Something that has been bothering me about the Fort Hood shooting coverage.

[stof]

ultima said:

burning_phoneix said:

stof said: 

LOL, you're up against a few islamophobes. I don't see why some people think that all muslims are the same as the radical extremists. I have a few Muslim friends and they're really nice (as nice as any Christian or Jew).

Who said that!? I'm not talking about the people, I'm talking about the book (I have muslim friends too, though I don't see what that has to do with anything) The Quran is a book. Why should a book be above analysis? Well, perhaps because if your  a Danish Cartoonist, a Canadian Muslim journalist, a British Novelist or a Dutch film maker,  it might cause threats against your life or even murder. But aside from that. Why must "respect for religion" constitute refusing to acknowledge anything negative about what the founding documents say?

Here are some of the horrid things the old testament says. Does that acknowledgement make me a christiaphobe or anti semetic? 

Leviticus 20:9	If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.
20:10	If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
20:13	If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:20-1	If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house.
Exodus 35:2	For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.