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Those to the right of the political spectrum are more inclined to ''stand up and be counted' and let all or any potential enemies exactly where they stand.
They have also learned from history that while tolerance is a virtue, appeasement is fraught with dangers and can be misinterpreted by those with opposing views as weakness.
Any display of weakness can embolden the opposition and encourage them to take liberties and try to establish their views through aggression.
CON you Progressives will defend one religion that is Islam and those that practice that religion oppose all the views of the Progressives so it is simply said yes you Progressives are NUTS !
Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death:
Yemen: According to the 1994 penal code, married men can be sentenced to death by stoning for homosexual intercourse. Unmarried men face whipping or one year in prison. Women face up to seven years in prison.
Iran: In accordance with sharia law, homosexual intercourse between men can be punished by death, and men can be flogged for lesser acts such as kissing. Women may be flogged.
Mauritania: Muslim men engaging in homosexual sex can be stoned to death, according to a 1984 law, though none have been executed so far. Women face prison.
Nigeria: Federal law classifies homosexual behavior as a felony punishable by imprisonment, but several states have adopted sharia law and imposed a death penalty for men. A law signed in early January makes it illegal for gay people countrywide to hold a meeting or form clubs.
Qatar: Sharia law in Qatar applies only to Muslims, who can be put to death for extramarital sex, regardless of sexual orientation.
Saudi Arabia: Under the country’s interpretation of sharia law, a married man engaging in sodomy or any non-Muslim who commits sodomy with a Muslim can be stoned to death. All sex outside of marriage is illegal.
Afghanistan: The Afghan Penal Code does not refer to homosexual acts, but Article 130 of the Constitution allows recourse to be made to sharia law, which prohibits same-sex sexual activity in general. Afghanistan’s sharia law criminalizes same-sex sexual acts with a maximum of the death penalty. No known cases of death sentences have been meted out since the end of Taliban rule in 2001.
Somalia: The penal code stipulates prison, but in some southern regions, Islamic courts have imposed sharia law and the death penalty.
Sudan: Three-time offenders under the sodomy law can be put to death; first and second convictions result in flogging and imprisonment. Southern parts of the country have adopted more lenient laws.
United Arab Emirates: Lawyers in the country and other experts disagree on whether federal law prescribes the death penalty for consensual homosexual sex or only for rape. In a recent Amnesty International report, the organization said it was not aware of any death sentences for homosexual acts. All sexual acts outside of marriage are banned.
CON you Progressives will defend one religion that is Islam
There is some element of truth to this, but what you (deliberately) fail to point out is the people we defend it from explicates why we defend it. The only people with motive to single Islam out from the other destructive and insane monotheistic religions, are people from the other destructive and insane monotheistic religions.
Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death
Your list is dishonest far right propaganda. I know that the Iranian authorities have always stringently denied putting anybody to death for homosexuality, so that proves you are inventing your own version of reality yet again and presenting it as though it were fact.
Besides which, the Christian Bible orders people be put to death for homosexuality. Your double standards are just indescribably bizarre.
After looking into it further, I believe you found your "list" from this blog slideshow:-
Media Bias Fact check describes the site as having high left wing bias, and goes on to say:-
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.
This is a generic link to the Washington Post homepage. You pathetic, lying clown. That's the second time you've tried to pass off a dud link. You didn't get your information from the Washington Post at all, did you?
You don't pay much attention to details of American Media now do you !
It doesn't matter who said it. What matters is that nobody has any proof that the Iranians have executed anybody for being homosexual. Whether they have or haven't is inconsequential. What matters is that there is no proof of it and yet it is written in "American media" as though it were an established fact.
Perhaps you should read something which ISN'T American media for a change.
The Middle East, and Muslim nations outside it, dominate a list of nearly 80 countries where homosexuality is outlawed and cruelly punished.
The Iranian mullahs continue to kill anyone suspected of being gay, which, according to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is equivalent to “moral bankruptcy.” Since the 1979 revolution, 4,000 people have been executed on allegations that they’re gay.
Muslims are not executing any homosexuals any where in the world ?
Your article was written by Benny Avni, who happens to be a raging right wing Israeli Zionist, a partisan Trumpite, and author of such articles as: "Team Trump is already kicking butt at the United Nations", "Obama's Iran Deal Lives On - But Its Days Are Numbered", "The hidden agenda behind the UN chief's Israel-bashing", "At U.N., Israel Is Lone Target on Human Rights" and "The Palestinian plot to end-run Trump at the UN".
He's a joke. A raging Zionist fascist with a clear politico-religious agenda.
Then according to you there is nothing but lies about Muslims killing homosexuals ?
The best lies always start with a grain of truth. If you think Zionists don't know this then you are a fool.
I am quite sure many homosexuals have been murdered by Muslim zealots, as they have been by Christian zealots and Jewish zealots. The trick has been getting you to blame Islam for the murder of homosexuals by religious zealots.
You don't have to "hate Islam". Just quit demanding we bring in groups that are commanded to kill us and slaughter our children and have been, and then looking at us like bigots when we don't particularly want to be set on fire, drowned in cages, beheaded, raped, taken as sex slaves, have our marathons bombed, have our theaters shot to bits, have our buildings destroyed, have to put an "anti terrorism wall" around the Eiffel Tower, have our children's schools blasted to bits with military grade weapons, or our airports and airplanes to be targets for takeovers and bombs. The part that's nuts is that the left can find no logic in preventing our enemies from killing us or our children. That is insanity and seemingly self hatred that is beyond the pale. How about loving yourself and your own countrymen enough to not sacrifice them to the dumpster fire that happens to every country that Islam migrates to? How about calling a spade a spade? How about telling the truth instead of retreating to "political correctness", which is only a tool to silence the people from talking about realities that the governing bodies of the West don't want you talking about? How about standing beside your countrymen like Eastern Europe is trying to do? How about not watching your nations turn into third world hell holes like Western Europe is doing?
Why would we purposefully bring in groups that make us have to up security and anti terrorism measures? What the hell for? Because we are idiots? Please, explain this to us. I'd love to know the logic.
Enlighten us Con. When you were in Vietnam, did you shoot your own fellow soldiers? Did you allow those who had commands to kill your fellow soldiers into your camps? Why not?
Just quit demanding we bring in groups that are commanded to kill us and slaughter our children
Again, you (i.e. Christians) are commanded to kill them and slaughter their children. In fact, the only reason Muslims are even emigrating to America in the first place is because a Christian army, commanded by George (God told me to do it) Bush, invaded their homeland and killed millions of them. You've got some nerve, you fascist little bigot. There are 3.3 MILLION Muslims living in the United States, which doesn't appear to sit well with your theory that they are all here to kill you.
You are a paranoid, mentally ill, dishonest toad, bronto. Your bigotry is nauseating and belongs in the 12th century, back with the militant idiots who hate people for no reason other than because of which God they worship.
WASHINGTON — President Obama came into office seven years ago pledging to end the wars of his predecessor, George W. Bush. On May 6, with eight months left before he vacates the White House, Mr. Obama passed a somber, little-noticed milestone: He has now been at war longer than Mr. Bush, or any other American president.
If the United States remains in combat in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria until the end of Mr. Obama’s term — a near-certainty given the president’s recent announcement that he will send 250 additional Special Operations forces to Syria — he will leave behind an improbable legacy as the only president in American history to serve two complete terms with the nation at war.
Mr. Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 and spent his years in the White House trying to fulfill the promises he made as an antiwar candidate, would have a longer tour of duty as a wartime president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon or his hero Abraham Lincoln.
Granted, Mr. Obama is leaving far fewer soldiers in harm’s way — at least 4,087 in Iraq and 9,800 in Afghanistan — than the 200,000 troops he inherited from Mr. Bush in the two countries. But Mr. Obama has also approved strikes against terrorist groups in Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, for a total of seven countries where his administration has taken military action.
You must be calling Obama a militant idiot !!!!!!!!!!
We have a Constitution, THAT is what we support! We DO NOT support "radicals" from ANY religion, though we defend their right to speak and do whatever is WITHIN THE LAW. Unlike 45 who doesn't give a damn about THE law ... only his own interpretation of what the law should BE, whom the law should cover and who has rights and who doesn't! But I digress....
We defended the rights of radical Christians, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Jimmy Swaggart(sp?), etc., UNTIL THEY BROKE THAT LAW! Same with Islam, no difference. That "piece of paper" means something to U.S.! Sorry, we can't follow "The world according to Trump"! It is turning out to be CHAOS! The Constitution (and the country) are in jeopardy! Be proud, right wingers, YOU are undoing America, not making it great! THAT is what, and WHO, are "NUTS"!
So... Islam is commanded to kill us in the Quran, so we right wingers say "protect against enemies foreign and abroad". The left ignore the word "foreign. We want to hold onto our ability to defend ourselves. Your clan wants a gunless nation, which is anti second amendment. We aren't setting things on fire. We aren't destroying random buildings. We aren't using violence to shut down speeches. We aren't destroying and setting statues of Abraham Lincoln on fire. We aren't setting the flag on fire. We aren't taking a knee at the National Anthem. That's your clan. Do you ever listen to what you are really saying?
At least Muslims are honest, bronto. At least they don't operate under the most absurd double standards imaginable. Your own Bible commands you to kill everyone from homosexuals to impertinent children, yet here you are yet again attacking Muslims, with not a bad word to say about Christianity or the MILLIONS of lives it has taken.
You use the word "terrorist" only when it is preceded by the word "Muslim", and happily ignore the fifty years of Christian terrorism we suffered in the UK, while Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics waged war with one another.
We want to hold onto our ability to defend ourselves.
You want the ability to use false language and nothing more. Weapons are for attacking people with. But it is not polite to say that you want to own weapons so you can attack people, is it? Instead you swap the word "attack" for "defend" and hope that people are too stupid to notice the difference. You are dishonest, ruthless, stupid and, above all, quite quite mad.
Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death:
Yemen: According to the 1994 penal code, married men can be sentenced to death by stoning for homosexual intercourse. Unmarried men face whipping or one year in prison. Women face up to seven years in prison.
Iran: In accordance with sharia law, homosexual intercourse between men can be punished by death, and men can be flogged for lesser acts such as kissing. Women may be flogged.
Mauritania: Muslim men engaging in homosexual sex can be stoned to death, according to a 1984 law, though none have been executed so far. Women face prison.
Nigeria: Federal law classifies homosexual behavior as a felony punishable by imprisonment, but several states have adopted sharia law and imposed a death penalty for men. A law signed in early January makes it illegal for gay people countrywide to hold a meeting or form clubs.
Qatar: Sharia law in Qatar applies only to Muslims, who can be put to death for extramarital sex, regardless of sexual orientation.
Saudi Arabia: Under the country’s interpretation of sharia law, a married man engaging in sodomy or any non-Muslim who commits sodomy with a Muslim can be stoned to death. All sex outside of marriage is illegal.
Afghanistan: The Afghan Penal Code does not refer to homosexual acts, but Article 130 of the Constitution allows recourse to be made to sharia law, which prohibits same-sex sexual activity in general. Afghanistan’s sharia law criminalizes same-sex sexual acts with a maximum of the death penalty. No known cases of death sentences have been meted out since the end of Taliban rule in 2001.
Somalia: The penal code stipulates prison, but in some southern regions, Islamic courts have imposed sharia law and the death penalty.
Sudan: Three-time offenders under the sodomy law can be put to death; first and second convictions result in flogging and imprisonment. Southern parts of the country have adopted more lenient laws.
United Arab Emirates: Lawyers in the country and other experts disagree on whether federal law prescribes the death penalty for consensual homosexual sex or only for rape. In a recent Amnesty International report, the organization said it was not aware of any death sentences for homosexual acts. All sexual acts outside of marriage are banned.
I say it again why do you Progressives support a religion that does not view homosexuals as you Progressives do !
This is like saying, "At least the Nazis were honest about their hatred for Jews. I can appreciate a good honest Nazi. If you plan on burning me alive, I appreciate that you tell me to my face."
And I love the leftist argument that "Not all Muslims are extremists, but all Muslims are honest." Good logic there mate.
This is like saying, "At least the Nazis were honest about their hatred for Jews.
I said that Muslims are honest, and you have somehow managed to twist language far enough to make honesty appear to be a negative quality, by pretending we are talking about Nazis and not Muslims and by pretending we are talking specifically about Nazis (who clearly were not honest) being honest about hating Jews. YOU are the Nazi, because YOU are the one who has singled out an entire people for punishment, and YOU are the one who twists language inside out to try to justify your own insane bigotry.
Your own Bible commands you to kill everyone from homosexuals to impertinent children
Not actually. Christians aren't Jews, nor are stories from the OT commands to future Jews. We've already went over the Old Testament vs the New Testament. It seems to wizz right over your comprehension, but that isn't my problem. The Quran gives commands to kill as every day practice. The Bible gives no violent commands as every day practice. The Quran says to kill all Christians and Jews by name. And if you think "killing homosexuals" is vile, and support Islam, you have the brains of a hamburger. Sorry hamburger. Don't tell me how awful killing homosexuals is, then turn around and defend Islam. That's cognitive dissonance to the extreme.
“If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.” (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Leviticus is part of the Christian Bible, you dishonest weasel.
“If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.” (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
1)Which is a part of the Torah, which is the Ceremonial Jewish Law.
2)We aren't Jews, nor do we practice or even believe in Jewish ceremonial law.
3)Jesus didn't himself didn't practice Jewish Ceremonial law, so neither do we. He started an entirely new religion. We'll call it Christianity.
4)It's not my fault that you don't know, nor do you understand the basics of Islamic and Christian eschatology. That's your fault for not being educated on the matter.
5)The Quran is not set up like the Bible. Their structure and systems are nothing alike. There is no caliphate in Judaism or Christianity. There is no systematic jihad in Judaism or Christianity. There is no Sharia Law in Christianity.
6)And even if we did practice and believe just like the Muslims, you calling us religious nuts, and then turning around and licking the butthole of Islam, is plainly stupid and contradictory.
Leviticus is part of the Christian Bible, you dishonest weasel.
Leviticus is about the ceremonial laws of the Jews. Show us examples of Jesus teaching Christians to adhere to the ceremonial laws of the Jews. Based on your mindless assessment, we should be simply calling ourselves Jews and practicing Judaism. Why do you think we don't? You don't have an answer because you have no idea what you are talking about.
1)So it should be easy. Show us Jesus teaching us to follow anything in Leviticus.
2)There is no "Christian Bible". There is a Jewish Old Testament and a Christian New Testament. We put them together for reference. Gideons only pass out the New Testament for a reason.
So it should be easy. Show us Jesus teaching us to follow anything in Leviticus.
You just said that Leviticus is a book of Jewish Holy Law. Jesus was a Jew.
“…the scripture cannot be broken.” –Jesus Christ, John 10:35
Quite simply put, you are arguing left is right. Jewish law itself, for example "love thy neighbor" is taken literally today, but during the life of Jesus it was taken to mean "love thy fellow Jew". Similarly, all the other laws regarding murder etc... also only applied to other Jews. There was no problem killing members of outside religions or heathens in the eyes of God. Jesus himself lived by this understanding. In fact, John Hartung explains this brilliantly in an academic essay about in-group morality. You can read it here:-
You use the word "terrorist" only when it is preceded by the word "Muslim"
No. Timothy McVeigh and David Karesh were terrorists. I'm not a liberal. I call all terrorists "terrorists" and all hate groups "hate groups". The Klan and ANTIFA are both disgusting. I'm not handcuffed by political correctness. I'm free to tell it like it is either way. I'm not in your mindless cult.
Yes. You pretend white terrorism does not exist by the fact that you only ever talk about Muslim terrorism. I bet my own life on the fact that, were someone to run through your posting history right now, before you have a chance to change it, every solitary instance of the word "terrorism" will be preceded by the word "Muslim". This is exactly what the far right does, you see? They have all read Mein Kampf and they all know the power of repetition. This is precisely how they (i.e. you) spread their disease (i.e. bigotry) in the first place.
The Klan and ANTIFA are both disgusting.
You see? You jump straight into a spectacularly false equivalence between an anti-fascist action group and the Ku Klux Clan. Does Antifa hang fascists from trees like the Clan used to? You have a choice about whether you are a Nazi. You don't have a choice about whether you are black.
I daresay you won't be interested in the BBC recently exposing your anti-Antifa smear campaign, will you?
Nope. I've done debates on this very site about Timothy McVeigh and condemned the KKK. You on the other hand think those carrying the Communist flag, wearing black masks, and burning buildings are "good people".
false equivalence between an anti-fascist action group
1)There are many petitions to label them a terrorist group by the U.S. government.
2)They use violence towards people who are not being violent.
3)They destroy property that they have no idea who the owners are. In one case they destroyed a Star Bucks, which is an openly liberal company, and they destroyed the limousine of a Muslim by setting it on fire.
4)They have attempted to shut down speeches by Dinesh Dsouza, Anne Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Milo Yianoupolis, and more. One is an immigrant from India. One is a woman. One is a practicing and ethnic Jew. And the other is gay.
There are many petitions to label them a terrorist group by the U.S. government.
And yet the government has not named them one. Could this possibly be because the petitions have all been written by Nazis and other various fascist groups? I started a petition yesterday on this very site that you like it up the bum. Does that make it true?
You are an idiot and a pathological liar, bronto. The only thing you know how to do is warp what other people say. You are a one trick pony, and your trick is shit.
Probably because they and BLM only recently manifested onto the public scene in America, and BLM takes credit for targeting cops and shooting them. They also took over a Bernie Sanders' rally by shouting at him and threatening to use force to shut down his rally. When they took over his rally was that them being anti-fascist?
Does Antifa hang fascists from trees like the Clan used to?
1)You openly admit that the Klan doesn't hang people from trees any more, probably because they have no numbers membership-wise and have no power anymore.
2)If I burn buildings and cars, shut down speeches with violence, keep people from crossing the street with force, hold up traffic for miles, and attack anyone who disagrees with me, the fact that I don't lynch people, doesn't make me magically a good person. It makes me a mindless thug.
And... you are still conveniently ignoring them attacking Liberals
The only thing I am ignoring are your baseless smear attacks against anti-fascism protesters, Liberals, Muslims, blacks and gays, while you simultaneously trumpet militant Christianity, Zionism, fascism and pathological dishonesty.
I daresay you won't be interested in the BBC recently exposing your anti-Antifa smear campaign, will you?
No. This isn't Nazi Germany where we listen to everything the elites in power want us to believe and think. We can think without them. It's too bad that you need a political media machine to give you your thoughts for the day.
1)We never go out and find liberals to attack. ANTIFA goes and finds people to attack. And as if by cognitive dissonance that is beyond the pale, you glazed over all of the attacks ANTIFA has made on liberals and minorities themselves.
2)Show us these examples of us being Nazis. Words are cheap. I want you to show it to us as if this is a debate.
They are known for arriving at Conservative speaking events to shut them down with force. They tried to burn down UC Berkeley to shut down a Milo Yianoupolis event. Anne Coulter had to shut down her speaking event. Ben Shapiro and Dinesh Dsouza were met with violence but chose to face these thugs and speak anyway. Even Liberal Atheist, Richard Dawkins was blocked from speaking because of the influence of these thugs. You are still ignoring them destroying property even if it is liberal property. I have you crippled on this point. You might as well hide if you can't address this point.
Your own link shows that these liberals intentionally went to a Conservative event. That isn't Conservatives "going out and finding liberals to attack". It's liberals showing up at events that aren't their events.
ANTIFA doesn't attack people starting trouble at liberal events. They go out and find people to target that are not at liberal events.
You've put the point behind your back. That technique doesn't work on me. The point was that libs go looking for people to attack and that conservatives do not go looking for people to attack. And you still haven't shown us Conservatives in America going to liberal events and causing violence or carnage.
The point was that libs go looking for it and that conservatives do not go looking for people to hurt
If they weren't LOOKING for people to hurt, then why did they HURT and HOSPITALIZE innocent people, you complete raging idiot? That's exactly like saying Hitler wasn't looking to hurt the Jews, it was just an accident.
You also lied earlier in this thread about them attending a "Conservative event". They attended a food and drinks bar, where there just so happened to be a Conservative speaker. You are a LIAR who could not lie straight in bed, son.
If they weren't LOOKING for people to hurt, then why did they HURT and HOSPITALIZE innocent people
Those liberals came to THEIR event looking for a confrontation. How many times do I have to request it? Show us Conservatives showing up at liberal events in America causing violence or showing up at all.
You also lied earlier in this thread about them attending a "Conservative event". They attended a food and drinks bar, where there just so happened to be a Conservative speaker.
This is your worst attempt at rebuttal yet. It's so mindless and stupid that I don't know if I should laugh or slap your mom for giving birth to you.
Omg, you are a paradox bronto. A literal paradox. It is IMPOSSIBLE for anybody to be as retarded as you are, and yet here you stand.
Probably not a good claim about someone that keeps handing your ass to you on a platter. Have you even been right once? Uh... no. You've been wrong every single time. I didn't even know that was possible.
I've taken down your argument like a melting candle. You've been demonstrably wrong so many times at this point that it has become sad. I'd go find a liberal atheist adult to give you some help.
I'd love to ignore you, but, you make it difficult with your alternate facts. The "left" doesn't ignore the word "foreign" and we also want to hold onto our ability to defend ourselves. We DO NOT WANT a gunless nation and we are NOT against the Second Amendment, we are all for a "well regulated militia" (the National Guard), to protect U.S.! We are against making it easy for a "basket of deplorables" to arm themselves with assault weapons to kill Americans ... which is the ONLY reason (other than hubris), to NEED one! "WE" aren't setting things on fire, a bunch of idiots "ON BOTH SIDES" do those things. You HAVE destroyed random buildings, you HAVE shut down speeches, (the bunch of idiots on YOUR side). We BOTH have our idiots! We would NOT set statues of Abraham Lincoln on fire, if someone did I would expect that was someone who was defending Lee, or Jackson, or Davis, wouldn't you? (probably not, it wouldn't fit your twisted picture of the "left" .. it wouldn't fit our picture of ourselves, either.
"Taking a Knee" is an individual choice, not a "left wing movement". It isn't being done as an act against America or the National Anthem, it is being done as an act against what is being DONE to America, and its people, it's being done as an expression of the First Amendment in DEFENCE of America and its people .. and its Constitution! That's our clan! Do YOU ever really listen to what THE PEOPLE are saying? (Not just the BOD!) We'll keep the Second, as intended. YOU can't have the FIRST for your own use!
TantrumHead you cannot stop a gunless nation in America now i know that is hard for you to accept but if you think you can do something about then do it.
Actually, I was communicating with Bront and WE were talking ONLY about America. We have a Constitution to consider and it is difficult because of how the right (Yes, the American right), has interpreted that Constitution. We have always had guns with little trouble earlier. Today we have too many people spreading hate for the government and "certain people". They can't seem to see that THEY are causing the problems by distrusting a government that THEY elect, They direct, and THEY pay for. No common sense! I agree, we are global ctr right at the moment. Hopefully, we will come to our senses ... or America will NEVER be great again ... and it will be our own stupidity that destroys U.S.! Next election is CRITICAL.
Crazy AL is it the American Left only knows how to interpret the Constitution ? Obama was not concerned with the Constitution actually he despised the Constitution because it limited government. When did the American Left become concerned with the Constitution was it when Hillary lost ?
Its funny, what constitutes a Christian, Catholics worship Christ as much as anyone, yet they're not "Christians", just one example ... there are several (many?) cults that consider themselves Christians, and several (many?) other groups that say they are NOT! Just another point against the Christian religion, nobody can agree who to worship! I think some are even considering worshipping TRUMP!
Great! If Jim Jones is considered an Atheist by some, he's a great example of why you should NOT use the term "Atheist" as a "GROUP term", since almost any Atheist would disavow anything he stood for!
To my mind, anyone who worships "Christ" is a "CHRIST"ian! If you don't feel that way, you shouldn't be considering anyone who DOESN'T believe in Christ, or God, as a member of a particular group. There are many "groups ... cults" in religion that worship "God" OR "Christ", that don't agree with OTHER cults that worship God or Christ. You say they are NOT "Christians", I can say these other "crazies" are NOT Atheists.
I can't group all "God"or "Christ" loving people together, why should YOU be able to group all "Atheists" together ???
Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death:
Yemen: According to the 1994 penal code, married men can be sentenced to death by stoning for homosexual intercourse. Unmarried men face whipping or one year in prison. Women face up to seven years in prison.
Iran: In accordance with sharia law, homosexual intercourse between men can be punished by death, and men can be flogged for lesser acts such as kissing. Women may be flogged.
Mauritania: Muslim men engaging in homosexual sex can be stoned to death, according to a 1984 law, though none have been executed so far. Women face prison.
Nigeria: Federal law classifies homosexual behavior as a felony punishable by imprisonment, but several states have adopted sharia law and imposed a death penalty for men. A law signed in early January makes it illegal for gay people countrywide to hold a meeting or form clubs.
Qatar: Sharia law in Qatar applies only to Muslims, who can be put to death for extramarital sex, regardless of sexual orientation.
Saudi Arabia: Under the country’s interpretation of sharia law, a married man engaging in sodomy or any non-Muslim who commits sodomy with a Muslim can be stoned to death. All sex outside of marriage is illegal.
Afghanistan: The Afghan Penal Code does not refer to homosexual acts, but Article 130 of the Constitution allows recourse to be made to sharia law, which prohibits same-sex sexual activity in general. Afghanistan’s sharia law criminalizes same-sex sexual acts with a maximum of the death penalty. No known cases of death sentences have been meted out since the end of Taliban rule in 2001.
Somalia: The penal code stipulates prison, but in some southern regions, Islamic courts have imposed sharia law and the death penalty.
Sudan: Three-time offenders under the sodomy law can be put to death; first and second convictions result in flogging and imprisonment. Southern parts of the country have adopted more lenient laws.
United Arab Emirates: Lawyers in the country and other experts disagree on whether federal law prescribes the death penalty for consensual homosexual sex or only for rape. In a recent Amnesty International report, the organization said it was not aware of any death sentences for homosexual acts. All sexual acts outside of marriage are banned.
So Crazy AL why you Progressives support a religion that does not support your views on homosexuals ?
Great! If Jim Jones is considered an Atheist by some <-- those are HIS words .... if the shoe fits / wear it
I can't group all "God"or "Christ" loving people together, why should YOU be able to group all "Atheists" together ??? ... a little defensive are we ?? .... just correcting the statement of yours calling Jim Jones a Christian .... if you want to know the difference between Christians and the so-called Christians who are not ... you'll need to absorb 1 John -- 5 chapters shouldn't kill you
What is "Nuts" is a failure to understand that there are hundreds of belief systems under the banner of Islam!
Some wish to cooperate in world affairs, and accept all religious belief as in Dubai, UAE.
Others wish to Control Islam, and to direct worship and Sharia as in Saudi Arabia.
Indonesia, the largest Muslim population, wants all to live as brothers.
There are groups who wish to dominate the world, such as ISIS, Al Queada, Al Shabab, who are willing to slaughter innocents to promote their cause.
Still others wish to Dominate all of Islam, as the true faith, and will kill any who disagree, IRAN.
So to LABEL a group as Hating Islam, is just plain STUPID. For a group to support Islam in all it's forms, is just plain stupid!
We need to accept the WORLD, on it's own terms, and stop fantasizing about who hates who, and who is right or wrong.
It doesn't take a wise man to accept those who wish to make a better world, regardless of their belief system, and it is not hate to want to stop the slaughter of innocents, regardless of their faith or color or location!
What is "Nuts" is a failure to understand that there are hundreds of belief systems under the banner of Islam!
Exactly the same applies to Christianity. Most of the people attacking Islam happen to be pious Conservative Christians from the American Bible belt and they all seem to be monumental hypocrites.
Some wish to cooperate in world affairs, and accept all religious belief as in Dubai, UAE.
Most Muslims who live in developed areas want this. You have to be careful not to be fooled by the lies of the far right, who will point to non-developed Muslim nations in Asia as "proof" that Islam is evil. What they are careful not to point out are the non-developed Christian nations in Africa which have even worse human rights records than the underdeveloped Muslim nations. The Rwandan Genocide was a Christian genocide, but oh how keen the far right is to forget this.
The bottom line is simple. The far right are liars. Development is the difference between behaviours seen as "good" and "evil", not Islam. In developed nations Muslims and Christians live side by side. The far right tries exactly the same lies when trying to provide a basis for their hatred toward blacks and ethnic minorities.
Try to stay on subject! What Christian sects do is another subject!
I stated facts not opinions. You jump all over a subject and never address the point that there are many different Muslim groups. Some slaughter innocents.
Fact is most Muslims are killed by Muslims. There is nothing Right OR Left about that!
Try to stay on subject! What Christian sects do is another subject!
No it isn't. Don't be stupid. You are trying to create the false impression that Islam is unique for having numerous sects, which is why you mentioned it in the first place. Pointing out the deception in your language is very much on subject.
I stated facts not opinions.
No bronto. You cherry picked a selective fact, while you purposefully neglected to mention or acknowledge other relevant facts for political reasons. That is called propaganda, not "stating facts". You cannot pick and choose which "facts" you acknowledge and then get away with claiming you are "stating facts". You are marketing anti-Islamic propaganda.
Fact is most Muslims are killed by Muslims.
That is another deliberately selective fact, since the same is true of any country where there is an inter-Christian conflict, such as the Irish Protestant v Catholic war. You are arbitrarily singling out Muslims again for things which the other major religions are at least equally guilty of.
Stop posting anti-Islamic propaganda and stop cloning accounts you mad right wing basket case.
Sectarian violence among Christians has been noted from the time of the first Christian schisms ..... Northern Ireland has seen inter-communal conflict for more than four centuries
Exactly the same applies to Christianity. Most of the people attacking Islam happen to be pious Conservative Christians from the American Bible belt and they all seem to be monumental hypocrites.
You literally condemn Christianity, then defend Islam, despite it's being more homophobic, more misogynistic, and even more dogmatic than the religion you hate so much. You've redefined the word hypocrite.
