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Not only the kuran

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in response to reader comment: KORAN ENCOURAGING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ? UMM, AGAIN SUPERFICIAL

Submitted by G.Vishvas (Germany), Mar 30, 2010 at 06:17

To SMJ

I never said that kuran alone is the source or cause of conspiracy theories. Islam teaches muslims that they are a separate, superior and supremacy-entitled supra-nation and thus encourages all kinds of self-justifications and self-glorifications among muslims. If a muslim commits a crime them his fellow muslims declare that he was not a muslim, it cannot have been a muslim who did it. It is thus assumed that crimes are committed solely by non-muslims. This is the basis of every conspiracy theory - the criminals are always the other guys, our own are always noble, impeccable and god-chosen saints.

In your email you write much about the PAST, but let us concentrate on the furure and realize that presently it is islam that is bringing forth the most killers and angry violence-doers and catching and misleading children and youth into this criminality in the name of an arab god. The arabic-islamic god-concept is a fascist god-concept by the norms and standards of the 21st century. This can be demonstrated without making any recourse to any conspiracy theory. The actual situation and performance of islam and muslims TODAY proves this.

It is a crime to present faith as truth. Faith has to be presented as faith only, never as truth. Islam and muslims commit the crime of equating faith with truth. This leads to fascism, arrogance, violence and intolerance and then to conspiracy theories.

If a muslim says : "I believe there is only one god and Mohammad is his last prophet" then it is his good right to say so. But if he omits the words "I believe" then he becomes guilty of a crime, of the crime of presenting faith as truth, and thus of manipulating simple-minded human beings into a totalitarian, arrogant, intolerant, violence-prone ideology.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
Conspiracy Theories in Iran's Unrest [194 words]HCNov 9, 2009 14:58164279
Conspiracy Theories - Too complex to Comment [356 words]SMJMar 26, 2010 13:08164279
Conspiracy Theories in Iran's Unrest [345 words]HCMar 26, 2010 21:14164279
CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN IRAN [259 words]SMJMar 29, 2010 21:50164279
2Independent thinking is the enemy of the islamist. [16 words]Phil GreendAug 26, 2009 08:32160653
Escobar on Iran [46 words]Jerry WeissmanJun 30, 2009 16:51158268
Conspiracy Theories in Iran [58 words]S.C.PandaJun 30, 2009 04:27158228
Conspiracy Theories. [27 words]M.D'SouzaJun 29, 2009 15:37158211
kuran and conspiracies [121 words]G.VishvasJun 29, 2009 13:50158209
KORAN ENCOURAGING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ? UMM, AGAIN SUPERFICIAL [156 words]SMJMar 26, 2010 15:33158209
Not only the kuran [299 words]G.VishvasMar 30, 2010 06:17158209
Iranian People don't know [317 words]HJun 29, 2009 08:54158188
Manipulating minds [118 words]John BJun 29, 2009 06:33158182
Glad to know we're so important.... [109 words]Shaun PilkingtonJun 29, 2009 06:09158181

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