www.aina.org/news/20090905054024.htm

I read this article on how Muslims were now targeting Buddhists in Thailand.  It seems to me that Muslims have pretty much targeting Buddhists for quite awhile.  How do you respond to all this beheading in Allah's name?  KWinters, how do you think about this?  Is this suffering something that one should endure without defense?

"If Thailand doesn't do more to respond to daily intimidation and the ethnic cleansing of Buddhists in Southern Thailand then clearly the situation is going to get even worse. It is also important to point out that radical Sunni Islamists in Indonesia and the Philippines, alongside global jihadists, could join the fray if this crisis continues to follow the same path.

This hatred is inspired by Mohammed because he stated in the Hadiths to not only kill infidels (non-Muslims) but that Muslims will be rewarded for killing infidels.

Therefore Islamists follows the sayings of Mohammed and in Hadith 9:4 Mohammed stated "Wherever you find infidels kill them; for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection." Mohammed also stated in Hadith 9:50, 57 that "No umma (a member of the Muslim community) should be killed for killing a kafir (an infidel) … Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him." "

Is there a place where Jesus advocates the beheading of infidels, the keeping of sex slaves, or the  extermination of a people?

(I cannot discuss nor defend children on this board, as the subject is massively censored.  Children & infanticide are off limits.)

Godman wrote:

>  How do you respond to all this beheading in Allah's name?

We've already answered those questions numerous times.  Any people who do such things are evil and should be opposed, no matter what their religious beliefs are.  (I realize that this is not the 'all Muslims are evil' answer you want to hear to validate your hatred of all Muslims.)

> Is there a place where Jesus advocates the beheading of infidels, the keeping of sex

> slaves, or the  extermination of a people?

The Bible has many things like that advocated in the Old Testament.  For example, in Samuel the Lord orders the people of Israel to completely wipe out the Amalekites, man, woman, and child - the complete extermination of a people.  Since Christians believe that the Jewish God is the same as the Christian God, this leaves them with a number of awkward choices, such as believing that the Old Testament is wrong, believing that genocide is OK when their God orders it, or (most popular option) ignoring the issue entirely.  I will note that if Jesus and God are the same being (it depends on your version of the doctrine of the Trinity), this might even qualify as Jesus saying to commit genocide; it definitely counts as God saying it if you believe that the Bible is an accurate depiction of God.

As for sex slaves, there is a section in the Old Testament (forgive me if I don't go and dig it up unless it becomes important) where the Israelis are ordered to slaughter another tribe, except they are allowed to bring home any virgin girls to use as wives ... except that if the wife displeases them, they may throw the wife out afterwards.  That sounds pretty close to sex slaves IMO.

In short, the Old Testament has plenty of places in it where it orders various unsavory activities, including genocide, so you're not in any position to point accusing fingers at someone else's "Holy Books".  Personally I prefer not having to be in the position to support *any* genocide, and oppose them all equally, but (as previously noted) that's just not what you want to hear, so I doubt you'll acknowledge this time either that I oppose evil Muslims just as strongly as you do, I just don't claim that all Muslims are evil or that all Christians or Jews are not.

I hold everyone to the same standards, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.  I don't know why this isn't good enough for you, but apparently it isn't.

Sep 8, 2009 -- 7:23AM, Godman wrote:

I read this article on how Muslims were now targeting Buddhists in Thailand.

You don't like the competition? Or do you believe it is alright for so called christians to target those of other religions but not the Muslims?

Sep 8, 2009 -- 7:23AM, Godman wrote:

www.aina.org/news/20090905054024.htm

I read this article on how Muslims were now targeting Buddhists in Thailand.  It seems to me that Muslims have pretty much targeting Buddhists for quite awhile.  How do you respond to all this beheading in Allah's name?  KWinters, how do you think about this?  Is this suffering something that one should endure without defense?

"If Thailand doesn't do more to respond to daily intimidation and the ethnic cleansing of Buddhists in Southern Thailand then clearly the situation is going to get even worse. It is also important to point out that radical Sunni Islamists in Indonesia and the Philippines, alongside global jihadists, could join the fray if this crisis continues to follow the same path.

This hatred is inspired by Mohammed because he stated in the Hadiths to not only kill infidels (non-Muslims) but that Muslims will be rewarded for killing infidels.

Therefore Islamists follows the sayings of Mohammed and in Hadith 9:4 Mohammed stated "Wherever you find infidels kill them; for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection." Mohammed also stated in Hadith 9:50, 57 that "No umma (a member of the Muslim community) should be killed for killing a kafir (an infidel) … Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him." "

Is there a place where Jesus advocates the beheading of infidels, the keeping of sex slaves, or the  extermination of a people?

(I cannot discuss nor defend children on this board, as the subject is massively censored.  Children & infanticide are off limits.)

Now if there were no religions, there would be none of these problems.

Godman

Buddhists have a pretty good press when it comes to tolerance and non-violence.

However, Buddhism is a spectrum, from the non-monastic atheistic types of Western Buddhism to the thoroughly theist modes of much Eastern Buddhism, which often looks and feels like a wing of Hinduism.

Some conservative (right-wing) Eastern Buddhists can be as vicious, intolerant, murderous and ugly as any other kind of fundy.  Buddhists of that kind did much to provoke the violence and bloodshed with Muslim Thais in the south of Thailand, for example, and the role of the conservative Buddhist establishment, certainly including many high religious leaders, in the recent Sri Lankan civil war (officially against the unlovable Tamil Tigers, but unsurprisingly resulting in massive discrimination against the Tamil minority generally) is notably vile.

But just because fundy Buddhists promote violence and genocide, and just because fundy Christians pollute the Christian waters with their  defecations (Who'll murder Chavez?  No niggers!  Screw the Jews!  Death to gays, abortionists and liberals!) and just because fundy Muslims commit horrendous crimes, is no reason for the intelligent onlooker to condemn the whole of their respective tribes.

What do these malicious enemies of humanity have in common?  That question's a no-brainer - they're all fundamentalists.