So are you suggesting that Muslims are a different species? It always annoys the hell out of me when people refer to themselves as "human" and their opponents as "non-human" or "inhuman". Don't fall into the trap of dehumanizing your opponents, it doesn't bring anything useful to the table and only makes you sound unintelligent. Accept that everyone is human, and that it's part of the human condition to sometimes follow harmful ideologies that are detrimental to the larger population. Claiming that you are human and Muslims are not, makes you no better than a religious fundamentalist. They aren't following Islam because they are evil or because they want to destroy the world, they genuinely think that it is the right thing to do. You're not going to convince anyone that Islam is wrong by telling them that they are somehow less than human by being Muslim.
Saying someone isn't human because of their ideological mistakes brings the debate down to a very low-brow level. Try to stay objective please.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
- Carl Sagan
So are you suggesting that Muslims are a different species? It always annoys the hell out of me when people refer to themselves as "human" and their opponents as "non-human" or "inhuman". Don't fall into the trap of dehumanizing your opponents, it doesn't bring anything useful to the table and only makes you sound unintelligent. Accept that everyone is human, and that it's part of the human condition to sometimes follow harmful ideologies that are detrimental to the larger population. Claiming that you are human and Muslims are not, makes you no better than a religious fundamentalist. They aren't following Islam because they are evil or because they want to destroy the world, they genuinely think that it is the right thing to do. You're not going to convince anyone that Islam is wrong by telling them that they are somehow less than human by being Muslim.
Saying someone isn't human because of their ideological mistakes brings the debate down to a very low-brow level. Try to stay objective please.
I agree, while I can understand the thread of your thought process, this pushes it too far and is certainly something we as civilised minds should avoid-especially due to horrors in the past that dehumanised people based on similar factors.
Islam is like a huge coal mine with endless caves and the blind followers are like coal miners.
Anyone who has seen the light and clean green environment may try to preach to these coal miners but coal miners
will only believe and stay with the darkness and cold blooded, horribly humid black tarred reality of their mind/mine.
- wakeup
If there was freedom of choice most religions would die an early death. All evil religions are cancer to the body of humanity. You are the oncologist please radiate this cancer with your enlightened knowledge. Islam will die a death soon. Meeks will inherit all and not the oppressors.
wakeup wrote:The reality that most people deny is:
Islam is like a huge coal mine with endless caves and the blind followers are like coal miners.
Anyone who has seen the light and clean green environment may try to preach to these coal miners but coal miners
will only believe and stay with the darkness and cold blooded, horribly humid black tarred reality of their mind/mine.
- wakeup
Sure. But the coal miners are still human.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
- Carl Sagan
wakeup wrote:The reality that most people deny is:
Islam is like a huge coal mine with endless caves and the blind followers are like coal miners.
Anyone who has seen the light and clean green environment may try to preach to these coal miners but coal miners
will only believe and stay with the darkness and cold blooded, horribly humid black tarred reality of their mind/mine.
- wakeup
Sure. But the coal miners are still human.
Jesus, something definitely is not right - AGAIN I find myself agreeing with Sten!
