Forum Post: A Cartoon For the LoL Department
Posted 11 years ago on Sept. 15, 2012, 12:07 p.m. EST by ZenDogTroll
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- The Danish cartoonist who survived an axe attack
- . . . . . . 4 January 2010
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has been living in fear since he drew his notorious Muhammad cartoon. But even that could not prepare him for being attacked in his own home by a Muslim seeking revenge
In September 2005, the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was asked by his newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to draw the prophet Muhammad "as you see him". He did, and it changed his life. The resulting cartoon was deemed blasphemous by hardline Muslims around the world and drew death threats. More than four years later, after Westergaard had already been forced to spend a harrowing few months on the run with his wife Gitte, a 28-year-old man of Somali origin forced his way into their home last Friday evening wielding an axe and a knife.
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Arabic public response to the cartoons by Kurt Westergaard:
- Muslim cartoon fury claims lives
- . . . . . . 6 February 2006
At least five people have been killed in Afghanistan as protests against European cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad swept across the country.
Two people died when protesters turned on the US airbase at Bagram - although the US has had no involvement with the images, which originated in Denmark.
Meanwhile in Somalia, a teenage boy died after protesters attacked police.
Iran announced it was halting trade with Denmark, as protesters pelted the Danish embassy with petrol bombs.
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And more unrest over the cartoons continues when the paper reprints them:
- Muslims protest Danish Muhammad cartoons
- . . . . . . 2/15/2008
Demonstrations against publication held in Pakistan, Gaza, Denmark
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Muslims protested Friday in the Gaza Strip, Pakistan and Denmark against the reprinting of a Danish newspaper cartoon depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Thousands of residents in the conservative Gaza Strip ruled by the militant Islamic Hamas movement marched in the Jebaliya refugee camp chanting: "What Denmark said is heresy."
"It is shameful that Denmark should renew its offense against the prophet," Hamas official Mushir al-Masri told reporters at the protest.
- Four guilty of Danish plot over Muhammad cartoons
- . . . . . . 4 June 2012
Four men have been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Danish court which found them guilty of planning a terrorist attack on newspaper offices.
The court heard the men wanted to kill people in revenge for Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
The four were all Muslims resident in Sweden. Police said they were arrested just hours before the foiled attack.
All the men had denied charges of terrorism against them.
The Copenhagen-based newspaper's publication of the cartoons of Muhammad sparked protests in Muslim countries.
- **Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
- . . . . . . 14 September 2012
Writers, broadcasters, friends and publishing insiders recall what it was like to be caught up in the most controversial story in recent literary history, The Satanic Verses and the ensuing fatwa against its author, as Salman Rushdie prepares to bring out his eagerly awaited memoir.
SPIEGEL Interview with Ayaan Hirsi
- Ali 'Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam'
- . . . . . . 02/06/2004
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch politician forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, responds to the Danish cartoon scandal, arguing that if Europe doesn't stand up to extremists, a culture of self-censorship of criticism of Islam that pervades in Holland will spread in Europe.
Short film by Dutch movie maker Theo van Gogh in association with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The film deals with the opression of women in many Muslim countries. Van Gogh was killed by a Muslim fanatic in 2004 because of the film. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is planning the second part of the film. "Submission" is the translation of the Arabic word "Islam".
on a personal note - I love the cartoon. I think it's funny shit. I also think right wing repelicans are not that far behind radical Islam . . .
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If you feel a cartoon degrades your faith, you don't have any
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Would cartoons of Moses & Jesus be offensive to Jews & Christians ?
Would you really also find those kind of cartoons "funny" too ?
How much glee at others' discomfiture should we take ?
Do you really and honestly "love the cartoon" ?
Do you really think that "it's funny shit" ?
Are you enjoying what's going on ?
ad iudicium ...
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Sheeesh :-( Take a ticket to ride bro' :-) & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxfuFBOy-s ~*~
Seriously dude, really - just who is blowing up who exactly and where ? Also please consider that Judaism is a cult with many sects ; Christianity is a cult with many sects ; Islam is a cult with many sects !!! Anybody else tired of all this internecine BS dick swinging contest betwixt Abrahamic Mumbo-Jumo Subscribers ?!! Consider closely - 'spiritual supremacy' is but a 'silent breath' away from 'racial supremacy' & is a systems glitch of the brain & manifestation of something not good, something Dark !
Fear is the absence of Love and leads to suffering ~
shalom aleichem ; salam alaikum ; pax vobiscum ...
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Have you seen any of the Judeophobic 'Cartoon' Imagery from Germany in the 1930s & 40s ?!
Perhaps they thought those were "funny" too !! Just sayin' !!!
ad iudicium ...
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I dare you to look at 'anti-semitic cartoons' from Germany in that period and then compare to your oh, so "funny" cartoon !!! Go on Zen, go say "In the 1930s there was no use of Judaism to justify murder" again after you've seen them !! It'll be a straight forward exercise for a researcher, like you !
e tenebris, lux ...
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As you say yourself - "I still fail to see your point", so there is really little left for me to say or do here. However, note that I wasn't comparing Jews to Muslims per se ; I was making an analogue of Germans and Americans !! I can not show you that which you will not (maybe can not) see. Beware Propaganda - 'there be monsters'. I find myself weary now.
spero meliora ...
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More selective thinking and I could talk about the slow, insidious, creeping 'Fascism' that is prevalent in 'The United States of Amnesia" (Gore Vidal, RIP). You bring up "terrorists" but really what know you of 'terror' ? Try this & see if you can join up your thinking and we can talk about who is "ignoring" what :
Who's bombing who 'ZD' & who's 'terrorizing' who ? Further, IF you start to believe that America was attacked by Muslim 'terrorists' and is also susceptible to future attacks, then a “War on Terror” and a domestic police state to root out 'terrorists' become necessary in order to make Americans 'safe'.
The very idea that a domestic police state and an open-ended war might be even more dangerous threats to Americans and their way of life, than "terrorists" - is an Impermissible Thought.
pax et lux ; hic et ubique ; nunc et semper ...
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The more I read your comment above - the worse it got. You call me "an apologist for" and in "support" of "Muslim extremism" - which is flat out wrong and shameful of you. I have been on this forum for over 11 months now so go 'user:search' my name & well over 100 'forum-posts' or hundreds of comments on too many threads to mention. Go see IF you can find a scintilla of evidence for your absurd, sad & silly 'ass'ertion. You won't find a thing. Because it doesn't exist. I won't forget this exchange though. Reread my comments above below & elsewhere to join the dots & see where I come from or stay in the dark !!!
ad iudicium et fiat lux ...
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If you say "valid argument - I don't claim otherwise, never have" to :
then we agree on something here at least. Perspective Is Everything. The issue is not "cartoons", that's just a 'triggering event'. Shit is deeper than that 'Dog' - reflection & re-finding your 'Zen', will reveal much !
dum spiro, spero ...
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Again, "Who's bombing who 'ZD' & who's 'terrorizing' who ? Further, IF you start to believe that America was attacked by Muslim 'terrorists' and is also susceptible to future attacks, then a 'War on Terror”'and a domestic police state to root out 'terrorists' become necessary in order to make Americans 'safe'.
"The very idea that a domestic police state and an open-ended war might be even more dangerous threats to Americans and their way of life, than "terrorists" - is an Impermissible Thought".
(from : http://occupywallst.org/forum/for-the-lol-department/#comment-834933 and more importantly also see: http://occupywallst.org/forum/yeah-it-must-just-all-be-because-of-the-video/#comment-833985 )
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Why? I think nobody should respect a false epistemologies. We should only respect logic, science, and truth. We need to stop respecting religions and we need to throw them in the garbage can of bad human ideas.
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Do you realize that you are intolerant of history? You want to sweep history under the carpet. You don't want to pay any attention to it.
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You are intolerant of history, therefore you do not care to understand the present, you simply judge.
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It's a fact that some people want to kill a cartoonist because of a drawing. That's a problem, and it exists because religions are all based on a false epistemology. Religions are very dangerous. All of them. The world will be a better place when they are all outlawed. We must prone logical and critical thought.
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I don't know, I grew up in Smalltown America... There were 80 kids in our graduating class - the largest in our history - which included two Jews, two African Americans, one who was Japan-ese, one Chin-ese... no Roman Catholics that I am aware of, well, maybe one or two in later years. I mean, I remember when the first Italian family moved in, people would gather outside the house just hoping to get a glimpse; - truth.
Everybody got along, they were all good kids, and there was never any "prejudice" because there was no one to be prejudiced against. "Racism" hadn't even been invented yet; it was not a word we were familiar with. I suppose there were a lot of words we were unfamiliar with.
Well, maybe there was a little bit of "interracial" angst... I mean, I remember when Martin King got his first holiday; it was announced that we were to observe five minutes of silence. Well, half the class got up and walked out, but nobody was offended, except the teachers, because there was nobody there to get offended; - truth, all of the above "others" were later arrivals.
Haha... I can still remember the looks on their faces. Ahh, but how those teachers doth protest, ehh? Which, for the most part we found pretty hysterical; in fact, we found that just about everything was pretty hysterical if ya just took a moment to wrap your mind around it; that's just the way life is...
And kids didn't worry about any of the things they do today; either did parents, and life was good.
Well, admittedly, my mind has since been warped by both time and experience but you know I've been watching Muslims from afar blow good people up now since the 1970s. It's interesting, too, that after hundreds of thousands of years there are but very few religious texts in the world; which, of course, makes our goal of reading them that much simpler, doesn't it?
I wasn't really impressed with the Qur'an; it's all about behavior and behavioral controls, and so repetitive; there is very little of spirituality, which is the very reason it, a), appeals to the uneducated, of which, apparently there are many, and b), is widely left to clerics to interpret - everyone looks to the clerics. Which, for someone like myself, raised in a Protestant world where virtually all is ultimately deemed to be a matter of personal exegesis or individual interpretation, is a radically new concept. The thing is, a religious world reliant in large part on an individual interpretation is capable of producing far more dissenters, especially when members of your community or congregation start blowing the crap out of innocent people. Or even innocent non-people beings and/ or assorted other "things."
Just for "burning" the Qur'an... ?
And praise be to Allah, just saying...
........................If your faith is degraded by a cartoon, you don't have any
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He got that from the Dr Pepper Facebook page after someone posted it in reponse to the evolution theme ad controversy. Of course, nobody got killed because of that cartoon.
What if we inserted family instead of faith?
Not that its a reason to go biserk and start killing people.
At times in history, religions have induced great up-shifts in civilization. To know more, go to Youtube, for example, and search "Islam mathematics". At one point, Islamic scholars made great contributions to mathematics and the sciences, particularly medicine, contributions which were based on their faith, and which still benefit all of us to this day.
I think we should be more concerned with the dynamics of how religions make such contributions at certain times, while at others, they are degraded into having a destructive influence on society.
For example, the same Islam, which made such fine contributions in the middle ages, was later subverted by the British empire when it colonized India. Using a "divide and conquer" strategy, Muslims were set against Hindus, allowing the British manipulators to capture the spoils of war once the Hindus and Muslims had been induced to massacre each other.
To this day, the global financial "empire" with its centers in the City of London financial district and on Wall Street, still manipulate practically the entire Muslim world through the influence of MI6 and the CIA.
The same divide and conquer strategy is used to set the west and the Islamic world against each other, all to the benefit of the global financial oligarchy.
I seem to remember a piece of artwork at the Brooklyn Museum during their "Sensation" exhibit that caused a great deal of protest when an artist placed elephant dung over a depiction of the Virgin Mary.
From wikipedia: "The exhibition was shown in New York City at the Brooklyn Museum from 2 October 1999 to 9 January 2000. The New York show was met with instant protest, centering on The Holy Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili, which had not provoked this reaction in London. While the press reported that the piece was "smeared", "splattered" or "stained" with elephant dung,[9][10] Ofili's work in fact showed a carefully rendered black Madonna decorated with a resin-covered lump of elephant dung. The figure is also surrounded by small collaged images of female genitalia from pornographic magazines; these seemed from a distance to be the traditional cherubim."
Works both ways ZenDog. You surprise me with this post.
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And you know what ZenDog? Apparently you haven't read much.
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LOL!
Right. You just post degrading cartoons. Well done. Post a degrading cartoon of Jesus or the Virgin Mary why don't ya?
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Post a degrading cartoon of Mary or Jesus next to the one above. Come on now. Fair is fair.
And, no, I'm very shallow, you know me.
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Better.
It's not the same. Islam does not permit any type of representation of Mohammed. Even if he was portrayed in the best possible light it would be unacceptable to a mulsim. There is no comparison to be made.
I'm aware of that. Makes it all the worse if the cartoonist knew that and proceeded with it, which I'm sure he did. It's still a fair comparison because Christians do not like when their religious characters are degraded. Try saying "Jesus" as a bit of a swear in a Catholic home, even.
"Try saying "Jesus" as a bit of a swear in a Catholic home, even"
Yeah - I did that and they killed me for doing it.
It's a fact that Islam has more terrorists than any other religion and that they don't tolerate other types of thinking. It's also a fact that peaceful muslims don't stand up against the terrorists who soil their religion. This is not a coincidence.
Lets Bomb The Fuk outta 'em then ! Oh look ... we tried that already !! Consider : 'H8 begets H8' !!!
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No, that's not the answer. And I never said it was. The answer is education. Americans are a violent people who support their worldwide army with taxes. They are also a huge problem in the world today.
The Empire is dragging us all to Near Permanent War abroad and Fascism at home. Resistance is an absolute right ; Mass, Regular, Non Violence Actions are the quickest path to peace & justice, maybe !!
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The Empire cannot make a citizen enroll in the army and shoot people. Americans choose to do that.
Right to free speech in the west trumps ridiculous religious practices and beliefs. I don't see anything wrong with what the cartoonist did. I don't need to accommodate myself to the religious fantasies of my neighbor and never should have to. They can kill me for my free speech, it says more about them than about me.
Right, so ZD should be fair and put a degrading cartoon of Mary or Jesus next to that one.
That's not the point. The point is you Americans let religious fanatics walk all over you. That's why half your representatives talk religion and why you have "In God We Thrust" on your money even though you are supposed to have separation of Church and State. Zendog can attack muslims without having to attack Christians as well. He could do both, but he doesn't need to to make his point. You don't have to attack all religions in the world to attack one.
So, "Zendog can attack muslims without having to attack Christians as well", right ? Ok but do we have any right to call to motives and question that, then dog ?!
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Sure, why not. I can also criticize Christians without criticizing mulsims. Do we really have to criticize every religion to have the right to criticize one? If you criticize a finding in biology, or the writing of a philosopher, do you also have to criticize all other sciences to compensate? Please.
You can, but it's a logical fallacy: appeal to motive. In truth, only zendog's arguments matter and if you don't agree with him you should counter-argue instead of dropping lame logical fallacies like you always do.
Look closer at what I said. I'm not looking for 'parity of parody' - I'm questioning motive & asking if that is fair to do so. Are we just having abstract discussions about principles or is there something deeper and darker at play ? Your 'non sequitur was skilfully employed, btw.
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Metaphysics transcends nothing. It is pseudoscience and thus worthless.
Science is the only correct epistemology because it not only allows, but encourages doubt. Not only that, but doubting the scientific method itself is encouraged and that's why it is often modified and enhanced. Does science makes mistakes, yes, but that is not the point. The point is science moves forward in the right direction and encourages us to discover our universe in the most correct way possible.
Science brings people together because doubt is possible and experiments are repeatable. A scientist in Japan can agree with one in Israel. Science converges towards truth. The more science advances, the more it converges towards truth. The bad theories are replaced with better ones. This translates in knowing more of what the ultimate truth is.
Religions and all other pseudosciences make people diverge, not converge. They grow like a tree, from a root more and more branches are attached (branches being a metaphor for interpretations). There are a zillion interpretations of the Qur'an because the Qur'an holds no truth. The same can be said for any other religious book or doctrine.
LOL & untwist your boxers & be "LifTed" :
You can think that you 'know' much with your paltry five senses without 'feeling' that which is nebulous, etheric and insubstantial as alas increasingly these days, 'the immaterial' is ... immaterial, lol. (ps : do I take it that you never did acid because I could have sworn otherwise ~:-)
Chill out 'T' --- despite your musical prejudices, try to enjoy the tune.
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The only thing at play is the danger of religions which is a really big danger. It's a false premise that we should respect religions thinking, we shouldn't because it's not a valid form of epistemology. Religions thinking is brainwashing children with lies and hate, it's nothing else. All religions are evil and humanity will become much better when they are all destroyed and forgotten for ever.
'T' : I agree with much of that but calling 'Religions' - "evil" is a 'Manichean Binary' that is a 'logical fallacy' in itself. Science has its 'orthodoxies and heresies' too and 'metaphysics' transcends - yet connects, both - thank G*d, lololol !!!
"Man does not live by bread alone" & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxfuFBOy-s ~{~
fiat lux ...
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I concede NOTHING !!! I'm only "afraid" of what that cartoon is helping to push The U$A towards - as Muslims become The New Communists - a new and never ending Permanent WAR Economy and Culture. I said what you quote before our contretemps here and all that I have to say I have said. You desire I "concede" because your ego needs that whereas I am only ever talking through and around you.
Anyone who reads this thread will make their own mind up as to who drinks Imperial Kool Aid here. You are propagandised and proud of it. If you have any backbone - go read the 'Max Blumenthal' article I have linked to and see if you can digest it !
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"Conservatives, Democrats and the Convenience of Denouncing Free Speech", by Glenn Greenwald :
"Westerners love to decry censorship aimed at them by Muslims while ignoring the extreme censorship they impose on them."
I shall read you link. If memory serves me right, Ayan Hirsi Ali, is Nial Ferguson's partner and both are doyens of the The US Conservative Libertarian Right 'Chatteratti', though considered pretty shrill, strident and doctrinaire in Europe. Link for a link - fair exchange, no robbery.
ps : Re. "And shadz never did condemn senseless acts of violence until here." [from below] - "Until" ?! Nope. I had said that before our exchange here as you'll be able to verify hopefully.
e tenebris ...
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That is the biggest b.s. remark I have ever heard from you ZD.
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You're dishonest and see : http://occupywallst.org/forum/yeah-it-must-just-all-be-because-of-the-video/#comment-833985 for insight into where I am clearly coming from. You need to calm down.
Shameful, ignorant and bullying invective won't ever cut it with me. You show your nature. Sadly.
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Your last line is offensive to me and you seem to imply that talking back to you and actually opposing Islamophobia, somehow constitutes "attempting to bully" you. You need to to refind uoy 'Zen', dog. You are as irrelevant as I am here as ultimately only the arguments and the salient points really matter. As such, try to engage your head and heart and consider the following :
The USA was held in high regard throughout the muslim world for most of The 20th Century. It was seen as a new nation which had overthrown its colonial overlords and liberated itself to be into a democratic, progressive country where faith and hard work could uplift people. US science, engineering, culture and education was respected and its stance on 'Godless Communism' was hugely respected and admired.
However despite the mass perception & sentiment, The US consistently sided with the most reactionary and autocratic elements of the monarchies, sheikhdoms, emirates and dictatorships. All the while, all progressive, liberal and leftist forces in the society were violently repressed for decades. Arch US allies & The Al-Saud Gangster Monarchy have promulgated a strident, hard right, illiberal Islam as The Al-Saud family clan cult (Wahabism) has been pushed as a faux 'Islamic Orthodoxy'.
The people see the alliance of their rulers and The US. They know their oppression. They chaff. They see the nexus. They react. Senseless violence & mayhem are to be condemned ; there's no justification for murder but alas these events have their root in history & actual socio-economic and political realities.
There is a push for conflict on all sides but good people resist everywhere. An important & relevant link :
"Inside the Bizarre Cabal of Secretive Donors, Demagogic Bloggers, Pseudo-Scholars, European Neo-Fascists, Violent Israeli Settlers, and Republican Presidential Hopefuls Behind the Crusade".
This is a powerful piece by the consistently incisive Max Blumenthal but it is only for the clear sighted, open hearted and strong minded.
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It does appear you hit all the major religions. I liked the Jesus meets Neut, the most.
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..wait, wasn't that an invention of Crowley back in the 60's (lol)
Won't happen - he seems selective about his prejudices about other people's prejudices !!
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Any religion that can't poke fun at itself is a cult.
Consider : ALL religions are cults !!
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I know and I'm sorry that I lack a better, more accurate term for::::::
Groups of people that react poorly to dissent.
Hell, the NYPD is a freaking cult.
"N.Y.P.D." = Not Your Police Dept. !!!
SOLIDARITY @ OWS re # S17 et al : http://occupywallst.org/tag/s17/ !!
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Bullshit - the NYPD is a "gang."
They are fully capable of being both.
In fact, gangs often are cults.
Partisan Powers is a good example of a gang using banning as their assault weapon and method of bullying those with different opinions as themselves, and as a cult of people who fetishize Obama.
We're all partisan.....derp.
The rest is conspiracy theory.
You have a lot of those.
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It's not really the religion itself, but the propagandists within it.
Have you read the Qur'an?
I try and avoid such concentrated, purposed propaganda.
You shouldn't comment on it then.
Why not? I've argued religion with Muslims before.
I'm still alive...........................
You said the problems did not lie in the religion but you have not even read the Qur'an.
The problems always lie in the religions propagandists.
It works for all groups who react poorly to dissent.
There is no logical reason to pick an ancient book apart.
There just isn't.
The problems don't lie with religious propagandists, the real problems lie with the fake epistemology that is religion. When people follow a book based on pseudoscience instead of following logic, then there will always be some that use it for gain of power. You cannot argue with religion because it is not based on logic, science, or truth. As long as there are religions, there will be those who abuse them. It's part of the religious lie. We must stop accepting religious thinking as being a form of valid thinking. It's not. Religions are very dangerous. They destroy logical thought and lead to people abusing power.
With proper propagandists, any group is capable of these kinds of things, religion just makes it generally easier.
That's the magic of propaganda.
The root problem is with the false epistemology of religion which creates the lies, not the passing along of the lies. As long as their are religions there will always be people profiting from being able to interpret them as they please. There is no right way to interpret a book based on a false epistemology, that's the problem.
Yes, I did finish high school and more and it's obvious that you finished liars school.
Now, take your lies and irrationality somewhere else.
Take your fucking narcissistic puppets with you.
I have to get my wife some yummo's for the cats now.
So please, stop with the endless bullshit.
People believe in all sorts of false epistemologies and don't exhibit such violence.
Just look at the irrationality of thrashy.
It's the propagandist that pushes for that violence.
You're comparing my "violence" with that of Islamic terrorists? You make my point. It's this type of uneducated simple minded thinking which hinders American and worldwide progress. Can we even speak of thinking? It's more like you reply to all my comments with uncontrolled animal-like emotions.
As per usual, you just throw around logical fallacies: red herrings, ad hominem, bad comparisons, etc... You name it. I think you've used them all. It's all you got.
No, just that a good propagandist could use your false epistemology to drive others towards violence.
That's assuming you are that person. The irrationality helps, but is not necessary.
You're a bit of a propagandist in your own right, so whatever, you're not fooling me.
G'nite now. Have nice day.
Did you finish high school?
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If you are the great representative of Democrats, then you prove with this post that they are no better than Republicans. You speak of tolerance but show none. You have a shallow understanding of how religion, economics imperialism and colonialism intertwine in history.
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First of all, the Islamic world is not a monolith. It is the second most populous world religion covering the entire globe and is the main religion of 49 countries. Muslims are made up of many different ethnicities, cultures and languages. Second of all, your depiction of the history of Islam and how it relates to the West is much too recent. The relationship goes back much farther than that.
To understand the ravaging affects of colonialism I recommend Albert Memmi's "The Colonizer and the Colonized." And, to understand the hubris of the West in judging and demoralizing the East read Edward Said's "Orientalism" and "Culture and Imperialism."
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An agnostic and near atheist myself, I am no defender of religion. However, I do understand that humans, in trying to understand their own lives and deaths turn to the mystical for answers. Also, when suffering economic, political and social oppression they cling even more so to religion to give them hope. Is it right? No. Does it work? No. Do we need to understand this in order to try and correct things? Yes. I think so.
The problems in the Middle East are largely over land, how it was divided, who has what, and control of resources. The strife shows itself in the face of religion but the deep causes are more economic and social to begin with.
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I'm anti-religious and an ignostic.
You mean ig-norant?
No, I think it's you that is ignorant of ignosticism. That's normal, you rely on your American education.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
Changing your replies again? Disingenuous you.
Please. Give us a break.
You accuse of me being ignorant because you don't know ignosticism. I think it's you that should start reading and give me a break. You are the ignorant one and you throw name-calling my way for no reason at all.
It's irrelevant. Just like thrashy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HgXjNDPPo
wikipedia for religion.
What's that?
Ignosticism is not irrelevant, it's a valid point of view towards religions. Calling someone ignorant because you don't know something like Ignosticism is what is irrelevant.
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So in other words it's all the white mans fault? Sigh...you leftists are are just too damn predictable.
I hate to agree with you but by and large you are right.
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No.
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We should not tolerate nor respect religions. They are a false epistemology based on lies, and, as such, they only hurt human kind. Children get brainwashed by religions everyday. It's a crime. We must get ride of religions as fast as possible. Humans must prone logic, science, and truth, not fairy tales made to empower only some people with what they believe is the "truth", a "truth" used to justify hating others who have a different "truth". The fact that men want to kill because of a drawing is a testament to the dangers of religions, to the dangers of false epistemologies.
Oh! Now you've done it! The politically correct hide their head in the sand people are gonna get mad at you!
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