Let's Not Forget the Fundamentalist Element

Boss 302 date=1448230449 said:
Guard Dad date=1448066299 said:
I don't think it's a matter of being secularized; I think it's more about being more civilized and educated. All of us have easy access to our Bibles, so we can read with our own eyes what it says. I have been told that the Muslim clerics actually try to keep other Muslims from reading for themselves, and prefer that their people blindly believe what they are being taught.

In contrast; our Bible warns of false prophets and commands up to pass what we are being taught by the muster of The Word (meaning confirm what our preachers tell us by doing our own Bible study).

And frankly, our society as a whole puts more value on human life than Muslims usually do.
This is why the Taliban in Afghanistan would not build schools and then bombed the ones we constructed. Afghanistan has a male literacy rate of 43.1% and a female literacy rate of 12.6% (source).
Muslims live all over, not just in Afghanistan. It is not an across the board policy to keep people illiterate.
 
ShoeDiva date=1448166769 said:
Boss 302 date=1448162687 said:
ShoeDiva date=1448045353 said:
Madea date=1448036754 said:
I don't see anywhere that he says if you don't agree with him then he must kill you. Even the Westboro crazies don't kill people.
You do know that in the Quran that there are multiple places where it also states that you can not kill anyone.
Those verses are from when Mohammed was living in Mecca and first founded Islam. Once he was forced to leave Mecca and went to Medina, he began preaching death to the infidels and forcing people to convert to Islam or put them to death.
During that time he was at "war" with others. The "rules" were different.
I am not saying even that part is right, but from every Muslim I have ever known, and that is a lot (as friends, as family) they believe the no killing, do not hurt children, etc...part. The other is only for times of war.
IDK... we can't all agree on our Bible, let alone another religions that is not in English.
You should read more on the history of Islam and Muhammed as it is interesting and very telling about Islam extremism. In a nutshell, Muhammed was disgraced when he was kicked out of Mecca and took what followers he had to Medina. It became his goal to raise an army and take Mecca for himself, which he eventually did do. When Muhammed's armies raided villages and cities, they killed anyone who refused to convert; to include women and children.
 
ShoeDiva date=1448230668 said:
Boss 302 date=1448230449 said:
Guard Dad date=1448066299 said:
I don't think it's a matter of being secularized; I think it's more about being more civilized and educated. All of us have easy access to our Bibles, so we can read with our own eyes what it says. I have been told that the Muslim clerics actually try to keep other Muslims from reading for themselves, and prefer that their people blindly believe what they are being taught.

In contrast; our Bible warns of false prophets and commands up to pass what we are being taught by the muster of The Word (meaning confirm what our preachers tell us by doing our own Bible study).

And frankly, our society as a whole puts more value on human life than Muslims usually do.
This is why the Taliban in Afghanistan would not build schools and then bombed the ones we constructed. Afghanistan has a male literacy rate of 43.1% and a female literacy rate of 12.6% (source).
Muslims live all over, not just in Afghanistan. It is not an across the board policy to keep people illiterate.
Did I say it was all over? No, I specifically stated Afghanistan.
 
Boss 302 date=1448231461 said:
ShoeDiva date=1448230668 said:
Boss 302 date=1448230449 said:
Guard Dad date=1448066299 said:
I don't think it's a matter of being secularized; I think it's more about being more civilized and educated. All of us have easy access to our Bibles, so we can read with our own eyes what it says. I have been told that the Muslim clerics actually try to keep other Muslims from reading for themselves, and prefer that their people blindly believe what they are being taught.

In contrast; our Bible warns of false prophets and commands up to pass what we are being taught by the muster of The Word (meaning confirm what our preachers tell us by doing our own Bible study).

And frankly, our society as a whole puts more value on human life than Muslims usually do.
This is why the Taliban in Afghanistan would not build schools and then bombed the ones we constructed. Afghanistan has a male literacy rate of 43.1% and a female literacy rate of 12.6% (source).
Muslims live all over, not just in Afghanistan. It is not an across the board policy to keep people illiterate.
Did I say it was all over? No, I specifically stated Afghanistan.
You were quoting GD that stated MUSLIMS. I was clarifying I meant ALL over. I do know there are countries that keep their people illiterate.
 
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