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In reply to the discussion: In defense of the need to post blasphemous caricatures [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I am truly unsure if you are at all serious in your post. But you did say:
"I think I respect muslims as human beings more than you do.
And I will concede I have the utmost contempt for the doctrine of Islam. But I know it fairly well.
I have reason to believe you do not."
Muslims are the followers of Islam. If they did not they would not be Muslims. So you claim to respect Muslims even as you hold their religious beliefs in the utmost contempt? I do not know how to respond to such a bizarre sequence of statements.
As to your claim of superior knowledge, you are entitled to your opinion.
Finally, when you wrote:
"The vast majority of muslims are normal, decent people. Like Germans in 1933 or Russians in 1950.
But like Germans in 1933 or Russians in 1950, the vast majority of people who live in countries where being muslim is a de facto duty live under the jackboot of their literalist clerics who have no incentive to reform the doctrine towards kumbaya religion, like Christanity was FORCED to do."
"under the jackboot of their literalist critics" ???? Sounds like a Tea Party horror story. Perhaps you are at the wrong site.