Nothing to do with Islam...

[DigitalBuddha]

Pat Condell:

It's getting hard to keep up with all these Qur'an-inspired atrocities that have nothing to do with Islam?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N46mIHEGHN0

[Hominid]

Good find DB.  He's dead on. 

[BikerDude]

Exactly we are asked to close our eyes to the obvious.
Of course if it turns into a "my religion is better than yours" it's equally absurd.
We would need to stick our heads in the sand to not notice that the state of the middle east has so much to do with Zionism and the biblical texts about Arabs ('ie' Amalekites). As well as Islam.

Basically people who don't believe in magic are held captive to the lunacy of people who believe in competing versions of magical thinking.

If people take actions based on one part of the old testament text then how are we not to believe that the treatment of people in the mid-east is not equally a product of such texts.

Of the 613 mitzvot (commandments) followed by Orthodox Jews, three refer to the Amalek: to remember what the Amalekites did to the Israelites, not to forget what the Amalekites did to Israelites, and to destroy the Amalekites utterly. The rabbis derived these from Deuteronomy 25:17?18, Exodus 17:14 and 1 Sam. 15:3. Rashi explains the third commandment:

Palestinians as Amalekites

Nur Masalha has written that:

    "Frequently Jewish fundamentalists refer to the Palestinians as the 'Amalekites' ? of today? According to the Old Testament, the Amalek ? were regarded as the Israelites' inveterate foe, whose 'annihilation' became a sacred duty and against whom war should be waged until their 'memory be blotted out' forever (Ex 17:16; Deut 25:17-19)?. Some of the [modern] political messianics insist on giving the biblical commandment to 'blot out the memory of the Amalek' an actual contemporary relevance in the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.[22]

The Palestinians have been associated with Amalek since 1974 when Rabbi Moshe Ben-Tzion Ishbezari of Ramat Gan made the association in a book.[23] The equation began to circulate in Gush Emunim circles, and its full implications were spelled out by Rabbi Yisrael Hess in 1980.[24] A former campus rabbi of Bar-Ilan University, Hess published in the university's student paper in February 1980 an article on "The Genocide Commandment in the Torah",[25] in which he concluded that:

    'The day is not far when we shall be called to this holy war, to this commandment of the annihilation of Amalek.'

Hess's reference to Amalekites was later taken in Israel to be an allusion to the Palestinian Arabs, especially since he spoke of a jihad.

    'Against this holy war God declares a counter jihad . .in order to emphasise that this is the background for the annihilation and that it is over this that the war is being waged and that it is not a conflict between two peoples. . God is not content that we annihilate Amalek -'blot out the memory of Amalek' - he also enlists personally in this war . .because, as has been said, he has a personal interest in this matter, this is the principal aim.'[26]

But that would be crazy to believe that the pronouncements from 2000 years ago would direct peoples actions in this day and age right?

[BikerDude]

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/01/15/blasphemy-islam-charlie-hebdo-free-speech
Guests...

Mustafa Akyol, columnist for Star and Hurriyet Daily News. Monthly opinion writer for the New York Times. Author of the book, ?Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty.? (@akyolinenglish)

Sheikh Dr. Yasir Qadhi, Sunni cleric and dean of academic affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute. (@yasirqadhi)

Clive Stafford Smith, founder and director of Reprieve, a British human rights legal non-profit. (@clivessmith)

[DigitalBuddha]

@Hominid and @BikerDude

[jgiffin]

If they are going to be terrorists (and we know they are), then can't they at least be good at it? I mean, tonight, we have a State of the Union address jam-packed with what we would term "high priority targets" if the tables were turned. But, instead, they hit magazine staff meetings, trade buildings, and coffee shops.

[DigitalBuddha]

If they are going to be terrorists (and we know they are), then can't they at least be good at it? I mean, tonight, we have a State of the Union address jam-packed with what we would term "high priority targets" if the tables were turned. But, instead, they hit magazine staff meetings, trade buildings, and coffee shops.

[BikerDude]

It's not unique to muslims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_2BZCE80lQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTGCXkcyTM

[DigitalBuddha]

Religious hatred, very undude.

[Hominid]

It's throughout our species, and seems to be centered on any one of the three Abrahamic religions (and all their factions and spin-offs).  The more the victims speak out and gain media attention, the more these barbaric morons will be outed, and pressured to back the fuck off.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/christian-fundamentalist-pastor-manning-praises-wisdom-and-integrity-of-isis-killing-gay-people-video/

[DigitalBuddha]

It's throughout our species, and seems to be centered on any one of the three Abrahamic religions (and all their factions and spin-offs).  The more the victims speak out and gain media attention, the more these barbaric morons will be outed, and pressured to back the fuck off.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/christian-fundamentalist-pastor-manning-praises-wisdom-and-integrity-of-isis-killing-gay-people-video/

Fuckin' eh!

[BikerDude]

It's throughout our species, and seems to be centered on any one of the three Abrahamic religions (and all their factions and spin-offs).  The more the victims speak out and gain media attention, the more these barbaric morons will be outed, and pressured to back the fuck off.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/christian-fundamentalist-pastor-manning-praises-wisdom-and-integrity-of-isis-killing-gay-people-video/

Fuckin' eh!

You see I knew it all along!

Pastor Manning?s previous statements include:
    The allegation that Starbucks uses the ?semen of sodomites? (gay men) to flavor their lattes.

Starbucks latte swilling liberals!

Yes there is crazy everywhere. It just seems to all clump together into these things we call religion pretty consistently.

[DigitalBuddha]

Fuck Starbucks! Bunch of fucking antisemitic dicks!