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if HN as a community cannot accept a simple, logical and apparently non-offending statement against christianity. Then it really needs to declare it as a policy

by xcode_ 12y ago

if HN as a community cannot accept a simple, logical and apparently non-offending statement against christianity. Then it really needs to declare it as a policy, and endorse Islamic bashing officially!

throwaway90446 12y ago
You are probably being downvoted because every single Abrahamic religion advocates violence and killing as a response to blasphemy in the basic holy texts. It's an issue of facts, not offense.
Kurtz79 12y ago
My downvote is for the wrong premise (the parent never said that Islam preaches violence) and nonsensical argument (no one relates Hitler´s acts with christianity beacuse his motives were mainly ideological and political, while the only motive of Islamic terrorists give is religious). I´m sorry if you see anything more in it.
xcode_ 12y ago
@throwaway90446: Well I'll be more happy to accept this, if anyone here had quoted any verse from Quran (taken with context). But sadly people believe what they have heard, without doing much research.
- mseebach 12y ago
  "A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents. Islam today includes a substantial minority of believers who countenance, if they don’t actually carry out, a degree of violence in the application of their convictions that is currently unique." http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/blame-for-charlie-hebdo-murders http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/blame-for-charlie-he...
- tim333 12y ago
  "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush." Peaceful stuff eh? "This verse is often cited to justify attacks of Muslims on non-Muslims both in classical exegesis and in contemporary jihadism" according to Wikipedia.
dhimes 12y ago
I suspect the downvoting will recover. You point is fairly made and non-offensive (and IMO correct). You and mercurial basically agree.

by xcode_ 12y ago

throwaway90446 12y ago

You are probably being downvoted because every single Abrahamic religion advocates violence and killing as a response to blasphemy in the basic holy texts. It's an issue of facts, not offense.

Kurtz79 12y ago

My downvote is for the wrong premise (the parent never said that Islam preaches violence) and nonsensical argument (no one relates Hitler´s acts with christianity beacuse his motives were mainly ideological and political, while the only motive of Islamic terrorists give is religious). I´m sorry if you see anything more in it.

xcode_ 12y ago

@throwaway90446: Well I'll be more happy to accept this, if anyone here had quoted any verse from Quran (taken with context). But sadly people believe what they have heard, without doing much research.

mseebach 12y ago
"A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents. Islam today includes a substantial minority of believers who countenance, if they don’t actually carry out, a degree of violence in the application of their convictions that is currently unique." http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/blame-for-charlie-hebdo-murders http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/blame-for-charlie-he...
tim333 12y ago
"Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush." Peaceful stuff eh? "This verse is often cited to justify attacks of Muslims on non-Muslims both in classical exegesis and in contemporary jihadism" according to Wikipedia.

dhimes 12y ago

I suspect the downvoting will recover. You point is fairly made and non-offensive (and IMO correct). You and mercurial basically agree.