When Is A Religion Not a 'Religion'?

[Wry Catcher]

There are certain characteristics that we have come to find in religion....and some that immediately exclude a worldview from that category......


1. “We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergartners to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.” Cult of Death

a. It is the blood that informs the act. In the 1971 assassination of Jordan’s prime minister, Wasfi l-Tell, by PLO terrorists. “As he lay there, one of his killers bent over and lapped the blood that poured from his wounds.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226317/know-thy-enemy/michael-ledeen

b. Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom.”
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp





2. "The Islamic practice of beheading enemies and sinners dates back to the Prophet Muhammad himself. According to Arab historian Ibn Ishaq (d. 768 C.E.), Muhammad ordered the beheadings of at least 600 Jewish Banu Qurayza tribesmen in Medina on suspicion of plotting against him.

Beheading also finds support in the Koran. In one passage, Allah says "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off" (8:12). In another, Muslims are exhorted to "confront the disbelievers, strike at their necks" (47:4).

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The modern video beheading phenomenon began in 2002 when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. KSM was captured shortly afterwards, but al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took the idea and ran with it in a series of grisly videos showing the beheading of Western civilian contractors and others in Iraq. Zarqawi followed the parameters of the genre established by KSM: prayers, insults, recitation from the Koran, beheading, posing with the head. As a final insult, the ceremony ends when the severed head is set upon the back of the dismembered corpse.

Beheading videos disappeared for a while but resumed in 2014 with the rise of ISIS. The prime actor in this third wave of video terrorism was English-speaking ISIS operative Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British press....
Kathy Griffin Needs to Check Her Infidel Privilege [Satire]




...certain characteristics that immediately exclude a worldview from the category of 'religion'......

when it is Global Warming? Damn I thought this was a trick question.

MIT professor: global warming is a ‘religion’. Throughout history, governments have twisted science to suit a political agenda. Global warming is no different, according to Dr. Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reference: dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/mit-professor-global-warming-is-a-religion

Better not bash those who believe in Global Warming or else they will burn the inner cities, causing great amounts of CO2, that will.....

When one does not believe in global warming, they are merely brainwashed by the RWNJ's.

Or why I don't believe in global warming is that today when I walked out of my house it was 39 degrees. Where did that COLD temperature come from?

Your heart.

Funny how I always ask that question of "Where does the cold temperature come from" and I can never get an answer from the fanatical religious fanatics...

You don't deserve a thoughtful response, you're a hack.

 

[PoliticalChic]

A religion is not a religion when evangelical "christians" vote overwhelmingly for the most immoral candidate for the presidency in decades and practice "prosperity" gospel. These people are immensely dumb or immensely stupid. Likely both. Voting out the morons who support this bullshit and are trying to bring it into politics should be priority #1 for patriots everywhere; this country was not founded on religion and putting religion into government goes against everything our founding fathers fought for.

"... the most immoral candidate for the presidency..."

a. Clinton Misogyny - Sex
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - "forced himself on her, biting, bruising her"
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances, married to one of his supporters
Denise Reeder - apologetic note scanned
CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:

And...just recently: "Leslie Millwee says that on two of the alleged occasions, Clinton groped her while he rubbed himself against her and reached climax." EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: New Bill Clinton Sexual Assault Accuser Goes Public for the First Time - Breitbart


b. "FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow"
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on 25 April 1792 in France. What it replaced was truly horrendous.

There is a difference between religion and culture. Most Muslims are not Arabs and don't share their culture. Plenty of what we view today as barbaric was done by Muslims in the name of Allah but I'd guess that every religion has its share of barbarism.

The religion of new liberalism sure is barbaric. They promote tribalism by killing each other, war drums, and body paint. Just look in the hood of Chicago at the tribes there, who prey upon one another.

 

[PoliticalChic]

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on 25 April 1792 in France. What it replaced was truly horrendous.

There is a difference between religion and culture. Most Muslims are not Arabs and don't share their culture. Plenty of what we view today as barbaric was done by Muslims in the name of Allah but I'd guess that every religion has its share of barbarism.

What does that have to do with this?

1. “We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergartners to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.” Cult of Death

a. It is the blood that informs the act. In the 1971 assassination of Jordan’s prime minister, Wasfi l-Tell, by PLO terrorists. “As he lay there, one of his killers bent over and lapped the blood that poured from his wounds.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226317/know-thy-enemy/michael-ledeen

b. Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom.”
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp





2. "The Islamic practice of beheading enemies and sinners dates back to the Prophet Muhammad himself. According to Arab historian Ibn Ishaq (d. 768 C.E.), Muhammad ordered the beheadings of at least 600 Jewish Banu Qurayza tribesmen in Medina on suspicion of plotting against him.

Beheading also finds support in the Koran. In one passage, Allah says "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off" (8:12). In another, Muslims are exhorted to "confront the disbelievers, strike at their necks" (47:4).

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The modern video beheading phenomenon began in 2002 when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. KSM was captured shortly afterwards, but al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took the idea and ran with it in a series of grisly videos showing the beheading of Western civilian contractors and others in Iraq. Zarqawi followed the parameters of the genre established by KSM: prayers, insults, recitation from the Koran, beheading, posing with the head. As a final insult, the ceremony ends when the severed head is set upon the back of the dismembered corpse.

Beheading videos disappeared for a while but resumed in 2014 with the rise of ISIS. The prime actor in this third wave of video terrorism was English-speaking ISIS operative Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British press....
Kathy Griffin Needs to Check Her Infidel Privilege [Satire]




...certain characteristics that immediately exclude a worldview from the category of 'religion'......

 

[WheelieAddict]

A religion is not a religion when evangelical "christians" vote overwhelmingly for the most immoral candidate for the presidency in decades and practice "prosperity" gospel. These people are immensely dumb or immensely stupid. Likely both. Voting out the morons who support this bullshit and are trying to bring it into politics should be priority #1 for patriots everywhere; this country was not founded on religion and putting religion into government goes against everything our founding fathers fought for.

We didn't vote for Bill Clinton or Barrack Hussein Obama, who you trying to blame for those immoral candidates in office. Come on, man up, you fucked up, take the responsibility for your action.

This response speaks volumes about the values of today's conservatives. "cmon man you voted for someone i don't like doesn't matter that i voted for someone who is the most crude and disgusting and most irreligious candidate ever". Republican and evangelical "thinking" at work.

Conservative republican values:
Donald Trump appears in unearthed 2000 Playboy porn video

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

when it is Global Warming? Damn I thought this was a trick question.

Better not bash those who believe in Global Warming or else they will burn the inner cities, causing great amounts of CO2, that will.....

When one does not believe in global warming, they are merely brainwashed by the RWNJ's.

Or why I don't believe in global warming is that today when I walked out of my house it was 39 degrees. Where did that COLD temperature come from?

Your heart.

Funny how I always ask that question of "Where does the cold temperature come from" and I can never get an answer from the fanatical religious fanatics...

You don't deserve a thoughtful response, you're a hack.

Notice once again, the libtard will not answer the question "Where does the cold temperature come from" because like the good little Eichmann that they are, their religious beliefs will not allow them to desecrate their god.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

A religion is not a religion when evangelical "christians" vote overwhelmingly for the most immoral candidate for the presidency in decades and practice "prosperity" gospel. These people are immensely dumb or immensely stupid. Likely both. Voting out the morons who support this bullshit and are trying to bring it into politics should be priority #1 for patriots everywhere; this country was not founded on religion and putting religion into government goes against everything our founding fathers fought for.

We didn't vote for Bill Clinton or Barrack Hussein Obama, who you trying to blame for those immoral candidates in office. Come on, man up, you fucked up, take the responsibility for your action.

This response speaks volumes about the values of today's conservatives. "cmon man you voted for someone i don't like doesn't matter that i voted for someone who is the most crude and disgusting and most irreligious candidate ever". Republican and evangelical "thinking" at work.

Conservative republican values:
Donald Trump appears in unearthed 2000 Playboy porn video

Do you believe that Senator Robert(Kleagle of the KKK) Byrd, who terrorized black people as a Democrat was able to be forgiven for his past sins and reconciled to be for black people? Yes or No?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Are you aware beheadings is carried out in Saudi Arabia. You know our allies.

And that has what to do with the OP?[/QUOTE]
Since I spent 5 1/2 years there, I saw a few people who were beheaded for a few reasons.
If you were Saudi, you must commit murder of another Saudi to have the ultimate punishment.
If you were 3rd world national, you either committed murder or did drugs, then when caught, were beheaded in front of the crowd.
If you were a Muslims who spoke out against Islam then you had a chance to go back to Islam or were beheaded as an infidel.

Women were just thrown out of a tower and then stoned if still alive for cheating on their husbands, so there weren't many of those.

[/QUOTE]

And what does that have to do with this?

1. “We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergartners to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.” Cult of Death

a. It is the blood that informs the act. In the 1971 assassination of Jordan’s prime minister, Wasfi l-Tell, by PLO terrorists. “As he lay there, one of his killers bent over and lapped the blood that poured from his wounds.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226317/know-thy-enemy/michael-ledeen

b. Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom.”
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp





2. "The Islamic practice of beheading enemies and sinners dates back to the Prophet Muhammad himself. According to Arab historian Ibn Ishaq (d. 768 C.E.), Muhammad ordered the beheadings of at least 600 Jewish Banu Qurayza tribesmen in Medina on suspicion of plotting against him.

Beheading also finds support in the Koran. In one passage, Allah says "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off" (8:12). In another, Muslims are exhorted to "confront the disbelievers, strike at their necks" (47:4).

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The modern video beheading phenomenon began in 2002 when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. KSM was captured shortly afterwards, but al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took the idea and ran with it in a series of grisly videos showing the beheading of Western civilian contractors and others in Iraq. Zarqawi followed the parameters of the genre established by KSM: prayers, insults, recitation from the Koran, beheading, posing with the head. As a final insult, the ceremony ends when the severed head is set upon the back of the dismembered corpse.

Beheading videos disappeared for a while but resumed in 2014 with the rise of ISIS. The prime actor in this third wave of video terrorism was English-speaking ISIS operative Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British press....
Kathy Griffin Needs to Check Her Infidel Privilege [Satire]




...certain characteristics that immediately exclude a worldview from the category of 'religion'......

 

[WheelieAddict]

A religion is not a religion when evangelical "christians" vote overwhelmingly for the most immoral candidate for the presidency in decades and practice "prosperity" gospel. These people are immensely dumb or immensely stupid. Likely both. Voting out the morons who support this bullshit and are trying to bring it into politics should be priority #1 for patriots everywhere; this country was not founded on religion and putting religion into government goes against everything our founding fathers fought for.

"... the most immoral candidate for the presidency..."

a. Clinton Misogyny - Sex
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - "forced himself on her, biting, bruising her"
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances, married to one of his supporters
Denise Reeder - apologetic note scanned
CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:

And...just recently: "Leslie Millwee says that on two of the alleged occasions, Clinton groped her while he rubbed himself against her and reached climax." EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: New Bill Clinton Sexual Assault Accuser Goes Public for the First Time - Breitbart


b. "FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow"
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow

Republican values:
I did try and fuck her, she was married:

 

[GreenBean]

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on 25 April 1792 in France. What it replaced was truly horrendous.

There is a difference between religion and culture. Most Muslims are not Arabs and don't share their culture. Plenty of what we view today as barbaric was done by Muslims in the name of Allah but I'd guess that every religion has its share of barbarism.

Re: "every religion has its share of barbarism."

You did mean to use the past tense "HAD" did you not ?

 

[WheelieAddict]

A religion is not a religion when evangelical "christians" vote overwhelmingly for the most immoral candidate for the presidency in decades and practice "prosperity" gospel. These people are immensely dumb or immensely stupid. Likely both. Voting out the morons who support this bullshit and are trying to bring it into politics should be priority #1 for patriots everywhere; this country was not founded on religion and putting religion into government goes against everything our founding fathers fought for.

We didn't vote for Bill Clinton or Barrack Hussein Obama, who you trying to blame for those immoral candidates in office. Come on, man up, you fucked up, take the responsibility for your action.

This response speaks volumes about the values of today's conservatives. "cmon man you voted for someone i don't like doesn't matter that i voted for someone who is the most crude and disgusting and most irreligious candidate ever". Republican and evangelical "thinking" at work.

Conservative republican values:
Donald Trump appears in unearthed 2000 Playboy porn video

Do you believe that Senator Robert(Kleagle of the KKK) Byrd, who terrorized black people as a Democrat was able to be forgiven for his past sins and reconciled to be for black people? Yes or No?

And here we see what the supposed party of "personal responsibility" resorts to when they can't confront their own bullshit. They try to change the subject and won't even acknowledge the truth about themselves.

 

[Fenton Lum]

There are certain characteristics that we have come to find in religion....and some that immediately exclude a worldview from that category......


1. “We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergartners to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.” Cult of Death

a. It is the blood that informs the act. In the 1971 assassination of Jordan’s prime minister, Wasfi l-Tell, by PLO terrorists. “As he lay there, one of his killers bent over and lapped the blood that poured from his wounds.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226317/know-thy-enemy/michael-ledeen

b. Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom.”
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp





2. "The Islamic practice of beheading enemies and sinners dates back to the Prophet Muhammad himself. According to Arab historian Ibn Ishaq (d. 768 C.E.), Muhammad ordered the beheadings of at least 600 Jewish Banu Qurayza tribesmen in Medina on suspicion of plotting against him.

Beheading also finds support in the Koran. In one passage, Allah says "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off" (8:12). In another, Muslims are exhorted to "confront the disbelievers, strike at their necks" (47:4).

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The modern video beheading phenomenon began in 2002 when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. KSM was captured shortly afterwards, but al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took the idea and ran with it in a series of grisly videos showing the beheading of Western civilian contractors and others in Iraq. Zarqawi followed the parameters of the genre established by KSM: prayers, insults, recitation from the Koran, beheading, posing with the head. As a final insult, the ceremony ends when the severed head is set upon the back of the dismembered corpse.

Beheading videos disappeared for a while but resumed in 2014 with the rise of ISIS. The prime actor in this third wave of video terrorism was English-speaking ISIS operative Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British press....
Kathy Griffin Needs to Check Her Infidel Privilege [Satire]




...certain characteristics that immediately exclude a worldview from the category of 'religion'......

Alternative facts is all one needs to create their own alternative universe in their own tiny little alternative head to hide within.

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are certain characteristics that we have come to find in religion....and some that immediately exclude a worldview from that category......


1. “We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergartners to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.” Cult of Death

a. It is the blood that informs the act. In the 1971 assassination of Jordan’s prime minister, Wasfi l-Tell, by PLO terrorists. “As he lay there, one of his killers bent over and lapped the blood that poured from his wounds.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226317/know-thy-enemy/michael-ledeen

b. Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom.”
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp





2. "The Islamic practice of beheading enemies and sinners dates back to the Prophet Muhammad himself. According to Arab historian Ibn Ishaq (d. 768 C.E.), Muhammad ordered the beheadings of at least 600 Jewish Banu Qurayza tribesmen in Medina on suspicion of plotting against him.

Beheading also finds support in the Koran. In one passage, Allah says "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off" (8:12). In another, Muslims are exhorted to "confront the disbelievers, strike at their necks" (47:4).

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The modern video beheading phenomenon began in 2002 when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. KSM was captured shortly afterwards, but al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took the idea and ran with it in a series of grisly videos showing the beheading of Western civilian contractors and others in Iraq. Zarqawi followed the parameters of the genre established by KSM: prayers, insults, recitation from the Koran, beheading, posing with the head. As a final insult, the ceremony ends when the severed head is set upon the back of the dismembered corpse.

Beheading videos disappeared for a while but resumed in 2014 with the rise of ISIS. The prime actor in this third wave of video terrorism was English-speaking ISIS operative Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British press....
Kathy Griffin Needs to Check Her Infidel Privilege [Satire]




...certain characteristics that immediately exclude a worldview from the category of 'religion'......

Alternative facts is all one needs to create their own alternative universe in their own tiny little alternative head to hide within.

What does that have to do with this?

1. “We should by now have become used to the death cult that is thriving at the fringes of the Muslim world. This is the cult of people who are proud to declare, "You love life, but we love death." This is the cult that sent waves of defenseless children to be mowed down on the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war, that trains kindergartners to become bombs, that fetishizes death, that sends people off joyfully to commit mass murder. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.” Cult of Death

a. It is the blood that informs the act. In the 1971 assassination of Jordan’s prime minister, Wasfi l-Tell, by PLO terrorists. “As he lay there, one of his killers bent over and lapped the blood that poured from his wounds.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226317/know-thy-enemy/michael-ledeen

b. Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom.”
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp





2. "The Islamic practice of beheading enemies and sinners dates back to the Prophet Muhammad himself. According to Arab historian Ibn Ishaq (d. 768 C.E.), Muhammad ordered the beheadings of at least 600 Jewish Banu Qurayza tribesmen in Medina on suspicion of plotting against him.

Beheading also finds support in the Koran. In one passage, Allah says "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off" (8:12). In another, Muslims are exhorted to "confront the disbelievers, strike at their necks" (47:4).

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The modern video beheading phenomenon began in 2002 when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. KSM was captured shortly afterwards, but al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took the idea and ran with it in a series of grisly videos showing the beheading of Western civilian contractors and others in Iraq. Zarqawi followed the parameters of the genre established by KSM: prayers, insults, recitation from the Koran, beheading, posing with the head. As a final insult, the ceremony ends when the severed head is set upon the back of the dismembered corpse.

Beheading videos disappeared for a while but resumed in 2014 with the rise of ISIS. The prime actor in this third wave of video terrorism was English-speaking ISIS operative Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed "Jihadi John" by the British press....
Kathy Griffin Needs to Check Her Infidel Privilege [Satire]




...certain characteristics that immediately exclude a worldview from the category of 'religion'......



Everything I post is linked, sourced and documented.

 

[alang1216]

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on 25 April 1792 in France. What it replaced was truly horrendous.

What does that have to do with this?

I would think it is obvious. First, your source was completely wrong since the West was beheading well before 1880. Secondly the anecdote is being used to illustrate the cruelty of beheading when in fact, France introduced the guillotine as a more civilized form of execution.

 

[alang1216]

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on 25 April 1792 in France. What it replaced was truly horrendous.

There is a difference between religion and culture. Most Muslims are not Arabs and don't share their culture. Plenty of what we view today as barbaric was done by Muslims in the name of Allah but I'd guess that every religion has its share of barbarism.

Re: "every religion has its share of barbarism."

You did mean to use the past tense "HAD" did you not ?

I honestly didn't think much about it when I wrote it. Thinking a bit more I'd have to say no, there is still barbarism being done in the name of every religion. The KKK burns crosses, Israelis practice collective punishment, and ISIS needs no examples.

 

[PoliticalChic]

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on 25 April 1792 in France. What it replaced was truly horrendous.

What does that have to do with this?

I would think it is obvious. First, your source was completely wrong since the West was beheading well before 1880. Secondly the anecdote is being used to illustrate the cruelty of beheading when in fact, France introduced the guillotine as a more civilized form of execution.

What a fabrication.....not a part of Judaism nor Christianity.

A note for you:
Ephesians 4:25 So stop telling lies. Let us tell our neighbors the truth

 

[PoliticalChic]

In the modern era, the practice of beheading first came to Western attention when Muhammad Ahmad of the Sudan declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged a jihad against Ottoman Egyptian and British forces. Ahmad's followers routinely beheaded their opponents, most famously British Gen. Charles Gordon.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on 25 April 1792 in France. What it replaced was truly horrendous.

There is a difference between religion and culture. Most Muslims are not Arabs and don't share their culture. Plenty of what we view today as barbaric was done by Muslims in the name of Allah but I'd guess that every religion has its share of barbarism.

Re: "every religion has its share of barbarism."

You did mean to use the past tense "HAD" did you not ?

I honestly didn't think much about it when I wrote it. Thinking a bit more I'd have to say no, there is still barbarism being done in the name of every religion. The KKK burns crosses, Israelis practice collective punishment, and ISIS needs no examples.

"I honestly didn't think much..."


The most accurate statement you ever posted.

 

[PoliticalChic]

And, speaking of that certain....non-religion....


3. Here is the poetry of a British woman....a young Muslim woman....exhibiting her creativity:

"A Poem of Praise to Allah by Samina Malik: How To Behead
Hold him
Tie the arms behind his back
And bandage his legs together
Just by the ankles
Blindfold the punk
So that he won’t hesitate as much
For on seeing the sharp pointy knife
He’ll begin to shake
And continuously scream like an eedyat
And jiggle like a jelly
Trust me, this will sure get you angry
It’s better to have at least two or three brothers by your side
Who can hold the fool
Because as soon as the warm sharp knife
Touches his naked flesh
He’ll come to know what’ll happen
It’s not as messy or as hard as some may think,
It’s all about the flow of the wrist.
No doubt that the punk will twitch and scream
But ignore the donkey’s ass
And continue to slice back and forth
You’ll feel the knife hit the wind and food pipe
But don’t stop
Continue with all your might.
About now you should feel the knife vibrate,
You can feel the warm heat being given off,
But this is due to the friction being caused."
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No....this was not written in the 7th century.....it was written in this century





It has been said that the difference between Sunni and Shia is the method of slaughter that each prefers.....the former, beheadings, and the latter, torture.
How.....quaint.

 

[Penelope]

Are you aware beheadings is carried out in Saudi Arabia. You know our allies.

And that has what to do with the OP?

Beheading also finds support in the Koran. In one passage, Allah says "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off" (8:12). In another, Muslims are exhorted to "confront the disbelievers, strike at their necks" (47:4).

Are you dense or what. Beheading was carried out forever, and before that stoning. Have you never heard of the guillotine?

You know , being such a good Christian you should know that Jesus said to dismember yourself if it causes you to sin:

Matthew 5:29-30New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.

I would think many Christian men would castrate themselves.

 

[Penelope]

Speaking of children M. Albright said when 1/2 million children died in Iraq due to sanctions, if it was worth it , when asked by Leslie Stahl, She said yes.

We have drones that just kill people , we drop bombs that kill anyone around, we sanction to weaken a nation first , then go in for the kill.

Don't be thinking we are any better.

Wow.....seems like I hit a nerve, huh?

You're quite sensitive to revelations about the savagery and slaughter of a certain political perspective that masquerades as a religion...


Excellent.

No your ignorance makes my nerves react.