xanthpi wrote:
We are fighting for the right to choose how we live, whether or not we listen to music, what clothes we wear. We are fighting for the right not to pay the Jizzya Tax (a tax levied by Muslims onto Christians and Jews designed to humiliate them), the right not to be raped (it is legal for Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women under certain circumstances), the right to choose our religion or lack of one (in Islam, there is only Islam. Atheists, Hindus, Pagans, Buddhists, etc are all killed), the right to do what we damn well please (as long as it does not hurt others) without fear of death/ torture/ rape/ enslavement.
Right, it may say that in that in the Qur'an, but how many Muslims do you know of that actually practise that? In the Catholic Bible there are chapters which say that "A son may be stoned to death by his father and his uncles if he becomes a drunk", passages stating that it is a womans fault if she is raped and does not call out for help unless she is in the barren wilderness, and a passage saying that a woman may be stoned to death by her own father, or husband, if she is not found to be "clean (a virgin)" when she is married. It also says that if you are to have a wet dream you must spend the whole of the dy after outside your house/town as a purification process. Come on, how many of the guys here have had wet dreams and then spent the rest of the next day outside waiting to become pure again? If I had to guess I would say none.
I do not wish to sound like a bible basher, and I am not really a practising Catholic, and I have not been to Church in two years. All of the above knowledge is left over from when I was reading the Bible in Relgious Education classes when I used to go to a Catholic School.
For anyone wishing to check the verasity of these claims all of these passages can be found in Corinthians, but I cant give exact numerical details because I cant find the token bible that is somewhere in my house.
My point is that every religion has its obscure and out dated laws. How many Muslims does anyone know that actually support any of these, and before someone says it please don't say something to the effect of "I saw this guy on the news once", because I am talking everyday Muslims, people that you know, not the local extremist that the news station has decided to put on a current affairs show.
Lets just hypothesise for a moment, lets say that America was a mostly Muslim country, and some of you wanted to move there. Do you think it would be fair if you were told "Well, you seem like a normal person, and your details check out, but sorry, we're going to have to send you back to the country you are trying to leave because it says in your bible that you can stone your own son if he is drunk, and that you can kill your own daughter if she is not a virgin at marriage".
Now, all of you trying to say that they are taking over, you should look at these statistics:
Percentage of Americans that are Muslim: 0.6%
(sourced from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographi … ffiliation)
Percentage of Engilsh people who are Muslim: 3.1%
(sourced from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_England)
I am fully for any Muslim who wishes to use these laws as a defense for his actions, for example rape and assault, to be deported or out in prison, but don't take your rage out on the rest of the Muslim/other ethnic minority poplulation.
I do believe in the "If they want to come to our country then they have to live by our rules" mentality, and please do punish anyone who does not, but please do not take it out on the rest of the people in that person's religious/ethnic background
Last edited by SharkyMcshark (2005-12-19 18:48:17)