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[flotsam]

I say no. But then again, I don't believe in evil.

Any thoughts from anyone else? Nobody particular in mind...

[bigverne]

No. But then again, I do believe that some people could be described as 'evil'. What a ridiculous thread.

[Guri Guy]

Ummm.....isn't that tarring everyone with the same brush? I asure there are good and bad Muslims just like there are good and bad Christians or good and bad Buddhists etc.

[flotsam]

[bigverne]

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[SPINOZA]

If I was world dictator - Jesus Hitler, Adolf Christ, torn between good and evil and returning via reincarnation for mankind's salva-elimination - Jews, Christians and Muslims would have to clean up their act. These folks really wouldn't have a fun time. Yet at the same I can acknowledge it's very hypocritical of me to say that because I come from a culture (as we all do who post on this board - we're all from the same culture) whose religion is money. And frankly we're more of a destructive force than any of the religions. I just personally don't take kindly to people of religion and their myth-based self-agrandisement. We basically need to invent thermonuclear energy, or perhaps use solar power (whereby one day's sunlight is sufficient energy for 100 days potentially). Then we can let Darwinism take its course.

[bigverne]

[jaganath69]

I'm a Muslim and I am very evil. I'm off out to have a beer and pull the wings off of flies. My evil Muslim missus is busy throwing rocks at kids in the meantime.

[jmbran11]

Of course all Muslims are not evil, but that doesn't change the fact that Islamic states are some (but not all) of the most oppressive regimes on the face of the earth. I speak particularly to the treatment of women, which travels far beyond "cultural norms" to being a fundamental violation of human rights. In my humble opinion, that is evil.

Does that mean that all Muslims are evil? Of course not. I think the Spanish Inquisition was evil, but I don't blame all Catholics. I think the Chinese Cultural Revolution was evil, but I don't feel the need to bash the Chinese people. I think America's Klu Klux Klan is evil, but I don't hate all Caucasians. An educated, enlightened person can separate a dangerous ideology from a human being.

However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't oppose a dangerous political movement because we don't want to appear un-p.c. We have a responsibility to those who can't defend themselves. . . "When good men do nothing . . . blah, blah, blah . . ." When leaders of modern nations go on record stating that they hope to wipe another country off the map (i.e. Israel), we should strongly oppose them. Just like we should have opposed Hitler in the Sudentland (spelling?); just like we should have opposed the Taliban when they enslaved women (years before we decided it was the "moral" thing to do to extract revenge).

Asserting that some Buddhists (or Christians or Hindus or Santeristas) also do bad things is no excuse. We don't say that the Holocaust wasn't so bad because the Japanese were abusing Korean comfort women. It's a childish argument.

And, though I oppose President Bush's policies to my very core, the truth is that people in the "red states" are not as dangerous because they have jobs and families and economic opportunites, so they don't have as much time and energy to organize murders in the name of righteous revenge. It's people with little economic opportunity who see that kind of activity as a reasonable, viable alternative. Now, we could address the West's responsibility in that regard, but that's a whole other thread.

Finally, I come from a long line of "rednecks", so maybe you could lay off a bit on that group. Generalizing that rednecks are wife-beaters is no better than generalizing that all Muslims are suicide bombers. Of course, it's much more politically correct, so kudos to you.

Just for the record, studies show that domestic violence is roughly equal among all societies. But maybe it's just easier to stereotype. After all, all Muslims are evil, aren't they?

[bigverne]

[Muffin]

Certainly not! My lovely boyfriend is a muslim and someone less evil would be hard to find.

I have lived with muslim people for a lot of the past few years as I used to let my spare room to foreign students at home. Because I was willing to take in muslims I usually got them because other families often refused. I can honestly say they were all a pleasure to live with.

My last host student was a Korean guy and he treated me far less respectfully than the Arabs, Kurds and Turks.

Of course that is not to condone Islamic fundamentalism and the ideology of the jihad crazy fanatics. They are evil, no doubt about that.

I also have no belief in the Islamic creed.

As individuals though most of them are warm and kind and humorous.