Why do people persist in believing all Muslims think the same it's like saying all Christians are like BOAZ_DAVID! My contribution

One day an atheist was taking a walk through the woods.
"What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself. " And to think they were all created by a cosmic accident"
As he was walking alongside the river he suddenly heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to see a seven foot grizzly bear charging towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the path but he looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him.
Suddenly he tripped and fell to the ground. As he rolled over to pick himself up he saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that instant the Atheist cried out: "Oh my God!"
All at once time stood still. The bear froze. The forest was silent. As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky: "You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Why do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me as a believer now, but perhaps could you make the BEAR a believer?"
"Very well," said the voice. The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And then the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together and bowed his head and spoke:
"Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty , Amen.

Nice thread :D

Forgive me if I add this probably apocryphal story about my namesake being met by reporters:

Reporter: “What do you think of Western Civilization, Mr. Gandhi?”

Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea.”

Really enjoying this thread people. A leetle more religious humour.

The Revised 10 Commandments.

" * Thou shalt shut thy gob when politely asked, and not drone on endlessly.
* Thou shalt not use circular arguments, such as "God exists, because the Bible sayeth so, and the Bible is True because it is God's Word."
* Thou shalt notice when thy audience is bored rigid. See Commandment 1.
* Thou shalt not use a cop-out such as "God worketh in mysterious ways" when backed into a corner by thine own convoluted logic.
* Thou shalt use thine own imagination, and not just quote from the Bible all the time.
* Thou shalt not tell atheists what they believe, nor that thy God loveth them.
* Thou shalt not get upset by jokes about thy God. He is big enough and old enough to looketh after himself.
* Thou shalt not define how thy God worketh. Thou canst know.
* Thou shalt not state that the Bible is consistent and hath no contradictions. Thou wouldst be a fool to doeth so.
* Thou shalt not say Grace without also thanking the farmers, truck-drivers and shopkeepers that actually did the work required to get your food to the table.

© Adrian Barnett 1997"

Now I really wasn't thinking about BD when I posted this. Truly, honestly, may I burn in hell if I tell a lie.

Hey Sneekipeet or whatever,
why are you attacking Boaz?
You seem to completely miss the point! Boaz's angle is :

There are certain groups of people who don't want to "embrace"
the rest of us for many reasons, usally due to racism, extreme ethnocentrism, and when it all boils down, "fear". That's right!
It is the very people that Boaz, myself and others attack that are the ones that don't want to "embrace", mix in with the rest of us, or even tolerate us.They fear us; we don't fear them! However, I think you and ilk do fear them, as you can't even criticize them even when they are clearly racist. What is wrong with wanting to rectify such horrible people?
How can you miss the point so fully? It is really quite simple :

We attack nazis, kkk, racists across the board, irrespective of colour; you and those who think like you only see words like bigot or racist next to white people. The reason is because our media and education system have obviously brainwashed you into being extremely selective on these issues, and to see the "other" as some kind of sub-human that needs to be patronised, not treated equally, No way! This would mean occasionally getting cranky with them as is the normal course of things! You wouldn't want that would you?
Think about this very carefully : you are treating them like some kind of lepper that you don't want to offend, because you arrogantly assume that they are less than you and need to be patronised.

Don't get it still. Think Freudian slip!

Eyes that don't see ears that don't hear M.S.Burns can you give an example of your alerting us to white/Christian extremism? The only post’s I see you guys making is about Muslims, blacks and Asians. The cure to racism and other intolerances is the same as alcoholism realize you have a problem Monty.

Trinity - so much righteousness. What's it like up there on the moral high ground? And bossy too, with the "stay on topic" guff. I do my own laundry, by the way. Are you some kind of "Better Dead Than Rude", holier-than-thou washerwoman?
Sure, my 'humour' is blunt, but then, in case you hadn't noticed there's an ideological global war being waged and our "leaders" and the media refuse to name the enemy, in their present state of denial. It's like wading through treacle. The window of free speech about Islam and terrorism is closing; half-truths and wishful thinking dominate public debate.

bushbre(a)d (damper) - Mr. moral-equivalence/cultural-self-loather/apologist/quisling/propaganda-victim/logically-challenged dimwit all rolled into one! Good books in university libraries? You gotta be joking. Muslims helped to get us out of the Dark Ages? Do you mean the historical revisionists Karen Armstrong, Edward Said, the "myth of Andalucia" created by such writers as Maria Rosa Menocal, Chateaubriand and Irving? Dream on.
Try these historians (if your uni has them) - Bat Ye’or, Samuel Huntington, K.S. Lal, Jadunath Sarkar, Sita Ram Goel, J. B. Kelly, Mary Boyce, Dadrian, W. R. W. Gardner and Patricia Crone for starters. Then, I suggest, Ibn Warraq, Andrew Bostom, Robert Spencer, Oriana Fallaci and the Gertrude Bell diaries.
As for ".... afterlife with multiple virgins could be mostly a furphy", there are multiple examples of Muslims believing this on the internet and in print. See Qur'an 44:51-56; 52:17-29; 55:46-78.
If THEY say they are martyrs in the name of Islam and go to paradise with multiple virgins, we must believe them. Is it not the height of illiberalism and arrogance to deny them the right to define themselves?
Since the 1970s academia has been dominated by Edward Said’s view that any critical look at Islam by Westerners was ipso facto racist and imperialist. This idea has coalesced nicely, of course, with the multiculturalist dogma that the Judeo-Christian West is responsible for all the evils in the world, and that those outside of and set against Western civilization can only be victims, never perpetrators.