Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forum"Islam was never a religion of peace."
NOTE: Posted in the Atheists/Agnostics Group, a safe haven where we do unto religion what religion has done unto us.Who said that? Pam Geller? Geert Wilders? Somebody on DU?
No, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said that. He's the head of ISIS who has been MIA for many months. His rantings are on a just-released audiotape:
O Muslims, go to war everywhere. It is the duty of every Muslim."
The link below is the first one I found with the quote, which I just read from a Wire Report in the local paper.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1999584/isis-releases-new-audio-message-purportedly-from-leader-al-baghdadi/
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Well, then. It must be true.
onager
(9,356 posts)While realizing he doesn't speak for all Muslims.
That would be wrong. Sort of like claiming that most American Xians are liberals plagued by a small minority of Fundamentalist Assholes.
mountain grammy
(27,273 posts)But I would hesitate to say its unlike Christian fanatics. I believe the destruction of infidels wouldn't be beyond their belief system.
nil desperandum
(654 posts)It has not been providing much in the way of peace for a few decades lately.
sinkingfeeling
(52,993 posts)Christianity.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)sinkingfeeling
(52,993 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)I don't understand why they are the big boogy man of Christianity. They are a circus act traveling the nation piling out of cars. I'm trying to think of a large Christian organization that is going around grabbing territory, forcing religious laws on secular nations, led by someone who threatens violence for insults to his belief...
trotsky
(49,533 posts)And that frustrates the hell out of both extremes.
onager
(9,356 posts)Just once I'd like to hear the Pope or Pat Robertson or Franklin Graham say:
"Xianity was never the religion of peace, love and understanding. It was always about having power over people. Especially their private parts. Because as all Sophisticated Theologians know, if we grab'em by the balls/ovaries, their hearts and minds will follow. Oh, the money is pretty good, too."
mountain grammy
(27,273 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)It's still a bunch of superstitious mumbo jumbo that holds people and nations back.... just like every other religion.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Even when they say it is.
They're just atheists trying to make religion look bad.
Seriously.
Hitler was a closet atheist.