Quote: (06-03-2017 02:09 PM)911 Wrote:
Going back to your points above Paracelus, what does the retarded salafist take on adultery or alcohol consumption have to do on a thread about the West, how does this affect our lives today or even decades from now?
You might ask the residents of Constantinople that question. Oh, sorry, Istanbul, not Constantinople, cause it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. Or the church, er, mosque of Hagia Sofia.
If you let this ideology in, it eventually conquers and rules over your people. The only cultures that ever pushed back Islam did so by force: the Reconquista. The Sikhs. Medieval Europe, at the Battle of Vienna and for centuries earlier.
And I'm surprised you don't get the point I'm making. You tried to minimise the significance of shari'a by effectively saying "Lol, who cares about gay rights."
Shari'a is a complete system of law, government, and religion across every facet of existence. It covers everything from, as I said, in vino veritas through to whether non-Muslims can fuck Muslims without converting. The prohibition on alcohol consumption is just one aspect of the utter enslavement that Islam via shari'a demands from believers and those nonbelievers who fall under its sword.
Quote: (06-03-2017 02:09 PM)911 Wrote:
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You know ISIS's practice of forcing people to wear or daub symbols identifying themselves as Christians/Jews/etc? That doesn't come from Hitler. He borrowed the idea of the yellow star from Islam, which, at shari'a, demands that very practice and did so long, long before anyone ever said "Sieg Heil.
This is the kind of stuff that drives me nuts. Two points here: ISIS's practice is a practice that is completely foreign to the practices of the muslim-majority people that live there. In Syria and Iraq, Christian minorities lived side by side with the Muslims until a bunch of people from London and DC decided to tear up their countries and fund groups of foreign jihadis to come in and push the most perverted version of Islam.
Christians in Iraq?
Hmm. Let's go to Leftiepedia on the subject for the potted history:
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Christianity was brought to Iraq in the 1st century by Thomas the Apostle and Mar Addai (Thaddeus of Edessa) and his pupils Aggai and Mari. Thomas and Thaddeus belonged to the twelve Apostles.[5] Iraq's Eastern Aramaic-speaking Assyrian communities are believed to be among the oldest in the world.
The Assyrian people adopted Christianity in the 1st century[3] and Assyria in northern Iraq became the centre of Eastern Rite Christianity and Syriac literature from the 1st century until the Middle Ages. Christianity initially lived alongside Mesopotamian religion among the Assyrians, until the latter began to die out during the 4th century.
In the early centuries after the Arab Islamic conquest of the 7th century, Assyria (also known as Athura and Assuristan) was dissolved by the Arabs as a geo-political entity, however native Assyrian (known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs) scholars and doctors played an influential role in Iraq. However, from the late 13th century through to the present time, Assyrian Christians have suffered both religious and ethnic persecution, including a number of massacres. ... When the 14th-century Muslim warlord of Turco-Mongol descent, Timur (Tamerlane), conquered Persia, Mesopotamia and Syria, the civilian population was decimated. Timur had 70,000 Assyrian Christians beheaded in Tikrit, and 90,000 more in Baghdad.[7][8] A new epoch began in the 17th century when Emir Afrasiyab of Basra allowed the Portuguese to build a church outside of the city.
I'm sure Tamerlane was working for the Joos or British colonial powers, right?
"Oh, but things got better in the pluralistic, atheistic, postmodernist, post-industrial 20th century!"
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During World War One the Assyrians of northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northeast Syria and northwest Iran suffered the Assyrian genocide which accounted for the deaths of up to 65% of the entire Assyrian population. In the year of Iraq´s formal independence, 1933, the Iraqi military carried out large-scale massacres against the Assyrians (Simele massacre) which had supported the British colonial administration before.
In the early 1930s, the Iraqi Arab ministries disseminated leaflets among the Kurds calling them to join them to massacre Assyrians. This call appealed to Islamic convictions and united Arabs and Kurds against the infidel Christians.[9] Shortly before the August 11 Simmele massacre in 1933, Kurds began a campaign of looting against Assyrian settlements. The Assyrians fled to Simele, where they were also persecuted. According to some studies, there were many accounts by witnesses of numerous atrocities perpetrated by Arabs and Kurds on Assyrian women.
But please, 911, tell me every Assyrian Christian in Iraq deserved to be massacred because they happened to support a British administration, or that such support was the real reason for the massacre!
What about under the enlightened dictator Saddam Hussein?
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In 1987, the last Iraqi census counted 1.4 million Christians.[10] They were tolerated under the secular regime of Saddam Hussein, who even made one of them, Tariq Aziz, his deputy. However, persecution by Saddam Hussein continued against the Christians on an ethnic, cultural and racial level, as the vast majority are Mesopotamian Aramaic speaking. The Neo-Aramaic language and writing was repressed, the giving of Syriac Christian names or Akkadian/Assyro-Babylonian names forbidden (Tariq Aziz's given name is Mikhail Yuhanna, for example), and Saddam exploited religious differences between Iraqi Christians' denominations such as the Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Assyrian Church of the East and Ancient Church of the East. Over 2,000 Iraqi Christians were ethnically cleansed from their towns and villages under the al Anfal Campaign of 1988.
Prior to the Gulf War in 1991, Christians numbered one million in Iraq.[3] The Baathist rule under Saddam Hussein kept anti-Christian violence under control but subjected some to "relocation programmes".[3] Under this regime, the predominantly ethnically and linguistically distinct Assyrians were pressured to identify as Arabs. The Christian population fell to an estimated 800,000 during the 2003 Iraq War.[3] Just under 1,500,000 Christians were alleged in the region prior to August 2014.
"Er, er, well, things got better after Saddam was deposed..."
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The overthrow of Saddam regime, the stationing of American troops from a predominantly Christian country(U.S) inside the predominantly Muslim country of Iraq served to feed Islamist propaganda that so-called infidels were launching a crusade in the cradle of Islam. Coalition Troops were therefore subjected to constant attacks from Sunni and Shiite brigades, while those same brigades deemed the Christian population of Iraq as the enemy within because it shared the same faith as the so-called invaders, even though there were many significant Christian generals and soldiers among Iraqi troops under Saddam regime. Despite that, persecution against the Christian population in Iraq had never been as brutal as it has been in the 13 years since the 2003 Iraq war.
No ISIS required. Let's underline that: these are Christians
native to Iraq who are being targeted
because they share the same faith as US troops. Not because they are better-tech knights from Europe.
And as for Christianity in Syria, under the Alawite (i.e. not-meant-to-be-as-fucking-nuts-as-Sunni) brand of Islam?
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Christians in Syria make up about 11.2% of the population.[1] The country's largest Christian denomination is the Orthodox Church of Antioch (known as the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East),[2][better source needed][3][4] closely followed by the Melkite Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which has a common root with the Orthodox Church of Antioch,[5] and then by an Oriental Orthodoxy churches like Syriac Orthodox Church and Armenian Apostolic Church. There are also a minority of Protestants and members of the Assyrian Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic Church. The city of Aleppo is believed to have the largest number of Christians in Syria. In the late Ottoman rule, most Syrian Christians have emigrated, especially after the bloody chain of events that targeted Christians in particular in 1840, 1845, the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war and the Assyrian genocide, according to historian Philip Hitti, approximately 900,000 "Syrians" arrived in the United States between 1899 and 1919 (more than 90% of them were Christians).[6]
Of course Muslims and Christians can live side by side. Just so long as the Christians are
dhimmis.
Quote: (06-03-2017 02:09 PM)911 Wrote:
You will argue that the ISIS version is the true, most literal version of Islam cause that's what Robert Spencer says, but my point is, those forms and practices have not been observed in Damascus or Baghdad, which are the cultural and historic capitals of the islamic region, until ISIS barged in with their hordes from Molenbeek and Chechnya. So why do you want to go by Isis' version when the muslim people there vehemently reject it, and in fact hundreds of thousands of them, including Muslims, have died fighting them?
You are arguing a massive straw man. Did you not notice that not one of the examples of bullshit shari'a laws I mentioned are the ones practiced by ISIS?
They are all in supposedly "civilised", "peaceful" Muslim majority nations. That is shari'a in practice. Again: no ISIS required.
Quote: (06-03-2017 02:09 PM)911 Wrote:
Hitler borrowed the Jewish star patch from the Muslims, really?
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem stayed for lengthy periods of time as Hitler's guest in Berlin. That is a matter of historical record. So too is Islamic use of the yellow star of shame.
Look up the Pact of Omar, from 637 AD. That's how old and revered a practice it is under Islam.
Quote: (06-03-2017 02:09 PM)911 Wrote:
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It's in your own country right now, Canada. Public schools in Toronto literally create temporary mosques on Friday so Muslims can listen to imams. Imagine the outrage if someone proposed the school cafeteria got taken over on a Wednesday for the exclusive use of Christians to listen to a priest's sermon. Your swimming pools have started to be segregated. 62% of the Muslims in Ottawa said they wanted to live under shari'a, in a 2011 poll.
97% of scientists don't actually believe that we're frying the earth, yet it's become an iron-clad mantra through repetition. That poll has been deliberately framed to push the notion that there is a complete scientific consensus on global warming. Some of the same dynamics might be at work in that poll. I know many Muslims here, and this stuff, excessive demands like segregated pools bothers them too.
Rule one of all arguments that "B-b-b-but most Muslims aren't like that!":
The moderate majority is irrelevant. The moderate majority does not turn in its own radicals. This is demonstrable also from the recent survey that two thirds of Muslims surveyed would not report a terrorist to the authorities ... either because they sympathise with such terrorists or because they're too scared of blowback from their own faith, their own religion, for ratting on a Muslim to an infidel. But please go ahead and tell me that all of these surveys are rigged, preferably with some proof this time, not a supposition.
Read your Nassim Taleb on this to see how radicalism takes hold and transforms "moderate" communities. And while you're at it, go and look up what Islam says the last words of the peaceful, tolerant prophet Mohammed were.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm