Modern Islam is rooted in the mind of men and women who practice Islam, just as Christianity is rooted in the mind of Christians, etc.
Those who rationalize illegal actions in the name of their religion, is nothing new...it is modern, and it is ancient.
I do not support violation of our laws, but it really is not my business, or the Pope and his business to sit in judgment of other religions and what they do in their own country.
Very few, very few here at ET gave a rats azzz what these people did within the confines of their own country, and would not to this day would they really care...except for those few Muslims who have taken their ideas to the extremes of violence against America and the current American interest.
The pure intellectual dishonesty of the ET members who focus on what is going on in these countries, when pre-911 the typical ET member would just say "let them kill each other, let them do whatever they want to each other" demonstrates that they really do not actually care about anyone but themselves.
And, that is a fact...
Wanna guess how many ET members were donating money to Amnesty International and other human rights groups pre-911?
Wanna guess how many have since 911 donated money to Amnesty International and other human rights groups post-911?
Quote from traderNik:
Yes. It's not as if these same people judged it to be the right thing to do to string a teenage kid up by her neck and hang her until she was dead, for the crime of flirting with a young man. I mean, it's not as if that happened this year, in 2006. I mean, if they did something as barbaric and brutal as that, then maybe these anit-Islamofascists would have a point when they suggest that modern Islam is a religion rooted in violence. I mean, hanging a young person by the neck until dead because she flirted with a young man and burning her at the stake would be crimes today and modern Muslims don't do anything of the sort.
I mean, it's not as if a young man in Iran had his hands surgically broken because he was using the Ud to play Beatles tunes. That would just be unthinkably brutal and criminal. I mean, that would be something that one would expect in the 14th century, but not today.
BTW, TM_D... in dealing with the troll, you must never forget this