OT another terrorist attack.

[ragingpup]

Well good for you... bit like saying some of my best friends are black .Doesn't legitimise your comments though just as the following doesn't for mine
I too have a friend who is Muslim & I can tell you that she is a lovely person who has just along with many others finished Ramadan
She did not eat or drink anything during daylight hours & by the end of this practice was quite unwell Don't think she was allowed a paracetamol for her blinding headache & I saw her looking pretty poorly
For what?
So any religion, creed, faith or whatever label you wish to put on it that preaches such idiocy & inflicts such unnecessary hardship on fellow humans can't be right now can it

As Stephen Fry once said
Religion........sh1t it

I also dislike religion and like id to move consensually as far from all religious practice in the long term future. But it's here and we deal with it.

I much more hate racism which is what you do when you make general statements like that. What does your Muslim friend make of such a statement that includes her and all Muslims?

[Exiletyke]

What general statements do you mean If you would care to clarify I will try to answer your rather obscure comment
Many Catholics follow the principle of no contraception [artificial] & go through a lifetime of poverty with too many children for them to support but I presume you will accuse me of further racism
Another friend of mine is a pretty serious Catholic but uses artificial contraception but justifies is non adherance as "a matter between him & God" so there you go
BTW Muslims are followers of the faith of Islam & not a race just as Catholics follow the Catholic faith are not a race

[Ellis_D]

What general statements do you mean If you would care to clarify I will try to answer your rather obscure comment
Many Catholics follow the principle of no contraception [artificial] & go through a lifetime of poverty with too many children for them to support but I presume you will accuse me of further racism
Another friend of mine is a pretty serious Catholic but uses artificial contraception but justifies is non adherance as "a matter between him & God" so there you go
BTW Muslims are followers of the faith of Islam & not a race just as Catholics follow the Catholic faith are not a race

Yes but it makes the left feel better about themselves if they can call anyone who criticises Islam 'racists.'

[millmoormagic]

Yes but it makes the left feel better about themselves if they can call anyone who criticises Islam 'racists.'

Once again, it's not the fact that you take on Islamic terrorism Ellis, because we all do, it's the fact that you demonise a whole religion to get to your point of reference, unlike normal thinking folk who generally see it for what it is, a bunch of murderer's using religion as an excuse for their warped barbarity.

[Turfmoorspirit]

I also dislike religion and like id to move consensually as far from all religious practice in the long term future. But it's here and we deal with it.

I much more hate racism which is what you do when you make general statements like that. What does your Muslim friend make of such a statement that includes her and all Muslims?

So you are calling Exile a racist for making a general statement ? What statement would that be please ?

[ragingpup]

Of course I noticed the satire, I know that was the whole point you were making. But what I am saying is, if someone else on here was making a point and jokingly used the phrase 'dirty Muslim' people would go mental, regardless of the point. Double standards.

The whole point of satire is to exaggerate and heighten a political pov for ridicule. Doesn't matter if GF actually says the word "dirty", it's implicit in his repeated posts in the eye of this satirist! And I think you get that but are clutching at a few straws to try and defend the...the ...the very hard to defend!

[ragingpup]

What general statements do you mean If you would care to clarify I will try to answer your rather obscure comment
Many Catholics follow the principle of no contraception [artificial] & go through a lifetime of poverty with too many children for them to support but I presume you will accuse me of further racism
Another friend of mine is a pretty serious Catholic but uses artificial contraception but justifies is non adherance as "a matter between him & God" so there you go
BTW Muslims are followers of the faith of Islam & not a race just as Catholics are not a race

Discrimination on race and religion is pretty much the same thing in law. Try it at work. But let's not go there. If you have A Muslim friend, doesn't she have an issue with you implying that she doesn't care about humans,implying a generally barbaric approach to others in your comparison to animal slaughter?? You're 'friendly discussions' must be pretty frosty!

[Exiletyke]

Discrimination on race and religion is pretty much the same thing in law. Try it at work. But let's not go there. If you have A Muslim friend, doesn't she have an issue with you implying that she doesn't care about humans,implying a generally barbaric approach to others in your comparison to animal slaughter?? You're 'friendly discussions' must be pretty frosty!

Where do you get "friendly discussions" from
Never mentioned "friendly discussions"
but I await your conversion to Islam

[ragingpup]

Where do you get "friendly discussions" from
Never mentioned "friendly discussions"
but I await your conversion to Islam

I'm talking about when you talk to your Muslim friend, as friends do. I'm assuming you have friendly discussions when you see her, as she is a friend? I'm interested in how she takes your viewpoint that all Muslims having no respect for human life as you said in your earlier post? It's not a challenge, I'm genuinely interested in how people with extreme views like that form and keep friendships with people of the same kind that they hold in contempt? Seems a head f*ck to me but interested to learn.

Conversion to Islam? What are you on about man?! Keep calm! I'm with Dawkins, fundamentally dislike religion and like to see education challenge all, religion and science. It's really not for me, but I live in a multi faith society and there is nothing we can do to change that except educate, challenge and stimulate curiosity. Much more healthy than generalising and hating, as that's what some on here seem to get off on.

[Ellis_D]