Unless, of course, you're a Nigerian Muslim:
As usual, your point is powerless, so much so it convinces me you have nothing against the argument before you - which is why you continually avoid the argument. We have here a mere regional conflict between ethnic Christians and muslims. One group thinks the other is guilty of something and aims to make that group pay for it. No one here is pointing at Christianity as justification for indiscriminate murders of unattached innocent people as muslims point to islam as justification for their murders of people worldwide. Duh, pal.
Or one of the those already killed by Serbs, and lying in mass graves across the former Yugoslavia...
...which deaths are not in a single case being justified by Christianity. We see here merely that there are ethnic Christians warring against a local enemy, just as we see in Nigeria. Not one of these people is claiming justification to murder innocent unattached people in the name of Christianity, as muslims claim justification by islam to commit murder across the globe. They are simply struggling against regional foes.
Or one of the approximately 10,000 civilians killed in Iraq by Bush and his theocracy.
As with the Nigerians and the Serbs, Bush is simply warring against his enemy without referring to his faith as justification. He is not bombing Syrians or Iranians just because they tacitly support the enemy in Iraq. But muslims on the other hand jusify their murders of unattached innocent people directly by islam. That is the friggin' point here. They are bombing Australians, Spanish, Americans, British, French, peoples who have nothing to do with their conflict and they are doing this all in the name of islam. You are just being dishonorable here.
Or those in the wedding party in Afghanistan. Or those Canadians.
See above.
As I see that history is not your strong suit, I bid you a happy weekend. You might want to fill your education out a bit in the area of Middle Age history; specifically, Urban II, who said:
I assure you I am well aware of the history of this period. Unlike you, I simply am not constricted by a ninth grade education on the matter. The history is a lot more complex than you make it. By quoting Urban II here, you merely show that the Crusades happened and were encouraged by the Roman Pontiff. Well that is surely nothing new. I don't challenge the point and never defended the actions of Rome. But reason demands I reject your ridiculous comparisons of islamic terrorism to the Crusades because the Crusades were challenged by other Christians in the East and, most importantly, because they happened in response to the assaults of the Christians by the Turks, especially the assault upon the Holy Sepulchre. In no case did Christians appeal to Christianity to wage indiscrimminate slaughter of unattached innocent muslims living elsewhere - and that is the point.
Theism aside, it is perfectly legitimate to attack those who attack you, those who take your land not by treaty, world council or any established government, but who do it purely by war. And so the attacks we see in the cases of the Crusades are legitimate because they aimed to repel an enemy who seized land purely by war. But it did not illegitimately attack muslims having nothing to do with assaults or illegal habitation of Holy Lands. Even with the abominations that occurred during the Crusades, in no wise did the Christians think it justified to slaughter all muslims everywhere simply because they may have turned a blind eye to the slaughter of Christians by the Turks. But of course this is precisely what islam now does, and muslims refer to islam to do this in the name of their heathen god. Other muslims simply do nothing and say nothing, leaving one to suspect they agree with it.
Sort of sounds familiar, eh?
Nope. Urban II did not have you in mind when he preached his Crusades. He merely wished to free the land of those who had taken it from Christians and who had threatened Holy sites. Contrariwise, muslims are justifying assaults on everyone, even those who are completely removed from and ignorant of muslim issues, and they are doing this in the name of islam, justified by the Koran. No Christian movement has ever done anything like this without challenge. You are just being dishonest - as usual. |
