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Originally Posted by Narz  dor, I'm sure there are plenty of good religious people and folks who were and are inspired by Jesus, Zen, the Buddha, whatever.
My issue is not with those type of religious but those who believe in religious stories literally and try to make others conform to what they believe moral truth to be (like radical Muslims). |
well the secular politically correct left does this too, to worse degrees, in the west, no?
narz, again, I submit, respecfully, this is a case of your idealogy over-riding reality. I don't blame you here, but if you are really interested in the origins of so called radical islam, i would urge you to read this article, it points out a little known fact, that number one suicide bombers in the world are not muslim nor religious, but are marxist, secular tamil tigers of sri lanka:
The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
It’s the occupation, not the fundamentalism Amazon.com: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism: Books: Robert Pape
why don't we know this? Because it shatters the ambitions of politically powerful israel supporters who would like us all to believe that 'crazy muslims are trying to take over the world' when it might be more like they just want their land back