Knife attack in Munich, 1 dead - Islamism or not?

[Baltenstein]

The Iraq war is pretty much entirely loathed as is Vietnam, the Gulf War was entirely Saddam's fault for trying to invade everyone within reach, Israel makes a decent ally in the region even if I don't like them. So yeah, still not seeing where your people are oppressed or whatnot. Really the only place that happens is when your people oppress each other.

I'm a New Afrikan, so I was typing about my New Afrikan brothers and sisters. And if you believe everything the neo-colonial American gov says, sure, that's why.

What is a "New Afrikan"?

[Keshokif]

Oh fuck off. I doubt you've ever read anything of the Qur'an outside of what was taken out of context to support anti-Islam arguments.

Yes, the Qur'an and Islam have very warlike themes. Have you stopped to think that perhaps that was due to where and when Islam was born? Muhammad and his followers were constantly in conflict with the Arabic pagans who hounded them from the very beginning. So, naturally conflict is a common theme and something that had to be spoken on, just like slavery in Rome had to be spoken on by Paul and the Apostles in the New Testament.

And let me tell you this, I'm not a scholar of Islam by any means but from what I do know Muhammad was far more humane than his pagan opponents were.

Only if you fuck off first. I've read plenty of the qu'ran, including quite a few hadiths.
You know, it would have been forgiven if the initial idea was to have it be aggressive. Defend your own, whatnot. But that's not it, is it? It sure was DEFENDING when it pushed all the way into Spain. Defensively. Also, that dog ain't gonna hunt because, guess what, rape? Beheadings? Killing the jews? That is all still considered to be defensive actions, the result of being hounded by pagans? Wake up: violence is inherent to the quran and moslems.

Muhammad was far more humane? Toooootally. Next thing you'll be repeating pseudo-feminists who say that he was a feminist too.

Look at all the actions allowed in defending yourself, people. We're all soooooooooooo peaceful.

Most of these are true - or worse - for the Bible. It's pretty standard for religious texts.

[Washington Resistance Army]

The Iraq war is pretty much entirely loathed as is Vietnam, the Gulf War was entirely Saddam's fault for trying to invade everyone within reach, Israel makes a decent ally in the region even if I don't like them. So yeah, still not seeing where your people are oppressed or whatnot. Really the only place that happens is when your people oppress each other.

I'm a New Afrikan, so I was typing about my New Afrikan brothers and sisters. And if you believe everything the neo-colonial American gov says, sure, that's why.

It's not about believing what the "neo-colonial" government says, it's all right out there.

Likewise, your "Afrikan" (it's spelled with a C in English fyi, which I'm assuming is your mother tongue) brothers and sisters aren't oppressed in the west. Sure I'll admit they have it a bit harder due to economic issues and whatnot, but there's no systemic widespread oppression like you seem to believe.

I'm a New Afrikan, so I was typing about my New Afrikan brothers and sisters. And if you believe everything the neo-colonial American gov says, sure, that's why.

What is a "New Afrikan"?

Some stupid shit from the 1960's where a bunch of black nationalists wanted to carve out an ethnic state in the southern US and force the fed to pay them reparations.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Oh fuck off. I doubt you've ever read anything of the Qur'an outside of what was taken out of context to support anti-Islam arguments.

Yes, the Qur'an and Islam have very warlike themes. Have you stopped to think that perhaps that was due to where and when Islam was born? Muhammad and his followers were constantly in conflict with the Arabic pagans who hounded them from the very beginning. So, naturally conflict is a common theme and something that had to be spoken on, just like slavery in Rome had to be spoken on by Paul and the Apostles in the New Testament.

And let me tell you this, I'm not a scholar of Islam by any means but from what I do know Muhammad was far more humane than his pagan opponents were.

Only if you fuck off first. I've read plenty of the qu'ran, including quite a few hadiths.
You know, it would have been forgiven if the initial idea was to have it be aggressive. Defend your own, whatnot. But that's not it, is it? It sure was DEFENDING when it pushed all the way into Spain. Defensively. Also, that dog ain't gonna hunt because, guess what, rape? Beheadings? Killing the jews? That is all still considered to be defensive actions, the result of being hounded by pagans? Wake up: violence is inherent to the quran and moslems.

Muhammad was far more humane? Toooootally. Next thing you'll be repeating pseudo-feminists who say that he was a feminist too.

Look at all the actions allowed in defending yourself, people. We're all soooooooooooo peaceful.

The Bible is not exactly a tome of love and peace either, to be fair.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

I'm a New Afrikan, so I was typing about my New Afrikan brothers and sisters. And if you believe everything the neo-colonial American gov says, sure, that's why.

What is a "New Afrikan"?

Further questions, why is he using the German spelling?

[Kubumba Tribe]

I'm a New Afrikan, so I was typing about my New Afrikan brothers and sisters. And if you believe everything the neo-colonial American gov says, sure, that's why.

What is a "New Afrikan"?

A person of Afrikan descent living in the Afrikan diaspora. Usually in neo-colonial America.

[Purple Robed Empire]

Africa has also been catching up, being further behind India and China to begin with it is going to take more time for it to be obvious. Africa started so far behind that it will take decades of above average growth for it to be evident. The Southern US has had a faster growth rate than the North since the 1970s and it still hasn't caught up and it was far less far behind than Africa. For Africa to get caught up to even 1940s US is going to take it a century or more no matter what anyone does. An economy can only grow so fast.

The reason Afrika's behind is the West.

Africa has been behind long before the Europeans had any real influence on it. Sub-Saharan Africa is poor mainly because it is cut off from Eurasia by desert and its own jungles. It is full of megafauna that is an actual threat to man, while Europe and Asia have few . It has relatively few fast flowing rivers for its size in which you can travel quickly by boat while Europe in particular has many. Europe also has many ports and harbors for its size. It has fast growing vegetation which makes road building difficult. In short Africa is a place that it is difficult to get people and ideas to move around while in Europe it is easy. There are reasons Eurasians have been ahead in technology in respect to Sub-Saharan Africa for thousands of years.

[Kubumba Tribe]

What is a "New Afrikan"?

Further questions, why is he using the German spelling?

Many Afrikan languages use this spelling too.

[Kubumba Tribe]

The reason Afrika's behind is the West.

Africa has been behind long before the Europeans had any real influence on it. Sub-Saharan Africa is poor mainly because it is cut off from Eurasia by desert and its own jungles. It is full of megafauna that is an actual threat to man, while Europe and Asia have few . It has relatively few fast flowing rivers for its size in which you can travel quickly by boat while Europe in particular has many. Europe also has many ports and harbors for its size. It has fast growing vegetation which makes road building difficult. In short Africa is a place that it is difficult to get people and ideas to move around while in Europe it is easy. There are reasons Eurasians have been ahead in technology in respect to Sub-Saharan Africa for thousands of years.

That's why there's Afrikan civilizations all across the Motherland.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Further questions, why is he using the German spelling?

Many Afrikan languages use this spelling too.

You're not African though.

[Kubumba Tribe]

Many Afrikan languages use this spelling too.

You're not African though.

I am too.

[Washington Resistance Army]

You're not African though.

I am too.

Unless you were born in Africa, no you aren't. No more than I am Scottish.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Further questions, why is he using the German spelling?

Many Afrikan languages use this spelling too.

Fair, except you're speaking English. Not Xhosa, Yoruba, etc.

[Braecland]

Only if you fuck off first. I've read plenty of the qu'ran, including quite a few hadiths.
You know, it would have been forgiven if the initial idea was to have it be aggressive. Defend your own, whatnot. But that's not it, is it? It sure was DEFENDING when it pushed all the way into Spain. Defensively. Also, that dog ain't gonna hunt because, guess what, rape? Beheadings? Killing the jews? That is all still considered to be defensive actions, the result of being hounded by pagans? Wake up: violence is inherent to the quran and moslems.

Muhammad was far more humane? Toooootally. Next thing you'll be repeating pseudo-feminists who say that he was a feminist too.

Look at all the actions allowed in defending yourself, people. We're all soooooooooooo peaceful.

The Bible is not exactly a tome of love and peace either, to be fair.

No it's not, you're right but why does everyone feel the need to compare another religion's text instead of condemning it? It doesn't make it okay if something else is bad too.

[Kubumba Tribe]

Many Afrikan languages use this spelling too.

Fair, except you're speaking English. Not Xhosa, Yoruba, etc.

I'd rather speak very little of my ancestral language (if only I knew what it) or someone else's than use a language that was forced upon my ancestors.

[Kubumba Tribe]

I am too.

Unless you were born in Africa, no you aren't. No more than I am Scottish.

I wasn't. That's why I use the denonym 'New Afrikan'

[Keshokif]

The Bible is not exactly a tome of love and peace either, to be fair.

No it's not, you're right but why does everyone feel the need to compare another religion's text instead of condemning it? It doesn't make it okay if something else is bad too.

No, but it does make the selective condemning of one religion over another hypocritical. As an atheist, I decry all religion. However, as a humanist, I think that oppressing one religious group over another is also hypocritical, and hence, I support muslims.

[Chinese Peoples]

Needless to say, it will still add fuel to the Right-wing's current rise.

I'm of the opinion that using religion as a pretext is different from actually committing a crime for religion.

[Stormopolis]

The Bible is not exactly a tome of love and peace either, to be fair.

While this is true, there are a few supreme difference between the two.

1) Most of the nasty shit is in the Old Testament, which is no longer being lived by by the Christians. We'd be little better than the moslems if we still stoned people, which was common practice in the OT. For instance, unmarried wives with hair showing? Stone them all!

2) There was a little happening called the Enlightenment. It changed a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot about Christianity.

3) At worst, christianity has the westboro baptist church that pickets funerals. Annoying but not lethal. Buddhists will hold up traffic on the sidewalk so that nobody tramples on the ladybug sitting there. Worst excesses of Islam? Well. Burning people in cages. Training children to be terrorists. (Shout out to my peeps in the Gaza Strip, who play such rousing games as "Navigate the tunnel underneath Israel" and "Kill the Yehudi soldier").

It is beyond me why people still take islam under their wing and defend it. Nothing good has come of it. Inventions? oh yeeeees. All those things they claimed to have invented? Those were done in Baghdad, where people of ALL STRIPES studied. Or take a look at modern science. The Nobel Peace Prize is all moslems won, no other Nobel prize. And worse yet, they didn't even win the prizes on their own.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Fair, except you're speaking English. Not Xhosa, Yoruba, etc.

I'd rather speak very little of my ancestral language (if only I knew what it) or someone else's than use a language that was forced upon my ancestors.

I guess that one little "k" in Africa cleanses your palate of this vile heathen tongue that you are consistently speaking then.

[Purple Robed Empire]

Only if you fuck off first. I've read plenty of the qu'ran, including quite a few hadiths.
You know, it would have been forgiven if the initial idea was to have it be aggressive. Defend your own, whatnot. But that's not it, is it? It sure was DEFENDING when it pushed all the way into Spain. Defensively. Also, that dog ain't gonna hunt because, guess what, rape? Beheadings? Killing the jews? That is all still considered to be defensive actions, the result of being hounded by pagans? Wake up: violence is inherent to the quran and moslems.

Muhammad was far more humane? Toooootally. Next thing you'll be repeating pseudo-feminists who say that he was a feminist too.

Look at all the actions allowed in defending yourself, people. We're all soooooooooooo peaceful.

The Bible is not exactly a tome of love and peace either, to be fair.

How many Christians these days are blowing themselves up to kill others in the name of Jesus Christ?

[Stormopolis]

The Bible is not exactly a tome of love and peace either, to be fair.

No it's not, you're right but why does everyone feel the need to compare another religion's text instead of condemning it? It doesn't make it okay if something else is bad too.

Agreed with you here. The "They did it too!" defense is hardly credible. You'd have more luck trying the Chewbacca Defense.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Unless you were born in Africa, no you aren't. No more than I am Scottish.

I wasn't. That's why I use the denonym 'New Afrikan'

Or you could just be an American like everyone else. I mean, you don't see me trying to sprinkle in Gaelic with my English because my ancestors spoke it.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Unless you were born in Africa, no you aren't. No more than I am Scottish.

I wasn't. That's why I use the denonym 'New Afrikan'

Are demonyms like orientations on tumblr now where we can just make them up?

[Kubumba Tribe]

I'd rather speak very little of my ancestral language (if only I knew what it) or someone else's than use a language that was forced upon my ancestors.

I guess that one little "k" in Africa cleanses your palate of this vile heathen tongue that you are consistently speaking then.

I never called English heathen. And it's a start.