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One difference between liberal and conservative thinking is that liberals don't seek to decide on a single morality and then force and enforce that among the population. .
Truly, what planet do you live on????
Too funny.....
Many Islamic countries have gotten more backwards over the years. For example women in Afghanistan used to wear Western clothes instead of burqas. I wish Russia won their war against Afghanistan because the Taliban wouldn't have taken over and women would not be covered in burqas.
Afghanistan and Iran women wore non Islamic religious clothing. With thr fall of the shah and the the fall of the wall. Central Asian countries fell under extreme Islamic dogma.
Many Islamic countries have gotten more backwards over the years. For example women in Afghanistan used to wear Western clothes instead of burqas. I wish Russia won their war against Afghanistan because the Taliban wouldn't have taken over and women would not be covered in burqas.
Say "thank you" to US that created, trained and paid for groups like al-Qaeda to wage the war against SU in Afghanistan:
It is interesting to note that Islamic Fundamentalism (the actual topic of the thread) was a non-issue till the latter part of 20th century. And guess who fueled it?
"During the Cold War following World War II, some NATO governments, particularly those of the United States and the United Kingdom, launched covert and overt campaigns to encourage and strengthen fundamentalist groups in the Middle East and southern Asia".
Ouch.
And finally, take a look at a country which was not "helped" by foreigners and population is predominantly Muslim:
Not that far from any country where majority is Christian, eh?
There are also other examples, although not that obvious and clear as Turkey. For example, did you know that there is huge part of population in Russia (~10mln, compact living mostly in Tatarstan)? And did you ever hear anything about them ? Right, nothing, since they acquired Russian culture for quite some time now, and culturally are basically the same as any Russian Christian.
Police and federal agents are investigating “hate-filled flyers and inscriptions†left around Western Connecticut State University’s campus Thursday night in Danbury.
It was not clear whether a student or “outside agitators†were responsible, but university President John Clark strongly condemned the materials and vowed to enforce the “severest disciplinary actions†regardless of whether students or someone off-campus made the flyers.
One flyer read "It's OK to be white" and the other read "Islam is right about women," Steinmetz said.
Clark slammed the incident as despicable, utterly unacceptable and disgusting...
Just a bit over the top with that reaction, aren't you President Clark?
You can't be pro- any religion and also pro-gay or pro- women.
By the same logic.
Sure you can. There are dozens of Gay affirming Churches in my neighborhood alone, Rainbow flags all over the place. Gay affirming Mosques? Not
Here ya go, there are thousands of them. For whatever reason Dems like to lie to themselves and say that overall Christianity is the Equivalent to Islam. It's not, just try to find an equivalent list for Gay friendly Mosques
Every Christian majority country is light years ahead in giving rights to women and treating them as equals compared to the Islamic world. We take this for granted. I wish this was appreciated more than it is.
Just a little more than a hundred years ago, our American society repressed women in much the same way. I heard this firsthand from older women on both sides of my family, when I was a young boy.
Just a little more than a hundred years ago, our American society repressed women in much the same way. I heard this firsthand from older women on both sides of my family, when I was a young boy.
Yeah, too bad majority Christian countries have moved forward on acceptance of people in the gay community, and Islamic countries, even formally Moderate countries such as Iran, Turkey, and Even Indonesia have gone back 100s of years. You can always move to one of them considering their "equivalent" to Chirstian majority countries like us
The root problem is that faith based epistemology is invalid.
All the myriad problems that spring from dogmatic religion would not be able to take hold if it wasn't for the epistemology that empowers them to take root in peoples minds.
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? Right, nothing, since they acquired Russian culture for quite some time now, and culturally are basically the same as any Russian Christian.
Just a bit over the top with that reaction, aren't you President Clark?
