I recently had the opportunity to befriend a guy who was very much a moderate Muslim. Born overseas but educated at one of our top unis . You couldn’t have met a nicer guy in terms of honesty and decency. But if you scratched the nice exterior you found some qualities which were at odds with that image.

--During one conversations he acknowledged that his son (still an infant) would have to marry another Muslim. It was a requirement.
-- It became apparent that in his view all the woes of the world were attributable to either Americans or Jews, and Islam and its adherents could do no wrong. He even went as far as assuring everyone the Korans outlawing of pork was valid since pork had hidden poisonous qualities.
--He had swallowed hook line and sinker the prepackaged excuse that anything that disappointed his desires --like not getting that job --was due to Oz society having a set agen Muslims.

As one guy he was pleasant company . But if he ever held the balance power we might be in for some unpleasant surprises…
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Kactuz,
Why haven’t you made an appearance on that other thread : “Cutting the grass in the theatre of war”? We could do with your input holding the line against the forces of darkness

SPQR,

Lol!..

In the one breath, he says...

"As one guy he was pleasant company . But if he ever held the balance power we might be in for some unpleasant surprises… "

And in the next....

"Why haven’t you made an appearance on that other thread : “Cutting the grass in the theatre of war”? We could do with your input holding the line against the forces of darkness."

Can you guys give me a rundown on all the dodgy violent verses in the Old Testament....after all, "It is a book with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of verses by a brutal, sadistic god..."

Poirot,

Surely you are not maintaining that because the much deconstructed & criticized Old Testament has some dodgy verse we must refrain from examining and exposing the nasty bits in the Koran?

Take off your dhimmi issue glasses and have a look around the world and tell us how many terror groups are inspired by the the nasty passages of the Old Testament as opposed to the nasty bits of the Koran (Steele has given you at head-start with his cherry picking of one in Uganda).How many others can you find in the present day world?

Just a thought: how many times have you eeeeeeeeeever critised the excesses of Islam? I'm betting its a nice round figure ...like zero!

At least Steele is sneaky enough to offer paper thin slivers of criticism (of Islam) sandwiched between two extra thick layers of anti-West & Israel diatribe.

As an atheist I consider ALL religions to be dangerous, in the hands of a fanatics religions can, and are used as a tool of hate. Be that religion Islamic, Christian whatever. The vast majority of people are fortunately moderate in outlook, even Muslims. Many of the sins of the world are caused by inequality, and religion is used as a focus for the hate that inequality breeds.
People who are educated, and have realised secular opportunities in life are rarely religious fanatics. I find that with both Muslim and Christian friends.

Once again Steele and Poirots Christophobic natures keeps them in total denial of the history and nature of Islam. Pathetic. Somehow they think their appeasement will save them. 'Moderate muslims'are only moderate until confronted by followers of Mohammed. How blind can one be.

SPQR,

"Surely you are not maintaining that because the much deconstructed & criticized Old Testament has some dodgy verse we must refrain from examining and exposing the nasty bits in the Koran?"

Certainly not...but if you are going to deconstruct the Koran, it's only fair that you take your scalpel and do the same with the Old Testament.

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runner,

As I mentioned, I've just watched a week or so of Israel slaughtering tiny tots.

Might I ask you, old chap, if you'd be so kind to take your fundamentalist BS and direct it at someone else...I'm not interested.