Extremist Nonsense

[finncullen]

Finn tries to be a moderate fellow but occasionally he comes across things that make his blood boil.  Incredibly high temperatures for instance, but those are easily  avoided.

On a more metaphorical level take a look at some of these outrageous comments from Extremist Muslim Fanatics and ask yourself how they can get away with spouting this tripe in a supposedly rational world:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Islam... That's war. And this is war."

"With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, Allah does not hear the prayer of a Jew."

"Sodomy is a graver sin than murder. – Unless there is life there can be no murder."

"Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports sodomites is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death."

"We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk about respecting other faiths. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."

"The long-term goal of Muslims in politics should be to gain exclusive control ..Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of Allah ..must be denied citizenship."

"We are to make Muslims of anybody that gets in our way."

"Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Allah. And therefore no nation has the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."

"I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure."

"in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals."

"Raising your children under ..any other principles than true Islam is child abuse."

 

Well no.

I think you all know me, you will forgive the irony, well enough to guess that all is not as it seems.  The above quotations are all from American Christian politicians or public figures with the identifying tags of nation and religion changed, but everything else left intact.

This bizarre species of which we are condemned to be a part seems insolubly opposed to rising above the tribal instinct for In-Group loyalty and Out-Group hostility and seem to be unable to see any contradiction between their own claims for enlightenment and the fact that really... if you remove the labels and mix the ideas up.. they are all pretty similar.

This is a bleak but hardly innovative observation, I just wanted to share it in a spirit of mischief.