Brian Devon

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.........and it must be galling your shrunken conservative heart that American children are being educated by liberal teachers, in the public schools, to embrace diversity and multi-culturalism. The long term implications are that the Republican party will eventually go extinct.

Live, love, from the liberal, multi-cultural, electoral big dog state of California.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Islam is Tolerant of Other Religions



The Myth:

Religious minorities have flourished under Islam. Muslims are commanded to protect Jews and Christians (the People of the Book) and do them no harm. The Quran says in Sura 109, "To you, your religion. To me, mine."

The Truth:

Religious minorities have not “flourished” under Islam. In fact, they have dwindled to mere shadows after centuries of persecution and discrimination. Some were converted from their native religion by brute force, others under the agonizing strain of dhimmitude.

What Muslims call “tolerance,” others correctly identify as institutionalized discrimination. The consignment of Jews and Christians to dhimmis under Islamic rule means that they are not allowed the same religious rights and freedoms as Muslims. They cannot share their faith, for example, or build houses of worship without permission.

Historically, dhimmis have often had to wear distinguishing clothing or cut their hair in a particular manner that indicates their position of inferiority and humiliation. They do not share the same legal rights as Muslims, and must even pay a poll tax (the jizya). They are to be killed or have their children taken from them if they cannot satisfy the tax collector’s requirements.

For hundreds of years, the Christian population in occupied Europe had their sons taken away and forcibly converted into Muslim warriors (known as Jannisaries) by the Ottoman Turks.

It is under this burden of discrimination and third-class status that so many religious minorities converted to Islam over the centuries. Those who didn’t often faced economic and social hardships that persist to this day and are appalling by Western standards of true religious tolerance and pluralism.

For those who are not “the People of the Book,” such as Hindus and atheists, there is very little tolerance to be found once Islam establishes political superiority. The Quran tells Muslims to “fight in the way of Allah” until “religion is only for Allah.” The conquered populations face death if they do not establish regular prayer and charity in the Islamic tradition (ie. the pillars of Islam).

Tamerlane and other Muslim warriors slaughtered tens of millions of Hindus and Buddhists, and displaced or forcibly converted millions more over the last thousand years. Islamists in Somalia behead Christians. In Iran, they are jailed.

One of the great ironies of Islam is that non-Muslims are to be treated according to the very standards by which Muslims themselves would claim the right to violent self-defense were the shoe on the other foot. Islam is its own justification. Most Muslims therefore feel no need to explain the ingrained arrogance and double standard.

There are about 500 verses in the Quran that speak of Allah’s hatred for non-Muslims and the punishment that he has prepared for their unbelief. There is also a tiny handful that say otherwise, but these are mostly earlier verses that many scholars consider to be abrogated by the later, more violent ones.

As for Sura 109, any true Quran scholar will point out that the purpose of the verse was to distinguish Islam from the gods of the Quraysh (one of which was named "Allah") rather than to advocate religious tolerance for non-Muslims. At the time that he narrated this very early verse, Muhammad did not have any power, and thus no choice but to be "tolerant" of others. By contrast, there was no true tolerance shown when he returned to Mecca with power many years later and demanded the eviction or death of anyone who would not convert to Islam. In fact, he physically destroyed the cherished idols of the people to whom he had previously addressed in Sura 109.

If tolerance simply means discouraging the mass slaughter of those of a different faith, then today's Islam generally meets this standard more often than not. But, if tolerance means allowing people of other faiths the same religious liberties that Muslims enjoy, then Islam is fundamentally the most intolerant religion under the sun.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Good thing I'm not a Republican. However, you will probably sing a different song after November. I do believe that the Democrats will precede the Republicans in death.

funguy1949

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cant beleve Loc: Planet Kolob

Budda ,budda,budda,THUD. You really believe this rhetoric? Kudos to the kids of this Colorado high school that are embracing the spirit of multiculturalism and diversity? Haven't you ever noticed that Islam scriptures are able to pull out of a hat anything they want to further their dispicable acts? Brian, you know darn good and well that Christians don't advocate the destruction of Jerusalem by entering heaven with the skull of a Jew in their hand. Maybe one day it will be your skull or your kids they are knocking on their heavens door with! Pray it isn't so!

Had enough

To settle this go to an American Military post and say the pledge in arabic. See their reaction! If your not shot saying the pledge in arabic would be ok.

cant beleve Loc: Planet Kolob

Our military is going crazy defending our rights and now this? Its despicable at best. Treasonous definitely. I hope a vet coming straight home from Afghanistan hears this shit! Or his kid comes home saying it was learned in his school. 8-) :roll:

DockyWocky

Some places call this brainwashing, although the geniuses in Colorado obviously are too thick to realize they've been had.
I guess we can expect to see more of this stupidity in the future, especially since Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen are now on the Women's Relief and Women's Rights Committees of the United Nations.
Work on the youth. CAIR's standard method of spreading evil and influencing the future.
I fear for our republic, because not a smidgen of opposition was apparently raised to this obvious "invasion."

CowboyMilt

Being a 75 yr old man, I can't accept the Pledge of Allegance in Arabic. I am all right with it in any Native American language but not Arabic. We are an English Speaking Society & that pledge was meant for English, not Arabic, Spanish or anything else except additionally Native American Indian (Indian) languages. That's just me!

MrEd Loc: Georgia

I don't believe you would want to do that around the guys I was stationed with. While they would not shoot you, you would not be walking for awhile.

Multiculturalism is one of the things killing this country. Everyone has their own culture and speaks a different language and will not abide by our laws or culture. The worst of these are the Mexicans and Muslims. Each wants their own language and culture to dominate and Muslims especially want their own laws over ours. They want everyone living in the 7th century simply because then they are to ignorant to know any better. They do not want you to learn anything and suppress anything they do not understand, which is just about everything.

CowboyMilt

HOO RAH Speed...well said...I don't want to push any freaking button for English...any foreigner coming here should learn our language & it should be the official language of the USA! Period.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

as dave chappel says, letz see this in slow motion. this person who allowed this to happen needs to be 'chastised' on prime time TV. continue to piss on christianity and suck on muslims like lollipops and soon...you'd better keep that to yourself. when i call out a name, i mean it as reality...you brian, are the stupidest person on OPP. you just took the lead from blojobster....thatz my boy!!!!!!!!

the learning squirrel

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jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Someone one who knows!!!!!!!!!!! To honor the genuine Americans, saying it in a Native American, now that would be honorable.

the learning squirrel

the general population wants to promote the idea of the public being a melting pot of culture, so much so that they throw away their own.