[ExI] Religions and violence.

[John Clark]

On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Damien Sullivan wrote:

>>   And in Islam fundamentalists are the only ones that matter.
> 
> Wrong.

Well I'm glad you cleared that up, now we know.

> Have you looked? Googled [reform Islam]

Yes, I got 36,100 hits, and one of the first I got was "Can Islam reform from within?"; the fact that the article came from a site called "American Thinker" pretty much tells you the answer is no. Incidentally just to give you an idea of the quality of these hits, number 4 was from a moribund site that hasn't been updated since 2002 and number 5 was an interview with the author of "THE MANCHURIAN PRESIDENT- Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and other anti-American Extremists".

I also did a search on just Islam without the "reform", I got 107,000,000 hits.

>>   If so they are being extraordinarily quiet, they don't demonstrate,
>>   they don't speak, and they don't write, or if they do they must live
>>   their lives in hiding even if they live in a western country.
> 
> Or you don't hear them, because the mainstream media doesn't report them
> much, and you in your bigotry [...]

So I'm a bigot am I, well I knew it was only a matter of time before I was accused of that. I'm a bigot for pointing out an absolute undisputed FACT about the enormous paucity of Islamic Nobel Prizes, or in general mentioning the scarcity of achievement of any sort made by that huge culture in the last several centuries; Islam has nothing to brag about scientifically or economically or artistically or politically and certainly not morally.  

People are afraid of calling Islam what it is, they are afraid of saying mutilating women and throwing acid in the face of young girls who only want an education is evil, afraid of saying stoning to death (making sure to start with only the smallest stones so it takes a long time to die) for making even the slightest criticism of their prophet is evil, afraid even to defend novelists and cartoonists from death threats. And the reason otherwise good people are afraid to make a stand against atrocities is, at least in the west, not fear of the Islamic morons themselves but fear of people like you calling them a bigot. 

Mr. Sullivan, you may not be an evil person yourself but you are an enabler of evil. And I make no apology for using such an old fashioned word as "evil", sometimes no other word will do,

  John K Clark

  



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