mike..i am in accord with joe... the muslim hatred is out of proportion... all religions teach right values.. it's the nitwits who do not practise but follow their own "shit" that causes the problems.. merle Joe,
That sounds to me like you're white-washing the problem though. I could argue that the number of people being killed by AIDS is dwarfed by the numbers of people being killed by all other means, so lets not focus on it. Also, if there are a billion Muslims in the world and just 1% believe in the militant side of Islam, that's still a scary number of potential jihadists. I know how you might think this is beginning to sound, but I can assure you I'm not going down that road. I just think it it's neither realistic nor wise to pretend that all religions are equal (in terms of instigating hate and violence) and that this isn't a discussion that needs to be had. Just try wear a t-shirt mocking Mohamed (as opposed to Jesus or Buddha or Krishna etc) and see how real this shit gets. Mike Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad ________________________________ From: Joe <desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com>; To: <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>; Subject: Re: [Zen] The False I and the Real I - Eckhart Tolle Sent: Fri, May 24, 2013 5:48:40 AM Mike, Can't speak about elsewhere, but in USA, it's so-called Christians who commit most of the crimes, whether violent, white-collar, corporate, government, or drug-trafficking related. Terrorists have higher profile press coverage, though, disproportionate to the number of crimes they commit and to the number of people they kill and maim. Most of the crazed mass-murdering shooters in USA have been young white males on a regimen of psychoactive drugs, to date. And I think ordinary Influenza virus kills more people per year in USA than AIDs nowadays, and AIDs still gets the greater Press. Even more die in road accidents than both combined. Different things craze different people: for some it's twisted Islam and hatred; for others, it's twisted Christianity, and murdering of Abortion Clinic personnel to "preserve" fetuses not wanted to be brought to term. --Joe > uerusuboyo@... wrote: > > Joe, But when it comes to criminals committing criminal acts, why is it that > when a religion is cited by the perpetrator it's nearly always Islam? I'm not > attacking Muslims (they're usually the victims - especially women) - just the > religious idea of Islam.Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad
