mate, I have Muslim friends. I have Jewish friends. I have Christian friends. I have Buddhist and atheist friends and so on. I’ve been inside mosques. Watched prayer and sermons. Churches, synagogues. Temples.
what gets me from the comments from x80, Sierra yourself. You think you’ve figured everyone out that doesn’t agree with you. One of you claimed I was from the left and against women’s rights and free speech just because I don’t agree with you. So I dished it back at you lot. You get what you give. It’s ruddy childish. If someone behaves like a big baby I’ll mirror it back cause that’s all that kind of schoolyard behaviour deserves. Btw I don’t affiliate to any political party.
Ive been to Islamic countries. I’ve lived in one for some time. There’s good and bad everywhere. There’s difference everywhere. Not every Muslim country is like ISIS. Yes I wouldn’t live in Saudi cause they fund ISIS, Al qaeda and other terrorists and their treatment of women and minorities is appalling. Yet the US and Australia for that matter, turn a blind eye, still do business, no sanctions.
Turkey hosts Anzac commemorations. Honours Australian and New Zealand’s dead soldiers by maintaining their graves. Tolerates haka’s and Christian prayers and singing of hymns. They don’t need to do that at all but they do. yet recently Australians got all riled up because of a single Muslim prayer being uttered in public because they associate anything Muslim with Isis and terrorists...
it makes me sick mate. Hate mongering, arrogance and ignorance. It’s ugly and that’s what it looks like.
i believe I’ve been balanced, calling out terrorists for what they are but I know not to paint roughly 1.6billion people on this planet with the same brush stroke just because a fraction of them are abusing their faith.
my educated Muslim friends have told me that they are misrepresented everywhere. They never claim to be a religion of peace. They showed me the verses that are about violence in the Quran. Through my research I discovered that the Quran condones ‘just Wars’ or wars fought in self defence. Many of those verses are in reference to the idol worshipping Meccans that tried to wipe Mohammed and the first muslims out. God commanding the Muslims to fight back. Self defence.
just believe what you want to believe. If you think the terrorists are the real Muslims; doing what the Quran says while the other 1.5billion (estimating 1mil Isis, al qaeda, taliban etc) have it wrong then fine.
just stop trying to convince the rest of us of your arrogant, self righteous illogical divisive hatemongering.
