A Few Thoughts on The Impending Event in Northwest Gainesville This Weekend

[mrz80]

It's a little disjoint but that's mostly a function of how late it is and how tired I am. This all sounded a lot better put together this afternoon when I was mulling it over in the shower after my bike ride

Comments

[rhjunior]

The tragedy is that by its very nature Islam makes it impossible to live peaceably with Muslims. Or even live at all, if they have their way.

I agree, it is incredibly foolish to do something so provocative, simply to provoke. (Would that all those who dance around bonfires of video games and comic books had such clarity of sight!) But the fact stands that it takes absolutely nothing whatsoever to provoke the followers of Muhammed into violence. We're talking about people who literally riot in the streets screaming for our beheading because they think a logo on the bottom of an ice cream cone looks like Muhammed's name. A religion whose followers go from "that nice polite boy next to me in class" or "my fellow soldier: to "that guy who plowed into a crowd of his fellow students with an SUV" or "that dude who opened fire on a roomful of unarmed men while screaming Allahu Akbar."

[hawklady]

... as the Christians have their Mother Teresa and Tony Alamo and Westboros and a ton of local Food Kitchens

[rhjunior]

Let me get this straight. How dare I judge them by what they preach, what they do, what their holy prophet did, and what their holy book tells them to do? I mean, you can't judge people by their words, deeds, leaders or beliefs! What would the world come to?

[hawklady]

Judge *those specific Muslims* all you want by their actions and what they preach. Knock yourself out.

My objection is to you judging ALL Muslims that way and making such sweeping statements like you did. Particularly when they are in such stark opposition to my personal experience with many Muslims, Muslims who look at the violence of others and react the same way as I see many Christians reacting to the book-burning (paraphrasing): "You are wrong and shame all of us who claim to be of that faith". The young lady in the cubicle next to mine is as far removed from those rioting idiots as mrz80 is.

To judge that way would mean judging mrz80 and my other Christian friends and coworkers (I've got those, too, also cool people) in with the Koran-burners and Westboros and Alamos and so on. Which would be not only terribly unfair but insulting and wrong.

[rhjunior]

No, because those Koran burners are behaving foolishly and contrary to christian principle. The Jihadists are behaving precisely as their Koran commands.

[kensey]

Can you cite which verses of the Koran legitimize suicide-bombing innocents?

[rhjunior]

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Feel free to browse, dhimmi.