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Islamists in Kenya murder 39 at a shopping center after ordering Muslims out and screening them based on their knowledge of Islam.
Read the full thing here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2427892/Nairobi-mall-Gunmen-massacred-22-Kenyan-shopping-centre-targeted-non-Islamics.html
Some seem to be worse than others.
Well said.
I think the Westboro Baptist folks may be capable of the same type of thing under the right circumstances.
Fact of the matter is there are nut cases in every religion. I have known some Muslim people who are very nice, loving people. I have also known a nice grandmother-type Church of Christ lady here in Tennessee--sweet lady who says that Hitler was right to kill 6,000,000 Jews.
It is unfortunate that too many people tend to group certain religions as a whole for the actions of specific militant groups.
Maybe you should look more closely to see what the big picture really is. I bet if the US had the same per capita GDP as Somalia there would be an awful lot of militant Christians. It's very difficult to justify "raising arms" when you're reclining comfortably in your Lazy Boy using a remote to channel surf between stations showing you just how good you have it. Maybe that is why reality is very different from how certain things "seem" to many.
Americans would love to hide all the reasons for these attacks with the simplest line of propaganda, but once again the U.S. is creating these issues with there imperialist foreign policy. Jump to 3:35 for Scahills report.
or this report from Democracy Now
You should have said the U.S. Govt. as opposed to Americans. I honestly don't think most Americans really know what is going on behind the scenes. It's fairly obvious that the islamophobes within the blogospere don't.
Anyone remotely familiar with the Qu'ran knows that in the vast majority of it, killing is forbidden. Islam itself IS a peaceful religion. Consider this - there are 2 BILLION muslims in the world. Given that, this is a tiny tiny fraction, a extreme minority causing these issues.
Central doctrines of Islam are helping others, not charging interest (usury) and a respect for all living things. Did you know there are countless stories of US soldiers taken in by Afghans at the risk of their lives? When asked why - they all claim that their religion mandates that all strangers be treated with respect, and given help. Christians have murdered millions of people over the centuries.
If you ask me, all religions are a demonic deception. God can't be contained by religion, and I believe religions were created to divide people, not unite. But you can't blame Islam for the acts of a few, all religions are guilty of this nonsense.
99.999% of all muslims aren't radicalized, just like 99.999% of Christians aren't radicalized. Simple logic really.. With 2 billion people - if this religion was about killing we would be IN BIG TROUBLE.
Also note;
Violence and cruelty are not in the spirit of the Quran, nor are they found in the life of the Prophet, nor in the lives of saintly Muslims."[16]
The Quran expressly and unambiguously prohibits the use of coercion in faith because coercion would violate a fundamental human right—the right to a free conscience. A different belief system is not deemed a legitimate cause for violence or war under Islamic law. The Quran is categorical on this: "There shall be no compulsion in religion" (2:256); "Say to the disbelievers [that is, atheists, or polytheists, namely those who reject God] "To you, your beliefs, to me, mine" (109:1-6)"[17]
Be nice if the 99.999% gave a shit what the .001% were doing in the name of their religion. You can't deny that the .001% have pretty much cornered the market in the senseless slaughter of innocents, both Muslim & non-Muslim.
I'm unaware of a Christian equivalent (sorry, you can't 'balance the scale' with the Crusades - just doesn't wash).
Who's trying to balance the scales other than you? This is about political groups using the guise of religion to recruit and appease others in order to forward their political agendas. What don't you understand about that? This is something that has polluted civilization throughout history. Do you really expect political groups to recruit under the guise of a religion that isn't the dominant one in that country?
The truth is the Qur'an calls for killing disbelievers and infidels.
Kill the disbelievers whenever we find them. Sura 2:191
Who are you trying to kid?
Would you like to compare how Jesus taught to treat enemies versus how Mohammed teaches how to treat enemies which are disbelievers of Islam or infidels?
Infidels are your sworn enemies. Sura 4:101
Be ruthless to the infidels. Sura 48:29
Make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Sura 9:123; 66:9.
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day. Sura 9:29
Strike off the heads of infidels in battle. Sura 47:4.
Mohammed forced his followers to continue believing saying in the Hadith al-Bukhari Vol 9, BK. 84, no. 57, Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him. I've also seen it as ....If someone stops believing in Allah, kill him. al-Bukhari 9:84:57.
Mohammed killed an estimated 3,000 people including cutting off the heads of 700 Jews in Medina.
When you meet the infidel in the battlefield strike off their heads. Sura 47:4
Mohammad is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the infidels. Sura 48:29
No Muslim should be killed for killing an infidel. al-Bukhari 1:3:111.
Really?
Just before the Kenyan massacre the violent jihadist Muslims were killing Christians in a beautiful little Syrian village of Ma'loula.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=19038
Witnesses report desecrations and forced conversions to Islam in Syrian Christian village.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=19021
Since I'm a kind & gentle soul, Smooth, it appears I failed to adequately make my point.
Was it political or religious or both for these Islamists who murdered 39 in Kenya?
I don't know about the kind and gentle, but your point makes perfect sense to me, Daiwa! 
I know there are reasons to doubt, lula, but I am... really. Promise.
It was a politically motivated action that was retribution for another politically motivated action.
Retribution for what?
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