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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5775)	3/4/2007 7:25:27 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

"I would argue that the examples are more anomalies than the systematic repression which exists because of the religion/political ties which exists almost exclusively in the muslim world. I would agree that when you have a theocracy you can attribute all the bad political civil stuff to the religiousness of the culture involved. I would argue, however, that you could strip the religiousness from the culture and the same people would find some other excuse to commit attrocity. I don't believe Islam is a cause of evil in the world, I do agree that it is a convenient excuse that corrupt people can use for committing evil, used by corrupt Muslim extremists to cause harm to innocents and corrupt individuals who use it as an excuse to cause harm to innocent Muslims. All religions have been used that way from time to time. It's not, however, the religions that are to blame but the people who use the religions to perpetrate. I would also argue (and have argued with you) the Muslim world is no different the the rest of the world, in that it contains a huge number of people who organize themselves behind all kinds of ventures some for mutual benefit, while some are based on corruptions of the human spirit. There are differences on the surface but not in principle the world has not been changed by religions. You wont, find many drunken Muslims beating their wives but that doesn't mean Muslim men don't find other venues to abuse their wives. Nor does it mean that all American non-Muslims get drunk and beat their wives any more than it means all Muslim men use Islam as an excuse to abuse their wives.