Why is my post the original post now?
Some mod sent all the garbage here and left the other post to only show condolences.
Why is my post the original post now?
Well considering the fact that he sent 120k+ prophets and still failed... xd
Damn you are soooo right. 87% of the world population follow different kind of religions, only 13% is non-religious, yep he still failed.
Why is my post the original post now?
Some mod sent all the garbage here and left the other post to only show condolences.
I'm sorry this is where I beg to differ. Religion (Islam/Christianity/Hinduism etc) has a LOT to do with the state of affairs in the world today. In the case of Islam even more so since Islam is a stronger faith than any other popular faith atleast. Here are my main points:For everyone: Can we please stop arguing about texts that are more than 1350 years old? It's more than obvious that the recent attacks and the overall crisis in the Middle East have their actual roots in political decisions of the past 70-90 years and that religion on all sides have been instrumentalised for a gain of power/influence.
I hate to admit it, but Influenza has made the best posts in this topic so far (together with Benhouse). Flu though, as expected, only gave half the truth, which is a shame for an intellectual person. Now that Russia & western countries seem to be lining up to take out Daesh/IS, I'm genuinely interested what these two (and other knowledgeable people) have to say about the future in the Middle East.
In South Asia, high percentages in all the countries surveyed support making sharia the official law, including nearly universal support among Muslims in Afghanistan (99%). More than eight-in-ten Muslims in Pakistan (84%) and Bangladesh (82%) also hold this view. The percentage of Muslims who say they favor making Islamic law the official law in their country is nearly as high across the Southeast Asian countries surveyed (86% in Malaysia, 77% in Thailand and 72% in Indonesia).15
In sub-Saharan Africa, at least half of Muslims in most countries surveyed say they favor making sharia the official law of the land, including more than seven-in-ten in Niger (86%), Djibouti (82%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (74%) and Nigeria (71%).
Support for sharia as the official law of the land also is widespread among Muslims in the Middle East-North Africa region – especially in Iraq (91%) and the Palestinian territories (89%). Only in Lebanon does opinion lean in the opposite direction: 29% of Lebanese Muslims favor making sharia the law of the land, while 66% oppose it.
Support for making sharia the official legal code of the country is relatively weak across Central Asia as well as Southern and Eastern Europe. Fewer than half of Muslims in all the countries surveyed in these regions favor making sharia their country’s official law. Support for sharia as the law of the land is greatest in Russia (42%); respondents in Russia were asked if sharia should be made the official law in the country’s ethnic-Muslim republics. Elsewhere in Central Asia and Southern and Eastern Europe, about one-in-three or fewer say sharia should be made the law of the land, including just 10% in Kazakhstan and 8% in Azerbaijan.
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Compared with attitudes toward applying sharia in the domestic or criminal spheres, Muslims in the countries surveyed are significantly less supportive of the death penalty for converts.19 Nevertheless, in six of the 20 countries where there are adequate samples for analysis, at least half of those who favor making Islamic law the official law also support executing apostates.
Taking the life of those who abandon Islam is most widely supported in Egypt (86%) and Jordan (82%). Roughly two-thirds who want sharia to be the law of the land also back this penalty in the Palestinian territories (66%). In the other countries surveyed in the Middle East-North Africa region, fewer than half take this view.
In the South Asian countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, strong majorities of those who favor making Islamic law the official law of the land also approve of executing apostates (79% and 76%, respectively). However, in Bangladesh far fewer (44%) share this view.
A majority of Malaysian Muslims (62%) who want to see sharia as their country’s official law also support taking the lives of those who convert to other faiths. But fewer take this position in neighboring Thailand (27%) and Indonesia (18%).
In Central Asia as well as Southern and Eastern Europe, only in Tajikistan (22%) do more than a fifth of Muslims who want sharia as the official law of the land also condone the execution of apostates. Support for killing converts to other faiths falls below one-in-ten in Albania (8%) and Kazakhstan (4%).
I watched the video and can't think of a single reason it refutes any of the points I made.I think those stats are representative of the country more than the religion. @Carlos watch this video and tell me what you think of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzusSqcotDw
Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"
Also you might find in quran like in bible few violent verse, but out of context doesnt make sense if cant interpret it with the contexte. Do you know the main France anthem contain real violent sentence/words? And it be recited before all football match, when there is terrorist attack in france, at official france thing, for president, anything. Do you reduce France to this?
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/muham ... u-badr.htm Interesting analysis on the belief that battle of badr was fought in "self defense".Nobody is getting emotional, don't take up a typical militant atheist approach now. And it makes a great difference; it was giving permission to fight a battle. And you ask for proof for this, that it was meant for this battle? Well what can I give you? The fact that the verse was revealed to the Prophet (or in your version of it, where the Prophet is probably just a deluded man, 'claimed he recieved the verse' and i dont like saying this) was just as the battle of Badr was going to commence. What else can it mean?
And this fact that it was for self defense is made painfully obvious by a verse revealed soon after and in the same chapter (8:61): 'But if the enemy incline towards peace, you (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One that hears and knows (all things).'
@NoobSlayer
obviously most of the non-Muslims have no brain and cant see the facts. But that still cant explain why Muslims(which have brains) are so backward. Maybe Israel agents prevent them from advancing?
@Edie
innovation is a sin if you try to change the musts of the religion. Do you think that if these guys pretend to be Muslims, they would forgot an obvious detail like that?