saudis to behead witch!!!

who ever said the american government gave a *? they wont provide health care for their own feckin civilians let alone africa

 

THIS IS SAUDI ARABIA. This is where the most hardline sharia law is preached. It doesnt mean that all islam is like this. Grow a brain and get educated FFS. THere are countless branches of islam and just as there are christianity.

I hate all religion and what it does to people, but i respect different people with different faiths and i try to understand the faiths before flippantly branding one evil.

 

Not quite.

I support the death penalty for extreme crimes but common sense should always be used. Using religion as law is something I strongly disagree with.

Daniel, no one said Islam is evil.

In the future, I hope Islam never holds any majority in the UK. I don't have a problem with Muslims living and preaching their faith peacefully in the UK, but only in small numbers and I do not want to see Minarets and Mosques built everywhere with large Muslim communities. There is a reason why we don't fully integrate with Muslims. Why? Because it is incompatible with our way of life. Most of the time it has nothing to do with sectarianism or racism. Some religions and cultures can adjust to live with others, some cannot. Also it can also come down to the individual, some Muslims integrate very well with our way of life.

 

You kind of contradict yourself by saying muslim communities are not compatible with our way of life, but at the same time acknowledging that it comes down to the individuals and some muslims integrate very well with our way of life.

I wouldn't say people are incompatible with a certain way of life, I mean people of all walks of life can assimilate in different cultures. Does it always work out perfectly, no, but it is not impossible. Why would it be a problem to see some minarets and mosques in your city? In my mind that sounds too familiar with other's opinions of the past when they protested catholic churches being built around Scotland and emigrants to America were lambasted for bring part of their culture to the U.S.. At that time they were very different and I'm sure some people would have argued that they threaten their "way of life" and don't assimilate well with "their culture."

 

I think that if you're * it so much over the shape of a building and someone having a different brand of bullshit from you, your "way of life" desperatley needs changing.

Now, I'm off to protest against the building of new Chinese takeaways. Fried rice is incompatable with Fish 'n' Chips!

 

I still stand by my views. Go ahead, let Islam damage our culture over time when more and more Muslims come to Britain. I guess that is just a part of life. Islam is poison.

 

Thought you were from china?

Anyway Aslong as we don't let any kind of islamic state happen it wont.

 

I am living in China, but I am not Chinese. I am from Glasgow and I care for my homeland.

 

* westerners and their religion, going over to China and taking their jobs...

 

Is this not what the huns thought when the 'dirty smelly * *' started coming over from ireland bringing their catholicism and the like...?

 

i kind of agree to an extent, ie i you're there then you should respect the local laws and customs and if you don't then you knew the law so have to accept responsibility for your actions but this guy is being executed for a "crime" he committed in his homeland were it is perfectly legal.

 

I do not follow religion, indeed I would be high up on many religions '* list' but I would never denounce a whole faith. Religious texts and doctrine written centuries ago are used by people as ways to control and inflict suffering on others. It is the interpretation of the text that is the problem not the faith itself.
People's faith can bring them comfort and support at the most difficult of times, and as long as they do not use their faith as a way to hurt me or my family, then all power to them.

 

1) My job has one major requirement - to be a British national as I am dealing with student visa applications as well as being a native English speaker.

2) I don't follow any religion.

Roman Catholicism and Protestantism is Christianity but run under two different churches with slight differences on how they practise. Besides, Catholicism was in Scotland well before the Irish came over in their large numbers. The clash between Catholicism and Protestantism was our own internal problem.

 

Unfortunately the Islamic faith (albeit a minority) can tend to be in some cases extremely sexist, homophobic and unjust. In societies such as the one described in the OP it is quite common for woman to be raped and beaten by their husbands (and yes, we have that problem, though usually not directly influnced by religion). In no way am I generalising Islam, but I just find it shocking that this can still happen in our world. In a nutshell, they are living in the past.

 

the saudi printing press are allowed to distort the text of the koran to suit their own agenda.

wahibi islam is a very real danger to all civilised people everywhere.
as are all religious extremists.

 

It's irrelevant whether they were there before or not. It's an example of an influx of a minority and the fear, mistreatment, and racist views placed on a marginalized society. What may be seen as only slight differences in how they practice from an outsider is also irrelevant. The fact is that two types of people are extremely polarized by religion and that has created a ethnic divide in which coexistence was deemed unthinkable at first and now is still a major obstacle for many.

The same views are portrayed through different ethnic groups through the years. A lot of it has to do with fear and ethnocentrism, but the view that Islam as a whole is cancer and that any assimilation within "your" society (as if it belongs to only you or your type of people) should be halted is reminiscent to the views held when Irish catholics had emigrated to Scotland in the 1800s. There is no denying it.