Claeyt wrote:TotalyMeow wrote:the Islamic religion should stop advocating killing people now, and that you seem to be in a sort of majority in your part of the world.
Nothing about the Islamic religion advocates killing people. No more so than the bible or the talmud or any other religious system. There are literally millions and millions of muslim's who live peacefully in majority muslim or integrated countries throughout the world in peace. Indonesia is the worlds 3rd largest actual democracy and the vast majority of it's people are muslim.
This thread is a rabbit hole that I don't have the energy needed to get involved in fully, but in the interests of fuller context, here is a thing. I guess you can choose whether to believe the reference or not, but anyway...Before I do that, I want to say that I am a man of Science and believe that the world should be governed based on this principle. I believe that the best method to ensure this development is to wipe out the gene code of anyone inclined to believe otherwise. However, I also believe that this is a ridiculous and uber-unethical action to take to ensure one's utopia, so I cannot endorse a policy like that. Organized and concentrated power over a group of humans is what I believe to be the most efficient guidance of human behavior. I don't mean good guidance over good behavior. I mean it has the largest quantity of influence. This leads to some (if we are to believe Pew's research) facts about Indonesia: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-exec
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... 72% in Indonesia).
Of those who want to see sharia as their country’s official law and also support taking the lives of those who convert to other faiths. ... Indonesia (18%).
The belief that sharia should extend to non-Muslims is most widespread in the Middle East and North Africa, where at least four-in-ten Muslims in all countries except Iraq (38%) and Morocco (29%) hold this opinion. Indonesia 50%.
Support for allowing religious judges to decide domestic and property disputes is particularly widespread throughout Southeast Asia...Indonesia 71%
... consider stoning an appropriate penalty for adultery. About half hold this view in Thailand (51%) and Indonesia (48%).
So on and so forth. I'm not trying to convince you to believe anything because of these numbers. I'm saying that these are the numbers. I'm asking you that if you had to choose right now to be born into a new life in any country of your choice, which country would you choose?
For your consideration...If we're talking theories and facts, I don't see how anyone can deny that Islam is the religion responsible for the most violence, injustice, conflict, or whatever term you want to use to describe actions to humans in this time of Earth's history. If we're talking about how to change the trend of this circumstance, that is a completely different thing. Most posts or replies to posts in these threads don't take the same context of an argument in order to rebuke it but rather turn to a spewing of world ideologies that have very little to do with any discussion. Most of these posts can be described as a person stating in public that they are on "this side" and are against "that side" of a general, overarching theory of the world. This is the same thing, only differentiated by degrees, that a Muslim fanatic or a Christian fanatic spouts as their worldview. It is like a high school debate where you say is "Religion good or bad?" One side spews facts that confirm that religion is bad while the other side spews facts that confirm that religion is good.
I assume that everyone here wants people to stop killing other people. Now, assume that you are a citizen of a country exactly like America and this America resides in a world exactly like Earth. Assume that we ask an exact replica of the Salem forums registered users(who each represent a certain portion of citizens in this "America") to come up with an official, publically-stated policy to stop people from killing other people when it specifically involves murderers who consider themselves participants of the Muslim ideology. Now, assume that you have been given the status of being titled President ******* and are given responsibilities or privileges exactly mirrored to a real Earth POTUS. Assume that there are only two sides of this issue like most people seem to believe, and the Salem forum users have published the opposite side of the issue that you find yourself on, because a majority of the users were on that opposite side. Do you endorse and support the decision or do you fight against it because you believe that your side is correct?