Do we have any Muslims here?

[amy31416]

I just have the religion forum on ignore now. So much hate and rancour brews there, and I fail to see how it belongs on this site.

I'm scratching my head about the neo-Nazi comparison. It seems we can't win. We're always being told that we're Jew haters and Muslim lovers (meant as a pejorative, of course). This is the first time I've heard we're also anti-Muslim. Now, if what you speak of came from the religious forum, do what I do and put it on ignore.

It is very, very rarely enlightening. I usually skip it most days.

 

[Todd]

Did you chase them away, for liberty?

Bingo.. not necessarily Sola...but I remember someone did.



Nevermind....I see IBaghdadi is back... Welcome back.

 

[ibaghdadi]

I just have the religion forum on ignore now. So much hate and rancour brews there, and I fail to see how it belongs on this site.

I don't see how it belongs here either. I'm here to talk about liberty, not religion. However the fact is that (being an Arab Muslim) I would tend to use different references and talk from a different context (although I'd generally be talking about the same thing as everyone else), and that would regularly lead to discussions about my Islamic background, and then it's a slippery slope from there...

On a totally different note, I'm back to browsing the forums after a (nearly) 3 year break and - if I may offer some constructive criticism - I find that they've tended to become more insular. I may be completely wrong (in fact, there's more chances that I'm wrong than I'm right), but it seems that the "liberty movement" here hasn't been doing a lot of moving (walking in place?)

But again, I may be completely wrong and I apologize if I am.

 

[MelissaWV]

I don't see how it belongs here either. I'm here to talk about liberty, not religion. However the fact is that (being an Arab Muslim) I would tend to use different references and talk from a different context (although I'd generally be talking about the same thing as everyone else), and that would regularly lead to discussions about my Islamic background, and then it's a slippery slope from there...

On a totally different note, I'm back to browsing the forums after a (nearly) 3 year break and - if I may offer some constructive criticism - I find that they've tended to become more insular. I may be completely wrong (in fact, there's more chances that I'm wrong than I'm right), but it seems that the "liberty movement" here hasn't been doing a lot of moving (walking in place?)

But again, I may be completely wrong and I apologize if I am.

The moving is more difficult, and efforts put forth by those who would like to continue moving must manage to get around the boulders and sinkholes peppering the uphill path towards even a tiny gain. There are a lot of people walking in place, whether due to having given up or because they never wanted to move in the first place. That's life between big battles: even those who are more aware than the average person still seem to activate only when it's a presidential election year.

wb btw

 

[Jamesiv1]

So in your view, Iraq and Afghanistan were Christian crusades?

No, they were Bankster and Oil Mafia crusades. Same as the 'original' crusades.

That they were initiated by a so-called Christian nation is inconsequential.

 

[Jamesiv1]

I remember the last time he posted, I pointed out that the execution of homosexuals, which is prescribed in Sharia, is not a liberty position. He was defending it. And then other people starting piling on and calling him out for it. It wasn't me.

The liberty position is to leave other countries and cultures the hell alone.

Do unto others.

If you live in a glass house.