Islam is a legitimate religion

[Midnight FM]

Islam is, indeed, a religion.

The last of the large-scale Warrior Religions... the successor to the Mithraism of the Roman Legionnaires of Antiquity.

It is a plagiarized, bastardized, stolen-and-adapted hybrid of Judaism and Christianity and Arab superstition and prejudice.

It makes excuses for the bloodthirsty and pedophilic history of it Founder, Peanut Butter and jelly be Upon Him...

I already explained that there was no modern age of consent in Muhammed's time, and that things which would be considered child marriage by modern standards were a common practice of the day and age.

In the Biblical Old Testament, for example, soldiers are commanded to take young virgin girls as spoils of war:

Numbers 31:17-18
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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I'm not convinced that Muhammed's military conquests were any different than the military conquests documented in the Biblical Old Testament. For example:

1Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. 2This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy a all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”

 

[BackAgain]

People are free to dislike Islam (though many who dislike it seem pretty uneducated and uninformed on it). However, from what I know of it, it is a legitimate, major world religion. And there are sects of Muslims, such as the Sufis who do not, to my knowledge, believe in violence or oppression.

Something like Satanism I wouldn't consider a legitimate religion. But Islam is.

“From what you know.”

In other words, you have an opinion but nothing to support it.

You’re still just a simpleton buried.

 

[MarathonMike]

And you're saying the Old Testament isn't part of the Bible? I'm confused:

Yes you are confused. Study up on what Sharia Law comprises before you continue this ridiculous false equivalence.

 

[Midnight FM]

Yes you are confused. Study up on what Sharia Law comprises before you continue this ridiculous false equivalence.

I already posted a source, and not all Muslims believe in a literal application of Sharia Law into modern times.

Likewise, if the Biblical Old Testament laws were applied literally into modern times, they would be the equivalent of Sharia Law.

 

[Kondor3]

...we can see cults and sects in America, such as Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, who engage in barbaric practices such as forced marriage and child marriage...

The difference being that such hands do not control the ship-of-state... thank God for Separation of Church and State in America.

 

[scruffy]

This should be in the religion forum.

 

[eagle7-31]

People are free to dislike Islam (though many who dislike it seem pretty uneducated and uninformed on it). However, from what I know of it, it is a legitimate, major world religion. And there are sects of Muslims, such as the Sufis who do not, to my knowledge, believe in violence or oppression.

Something like Satanism I wouldn't consider a legitimate religion. But Islam is.

Islam if memory serves never had a for lack of a better a reformation. Protestants, Catholics and Jews did.

 

[TemplarKormac]

People are free to dislike Islam (though many who dislike it seem pretty uneducated and uninformed on it). However, from what I know of it, it is a legitimate, major world religion. And there are sects of Muslims, such as the Sufis who do not, to my knowledge, believe in violence or oppression.

Something like Satanism I wouldn't consider a legitimate religion. But Islam is.

It is. So is Agnosticism and Satanism.

 

[Kondor3]

I already explained that there was no modern age of consent in Muhammed's time, and that things which would be considered child marriage by modern standards were a common practice of the day and age.

The very first Go-To Excuse that Muslims love to use... ya'll need some new material...

 

[Paleman]

And you're saying the Old Testament isn't part of the Bible? I'm confused:

Midnight needs to see the light. As we have become more civilized, all that medieval Christian based inhumane punishment has long been disavowed. Sharia law has not changed and Muslims are definitely trying to impose it in this country. With the help of clueless liberals, they will succeed.

 

[whitehall]

Hypocrite lefties feel free to condemn Catholicism for their stance on abortion but they protect Islam even though true believers would be authorized to stone them to death for various reasons including infidelity and homosexuality.

 

[Ringo]

Politicians who let this “green plague” into their countries literally hate their own people.

 

[Kondor3]

Hypocrite lefties feel free to condemn Catholicism for their stance on abortion but they protect Islam even though true believers would be authorized to stone them to death for various reasons including infidelity and homosexuality.

Some are hypocrites but it's a good guess that the vast majority who behave that way are merely profoundly ignorant.

Dangerously and profoundly ignorant and blind to the dangers and cultural rot posed by Islam and its worst adherents.

 

[Hafar1014]

People are free to dislike Islam (though many who dislike it seem pretty uneducated and uninformed on it). However, from what I know of it, it is a legitimate, major world religion. And there are sects of Muslims, such as the Sufis who do not, to my knowledge, believe in violence or oppression.

Something like Satanism I wouldn't consider a legitimate religion. But Islam is.

Almost every major war and acts of terror are caused by Islam.

 

[Zincwarrior]

People are free to dislike Islam (though many who dislike it seem pretty uneducated and uninformed on it). However, from what I know of it, it is a legitimate, major world religion.

I am glad we cleared that up.