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

Well, I have come to believe that religion is a one God one person situation. We are all individuals and life with or without religion is a personal journey. It is not a gang event. I like the first rule of medicine by Hippocritese, which should be added to relgion - I will keep them from harm and injustice.' Add the golden rule, the sermon on the mount and the ten commandments and there is plenty to strive for.