Why then do you support it?

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Apr 6, 2007 at 15:03

Moderate Muslim wrote:

MM: "sharia is not wrong, the purported sharia that you see in saudi arabia and places is not true islam"

If that's true, then why do you support or defend it? Who do so many others defend it? If Saudi Arabia and Iran are mockeries of true Islam, then why are they allowed to continually mock Islam by their very existence? Would that not constitute an "attack on Islam"? I'd presume that would require a more vigorous response than what we saw over a couple of stupid cartoons. Surely those cartoons did far less damage to Islam than the behavior of Saudi Arabia and Iran!

See how your Typical Muslim Logic simply does not work in the real world? We should rename Islam the "Religion of Convenience", because that's how it acts. When a country is attacked for terrorist acts, Islam defends it, calling it an "attack against Islam". This happened in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, etc. Why? Because it's convenient and serves as an excuse to run wild in the streets raping, pillaging, arsoning, and murdering. And when those same countries are presented as proof of the failure of Islam, they are denounced as not being "true Islam". How convenient Islam is!

Michel...er...I mean, Moderate Muslim...why can't True Islam form its own country? Let's hear your excuse on that. If all these Islamic states are mockeries, why aren't the 1.2 billion supposedly wonderful, peace-loving Muslims tearing down these terrorist mockeries and forming True Islamic states?

Don't bother to answer. We've already heard the propaganda you're about to spew. It's America's fault, and Israel's fault. We perverted the governments in every Islamic country on earth. Sad excuses, and precisely why Islam will always remain the religion of terrorists.

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