Radicals are violent. Radical Muslims, radical Christians, radical Jews, radical Hindus.
If all Muslims were inherently violent and dangerous, the faith would quickly burn out under the weight of all that violence.
Radical Christians burn crosses, lynch folks not to their peculiar liking and pervert the icons and teachings of Christianity to their own purposes. They call themselves the knights of the Ku Klux Klan. They are not examples of Christianity, but a political hate group and a criminal organization.
But they are a distinct minority in Christendom.
Can they be fairly compared to radical Islamists? Absolutely and quite fairly.
What brings you scurrying out?
Oh...I see: I mentioned "
the secular liars."
Your post is EXACTLY what I had in mind when I came across the essay.
I see you recognized it, as well.
Stay tuned: an unassailable case will be made that you endorse the most absurd of explanations for the violence that threatens the civilized world today.
And, apologists like you facilitate same.
I reject the label of "secular liar" as I am neither. It's merely a ham handed attempt on your part to throw up a rhetorical road block and cheap invective.
Nothing you present is unassailable. Any case that attempts to paint all adherents to any faith as holding the same political objectives (and that is what the radicalization of faiths is about) fails to understand the greater theology of that faith. Simplistic arguments always fail. An un-nuanced outlook leads to greater ignorance.
1. Well, ya' put it that way......I'll see if I can come up with some more expensive invectives to hurl at you.
2. There is no comparison between Christianity and the murderous savagery we see in Islamists....so, if you aren't a liar....and I'll take your word for that.....you must be really, really stoooooopid.
3. "Nothing you present is unassailable."
Perhaps....but this is not the only panel I plan to provide.
Stick around....
....and take notes.
Christians are not exempt from using violence to advance their own peculiar version of the faith. But no one ever thought such violent Christians were exemplary of the entire faith. Radical Islam is not exemplary of Islam either.
1. "Christians are not exempt from using violence to advance their own peculiar version of the faith."
God gave men both free will and intelligence.
If you read the OP, it refers to the use of reason.....not an aspect of Islam.
2. And this:
Qur’an:8:12
“I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His
Apostle.”
Qur’an:8:57
“If you gain mastery over them in battle, inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them, so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”
Ishaq:326
“If you come upon them, deal so forcibly as to terrify those who would follow, that they may be warned. Make a severe example of them by terrorizing Allah’s enemies.”
Qur’an:8:67
“It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughtered in the land.”
Ishaq:588
“When the
Apostle descends on your land none of your people will be left when he leaves.”
Tabari IX:42
“We have been dealt a situation from which there is no escape. You have seen what Muhammad has done. Arabs have submitted to him and we do not have the strength to fight. You know that no herd is safe from him. And no one even dares go outside for fear of being terrorized.”
Ishaq:326
“Allah said, ‘No Prophet before Muhammad took booty from his enemy nor prisoners for ransom.’ Muhammad said, ‘I was made
victorious with
terror. The earth was made a place for me to clean. I was given the most powerful words. Booty was made lawful for me. I was given the power to intercede. These five privileges were awarded to no prophet before me.’”
Ishaq:327
“Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
Qur’an:7:3
“Little do you remember My warning. How many towns have We destroyed as a raid by night? Our punishment took them suddenly while they slept for their afternoon rest. Our
terror came to them; Our punishment overtook them.”
Sooooo.....is ignorance your defense?
3. "Radical Islam is not exemplary of Islam either."
Some hundred million Muslims disagree with you.