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#741

What i’m wondering about it how they got from “Why not bomb Mecca?” to “Why not nuke Mecca?”, unless that’s what he actually said, it’s being taken out of context. You could order a precision stealth bomber strike on the most important target, or carpet bomb the whole city, you wouldn’t need a nuke to do that.

EDIT: I see that he was responding to a question about a nuclear attack, so they were right. Still, it’s common to see muslims go nuts because someone said one bad thing about them or their religion, see those cartoons about muhammed or the recent south park episodes. Calling for people to kill others simply because they show your prophet isn’t the best way to maintain a relationship with others.

#742

If it’s an American being quoted, it makes much more sense.

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#743

Solokiller: And destroying their most holy sites will certainly help in that regard, right?

#744

To be honest, it’s only a very small group responding like that. They just make enough noise and cause enough chaos for it to seem like the whole Muslim world has been shaken.
Of course, Ayatollas or what are they called again crying out to the muslim world how it’s such an outrage doesn’t help much.

#745

I didn’t say i agree with bombing holy sites, but i do find them to be useless, same with any churches or other religion-related buildings, it’s just such a waste of space and resources.

#746

Except their cultural, historical and technical significance is quite… significant.
And as a non-religious person you can’t judge the religious significance, to be honest.

#747

I disagree. There is historical and religious significance for the people who call these sites holy. Sure, to you and me, they may just be buildings, but then again, the human body is just an ambulatory piece of meat. It’s what we, as humans, consider significant.

You can wipe your ass with the flag of your country (it’s just a piece of fabric), but what it symbolizes is much more than the materials that make it up.

Religion is neither good nor bad. It can be used by good people to be even better…or cause good people to turn bad, and vice versa. Conversely, atheism is neither good nor bad as well.

By the way, what you’re espousing is not atheism; it’s antitheism.

Just keeping it straight. :slight_smile:

#748

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#749

He’s an interviewer. He has to play devil’s advocate to get some discussion into the program. That’s not hypocrisy, that’s television.

And I agree, we should be allowed to make fun of Muslims, and Muhammed, and Allah, as well as Jews, Christians, the holocaust, etc.

That’s not to say everyone should do it, and in many cases it would be insensitive, and you’d be an asshole to do it in those cases, but that doesn’t mean it should be illegal.

#750

but you know it’s funny, that he was cought red-handed with his own mouth, if you know what I mean.

#751

Unless it’s inciting hatred, there’s no reason what so ever for it to be illegal. You can’t get rid of something just because you find it offensive.

#752

Richard Dawkins said it best.

#753

I liked most of that, but I think he’s wrong about there being a logical pathway in religion to atrocious acts. Maybe this is true in orthodox circles of various religions, but in the more liberal religious sects people tend to make their own judgements with the help of their cleric, rather than being told what their judgements should be.

I also didn’t like the way he kept focusing on Islam, as if that was the only religion that was responsible for atrocities.

#754

so…Islamic terror hmmm that’s not the way we see it

#755

It’s still indirectly enabled by Islam, so technically it is.

#756

apparently you didn’t get the meaning of that sketch did ya ?

#757

I did.

Muslims have freakishly big hands.

#758

Of course I got the meaning of the sketch. They may not be Muslims in terms of the rules they follow in your eyes, but they’re still members of Islam.

#759

which we’re sadly disappointed about it.

#760

If you’re in a group, there are going to be dicks in it. That’s just how shit goes.

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