Quote Originally Posted by Hoosier View Post
What is it we are fighting against?

He's making the assumption that Muslims all interpret those books in the same literal way. It's patently false. There are many branches of Islam, just as there are many sects in every other religion. Each sect (in every religion) interprets their various holy books in different ways.

If you make the broad generalizations that everyone who follows a faith obeys every tenet, and if your basis of information about (for example) the Christian faith was reading the Bible and assuming that they all followed it to the letter, you'd have a very dim view of that faith. I know of no mainstream Christian religion that doesn't (in whole or in part) discard the laws of the Old Testament.

Obviously, there are numerous people of Muslim faith who are against the idea of Jihad against the west. You cannot make a statement about the beliefs of a billion people and expect to to be wholly true.

TL;DR He says Jihadism must be universally accepted by Muslims because it's in their holy book. I say if you are Christian, I need a maid around my house, how much as you willing to sell your daughter for? Exodus 21:7

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Krasni responded to your comments as I intended to respond before I got the chance. I'm no ordained minister and perhaps Pistol Packing Preacher can correct me if/where I'm off base here, but Christians are under the New covenant which is all spelled out in the New Testament. THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE. We still have the Old Testament (which is essentially - but not exactly - the Jewish Torah) more as a way for us to know God better and know what he has expected of us and how it has remained consistent throughout time, even with a new covenant. Perhaps, if you were addressing a Jew, I could see you making your arguement, but for Christians it simply holds no water.


Yes, there are many different sects of Muslims with very diverse teachings and beliefs. What we need to understand of their culture is that they are all fuedal. Look at their religion throughout time. When Islamics didn't have outsiders (non-Muslims) to war against, they fought with those of differring sects, or flavors, of Islam. You don't even need to go back in history more than 25 years to get a huge view of this. Iranian Muslims fighting Iraqi Muslims because they did not believe the same way. Even within Iraq itself you've had the differing sects warring against the other sects to the point of attempting genocide - all because "you don't belief the way I do".

It is my personal belief that the fighting won't stop until the last two Muslims on earth - who have seen fit to eradicate everyone else on the planet - have it out and one kills the other. Only then will there be peace. Fighting and killing is so deeply ingrained into their cultures, customs, beliefs, and ideologies that they have no higher desire than to fight and kill.

Theirs IS NOT a peaceful religion, there are just those who present a more peaceful front to that religion. In the end it's convert, or die.