Breaking: Salman Rushdie attacked / stabbed on stage

While it sounds like his injuries are bad, it also sounds like he will survive this, thankfully.

 

I have no idea whom you are responding to, but probably easy to guess.

 

It's a thing primitive religious cultures do when god trumps science. No you don't see stonings here anymore, but you do see bombing abortion clinics and hanging gays on fences still. Islamic Fundamentalism is a problem that keeps on giving, one the US used to fight the Russians and bit us hard in the ass.

Extremism is a bad thing. And fomenting it is dangerous. You see what all this "death to America" leads to violence. Now within our own country, we see the extremist stirring with the "deep state" and how the FBI is the gestapo and it's time to take up arms. Maybe religion doesn't play the active role it does in Islamic Fundamentalism, but any call to violence should be taken seriously, despites @ROXRAN love affair with Tulsi.

It's easy to go, "Oh, it's ONLY the Muslims that are the problem" and miss the key point - that it's people who take something to the extreme. It's not Muslims, it's Islamic extremists. See the difference?

Extremism is being fostered around the world - the Saudis funded Islamic extremism through madrases and is it a surprise that most of the fanatics that commit these acts come from these schools? You have the same kind of indoctrination going on with the right, crazy ideas being put into people's heads that drive them to violence.

 

the difference:

 

That's terrible obviously. It also sounds like you really don't like Islam. Hakeem is a Muslim ya know. It was his faith that helped Houston get those rings.

 

Yes, but Christian global terror networks and blasphemy laws aren’t a thing anymore, and I think for many that’s the pressing concern to take away from the Rushdie case.

 

Hakeem got the rings, what he believed - is his own decision.

But Islam at it's core is hypocritical and violent as are almost every other religion.

DD

 

Islam worked pretty well for him, and made him a more mature and peaceful person according to everyone who knows him and has spoken about it.

 

Hakeem credits his faith as what helped get him those rings. You disagree with him then?

Industrialization did a lot to reform Christianity although it is taking some backwards steps.

But my point is getting lost here. People should be able to critque any religion, Islam included of course. But the mistake is to think that extremism comes from the text. Christianity is proof that a once violent religion doesn't have to literally follow the text.

Even Rushdie pointed this out - that these extremists are not coming from mainstream Islam but through a directed program meant to breed extremism.

 

But what pronouns does he use ?
Sounds like a woke lunatic to me

this ain’t different from Dave Chappelle being attacked on stage
@Os Trigonum
@Reeko

 

The problem with Islam and religion is in it's hypocrisy, you can choose the peaceful early part of the Quran to follow or you can follow the violent latter sections - and at one point Mohammed was tricked into talking to Satan....which was removed, I mean ...wtf ever...come on.....

People can choose to be good, kind, and peaceful or other and religion can be a driving force for good or evil.....and IMHO is completely uneccessary.

But again, to each his/her own. I just choose not to believe some sheep herders that thought the sky was blue because water was on the other side or that pigs were unclean had any ****ing clue.

But Trump has proven that you don't have to be a religious leader to inspire people to violence.

DD

 

Yeah, I think there’s value in making the broader observation about religious extremism while not losing sight of the particular challenges the liberal world faces with politicized Islam.

The increasingly extremist abortion laws being implemented nationwide is a worrying trend in the wrong direction, if we want to talk about politicized Christianity. Death threats against officials emanating from extremist, often very religious, right-wing networks is also becoming more and more common, it seems.

 

That @durvasa is why I make no distinction about any religion I think they are almost all inherently bad for humanity.

Putting your trust in yourself over some mythical star person is way better IMHO.

DD

 

@basso
You can cheer for the guy who attacked Rushdie , we all know you do
Same with the dude who attacked Chappelle at Hollywood bowl except he got his ass kicked
Backstage by busta rhymes

we all
Know your fake outrage breh
And we all know @basso is a real Rockets fan and you well..
@Os Trigonum
@AroundTheWorld

 

Yes, like I said, Rushdie himself, if you follow his interviews, talked about this.

Islamic fundamentalism is a movement. A movement we've tolerated for way too long because the people behind the movement were our allies. It's easy to say when things blow up to go - look at the Quran, it's the cause of all of this. But it ignores politicized Islam which in large part traces its roots back to Saudi Sheiks.

The genie is out of the bottle and everyone wants to point fingers instead of doing something about it. We need to attack extremism wherever it may be. Whether it's Islamic Fundamentalism in the middle east or Q'Anon here at home.

 

Islam is a cult of intolerance, violence and hate, founded by a child molester and murderer.