By mature you mean they have learned to portray a more moderate public face so they can play politics. Their ideology and motto remain the same. "Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and dying in the way of Allah is the highest of our aspirations."
The madrassas also teach writing, reading and some basic math. Pakistan seems to have been in turmoil a long, long time.. Its hindered their development in education, healthcare and infrastructure. - - - Updated - - - No.. They really have changed....
Not really. The reading is so they can read the Koran. Changed to portray a moderate public face, but the ideology remains the same.
We never have control, only influence. Control is an illusion... you may have noticed my nic. Once you let that go you realize that you CAN apply influence... like in Guatemala, Laos, Cuba, Libya... etc. etc. Sometimes you get a Bay of Pigs, or a Benghazi... sometimes you get cheap bananas. You just have to be a bit of a gambler...
Thanks for that clarification, and now I understand why I hit a nerve with the question. Think about this for a minute...I can say the phrase "you're dead to me", but that doesn't mean I really hope you were dead. I can say "If he does that again I'll kill em'", but I won't actualy murder them. And those are the sayings of the day now. It may have meant what you said then, I don't know, but it's a stretch to use quotes from 1000+ years ago and imply that the majority of Muslims today want to "Fight" "kill" "slay" and "smite the necks" of Christians and westerners, and that's why we should pre-emptivelly kill them, or outlaw them in the US You'll be up way past your bed time convincing me of the opposite, because unlike you, and whatshisname I repsonded to, I've been there, and you haven't, which makes your views fundamentally ignorant.
I've never made the mistake of confusing the two, and the Muslim Brotherhood refers to itself as the Ikhwan: http://www.ikhwanweb.com/
Except here we are talking about the word of allah, commandments for the believers to follow. Not common phrases. As well we have the precedent of Muhammad who actually did "Fight" "kill" "slay" and "smite the necks" of the unbelievers to demonstrate the meaning.
You saw what happen to Mandela in jail , prohibitions only makes them stronger and it is a display of weakness by the establishment.
That was a long time ago, and pretty much all religions, governments, and people were "Fighting" "killing" "slaying" and "smiting the necks" of just about anyone to demonstrate power, meaning, and everything else. The vast majority of Muslim terrorists today, which are a small fraction of Muslims, are anti western because of Israel and the US. Not simply because they're out to get Jews and Christians because the Q'uran might say so. I know you've been convinced otherwise, and abviously for you, hating both Muslims and gays is an insidious form of amusement. So who am I to spoil the fun for you.
Actually, most of it is offensive. Again, we have the precedent of Muhammad's actions to demonstrate this. Thats why within 80 years of Muhammads death we had Muslims waging OFFENSIVE jihad against Spain in the West and Afghanistan in the East. Immediately after Muhammads death the Islamic Caliphate waged the wars of apostasy not in defense, but instead to compell the tribes to continue paying the tax to Mecca.
Only Islam commands the believers to fight, kill, slay and smite the necks of the unbelievers "UNTIL religion should only be for allah". Thats why the killing by muslims continue today because religion is not yet only for allah, and old testament stonings of adulteress women are unheard of today.
But you haven't proven what percentage of violence perpetrated by Muslims is because of that, or just plain brutal pre-Islamic tradition (like honor killings), or anti western sentiment
Ive made no assertions as to what percentage of violence perpetrated by Muslims is because of that, so there is no need to prove what the percentage is.
Maybe it's better for you that way, because if you found out how few of the world's Muslims are actually dangerous to the west or Christians, you'd have no reason to hate Muslims anymore...but look at the bright side, you could use all your time hating gays.
I don't hate muslims or gays. Got anything relevant to the topic of discussion?..... I didn't think so.
"The Greater Israel Project a long-standing Zionist scheme to steal all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates is halfway there. They just stole the Nile. The problem is not that Egypts new thug-in-chief, General Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, is a Jew. (His mother, Malikah Titani, is a Moroccan Jew from Asefi, which makes al-Sisi a Jew and an automatic citizen of Israel.) If the Egyptian people want to elect a Jewish president in a free and fair election like they elected the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to the Lower House with 73% of the vote, the Upper House with 80% of the vote, the presidency with 52% of the vote, and approved the MB Constitution with 64% of the vote thats fine with me. The problem is that al-Sisi has concealed his Jewish identity and Israeli connections from the Egyptian people and destroyed their nascent democracy through deception and mass murder. An even bigger problem: al-Sisi is almost certainly a Mossad agent. That means al-Sisis Egypt is not just a brutal, banana-republic-style dictatorship. It is Israeli-occupied territory: The newest and largest province of ever-expanding Greater Israel. No wonder the Israeli ambassador called al-Sisi a national hero for all Jews. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/16/al-sisi-jew/