NYC Taxi Driver Stabbed for Being a Muslim - Page 10

On August 27 2010 02:02 Offhand wrote:


I wonder why the Muslims under Mohammed let the Israelis live peacefully after conquering Israel in the 7th century.



It may have had something to do with the practice of accepting "people of the the book" which was used in both the initial Muslim conquests and the Ottoman Empire. The millet system included all conquered peoples as subjects of the nation, but not Muslim faith meaning religious laws did not apply to non-Muslims. Non-Muslims normally were required to pay a tax however (in keeping with the practice of alms-giving, known as zakat).

You're welcome to debate Islam as a hateful religion. I did my history thesis on Israel and the various peoples who ruled the area. If Mohamed wanted to annihilate the Jews he very well would have when Israel was conquered, but he let them live as peaceful subjects of the empire.

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On August 27 2010 02:31 Calidus wrote:
The issue is not whether a mosque should be allowed be built their or not(that is pretty obvious yes) the issue is, Who is building is this mosque? Are the moderate? or exterme As long as their are no "questionable" ties to groups like Ham-mass(not sure if that is the correct spelling) it should be built. As a conservative the only thing i dislike more than extremely left points of view are people who try to argue conservative topic and just end up sounding sounding like big-gits because they are uninformed.

On August 27 2010 02:23 Offhand wrote:


"Mohammad in real life was far more murderous than this portrait might suggest. He was a pioneer in mass murder, lecherous incest and mind-numbing torture. Hence this relatively ‘humane’ looking portrait of this heinous ghoul Mohammad is in fact our tribute to him."

Mohamed's Believe it or else! From a completely non-biased author. Thesighter, I thought you had nothing against Islam.

On August 27 2010 02:34 thesighter wrote:


Islam needs to be criticized regarding its views of womens rights, homosexuality, apostasy, jizya, jihad, temporary marriage, etc..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam
You know that in Islam, if you decide to leave the religion, the traditional punishment is death.

On August 26 2010 03:08 hifriend wrote:

It's only insensitive if you hold the false assertion that Islam as a religion of approximately 1-1.8 billion practitioners is connected to the atrocities committed by a few in the name of Islam.

Some muslims also fell victim to 9/11, and from what it seems every muslim living in america is an indirect victim even today.

On August 26 2010 02:52 thesighter wrote:
Definitely related.

Mosque developers need to take a hint and stop the construction. If the mosque is constructed, I anticipate that there will be more anti-Islam violence, eg the mosque makes the situation of Muslims in NYC much worse.

Republicans are going to use this mosque issue as ammunition for the coming elections. Given that over 60% of Americans are against the mosque, this is going to bad news for the Obama administration.

On August 27 2010 02:40 Offhand wrote:


I could carefully explain why this is no more or less extreme then other religions, but it's a red herring, so I'll leave it at that.

Isn't bigotry a bannable offense on these forums anyway?

In another brazen anti-Muslim incident, a man wandered into a mosque in Queens Wednesday night, shouting racial slurs and urinating all over prayer rugs.

According to police, a drunk Omar Rivera shouted "terrorists" before relieving himself in the Iman Mosque.

On August 27 2010 02:40 Offhand wrote:


I could carefully explain why this is no more or less extreme then other religions, but it's a red herring, so I'll leave it at that.

Isn't bigotry a bannable offense on these forums anyway?

On August 27 2010 04:30 Offhand wrote:


Bill Maher is a high functioning retard. He's just a hair better then Beck or Coulter and draws idiot libertarians instead of idiot republicans.

On August 27 2010 04:43 thesighter wrote:


Pat Condell (UK atheist)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhN6CG1zCRc

Richard Dawkins (UK atheist)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYus6TiGEE

On August 27 2010 04:56 Signet wrote:
Yeah, which is a shame since he is such a smart person. But the whole "faith sufferer" thing is over the top, and on this subject he us prone to mix a lot of bad arguments in with the legitimate criticism, as well as the legitimate concerns about our society's negative bias against atheists. Intelligence and prejudice are not mutually exclusive.