NEWS: We Kill Buddhists Now Too!

people who behead buddhists deserve some sort of special hell that clive barker might dream up.

also, the snooty islamophile on channel 4 uk who said that buddhists have a superiority complex can kindly fuckoff if she really believes that tripe...

anyone who saw the post pannel discussion will remember it was a bunch of people of islamic faith roughly defending and self agrandising themselves in various ways of tact, ranging from love thy neighboor, to if you live in an islamic state and convert away from islam, the sentence is death.

correct me if i'm wrong, but the term 'christian extremist', or 'buddhist extremist' really isn't in parlance...

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see buddhism teaches compassion and tolerance but now i officially hate the hipocritical religion of islam. im a bad buddhist but i defend my own.

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as another practioner of Buddhism, I think you can have those feelings without making concepts of them, and not grasping them entirely...

thefuckingdaddy:

"correct me if i'm wrong, but the term 'christian extremist', or 'buddhist extremist' really isn't in parlance... "

That's rich. But then again, the Crusades and all sorts of dynastic wars in China (granted, both a long-ass time ago).

Actually Muslims have been beheading Buddhist monks in southeast asia for almost as long as the persecution of Christians. I brought a Christian friend of mine to the Buddhist temple i used to go to. The monk was pleased that he was interested in the religion, and he said i was welcome to bring anyone i wanted, as long as they were not muslim. The monk was from Thailand, where Muslims are no longer allowed in the temples because of the practice of such fundamentalists. Its very sad, but i have a deep respect for Islam. I don't hate them for who they are, rather I mourn the fact that many of them hate me for who I am.

I got two replies down and allready someone plays the classic 'crusades' clause... yes, there was also the Holocaust, but I don't hold that against pressent day Germans... You might also say abortion clinic bombers, which was sort of a fad that faded away...

People did a lot of things in the past over religion or state, you cant hold that against the surviving members of that culture... there can be a range of intolerance in any society, but most of it all doesn't involve decapitation...

Speaking of history, Constantine was also a major influence on the state of christianity in Rome, so much so that he's called Constantine the Great, he battled those who persecuted Christians.

Something that happened 900 years ago shouldn't factor into modern thoughts on modern religion, or it's persuit.

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we can only hope for the day they mistake a shaolin budhist monk for a normal one.

That'll teach the Buddists to reside in Tailand...hey wait a damn minute!

well the only reason thats 900 years ago is because christianity is pretty much done.
christiniaty didn't get milder at all really, they literally eradicated every othere religion in europe on the principle of join us or die.
then came the crusades untill they found out that they were just impossible to keep up.
and the last witch burnings are less than a century ago so really christianity isn't that much nicer they just achieved their goals allready of becoming the dominant religion in it's territory.

i'm pretty sure that if some people thought they could get away with it they'd start cleansing gays (and any other people that they dislike) in the name of christianity right now as well.

I wonder why Christian Fundamentalists aren't this extreme???

It certainly seems to work, Islam being the fastest growing religoun on earth and all.

It's worth pointing out that Islamic extremism of this sort is a relatively recent phenomenon. All human societies have a tendency, whether overt or latent, to persecute the "other," but as Bernard Lewis and others have pointed out, in Islam's golden age, Muslim societies were much more tolerant of other belief systems than were their Christian counterparts during the same period. Lewis believes that Islam's loss of power and influence is more responsible for the current excesses of some of its practitioners than anything in Islamic teachings per se.

is there no end to their bloodacious path to torture the peaceful and wise and breed hatred thru-out the world. It seems for each killing, 100 more turn to hatred in response. so sad what the world is becoming.

if i may jack an example from aaron sorkin...

islamic extremists are to islam as what is to christianity?

the answer given would be the KKK. difference is the KKK don't take it abroad. they pretty much just kill folk at home.

i'm not saying christianity has gotten any better, but genereally they restrict themselves to psychological warfare these days.

I'm still confused as to why they're killing Buddhists. Christians I can understand, but Buddhists?

under dhimmi, buddhists will not be protected, as we do not "worship" the god of the bible. also, thailand is essentially a buddhist monarchy, and is a fairly benevolent one, as far as i know. why did they kill them? sadly enough, the reason for the slaughter of innocent, peaceful people rests completely in the koran. under shariyah buddhists will be executed and our temples and statues destroyed, just like in afghanistan.

WTF? Are you serious?

Muslims are in a state of war with anyone non-Muslim. This isn't my opinion. This is their orthodoxy. They describe the Muslim world as Dar es-salaam (or dar es-Islam) . House of Peace or House of Submission.

Everyone and everything outside that, be they Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, or tribal animists are in the Dar al-harb, the House of War. There's theoretically some slack for Christians and Jews since they share a common monotheistic hertitage with Islam that descends from Abraham, so if anything, the Muslims should hate Buddhists more than they do Christians.

You may notice that everywhere the Muslim world bumps up against other religions, there's a lot of conflict and bloodshed. This is no coincidence. Their religion prescribes this. It wasn't so bad until the Saudis got mega-rich after 1973 and exported their wahabi sect teachings all over the globe.


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Anyone who describes Islam as a peaceful and friendly religion has not done the homework.

Organized religions are collective cancers of the mind. They have been responsible for most and perhaps all the human atrocities in past centuries, nazism and communism being no exception.been Islam 's hateful vireulence erupting so late in human history may be surprising to us but its fundamental nature of malevolent intolerance and stupidity should not be.

Wow...this is why we must build an international coalition to fight these thugs who see freedom, and any other religion as an enemy....some may "say wait a sec Gibby but you are opposed to the Bush admin."-- While I am opposed to Bush..it is because he is too ignorant to fight this conflict with religious fundamentalists (please don't give me shit about how Clinton ignored it and Dubya how no idea a problem like this existed, GB senior supplied and help teach Al-Queda in guerilla tactics, I'm sure there was high level talk)--with that knowledge don't you think Senior said hey ..lets watch out for these guys.
Anyway, These jerks must be stopped!!!, But Not through Unilateral military action...a nasty precedent the Bush Admin. We can't do this alone, and only a cowboy from Texas would think so. He's alienated too many un members.
In my opinion we've alienated most importantly Israel, Germany, France, Russia. We need these powers to help in this war...
We have one religious fundamentalist in our office trying to fight a bunch of others...

Organized religion has been responsible for many bad things..but mostly the Vatican and both the Islamic/and Catholic crusades. Trust me I went to catholic school. Religion without secular education is the real problem. Which is almost nowhere to be found in the middle east outside of Lebanon, Turkey and Israel.

Correction: cowboy from texas should read "fake cowboy from texas who's really from conn."