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Originally Posted by alferret
There is enough room on this planet to accommodate all religions, what I don't get is why Islam is the only religion that uses threats of death to those that don't want to follow.
Surely it's better to live a life that you want to lead rather than being forced/radicalised into following.
There are enough states in the middle East to accommodate all Muslims who don't want to adhere to the policies of the non Muslim countries they live in, so my advice is sod off to somewhere that practice's Islam and stop spreading crap. Don't want to see it, hear about it or have any bloody interest in it.
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Well, there was always the Inquisition. What happened to those who didn't believe (In Christianity that time)? Death, or life imprisonment. Funny, how that happened around 12-1400 years after Christianity started too.
Islam appears to be going through a similar phase that Christianity did. Does it make it any more bad? Probably not, does it show that religions are more similar to each other than they would ever care to admit and thus should bloody well get along and stop trying to kill each other for not being part of theirs? Probably.
Religion should be able to stand up to scrutiny, and yes, ridicule. If Either causes uproar, then there's some major insecurity in there. As someone who enjoys the film "The Life of Brian" and know that was either threatened with, or banned in places, I know that even now Christianity isn't above getting arsey about satire too.