IMO Religion should be kept as a personal thing, and not be force fed to others. Why should a religion, which at the end of the day is just a state of mind and nothing more, decide it has the right or power to dominate others. Religion is one of the biggest killers in the world...weird that! Whilst on the subject why does a webmasters forum have religion as a subject??
Religious Wars: 4 million recorded deaths (most of them 500 years ago) Establishment of anti-religion totalitarian governments: 100 million+ and counting recorded deaths (most of them last century) It is a mystery what the leading cause of death by bigotry in the world is. Hate of all religions kills 10-20 times as many people as trying to establish a religion. And that's pretending that the Crusades was anything more than a land grab. Look a pony! Yeah, religion is so terrible.
The majority of OIC nations are quite poor. Only a few are wealthy, and they provide almost no foreign aid to their poor brethren.
you started the thread saying something like "islam will take over, it's the biggest fear that wrong people will take control" Why do you think they're wrong you don't know nothing about islam and their religion expect that your media serves it to you. Every race have bad and good people in the same exact amount, this is not about religion it's because we are all individuals, no matter what we do, and what we believe in. World is changing, there were empires and countries that were leading alot longer than US right now, US is very young country. And like it or not it will fail and the next one will fail, sooner or later, this is the law of our world. People are dying, so "learning on your own mistakes" can be right only for a few decades...
I really doubt it. People are going to fight hard when you tell them your going to take their cold beer away.
Well you better had it handy then, or what you will be saying will be "Sir, here's the beer, do you want a cigar to go along with it?"
True, like when the cops go into South Central L.A. and all the though guys scatter. No moral basis to fall back on and stand their ground defending it like men. Muslims go home and continue beating their wives.
I beg to differ on this, Islam is not violent, it is the terrorists who are violent and will do anything hijacking the name of Islam.
Hey guys I see that everybody is fighting about religions especially about Islam. Some people says that Muslims are terrorists and Islam is violent; I don't understand that why they say that. Have they seen a Muslim terrorist or they just stick with the media? I live in Turkey, for people who don't know Turkey has over 95% Muslim population, and I never saw a Muslim who approves killing innocent people, suicide bombs etc. But even our media, a Muslim country's media, shows Muslim's as terrorists. Is that true? That is not true at all because there is not a single country that has a perfect Islam. The eastern countries are undeveloped and because of illiteracy they live a different Islam, they are ignorant (I'm very sorry of the offensive word but that is the truth) they have different traditions which have entered to religion as they are Islam rulings. On the other side the developed countries like Turkey are under the influence of European culture (which is basicly Christian culture) and they can not live Islam. For example in my country female students can not attend to school (any level) with headscarves which is one of the Islam rulings. They also can not work in state jobs. So even in Turkey, the education level is much higher than other Muslim countries but still people can not live Islam. My point is that there is not a single country that real Islam is lived in. So what is all of your ideas about Islam come from?? They are only assumptions that made by observing the foolish Islam countries. Islam is violent for most of you but look at this: This is a little passage about the conquer of Istanbul by Ottoman Empire (The last Muslim country): On the third day after the fall of our city, the Sultan celebrated his victory with a great, joyful triumph. He issued a proclamation: the citizens of all ages who had managed to escape detection were to leave their hiding places throughout the city and come out into the open, as they were remain free and no question would be asked. He further declared the restoration of houses and property to those who had abandoned our city before the siege, if they returned home, they would be treated according to their rank and religion, as if nothing had changed. (George Sphrantzes, The Fall of the Byzantium empire-A chronicle by George Sphrantzes 1401-1477. Kritovoulos History of the Mehmed the conqueror. Translated by Marios Philippides, p. 133) PS: Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker so I have problems with it.
I agree with GTech. Europe is basicaly done. Muslims have sneaked in with the help of European governments, which encourage tolerance, while tolerance is not an acceptable word in the Qu'ran. What's amazing is to see all these muslims going to western countries, where 'evil' is living...as per Qu'ran... It's a good proofs of what they want to do, but it seems that Europeans are just blind about that...