Your Weekly Quiz #22-- Reality Vs. Fear Mongering Lies

[Rhinodawg]

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This quiz come directly from du.... ALL direct quotes.
There has been a fairly heated debate in the past several days since the Bill Maher segment.
This weeks quiz was supposed to be about some other ideas but this needed to be quizzed.
Edit for clarification...none of these statements were made by me...obviously.




Answers.

A. Reality
B. Fear Mongering / Bigoted Lies
C. Both
D. Neither



_____ 1."The fact remains that fundamentalism within Islam, at this point in history, is a more powerful force than it is within any of the other major religions re the manifestation of violence."

_____ 2. "It (ISIS) has everything to do with Islam. They use Islamic teachings and Islamic doctrine to recruit and fight."

_____ 3."Read the Koran sometime. It's more anti-semitic than Mein Kampf. "

_____ 4."Islam, a terribly regressive, fucked up, misogynistic religion, defended by some liberals".

_____ 5. "What disturbs me most is the Islamic war again women, which makes the Christian war on women look like a harmless play fight, yet many progressives look the other way or excuse these things are isolated cultural phenoma. Are we not feminists?"


______6. "When it comes to oppressing women, Muslim countries have it down to an art form."

______7. " I don't think anyone is justifying ridicule or cruelty, only pointing out the fact that if one is concerned about the general well being of women, many of the beliefs and practices of Islam are harmful/deadly to women."

_____ 8. "In Islamic countries from Africa to the Middle East institutionalized bigotry and sexism in the norm."

_____ 9. "Look up the instructions of the Koran on, for example, inheritance, wife-beating, testimony in court, slavery, submission of women to men, and in places treatment of non-Muslims "


_____ 10 ."Meanwhile the death penalty for being gay is on the books in Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. Prison sentences for gays in Malaysia, Pakistan and for men in Uzbekistan (not against the law for women)."

And for extra credit...

______ 11."The sooner that people get that Islam, which has not had a reform movement, is a violent ideology, the safer we will all be."


Coming soon...Your weekly Quiz#23.

[CJCRANE]

1. So why did we repeatedly knock down secular governments

and allow religious extremists to fill the vacuum?

And now we are openly supporting using religious fundies to topple a secular regime.

That's what I don't get about the neocon "spreading liberal democracy" claim.

We have to be honest and look at what we're doing and admit the real reasons we're doing it, or quit doing it IMO.

[Rhinodawg]

2. That , my friend, is a great post.

[CJCRANE]

3. I agree with your OP to some extent but I think we are part of the problem.

We (as in our govt and politicians) have been a big factor behind making the problem much bigger than it was.

[Rhinodawg]

8. Good post.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. You and Cosmicone form a great Islamophobe tag team.

I know where to turn to get my daily dose of bigotry.

[Rhinodawg]

5. My man Grumpy..

you do realize that NONE, NONE, NONE of those statements were mine.

So I assume you think *B* is the answer to the questions?

I respect that.

[Rhinodawg]

6. Kick for Comrade Grumpy.

CG...I really respect your views.

[leftynyc]

7. I had a bizarre "conversation" this

weekend where it appeared the poster was doing their best to prove Bill Maher right - that any discussion of some of the more unsavory parts of the way Islam is practiced in some countries made me an Islamophobe. First it's the deflection (the US or Israel are obviously so much worse) and when that didn't work, I was anti-Muslim. Maher could have used it to prove his point quite nicely as the conversation centered on gay rights.

[Rhinodawg]

9. Yeah...I saw that.

When you cant win on the facts, call the person a slur.

it never changes.

[leftynyc]

10. The only problem for them

if I don't give a shit what they call me and frankly don't care if they think I'm an Islamophobe. I know what's in my heart - they're free to behave like children. The truly humorous thing is they continue to prove Bill Maher right.

[meti57b]

11. My experience with this is that many folks from Muslim countries move here (California).......

and get engineering jobs at my workplace, which is a large state agency. They are super-great folks. They leave the old country for a better life here. In general, they are very family-oriented, and want a better life for their wife and kids. When you are their supervisor, they ask you to dinner at their homes, which we are really not suppose to do. So we hit the local restaurants with a group, for lunch.