Susan, it's a matter of convenience

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Apr 9, 2007 at 21:31

Susan wrote:

"you keep on telling us you muslims are superior people and you are not able to get rid alone of your dictators in one of the 50+ muslim countries ruled by dictators?"

That's a perfect example of how Muslims use the concept of convenience. It's convenient to have dictators running their countries, because they can use the lame excuse (as Moderate Muslim does) that those countries are not "true Islam". They can conveniently blame the dictator for the sins of the Muslim terrorists. And of course, there's the convenience of having a homicidal maniac running a country filled with people who belong to a cult that worships death and enslavement.

It was convenient for Muslims to look the other way while Saddam was feeding their fellow Muslims into wood chippers feet-first, because then they didn't have to waste their energy protesting a fellow Arab who hated the USA as much as they did. And of course, it's convenient for them to blame Saddam on the other hand, and claim that it was a dictatorship and not a "truly Islamic" country. They sure were eager to get the cash he doled out for their suicide bombers though, weren't they?

It was convenient for them to protest Saddam being hung to death (after the fact), because after all, they had common enemies - the West, the USA, and freedom.

Islam is the Religion of Convenience. Anything that serves Islam's purpose, it's justified. Any time something does not serve its purpose, it provides an excuse (ie "it's not true Islam"). When terrorists murder innocent, unarmed women and children in cowardly suicide attacks, it's justified as "freedom fighting". How convenient. And of course, when Israel kills a scummy terrorist who plans and executes atrocities in the name of Islam, that's labeled "terrorism" and "crimes against humanity".

Which all brings us back to the question (and the challenge) I keep throwing at people like Michel. Moderate Muslim, and the rest of his multiple personalities:

If "true Islam" is so wonderful and superior, why aren't there any peaceful, free, and tolerant Islamic nations? Why do Muslims allow dictators to set up quasi-Islamic states? Why do they allow these dictators and tyrants to besmirch the name of Islam? Why are over 90% of all terrorist groups on earth Islamic?

As usual, the Muslims (or their apologists) refuse to aswer simple questions, because the truth is intolerable to them.

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