I do understand Islam, I attended a very excellent catholic all boys school in NYC in the 70's. My teachers of history were all non religious. Islam will go along to get along, until someone wants power, then they gang up and obliterate the enemy. Islam, like Christianity, is an evangelical religion. Except, they don't care how they get new believers, convert or die is fine by them. Christians had similar views. Islam came a few hundred years after Christianity was in bloom, and the jews got'm beat by 2K years, so I do not see their cultural roots as deep as the Jews, or Christians.

My feeling is the Jewish religion is silly, Christains are just jews that do not follow the rules and the Muslims are a day late and a dollar short.

And it is easier to convert starving war torn people as the situation becomes more dire.

I sit here waiting for mass conversions with corona virus. Iran is in deep shit, trump offers help to North Korea and Iran, ignoring as much as possible his own people. (he and the repugnican party.) He knows they will turn it down, so he looks good, he put a loser in charge of the effort.

Pense ignored the issues of heroin addiction and aids. He did that in a self resolving in a good way. He stopped refused to implement needle trade in. He spread AIDS through his state.

He gets rid of druggies, (at no cost), and he gets rid of faggots, (with out storm troopers and concentration camps, and no cost).

he then can say he did nothing wrong. Letting druggies not have needles stops heroin use, (hah), and faggots have a choice, keep doing sinful stuff, or die.

no guns, no muss, no fuss.

And no charges against the Sackler family or Perdue Pharma. Eventually they had no choice but to jail people. But teh Sacklers had structured the company so they have clean hands.

They should be jailed, depleted of all funds, and made to work in coal mines or in aids wards and Carona Virus wards, all of them. Their company should be sold off.

too radical?

Who would ‘they’ be?

None of the Muslim people I have known do.

This is true. Take formalities with a grain of salt, and always look at things from different perspectives.

@Geoffrey51 You're right. I was generalizing an entire group with the actions of a few radicals.

Fair enough. You can still argue that it's all in their heads. But what if things happen that seem to align with what certain eschatology says?

@Auty89 you can argue anything you feel like, doesn't give it validity. It's what supports the argument that does that. For an example, see politics, modern.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, doesn't mean it's useful for telling time.

That’s helpful!