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It doesn't seem like they are actually targetting "extremists" since islamist sharia groups get to stay on facebook while all groups opposing such a movement ge

by EJTH 10y ago

It doesn't seem like they are actually targetting "extremists" since islamist sharia groups get to stay on facebook while all groups opposing such a movement gets shutdown instantly.

TorKlingberg 10y ago
Islamist groups get shut down on Facebook all the time.
- mirekrusin 10y ago
  And not because they are islamist per se.
nashashmi 10y ago
There is a difference between sharia groups and extremists. They are not at all the same. One group ponders on the implifications and simplifications of rules, and how they can follow it with ease. While extremists try to take the most painful interpretation of rules and use demagogue speech to enforce it.
- EJTH 10y ago
  Wierd how Sharia is not extremism as it encourages death for apostacy among other harsh rules...
  - vorotato 10y ago
    Doesn't the bible? Exodus 35:2 " For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death." Most Christians will interpret this in an enlightened way, either death meaning "spiritual death" or some other explanation. However if you are a biblical literalist, I mean the bible encourages death for nonbelievers, among other troubling stuff.
    - dragonwriter 10y ago
      Many, perhaps most, Christians (especially Biblical literalists) would also point out that Acts (particularly 15:22-29) explicitly states that requirements and penalties of the Jewish law, but for a short list of enumerated exceptions, do not apply to non-Jews (particularly, non-Jewish Christians), only Jews (whether or not they are actually Christians), whether or not they also view the penalty in an "enlightened" way where it does apply.
      - lukevdp 10y ago
        So, they cherry pick. I don't know anything about Sharia but I'm sure there are lots of cherry pickers among its followers as well.
      - zbyte64 10y ago
        If we are trully being literal, the 10 commandments only applies to the Jews as well. Gentiles only had to follow Noahide laws which doesn't even require worship or acknowledgement of the one true God. They tend to leave those bits out.

by EJTH 10y ago

It doesn't seem like they are actually targetting "extremists" since islamist sharia groups get to stay on facebook while all groups opposing such a movement gets shutdown instantly.

TorKlingberg 10y ago

Islamist groups get shut down on Facebook all the time.

mirekrusin 10y ago
And not because they are islamist per se.

nashashmi 10y ago

There is a difference between sharia groups and extremists. They are not at all the same. One group ponders on the implifications and simplifications of rules, and how they can follow it with ease. While extremists try to take the most painful interpretation of rules and use demagogue speech to enforce it.

EJTH 10y ago
Wierd how Sharia is not extremism as it encourages death for apostacy among other harsh rules...
- vorotato 10y ago
  Doesn't the bible? Exodus 35:2 " For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death." Most Christians will interpret this in an enlightened way, either death meaning "spiritual death" or some other explanation. However if you are a biblical literalist, I mean the bible encourages death for nonbelievers, among other troubling stuff.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    Many, perhaps most, Christians (especially Biblical literalists) would also point out that Acts (particularly 15:22-29) explicitly states that requirements and penalties of the Jewish law, but for a short list of enumerated exceptions, do not apply to non-Jews (particularly, non-Jewish Christians), only Jews (whether or not they are actually Christians), whether or not they also view the penalty in an "enlightened" way where it does apply.
    - lukevdp 10y ago
      So, they cherry pick. I don't know anything about Sharia but I'm sure there are lots of cherry pickers among its followers as well.
    - zbyte64 10y ago
      If we are trully being literal, the 10 commandments only applies to the Jews as well. Gentiles only had to follow Noahide laws which doesn't even require worship or acknowledgement of the one true God. They tend to leave those bits out.