>>>>or die..
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>>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8150247/Muslim-pupils-learn-to-cut-off-hands-of-thieves.html
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>>>Bill, I truly do not get this reverse jihad of yours. You continue to condemn an entire religion of a billion and a half people for the actions of a few. Every religion has its knuckleheads.
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>>Please cite current examples of frequent (daily usually) murders (and other atrocities) of civilians by a religious group.
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>In all fairness, we are in about the 13th century of Islam. If you want to compare outrages in the name of religion, take a look at Christianity in the 13th century AD.

All well and good except Islam is doing this now. The Koran says that Islam rightfully owns the world and anyone who is not a true believer needs to be removed (or owned or something along those lines depending on translation). Dying killing non believers is rewarded according to the Koran.

Now Islam is busy killing people around the globe, and will shortly have nuclear weapons to do so more efficiently.

Islam is moving in to civilized countries (big problem for Britain, France, etc). Immigration + preaching to people who have an axe to grind (prisons/slums/etc) ups the number of local jihadists.

This isn't the 13th century. This is now.

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>Look at Ottoman society in the 15th century when Jews felt a whole lot safer in Istanbul than Seville.
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>You know I'm not a fan of Takfiri crazies, but I wouldn't have been much of a fan of the Inquisition, Martin Luther (one of history's great Anti Semites), the massacres of the Huguenots, Cromwell's depredations against the Irish Catholics ( on a looong list of such attrocity ) or the Biblical ( and Koranic ) support for slavery, homophobia and misogyny.
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>I have no problem with teachings that encourage men to be humble in the face of things they do not understand, or to walk quietly and with compassion in a world that certainly needs it, but when *anybody* thinks God is something in their own image and that they have all the answers written in any book they are to some degree a danger to others.