Islam is 20% a religion and 80% a political system based on sharia law, - the proportions can be argued, but it is something like that - which wishes the rest of all religions and political systems to adapt to its mediaeval precepts and its followers are frustrated by trying to reconcile this...
The Bishop of Regensburg, Germany, Rudolf Voderholzer, said on January 30 that there could be no reconciliation between Christians and Muslims. Islam is a "post-Christian phenomenon, with the claim to negate the core content of Christianity," he said. "Only those who do not know their own faith...
'The historic dimension of Wilders's conviction is related not only to the terrible injustice done to this MP, but that it was the Netherlands that, for the first time in Europe, criminalized dissenting opinions about Islam.'
I have a silver and stone ring bought from a Tibetan family which depicts a malevolent deity protecting the Dharma, this I can wear or not, but I also have tattoo, an image of the Buddhist wheel, which I can neither remove nor can anyone take from me.
I have only just spotted this thread and happen to have recently read an article by G.K. Chesterton written in 1908, it's very good on this subject and I see someone has even made YouTube out of it;
Might be worth a look, knghtkings and I would be interested in what you (and anyone else )...
Islam is 10% religion and 90% politics - I use the word in its broadest sense - I think the Slovakian government would like to ban the 90% politics alone, but this is impossible, because it is inextricably linked to the religion.
paarsurrey; Did you in fact, watch see to the Hamad Abdel-Samad video I gave a link to above? He is very knowledgeable about Islam (the son of an Imam). Well worth a look.
paarsurrey; //Islam does not put restriction on the thoughts://
What world are you living in? Islam is pure fascism, the most restrictive of ideologies, hear what Hamad Abdel-Samad has to say;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkJGD4bMw8o
The problem I have with your assertion is that you speak as if evil had an objectively definable reality. I asked earlier (#33) for a definition but have so far received none. Looking at the present world, members of the so called "Islamic State" appear to believe that I and my like are...
@ Maranatha: Violent actions can be justified within the Buddhist canon, there are in fact the wrathful deities; the dharampalas, or defenders of Buddhism, divinities with the rank of Bodhisattva who wage war without any mercy against the enemies of Buddhism.
I'm not sure of the circumstances of...
Copyright in artistic works currently lasts for 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died, so anything earlier than 1944 should be okay.