I will admit that after the second page I only read parts of posts because they have become too long winded to follow. That, and r3x keeps losing end quote tags, and that's really annoying. A couple of things from page two stood out to me. The first has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but since I started the thread, I'm delving into it. The second sort of does.


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Solomon. And it was a standard practice for lords of houses in the Bible to take many wives.



Solomon was a book of poems that were describing the women, and the names of those women, who were devoted to Christ. “Married to the Lord”. As for “standard practice”: Whilst I’m aware of some people in the Bible being described as polygamous, I don’t remember any Biblical lesson telling us specifically that it’s okay to marry multiple women.




Pariah, what the fuck are you talking about?


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With a big difference. It’s in the doctrine of Muslims to do what they’ve done.



if that were true then why aren't all muslims terrorists?
I know a few very religious muslims. they can be touchy sometimes, but they're non-violent and believe in a peaceful way of life.
jihad has many meanings. it is mainly a struggle to maintain one's faith and purity of being (hence the Isalmic belief in not eating certain animals and never drinking alcohol).
its been misinterpreted to mean soley an act of violence.

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According to their majority, we’ve offended them somehow, and now they want retribution based on their teachings.



muslims do believe in defending themselves from invasions. and we have butt ourselves into their countries and fucked them up in many ways.




My understanding is that there are extremists within Islam who hate all infidels. And infidel to Muslims is a person who does not believe in what Islam considers a monotheistic religion. Muslims do not consider Christianity to be monotheistic. That's why historically, Jews have been able to live relatively understerbed within Muslim society, while Christians have been consistantly persecuted. Muslims believe that the Jews have it backwards, that Ishmael was the son who was almost sacrificed, and that inheritence is through him. As long as the Jews don't start claiming inheritance (i.e., the land of Istael), then there is no conflict.

But that's only between Jews and Muslims. The same reasoning does not apply between Christians and Muslims. Muslims will never respect Christians. There is nothing Christians can do to change this. Muslims view Christians to be inferior in the same way that WASPS and Chatholics viewed Africans at the hight of slavery.

The argument that the Christian world must have done something to piss the Islamic world off is simply invalid. They have always been pissed off, and they always will be. They will not be happy until everyone believes in Allah or dies for being infidels.

Of course, there are millions of peaceful Muslims. It has been argued before on these boards that there are two sects of Islam. One is tolerant of the world and does not believe in any sort of violence as a means to an end. The other, which is dominant in the Mideast, cries Jihad and means to whipe all those who are not like them off the face of he planet.

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