Islamists call for the destruction of the pyramids

That's only because we have a culture that doesn't permit it. Put those same people in a culture that does and they most likely would.

Besides, no one is destroying pyramids either. Maybe the OP should start crying about that when it actually happens as well.

It's all about the culture, not the particular religion.

 

and christians, who compromise the great majority of this country and are the great majority of the law makers in this country, follow the laws for the most part dont they??? yep sure do.

and it probably will happen, wouldnt doubt Islamists using a few hundred kids for bombs if they dont get their way.

 

Particular religion has nothing to do with it. You think someone of a certain religion is inherently more law abiding?....

The majority of Christians in this country are peaceful because they grew up in a society with more liberal ideals. If they grew up in a society with a more fundamentalist culture they would almost certainly be committing similar violent actions.

Explains why the majority of Muslims in this country are law abiding and peaceful as well.

 

Wrong.

Didn't even read all of the OP that was four whole paragraphs, did you? It's in the third paragraph.

 

ANd I abhor any efforts to destroy what is, undoubtedly, the greatest single accomplishment of mankind two thousand years before Christ. My guess is, most muslims, from Egypt or anywhere else, do as well.

 

as a side note, and I think that those who have been there would agree... the photos we see of the sphinx and the pyramids tend to make it look like the former is on a scale similar to the latter. Having expected that proportion myself, I was, as I have said, OVER-FREAKIN'-WHELMED by the size of the pyramids and underwhelmed at the size of the sphinx.

 

It's an ISLAMIC thing. All these people are of the Islamic "faith".

[video=youtube;a7RnZJERRQY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7RnZJERRQY[/video]

This man was beheaded by his head being sawed off with a knife. This was in Tunisia, an Islamic country.
His "crime" was converting to Christianity.

I hate to have to use Wiki, but this sums it up pretty accurately:

 

Not all Muslims believe in that....wtf don't you understand about that? Every religion has many people within that religion with a wide range of beliefs and ideals but somehow Islam is the only religion on earth where everyone believes in the exact same atrocious things?

You need to get out and look at the world a bit and think rationally about what you are saying. A country at war with a certain people always does its best to demonize everyone part of that group to try and dehumanize them. That's war propaganda 101. We did it with the Japanese during WWII (and we both know the stupid mistake that led to) and now were doing it to Muslims now. It's not right, but you bought into it. Too bad.

 

I am quite sure that the vast majority of muslims do not approve of that sort of thing...

I am not entirely sure you could say the same thing about fifteenth century Christians and their feelings about the work of Tomás de Torquemada, however.

 

Never said I did. BUT this sort of behavior is far from uncommon, whereas it should be NEVER.

 

Agreed. That's not a battle against Islam though. That's a battle against an effed up culture and government.

 

Are you?

Christianity doesn't not "live" in the fifteenth century and has long ago evolved from the "fire and brimstone" barbarism.

Islam is still in many ways and places is nearer to the 6th century when it was founded....and has not progressed in tone - or we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

These clerics who want to demolish these historical treasures are of the tone.

And this destruction of historical monuments by radical Islamists is going on NOW in many other places. Research it.

 

I wouldn't be so sure.

Have you also noticed that "they" ALWAYS go for the nose! and leave everything else in tact?

 

having lived in a muslim country and traveled to several others, I am quite sure. Radical Islam is just as much of a fringe element in Islamic society as radical "operation rescue" types are in Christianity.

Christianity had a six century head start, don't forget.

 

...So?

 

This is what we are dealing with. This has nothing to do with religion it is all about control. The clerics love the power and money they have and will do anything to keep this control. When you talk about fanatics they are at the top of the list.

 

you think liberals or conservative had anything to do with how things changed within a religion??? wrong, because back in the day democrats were racist, well still are, and republicans were the ones fighting for freedom of slavery. liberal today does not stand as the same thing of liberal of then, it was not a political idealogy that changed people, it was an evolution of thinking and way of life.

christians,for the most part, have simply grown up and left the dark ages behind unlike muslims who want the dark ages to exist. christians became civilized as did most of the rest of the world. and if you want to try and say liberal thinking made the USA this way you are wrong because europeans left for America to get away from their "liberal" ideals, the first americans were simply prudes and didnt want no part of the lawlessness a sex cravings of europe lol.

i could give you a history lesson but it sure as hell wouldnt do any good, you are gonna disregard fact and just stay on your "liberals are the reason we are nice" bull(*)(*)(*)(*).

you cant throw around the word liberal and conservative as it applies today,there were no liberals or conservatives as it applies today. simple evolution and better education mad this country and alot of the rest of the world the way it is. Muslims who are 100% about their religion are the reason the ME and arts of Asia are the murderous crap holes they are still and probably will be for another 500-600 years if not more.

muslims are die hard, christians stopped following the OT.

this discussion is way to big to be simply narrowed down to a dumb ass liberal and conservative cat fight.

 

you have to go back to the fifteenth century to make a point??? how about today or do you not have any true examples? we live in today dude, not 600 years ago. simple, christians by great majority left that (*)(*)(*)(*) behind, in muslim culture that 15th century bullsht is still common place.

but yeah, lets pretend 2 wrongs make a right.

 

Covering them in wax ...?

What a weird idea.

Don't mess with the pyramids.

 

I love and am overwhelmed by the pyramids when seen at a distance, say on the corniche driving south into town. Just magnificent. My other favorite view of them is approaching them from the desert road on the trip from alex ( Alexandria) to Cairo.

 

sometimes also includes the labia as well.

 

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Hmmm, I am not sure that Christianity gives women the right to inherit

 

And Timothy McVey was an AMERICAN

 

christain women inheret all the time. remember, christians have moved on from the dark ages, muslim wont.

 

You should remember that Islam, from its founding guaranteed women the right to divorce, the right to inherit, the right to have custody of their children, the right to consent in a marriage. These things rights were not given to women in Judaism or in Christianity but they were given to women by Islam at its inception.