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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    Islam isn't bad. There are certainly bad practitioners of Islam as there are bad practitioners of Judaism and Christianity and even Buddhism. Your miopic view that Islam is the reason there's problems in the world is laughable at best, scary at worst. Islam isn't a problem, the problem is that Islam is a tool used by bad people to get other people to do bad things. Similar to Christianity.

    Again, look at Ethiopia, it's 2/3 Christian and one of the biggest practitioners of genital mutilation according to WHO. It's not a relgion problem, it's societal problem.
    Keep telling yourself thsee things. How many bad people are there zito?

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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    Islam isn't bad. There are certainly bad practitioners of Islam as there are bad practitioners of Judaism and Christianity and even Buddhism. Your miopic view that Islam is the reason there's problems in the world is laughable at best, scary at worst. Islam isn't a problem, the problem is that Islam is a tool used by bad people to get other people to do bad things. Similar to Christianity.

    Again, look at Ethiopia, it's 2/3 Christian and one of the biggest practitioners of genital mutilation according to WHO. It's not a relgion problem, it's societal problem.
    Do the Christians in Ethiopia practice this barbarism too because if they do I'll condemn the **** out of them too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Keep telling yourself thsee things. How many bad people are there zito?
    Not a lot, but there are a lot of dumb/succeptible people who're easily manipulated by bad people.

    If Islam was as bad as you propose we'd be locked into an intense global war, there's some 1.6 billion Muslims in the World. If they were all bad the World would be at war with itself perpetually.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oklahomahawk View Post
    Do the Christians in Ethiopia practice this barbarism too because if they do I'll condemn the **** out of them too.
    Yes they do but due to their culture and not religion and can abstain from doing it while Muslims sect does it for religious purposes and in almost all cases forced. What is alarming is culture shaming for the ones who don't want this done. Organizations now are trying to get the young females to not allow this and show them they have a better life without this procedure. Muslims do not have a governing body that can prevent this and won't.

    So the misnomer about Christians forcing these girls to do it is not true nor their religion is tied to this in no way shape or form and not recognize by any main stream Christian religion and therefore outlawed in all western civilizations. It is considered an abomination under their rule. Further studies concluded that cultural practice intertwined with religion is the cause with Muslims tying in with their Quran version of acceptance is why it is done (alternative is forced FGM or death) while Christians FGM right of passage is based on "acceptance" which means shaming is the worst it can be done to you (kicked out of your village per se)

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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    Not a lot, but there are a lot of dumb/succeptible people who're easily manipulated by bad people.

    If Islam was as bad as you propose we'd be locked into an intense global war, there's some 1.6 billion Muslims in the World. If they were all bad the World would be at war with itself perpetually.
    Not really. There are civilized Muslims (Malaysia, Indonesia, parts of Indian, Pakistan) but they don't have a loud enough mouth to do anything about their wayward followers in the Middle East because they do not want to upset Saudi Arabia or Iran.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    Not a lot, but there are a lot of dumb/succeptible people who're easily manipulated by bad people.

    If Islam was as bad as you propose we'd be locked into an intense global war, there's some 1.6 billion Muslims in the World. If they were all bad the World would be at war with itself perpetually.
    Please zito...elaborate. how many is not a lot?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Please zito...elaborate. how many is not a lot?
    I would guess less than 5% of the population is truly bad. I don't mean they do bad things. Somepeople do bad things for dumb reasons. Some do bad things thinking they're good things (for the greater good types, aka most CEOs) Reality is that it's probably less than a fraction of 1% of people are truly bad. But we know enough about human psychology to know that we're still pack animals who want to belong, so a charismatic bad person could make a lot of people who aren't bad, do bad things. I think you need no better example of this than Nazi Germany. Only a few Germans were actually bad. Most of them were just severely misguided by a charismatic leader and a lot of bad information from propaganda.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AerchAngel View Post
    Not really. There are civilized Muslims (Malaysia, Indonesia, parts of Indian, Pakistan) but they don't have a loud enough mouth to do anything about their wayward followers in the Middle East because they do not want to upset Saudi Arabia or Iran.
    Even in the middle east most muslims are fine. THe problem isn't Islam, the problem is that the Middle East before 100 years ago no one really gave a **** about for about a millennia. There were cities, but a large part of the population were nomads, living as they'd lived for 10s of thousands of years. They were then slungshot forward into the 20th Century, and the effects have been traumatic. Especially when you compound that catapult with Britain grouping groups who hated each other together, with maybe no better example than Iraq.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    Even in the middle east most muslims are fine. THe problem isn't Islam, the problem is that the Middle East before 100 years ago no one really gave a **** about for about a millennia. There were cities, but a large part of the population were nomads, living as they'd lived for 10s of thousands of years. They were then slungshot forward into the 20th Century, and the effects have been traumatic. Especially when you compound that catapult with Britain grouping groups who hated each other together, with maybe no better example than Iraq.
    Yeah, a lot of studies been done about this and for the most part you are correct. When IMPERIALISM reared its ugly head some puppet mastering was being conducted. Europe has always been that way until we started being the big boy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    The hoops that Liberals jump through to not disparage Islam is comical.
    of all of the mainstream religions, it seems to be the worst


    but again, it's really 2 sides of the same coin that the world has been dealing with when it comes to religions through out time
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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    I would guess less than 5% of the population is truly bad. I don't mean they do bad things. Somepeople do bad things for dumb reasons. Some do bad things thinking they're good things (for the greater good types, aka most CEOs) Reality is that it's probably less than a fraction of 1% of people are truly bad. But we know enough about human psychology to know that we're still pack animals who want to belong, so a charismatic bad person could make a lot of people who aren't bad, do bad things. I think you need no better example of this than Nazi Germany. Only a few Germans were actually bad. Most of them were just severely misguided by a charismatic leader and a lot of bad information from propaganda.
    Great so in your crazy conservative estimate there are only 80 million bad people. This comforting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    of all of the mainstream religions, it seems to be the worst


    but again, it's really 2 sides of the same coin that the world has been dealing with when it comes to religions through out time
    But Islam has been an issue for centuries. This is not a 21st century problem.

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    you act like other religions haven't been an issue for centuries. lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    you act like other religions haven't been an issue for centuries. lol
    Again...apples and chicken. Islam is the only religion causing problems in the world right now and it's not getting better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Great so in your crazy conservative estimate there are only 80 million bad people. This comforting.
    How is that not comforting? You're purporting that 1.6 billion people are bad people. And that isn't factoring in non-Muslims who're bad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    How is that not comforting? You're purporting that 1.6 billion people are bad people. And that isn't factoring in non-Muslims who're bad.
    I've never said people were bad. I've said Islam is bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    I've never said people were bad. I've said Islam is bad.
    Then if Islam is bad, then the 1.6 billion followers of it are bad. SOoooooooo
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