If you had to pick a religion, which would you NOT choose?

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Agreed. Seems like a "Islam's great for other people, but definitely not for me" hypocrisy.

Not saying.

Except when you don't read carefully.

But... there are so many valid reasons to initially distrust Muslims from (both from recent history, like 9/11, and from the regularly-occurring brutal Islamic terrorism that stretches back through the centuries), that "out and out racism" doesn't even become a factor.
People are too occupied with their rightful 9/11-heightened self-preservation instincts -- and too concerned with being blown up for being the "infidel" -- to even consider whether or not they like or dislike Muslims. First, Muslims need to stop killing obviously-innocent people, then verbal, civilized discussion can occur.

Besides, Islam isn't a race, so "racism" cannot apply to it. I know many formerly-Muslim Arab Christians (Joseph Farah, Ergun Caner, Walid Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel, etc), and they're quite outspoken against Islam, and the brutally violent tools which it employs toward professed goal of world domination. Islam is a chosen set of beliefs. An Arab is not necessarily a Muslim, and vice versa. Those choosing not to share the beliefs of Islam aren't "racist", they're intellectually disagreeing. (This is as opposed to disagreeing through the use of a suicide-homicide bombs strapped to children by their own parents, or by attempting to crash four airplanes packed with innocent American citizens into populated American landmarks.)

Oh, darn, ska! I wrote all of the above before I read the below. Guess I proved you wrong about me before I even read your false accusation below!



Regarding the bolded text, Palestinians are neither a religion nor a race. That's two strikes; what's your third guess?
If you now guess "political group devoted to the destruction of Israel", DING DING DING DING DING! YOU'RE A WINNER!! !
Accuracy is your friend, ska.
The "Palestinians" were formed in 1967 with the openly-expressed purpose of killing all the Jews in Israel.

humanism that just sounds terrible

I would not choose christianity because most religious christians i've known have no respect at all for the beliefs of other people.

You kidding? The followers of Warren Jeffs consider themselves Mormon. Saw it on CNN the other day. Utah is the polygamy capital of North America. My take on Mormons is that they are the Evil Amish.

Scientology is just slightly more outlandish than Mormonism, if you ask me. If you ask me, Mormonism is a sex-cult. Behind all their rhetoric, it's a sex-cult that also specializes in child-abuse and the dehumanization of women.

Progressive Christians, like moderate Muslims, really do suffer on account of the hateful orthodoxies in their religions.

the palestianians have existed longer than the israelis. paul newman's been alive longer than israel has been in existence. palestine has existed as a country for a number of centuries.

and racist isn't the right word. you're just a hateful bigot.

Palestine is a nation-state created by the British during their expansionist period, carved out of chunks of the former regional empires.

Israel was founded somewhere in the region known by the same name today, then was captured by the Persians under (IIRC) Darius III. A later emperor permitted his Jewish subjects to return to their ancient homeland, where they rebuilt their main Temple, in the city of Jerusalem.

Neither one can claim to be the "original owners" of the territory - that'd be the Canaanites, who may or may not have been utterly eliminated after the Hebrew escape from Egyptian slavery.

Ethnically speaking, the modern-day Israelis and Palestinians are quite similar. The Israelis have had an influx of ethnic influences from many other parts of the world, given that virtually anyone who can claim Jewish ancestry can move there, but since the Jews were often forced to be separate from everyone else in their host nations, the ethnicity was often conserved. The bases claimed by the Israelis for discriminating against the Palestinians ring a bit hollow - it's a bit odd, after all, to expect the local minority group to give up hating you when you cut off their power and water, and bulldoze their homes, on the basis of mere suspicion that terrorists might have been using the area.

I MESSED UP AND VOTED BUDHIST BY MISTAKE =(

Islam is my pick.

palestine wasn't created by brittain. israel was created by brittain and palestine was fractured by brittain after world war I. they were awarded palestine and syria while france got a couple other countries from the ottoman empire. the gears for creation of israel was put into effect around 1917 with the balfour declaration.







too bad israel hasn't kept their end of the bargain with regards to the "it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" part of the declaration but they're independent now.

Why Islam? Any particular reason for that choice?

I've never really known a book to encourage violence and force the way the Qu'ran does. I know there are a lot of nice muslim people out there, but the book isn't so much.