A French teacher beheaded, chaos ensues, EU warns Turkey of sanctions

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JWeinCom said:

Eagle367 said:

Islam doesn't have a central organized thing like the papacy. It's very decentralized so there are more so local leaders than global leaders of the entire Muslim community ( not islamic community). But a lot of scholars have condemned these sorts of acts hundreds upon thousands of times. Any legitimate scholar of Islam condemns these acts.

That's a no true Scotsman fallacy. You can't just discount anyone who doesn't condemn it as not representative of Islam.

I don't know if I buy that these people are merely a fringe group. There are currently 16 Islamic countries where blasphemy can be punished by imprisonment or death. I'm not saying all of them would necessarily endorse beheading for drawing Muhammed, but that's a big chunk of the Muslim world where it would be illegal, and it's not surprising that kind of backdrop can foster extremism.

Islam is based on the Abrahamic faith.. More specifically the same religious context as the Bibles old testament and the Jewish Torah (Which was the first of the 3 religions.)

Where the Bible differs is with the New Testament.

The religion isn't the problem... It's the fact most Islamic nations are developing nations... And developing nations tend to have poorer human-rights standards... I mean you have a plethora of African nations which are primarily Christian and they use that religion to recruit child soldiers, behead people and more.

The religion isn't the problem. Religious extremism is the problem, ironically it's a right-wing religious problem. - Terrorists tend to be right-wing religious extremists... And that should be shut down.

TheBraveGallade said:
people are talking like cristianity wasn't this bad three centuries ago...
islam needs to be reformed, just as christianity has.

Not all Christian denominations have reformed though, you do have denominations which interpret the Bible or more specifically the Old Testament in it's literal form. Like the 7th day Adventists.

sales2099 said:

The religion needs reforming in the west at the very least. Sharia Law is not compatible with modern western civilization. Don’t get me started on women’s rights within it. People make fun of Jesus all the time but make fun of Islam and you risk getting your head chopped off. Radical minority or not this is the modern era not the dark ages. You don’t decapitate people in a modern society because someone made fun of your prophet. 

The French PM was right to condemn the attack for what it was. The crime was done with religious motivations plain and simple, being a radical minority aside.  

The Quran is based on the Bibles Old Testament... Ergo Sharia Law is based on the laws found in the Bibles Old Testament... Or more specifically has allot of commonality with the Law of Moses.
And the Bibles laws also have some harsh penalties like stoning for adultery in those laws.

I would argue religion in general is simply not compatible with modern western civilization, it holds progress back for something that has no evidence to substantiate any of it's claims anyway. (I.E. Equality for example.)