists, gays, straight, trans all out today in memory is something they can't break. That's why that has to remain the most important thing. We have Muslims handing out free food, sikhs handing out free drinks, trans and gays hugging builders and big butch blokes, kids of all colours holding hands. Sometimes that is the answer.

songanddanceman2 said: "Indeed, but they won't win here, not today, not any other day. Seeing every religion, atheists, gays, straight, trans all out today in memory is something they can't break. That's why that has to remain the most important thing. We have Muslims handing out free food, sikhs handing out free drinks, trans and gays hugging builders and big butch blokes, kids of all colours holding hands. Sometimes that is the answer."

I agree with every word of this, other than the spelling of "colours."

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