Re: Soldier murdered in terrorist incident in Woolwich
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Originally Posted by Damien
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It is both but we shouldn't ignore the political aspect. It isn't unreasonable to suggest that western foreign policy, regardless of it's merits and flaws, is helping the radicalisation of disaffected Muslim men. The attackers were spouting just as much political noises as religious ones. The Jewish faith follows the Old Testament which is pretty violent are there isn't a similar problem there, nor is there much of a problem with extreme Christianity. Yet there is nothing inherently different about the Islamic faith and it also happens that a lot of the areas around the world that have the instability for extremism to thrive are predominately Muslim.
I don't think it's as simple to say it's rooted from religion.
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I'm not ignoring anything. Its others that are ignoring things. Western foreign policy promotes what? prosperity for people? The Islamic extremists promote what? denial of prosperity? Western foreign policy is to bring people together of any kind? Islamic policy isn't anything like that, its a die hard no?
Does the Christian/Jewish/Hindu/etc. faith go against prosperity?
Spot on. Corrupt Countries are not helping anything. Add the dots up.
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Originally Posted by Damien
(Post 35575520)
I would advice against drawing too much from selectively chosen passages from the Quran. I don't think many of us here have the knowledge to place those quotes in their proper context or how they're typically perceived and interpreted. The Bible has passages that advocating stoning people to death for working on the sabbath after all. It's meaningless to just cherry-pick these quotes.
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What do you want to happen for you to believe what I've typed out? Why don't you order a Saudi Arabian stamped Quran and read it for yourself then tell us not to jump on selective verses. A member on here posted verses either from a Quran I haven't read/heard of or has translated something wrongly. Read umbrokhan786 post/qutoes then read my type up word for word from the Saudi Arabian stamped Quran http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35574879-post120.html MASSIVE difference. I'm not cherry picking anything. And its not meaningless to cherry pick. A rapist who cherry picked quotes from the Quran, teachings from the Quran got away with taking an extremely young girls virginity. Cherry pick that. Cherry picking isnt meaningless, our own Courts fell for cherry picking! I'm not going to go through a very long book to pull endless quotes, it will take forever but I will look up any quotes people post up.
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