Comments on: The fabled Muslim religious tolerance strikes again http://www.yourish.com/2010/01/07/9795 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2010/01/07/9795/comment-page-1#comment-38899 Michael Lonie Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:21:19 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9795#comment-38899 "In November, hundreds of Muslim protesters torched Christian-owned shops in the town of Farshut, near Nagaa Hammadi, and attacked a police station where they believed the suspected rapist was being held." What those Muslims were doing used to be called lynching when practiced by whites in the Jim Crow South. This is the sort of tolerance Muslims have extended to religious minorities throughout the last 1300 or so years. They tell Christians and Jews "Be subservient and grovel, and pay huge poll taxes, and we'll let you live, until some Imam gets up on the wrong side of the bed and calls for a pogrom against you. But don't worry, that will be only temporary and will kill only a few of you. Unless somebody powerful decides you need to convert or else." It was a forced conversion threat that led Maimonides to leave the land of his birth in Al-Andulus. He had to travel to Egypt, ruled by a different dynasty, before he found refuge again. Today people under threat in the Muslim countries have to come to the West to escape it. But the threat is folowing them. “In November, hundreds of Muslim protesters torched Christian-owned shops in the town of Farshut, near Nagaa Hammadi, and attacked a police station where they believed the suspected rapist was being held.”

What those Muslims were doing used to be called lynching when practiced by whites in the Jim Crow South. This is the sort of tolerance Muslims have extended to religious minorities throughout the last 1300 or so years. They tell Christians and Jews “Be subservient and grovel, and pay huge poll taxes, and we’ll let you live, until some Imam gets up on the wrong side of the bed and calls for a pogrom against you. But don’t worry, that will be only temporary and will kill only a few of you. Unless somebody powerful decides you need to convert or else.”

It was a forced conversion threat that led Maimonides to leave the land of his birth in Al-Andulus. He had to travel to Egypt, ruled by a different dynasty, before he found refuge again.

Today people under threat in the Muslim countries have to come to the West to escape it. But the threat is folowing them.

]]> By: Herschel http://www.yourish.com/2010/01/07/9795/comment-page-1#comment-38898 Herschel Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:06:29 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9795#comment-38898 I remember how recently the western media got so inflamed over Switzerland’s decision to limit the amount of Muslim minarets in their country, not mosques. But completely ignored the lack of worship rights for Christians, mush less Jews in all of the Muslim controlled countries. I remember how recently the western media got so inflamed over Switzerland’s decision to limit the amount of Muslim minarets in their country, not mosques. But completely ignored the lack of worship rights for Christians, mush less Jews in all of the Muslim controlled countries.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2010/01/07/9795/comment-page-1#comment-38896 Alex Bensky Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:11:58 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9795#comment-38896 Certain groups, such as some among the Methodists, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians, waste no occasion to excoriate Israel for its misdeeds, incuding those it hasn't committed. About the persectuion of their co-religionists they say nothing at all. Perhaps there is some delicate sensitivity of their souls that is activated only by Jewish sins. Certain groups, such as some among the Methodists, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians, waste no occasion to excoriate Israel for its misdeeds, incuding those it hasn’t committed. About the persectuion of their co-religionists they say nothing at all. Perhaps there is some delicate sensitivity of their souls that is activated only by Jewish sins.

]]> By: Shtetl G http://www.yourish.com/2010/01/07/9795/comment-page-1#comment-38893 Shtetl G Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:18:47 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9795#comment-38893 Let me see if I understand things correctly. If a Muslim man rapes a christian woman, she is a whore who asked for it. If a Muslim man rapes a Muslim woman, she is whore who asked for it. If a Christian man rapes a Muslim woman, it is a crime worthy of 5 days of riots and looting against the people who did not commit the crime but happen to share the same religion. In my mind rape is a heinous crime no matter the religion of the victim or the perpetrator but that must be my "western" values seeping through. Am I really supposed to have a more "worldly" view on rape? We've come a long way baby. Let me see if I understand things correctly. If a Muslim man rapes a christian woman, she is a whore who asked for it. If a Muslim man rapes a Muslim woman, she is whore who asked for it. If a Christian man rapes a Muslim woman, it is a crime worthy of 5 days of riots and looting against the people who did not commit the crime but happen to share the same religion. In my mind rape is a heinous crime no matter the religion of the victim or the perpetrator but that must be my “western” values seeping through. Am I really supposed to have a more “worldly” view on rape? We’ve come a long way baby.

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