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 A Muslim woman attends an interfaith vigil for September 11 victims in Boston last fall.
April 21st, 2013
08:36 PM ET
Opinion: Don't scapegoat a faith for bombings
By Farhana Khera, Special to CNN (CNN) - Like so many Americans across the country, I was shocked when I heard of the attacks at the Boston Marathon. A part of me immediately traveled back to when I was cheering runners myself as a student at Wellesley College, the midpoint for the marathon, a time when such dangers as bombings never crossed our minds. Boston is an indelible part in the personal history and identity of those who have lived or attended school in the city. That someone had detonated bombs at an event that symbolized unity in a place known for its rich diversity and as a birthplace of our nation's freedom was heartbreaking. FULL COMMENTARY
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SHUT THE HELL UP MOHAMMAD
World belongs to truth absolute GOD, and Islam is based and reviled by truth absolute GOD, no need to know size of the world, because human have no way to know it, but undeniable fact remains, world belongs to truth absolute GOD, under domain of followers of truth absolute GOD, regardless , what a claimed child of hindu primate, ignorant secular by nature had to say about it.
My camel-toe evolved an opposable thumb but it is too small.
Islam, wants, boom. We, say, go.
looks like camel owns human like hindu, ignorant like you, not other way around, as you hind lie, by your hindu secular ism, filthy self center ism.
DONKEY LOVING SISTER TOUCHER MOHAMMAD A DAR
Islam, needs, young, to go, boom. Old, want to, live. Funny.
Asked previously:
Please illustrate exactly how Islam is the foundation of the United States Constitution.
Is it right to lie for ANY religion?
Very hard to realize for a hindu ignorant, by the way, both houses of congress are in circular form and topped with Minaret of Islamic form, Why, figure it out, if you can.
@ ISLAM FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN CONSTI TUTION
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So Islam troll – you think because the Capitol was designed with a central dome that this design was to denote Islam as the foundation of the Constitution? LOL. Listen IFOAC, the problem is that you are fvcking nuts.
If one is a hindu ignorant by faith in hindu secular ism, ignorant self center ism, and is unable to realize truth absolute, not my fault, lay it on languor, secular, every hindu secular believes to be his father.
So you can't answer, Islamabot; admit that you can't because you made it up and let's move on.
Islam troll – you are a complete idiot.
Yes it had some thing to do with faith, faith in hindu secular ism, criminal self center ism, foundation of hind criminality called hinduism, denial of truth absolute. Every hindu racist believes in as his faith. Other wise known as dog ism, secular ism.
Please excuse the interruption. We are a class of middle-school children from the future. We are on a field trip and we have time-skipped back to monitor the progression of CNN's Belief Blog posts and replies involving "Chad" (currently on page 2). It is well known in our time that "Chad" greatly benefited the people of our time by illuminating the absurdity of religious belief in his time.
Please stop by the trailer, I have more secretion for the flux-capacitor ready.
Chad
My cousin has been on a crusade around the USA preaching against the evils of Drugs and Alcohol addiction for several years. His companion, Brother Jim, was a major part of the sermon. Jim never spoke, but he would sit on a stool at the end of the stage, staring blankly ahead, belching, farting, scratching his junk, and frequently drooling. This example of what substance abuse can do to a mind was a necessary part of the crusade.
My point: Brother Jim has been called home by god, and my cousin needs a replacement. So Chad, are you busy until august?
My camel-toe would do it but in the summer the pool needs a lifeguard.
Do you pathetic christians ever think?
When you roll out the names of Pol Pot and Stalin.. do you immediately place the blame on that one person? Do you seriously expect your argument to hold any substance?
Imagine Pol Pot and Stalin – just by their own lonesome – being able to mass murder all those number of people. Oh no.. wait they had people with the ideologies imbedded into their minds and followed the chain of command to initiate the killings..
Oh I would never have guessed that was how it was done. XD
They were hindu secular s, criminal self centered, way of hindu primates adopted by hindu criminal human as their faith, called hindusim, denial of truth absolute GOD.
Islam, can eat, sh!t. It does.
I have been stuck here before but I don't remember the smell.
Every hindu filthy skunk has same problem, he forgets all the time, he is the only one hindu stinky around.
Salacious bomber smile and die
Vengeful father kill and cry
Baby baby, this is yours now
I DO hold Islam responsible for (i) keeping its females totally subdued; (ii) providing a proor and backward education for its own people that often involves ignoring science and history to fit into the 6th Century view of the World as dictated by the Qur'an; (iii) impsing a backwards and brutal civil and criminal code on its people; and (iv) generally ensuring that Muslim countries are invariably the lowest, most backward in the World, despite often having vast, vast amounts of oil wealth..
The word Jew-ish is not written in the Bible. They added themselves to their plagues (Revelation 22:18) That is the synagogue of Satan. Those who followed Cain the first murderer. How did those Jewish folks get into Germany?
A fvck nut babble poster will always be a fvck nut babble poster.
Did you know Jesus was a Jew?
Did you know that what Jesus did was for Jews and not intended for others?
Jesus wanted to fix the Jewish religion not start his own.
You do not follow Jesus, you follow what men wrote to control you.
meifumundo,
Can you verify why Jesus was doing something only for the Jews? there again, is there any Jesus , savior, is we can not even trust his closest followers. Jude. Was he not the half brother of Jesus. And were Peter and Paul disciples?
Give me a break. There is no way the Messiah of the World would be hindered by Jews or an individual with a scandalous and intimidated opinion. You are intimidated by the Lord of salvation. This is why you scramble for deluded meaning.
"And were Peter and Paul disciples?" – Peter was, Paul was an apostle, not a disciple (except in his own mind). Paul changed the religion of Jesus (apolocypitic jew) into a religion ABOUT Jesus (the sacrificial redemption).
If a guy wearing a red tarbush walks into a shop and detonates a bomb- and this is followed by thousands more similar acts by red tarbush wearing guys over say, two decades, we are all going to be wary of guys in red tarbush hats. At some point its going to occur to people that something is really very wrong with what these people are buying into.
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all have had their periods of extreme barbarism...but nobody is supposed to notice. When you have the POTUS on national TV saying "God wills it " before launching a war, Talking about demons with other heads of state??? (Gog and Magog?) – when you have young men shouting "God is great" before they martyr themselves or shoot a woman in the back, then there is a problem with the BS religion these people are subscribing to and should absolutely be called to account.
Atheists like Stalin/Mao/etc. killed more people than all wars put together in human history
The good christian wants their lies to be truth. Always want to roll out Pol Pot and Stalin...too funny.
Jesus...this tired old line? Not for religious purposes...they didn't give a lick about religion....they killed all who they viewed as a threat to their power.
Even so...how does one batsheet crazy act justify another?
false stats
The atheists you say did not kill because of atheism...it was not that belief that they did it for...they did it to control the populations.
The millions upon millions of believers (various religions) kill in their gods name.
See the difference. Your post is a lie of obfuscation (obscure the truth with a portion of the truth)
I don't recall anyone shouting "in the name of atheism" or "atheism is great!" before shooting anyone.
I may be wrong, of course, but I just don't recall it.
Human life span = approx: 70 – 80 years on average.
60 second x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 365 days x 80 years
Total time of lifespan [in seconds]
== 2,522,880,000
Dividing that number by 5 seconds per killing..
Maximum number of deaths.
== 504,576,000
**No eating, no sleeping, no other doings. Except killings. The people who lined themselves up to be killed would really have to wait their turn.
@ Stats
However they did not kill in the name of atheism, The things they did were for political reasons.
My camel-toe fixed the truck but I can't find my wrench.
No group should become a sca pegoat for any culture, just because of the actions of a few.
It was wrong when it happened to the Jewish, Roma, H om o se xuals, Muslims...etc in the past and it's still wrong today.
Blaming a majority for the actions of a tiny minority is a sign of intellectual weakness.
Segoy, I agree with your statement in this way; it is not just Muslims. Christians and Jews are equally to blame for willfully suspending critital thinking in favor of lunacy.
Neither were secretions of flatulence of blessed Potpourri a toilet bowl, so is Islam, but way of feces in following of smell absolute FLATULENT, foundation of american consti pation. called TP Porcelain Throne, Urinal, consti pation of excrement absolute FLATULENT, religions are smelly corruption of true human waste by port-a-potty air freshener s, criminal self-wiped to make humanity their genital.slave.
o On the koranic passages and world domination:
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"Mohammed could not have known the size of the world, but several passages in the Koran show that he envisioned Islam dominating all of it, however large it might be: “He it is who sent his messenger . . . that he may cause it [Islam] to prevail over all religions´(Koran 9:33, M.M. Ali; see also 48:28 and 61:9). M.M. Ali designates these three passages as “the prophecy of the ultimate triumph of Islam in the whole world.”
Mohammed’s successors, the caliphs, quoted passages like these to inspire Muslim armies as they advanced out of Arabia, imposing Islam by the sword upon a peacefully unsuspecting Middle East and North Africa, as I described in the previous chapter.
Islamic armies, imbued with what Mohammed claimed was divine authorization, imposed Islam by force over vast areas, all the while extorting wealth from subjugated Jews and Christians to fund their ongoing conquests. As I noted, major defeats at Tours, France, in A.D. 732, and again at Vienna, Austria, in A.D. 1683, halted Islam’s attempt to take all of Europe by force. Gradually Islamic forces were forced to retreat from Europe, except for part of the Balkans. But Islam has again set its sights on a conquest of Europe and of European civilization, wherever the latter has spread to North and South America and other regions. Muslim strategists ask their followers, Why do we find in these modern times that Allah has entrusted most of the world’s oil wealth primarily to Muslim nations?
Their answer: Allah foresaw Islam’s need for funds to finance a final politico-religious victory over what Islam perceives as its ultimate enemy: Christianized Euro-American civilization. So, Islam follows Nazism, fascism and communism as the world’s latest hostile takeover aspirant.
Nazis, fascists and communists failed. Does Islam have a better chance at success? I believe it will flounder if we awaken to its threat in time; yet, if there is not adequate planned resistance, Islam does have a better chance of succeeding. Communism’s world takeover attempt was guaranteed to fail because its economic policy was naively contrary to human nature. Advocating the rubric What is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine, communism failed to see that human nature will not keep those two balanced propositions in equilibrium. Like
a female black widow spider consuming her mate, the latter part of the formula makes a meal of the former, leading to the collapse of any system based upon that formula.
In contrast, political systems do well if they can persuade people to adhere to What’s mine is mine and What’s thine is thine maxims.
Only if a strong religious incentive is added does such an idealistic formula have any long-term chance. Even then success will be spotty. But communism (and Nazism, for that matter) excluded religion. And that mistake was the final nail eventually clamping a lid on communism’s coffin. Communism, on a historical scale, perished while still in its childhood.
Islam is not repeating communism’s mistake. Mating political cunning and incredible wealth with religious zeal, Islam does have a chance to succeed and will succeed unless major parts of the Western world unite to take appropriate countermeasures. But many Western leaders, unable to believe that a mere religion could possible be a serious political threat, keep proclaiming themselves as Islam-friendly, reasoning that all religions are good-aren’t they?
A Muslim strategist in Beverly Hills, California, declared several years ago, as quoted by a friend of mine: “Now that the struggle between Western democracies and international communism is winding down, it is time for the real and final struggle to begin, and we are going to win!”
Don Richardson
funny CNN doesn't mind scape-goating gun owners when some lone nut job goes on a shooting spree.
Atheists are those people that, given the divine origin of that which does not exist, are perhaps in power of not believing in that which does not exist but must. It holds then that sacrifice and prayer are the natural bed partners of each frozen moldy rapist in a tie but god dwells within them both and if you can towel off before honey I’m home it tickles less when it hurts.
Soft granite is not hefty hefty enough for the rigid human brain. Too soft! To grainy. The fine pimples of this derelict country sleep heads in the case.
But please understand happy understanding geologic time. There are no people. No creatures, no sun. There is an exchange of positive and negative. No more. Fear the nun.
A smart and experienced beverage connoisseur knows to grip the chalice in three places. NO no tears for spilling or breaking or shaking. There is but only one small channel though which we can navigate. Fortunately, we are very small indeed.
There is no scam of any nature on this planet as perfect as religion. All reward and punishment, hope and fear is built in. You simply cannot lose (or win).
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
ooooh.....another bible quote. waste of time
From a name-stealing good Xtian, no less.
Truth absolute has no son, did constant have a son, when you were solving a math problem?
Just another meaningless babble quote. Why don't you say something a little more profound?
clarity
"John 3:16"
Unverified hearsay.
So, 'clarity', how is it again that your omnipotent being couldn't do his saving bit without the whole silly Jesus hoopla? And how was Jesus' death a "sacrifice", when an omnipotent being could just pop up a replacement son any time with less than a snap of his fingers?
Pretty pathetic "god" that you've made for yourself there.
Ask the questions. Break the chains. Join the movement.
Be free of Christianity and other superstitions.
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
Saying Jesus is the savior will not make it so. John 3:16 by the way is a single attestation in the NT making it historically nil and also many contemporary NT scholars to include Professors Crossan, Ludemann, Borg and Fredriksen have concluded after rigorous analyses that it was not said by the historical Jesus. It was, they conclude, an addition to embellish the life of Jesus to gain converts/money to/for the cause.
See added commentary at http://wiki.faithfutures.org/index.php/350_Jesus_to_Nicodemus and in Professor Crossan's book, The Historical Jesus.
And not according to you, God is guilty of filicide. Please peruse the following before another outburst.
(from Professor Crossan's book, "Who is Jesus" co-authored with Richard Watts)
"Moreover, an atonement theology that says God sacrifices his own son in place of humans who needed to be punished for their sins might make some Christians love Jesus, but it is an obscene picture of God. It is almost heavenly child abuse, and may infect our imagination at more earthly levels as well. I do not want to express my faith through a theology that pictures God demanding blood sacrifices in order to be reconciled to us."
"Traditionally, Christians have said, 'See how Christ's passion was foretold by the prophets." Actually, it was the other way around. The Hebrew prophets did not predict the events of Jesus' last week; rather, many of those Christian stories were created to fit the ancient prophecies in order to show that Jesus, despite his execution, was still and always held in the hands of God."
"In terms of divine consistency, I do not think that anyone, anywhere, at any time, including Jesus, brings dead people back to life."
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Oops, make "And not according to you...." And according to you........
So all the thousands of innocent children all over the world that never heard the word of your god will all burn in hell?
Your god is evil.
Thousands of children that die everyday*
Neither were teachings of son of blessed Mary a religion, nor is Islam, but way of life in following of truth absolute GOD, foundation of american consti tution. called Theen Allah, Elohim, consti tution of truth absolute GOD, religions are hinduism corruption of true teachings by hindu secular s, criminal self centered to make humanity their gentile.slave.
No one cares about your ignorant hatred.
And take that fucking space out of CONSTlTUTION. Apparently you are not smart enough to do it.
Do not worry, if you did not, you will not bother about it, hindu, ignorant.
Asked previously:
Please illustrate exactly how Islam is the foundation of the United States Constitution.
144,000 are redeemed *Exodus 15:13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed. Thou hast guilded them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. (Psalm 77:15) Find your tribe in Revelation 7 because the new Jerusalem are the twelve tribes the children of Israel in Revelation 21:12. *Psalm 108:8 Judah is my law giver;
Right there in the Bible.
Christians are SOL, but Jewish people (the 12 tribes of israel) get a free ticket to Heaven.
Only in hinduism, ignorance of a hindu secular, ignorant self centered, every one is equal in court of La, truth absolute GOD, no hindu sanatans, privileged goons.
Religion and atheism are the same thing.
... (sigh),
no, they're really not,
... but you know that, otherwise you wouldn't have posted it.
Christianity and Islam are the same thing.
There both extreme and overbearing ways to see things. Not to go off on some other stuff but that's what's wrong with America,everyones on one extreme side or another extreme side,there's no middle ground,no sanity,no community.
Big S
So not believing in ancient myths is extreme?
By your reasoning abstinence is a form of $ex
@richard Cranium,by your reasoning you ether believe in some religion or your a atheist and you don't believe in god. To me thats all the same ignorant thinking. To have spirituality without religion is the most common sense way to be.(at least or me)
@Big Shiz
Talk about being condescending in your ignorance.
15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
God either is or he isn't. He is either everything or he is nothing. Time to decide.
@Bill
Pathetic. Another useless bible quote not worth the bytes you used to render it.
Big,
That was not his logic, there can be many belief systems outside of religion. He just said absence of a thing is not the same as the thing.
By your original logic though, spirituality and religion are the same thing.
Ignorant thinking is exactly what it is...ignorance simply means we do not know.
Religion will tell you they know, when they cannot possibly.
Atheists simply do not jump to the conclusion that goddidit.
That is not to say they believe nothing.
I for one do not think there are any gods, but there are many things in this universe we do not yet know, such as the difference between the chemicals and electricity that make me up, and the person who is having the conversation.
It is the energy we call life, but we have yet to understand or have a working definition of life...we simply do not yet know.
You cannot have spirituality without religion, because it is only religion that defines spirits.
I know we do not have all of the answers and likely never will. But to think for one second that any of these things were influenced by some sentience as we know it is absurd. There is absolutely no evidence of it whatsoever.
The god described in the bible is impossible. The god described in the Quran is impossible. And the other thousands of gods that men have made are so improbable to make the entire belief in any religion laughable.
I believe we will find life on other planets soon, we already have several planets that have been found that are very likely candidates, and since the 4 basic building blocks of life are the 4 most common elements in the universe, it is very probable that life is in many other galaxies. None of them mentioned in any religious text except for the scam religion scientolgy.
and you keep using your when you mean you're. Quit it.
No religion and atheism are vastly different, but relate to a common topic. Like light and dark.Complete darkness is nothing more than a complete absence of light. atheism is a complete absence of religion.
"and you keep using your when you mean you're. Quit it."
He says "there" when it should be "their" too - and quite a few other flubs that show that his thinking processes never advanced beyond the third grade.
You may not like the quote from revelations Hawaii but you cannot deny the logic. There is either a supreme creator of all things known and unknown or there is not. Choose wisely my friend.
@Bill
Oooo veiled threats with absolutely no backing. One of the last bastions of the intellectually inept such as yourself. Pathetic. You've already run like the coward you are from one thread, why not just run from this one as well you worthless little zealot.
Bill Deacon
Is irrelevant. Billy does not have the permission of the hierarchy of the RCC to state his lies on this or any other blog. Billy will be saying hail Mary's and some other such BS until he gets right with the bishops, of course the mythical jesus/god doesn't really give a sh1t one way or the other.