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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
At this point, I think if every Muslim alive perpetrated a suicide attack tomorrow y'all would still deny the connection. How much ****ing evidence do you need?
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On the day this happens, I will agree with you that every single suicide bomber was a reprehensible person and mourn the innocent victims of their senseless act. Considering that would mean 1.3-1.6 billion people would be dead (at the absolute minimum), presumably including everyone who ever called themselves Muslim, I would imagine you'd be pleased at this outcome.
Do you think that without religion there would be no crime? No murder? No suicidal attacks on civilians? Is your problem the violence or the "reason" why the violence was committed? I focus on the violence, because there is no evidence that the ostensible "reason", Islam/Allah/Sharia, is what triggered the event in the first place. I know this because otherwise, your vision of a world full of (for a brief time at least) Islamic suicide bombers would be horrifically true, instead of a hyperbolic fever dream of an admitted bigot that can't separate the fringe from the whole, the extreme from the moderate, or the possible weakness of faith from its possible malevolence.
And by the way, not thinking that Islam, and therefore all adherents to it, does not actively encourage self-immolation, does NOT mean I turn a blind eye to the stated rationale of suicide bombers in their pre-martyrdom videos. They are 1000% doing it for god. Or for a free Chechnya/Syria/Iraq. Or to protest the House of Saud.
But seriously, we agree that extremism is terrible. I just don't take that extra step and say because extremism in this part of the world is more common than the West and most extremists in this region present themselves as devout Muslims, therefore all the ills of this society can be traced back to very nature of their religion. It ignores history.
Also, who this cassius clay/imam mahdi character?