Gosh…men get to rape women and then blame them at the same time?! It’s a wonder that Islam hasn’t completely taken over the entire world (since it is, after all, “a man’s world”). As a submissive and conservative woman, I will comply. Whatever you say master.

Left by The Right Girl on October 26th, 2006

Yup…uncovered meat talkin here….lol..great rants SR..Keep burnin that light..someone may just notice!

Left by Angel on October 26th, 2006

What a shocker. A person of one religion finds his religion more noble than another religion.

Oh and look! He rants about it! Look how he tries to differentiate the two with his own definition or morals.

Good work Stout and Going There. Swell job getting a Muslim to join your one-sided discussion. Lotta conviction in advertising to the choir and apathetic.

Then again, such methods could just be how one justifies the bad in his own religion by pointing out what he was raised to believe as worse.

Now, don’t go claiming that I support Muslims or rapists or sexist mother lovin’ pieces of dog(matic) crap. But they were raised in an environment where this (”radical” by our eyes) behavior comes to be expected due to the longest curse word in english: Tradition. Just like you were in yours and I was in mine.

My, so easy to hate what we don’t understand. Much easier than studying the other side first, than wielding curiosity over judgment.

But then again, you wouldn’t be a true Christian if you didn’t judge/shoot first and ask questions later.

Left by Practical Radical on October 26th, 2006

Wow…moral relativist over here, how very…chic…

“Why, through any spectrum someone’s actions can be interpreted as good.”

Why…the whole world is one big lump of gray isnt it, unless of course you’re a Christian…your “traditional behavior” has no place in the United States, regardless of history, you’re clearly bad and worth being “judged and shot” by the likes of you. What an ignorant hypocrite you are…and truly uninformed. Can you really say that there is no black and white? And if they’re raised in a culture where murder is acceptable…can you really say that is an acceptable culture? Through the same mouth that you slander those with Christian values, you defend those with Islamic values under the guise of “tradition”?

I can’t believe you are really that ignorant…maybe if these were articles that had the word “Christian” instead of Muslim we could get some sort of indignation out of you…but I suppose it all depends on what label a person has. I suppose according to you a person isn’t judged by their actions or works, but instead by what bucket those works fall under.

Certain African cultures believe in female circumcision? You’re okay with that? Some culture still practice slavery…I suppose if it’s tradition it’s okay? In some areas of the world, having sex with a virgin cures disease regardless of whether or not they’re willing…must be okay, how dare we try to apply our values to their tradition…If you say that:

But they were raised in an environment where this (”radical” by our eyes) behavior comes to be expected due to the longest curse word in english: Tradition. Just like you were in yours and I was in mine.

..it may not be support, but it’s certainly justification. But I suppose we would get an indignant response out of the bigoted likes of you unless the person perhaps had a cross around their neck…then I’m sure the clever quips and one liners would fly.

“We young Germans in the Nazi time were taught to hate and to be tough; we were taught that Christianity is something for weaklings and old women…They are told that the question of what is right or wrong depends on their own perception of it and that there is no absolute right or wrong. “Situation ethics” is the high sounding description of what is nothing but moral depravity.”

- Hilmer von Campe

Left by The Stout Republican on October 26th, 2006

Yes the word tradition, such a horrible word for all. But wait, the way the muslims sound in these articles, it would seem like they are quite similar to frat boys. Gay bashing and women invite rape. Yeah these views that these particular muslims hold, for those that actually do hold them, make them sound just like immature egomaniacal frat boys, with about the same intelligence.
But wait, these are muslims, it’s a religious belief. Sure it is, but without religion these people would be condemned by most countries. Traditions change, that’s why there is no longer a spanish inquisition, catholics grew up (at least for the most part, now they just need to get past that whole god belief), why can’t these particular muslims grow up to.

I am not stereotyping all muslims, just the ones that would agree women invite rape and killing gays is ok. But then there are some christians who believe gays should not live either, but it’s not a law in any christian based country that i know.

Let’s just all believe in his noodly appendage and become members of the church of the flying spagetti monster, no murder or hate in that religion.

Left by Politcally Neutral on October 26th, 2006

Oh Stout, I feel petty in pointing your nose in your own bull, but in no way was I “defending those muslims by calling it tradition” if I called “Tradition” what I called it.

Try to read context AND words, not just words OR context, and maybe then we’ll have a progressive discussion rather than a meandering one.

Left by Practical Radical on October 27th, 2006

Unfortunately, the war against Islam (you know, the religion of tolerance) has been going on since Muhammad walked the earth, and it will continue for many more years to come. You see, there IS right and wrong, black and white in this world. Our relativistic society doesn’t like that idea, because “what is good for you is fine, as long as it doesn’t interfere with what I want to do”. So when a woman is raped, and convicted of wrong-doing because the four “witnesses” of the act saw nothing wrong, is that justice? “Tradition” as one person put it isn’t the issue here…the issue is the doctorine. Before getting hot and heavy defending Islam, how about reading its by-laws and doctorine. Should you have a daughter, would you want her to be part of this ‘peaceful’ group? As I see it, relativism is only appealing when you are considering the lovely ideas…not the truth.

Left by The Right Girl on October 27th, 2006