Hi
My words - the religion of Islam and the Qur'an are not dangerous. And it is not dangerous at all. Please do not make atmosphere. And don't poison the discussion space.
I think your religion is extremely dangerous. And I think recent events such as the -911 attacks (you know what that is?), and what ISIS were doing in Syria, is (a) undeniably lethally dangerous on a worldwide scale, and (b) driven by extreme religious belief.
An important point here is that I would not care what you believed about the contents of the Quran, or your certainty that God exists, except that as you have told us many times, whilst your God will save the believers to heaven, he will torture us non-believers in the most appalling ways for eternity. I don't care whether you believe those things, providing they pose no danger to anyone … but, I think it's unarguable that fanatical religious belief can very easily become extremely dangerous.
Do you agree that 9-11 really happened, or do you think that was all some kind of fake being invented by the western press? Do you accept that in Syria, ISIS were waging a religious war specifically to gain power in Syria and to enforce strict Islamic religious rule?
In London not long after 9-11, we had 4 Islamic fanatics who blew themselves up on London tube trains. A lot of completely innocent unsuspecting people were killed and many hundreds more were terribly injured. The bombers left tapes and writing that explained their reasons for that mass murder attack … they claimed it was revenge for Britain acting with the US military to capture Osama Bin Laden and to remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, as well as (IIRC) revenge for Britain's role in removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Why did the bombers care about any of that? The answer was in their writing and taped messages … they wanted Islam to rule in those countries, and if possible wanted Islam to rule everywhere in the world including in Britain where they had all been living.
Do you think those people were dangerous? How dangerous were they to the commuters on those tube trains? They murdered them … how dangerous do you think that was for those victims.
Do you remember Mulala Yousafzai? At age 15 she was personally hunted down by the Taliban and shot through the head whilst on her school bus. Why did the Taliban do that, what was their reason? It was because she had been using her computer & the internet to campaign against the Taliban closing the schools for girls ... the Taliban decided her punishment for that was that she should be shot through the head. Fortunately for her, and for the world, she survived (only just), and is now living safely and happily in the UK
Just to be completely fair about this, I think Christianity is extremely dangerous too. Although at present it's not such an immediately lethal danger anywhere near on the scale of Islam.
I think you told us before that you have children? And I think it was clear that you teach your children to follow your belief in God & Islam, correct? OK, well I will avoid saying anything about you and your family yourselves. However in general I think that it's a very dangerous thing to do for parents to fill their childrens minds with religious beliefs. Because as the children grow older, and as they come into contact with other Islamic believers who may be far more militant, then the children, who by that time might be in their later teenage years or their 20's, can very easily be persuaded into more extreme forms of defending their faith …
… the dividing line between what we often call moderate theists vs extremist theists, is actually so thin as to be almost non-existent. By which I mean that a Muslim or a Christian who today is only besotted with his/her religious beliefs, but who poses no obvious danger, can by tomorrow (or over just a few months) very easily cross that line into becoming a lethal danger to everyone around them … and in fact, that is exactly what we have seen in the very numerous cases of Islamic attacks in the UK since 9-11 … i.e. in most of those cases, the attackers had changed very quickly from being not especially religious, to becoming besotted with Islamic faith to the point of being a huge lethal threat to everyone!
So, I think that it's really undeniable that religions like Islam and Christianity, are most definitely dangerous. On which basis, I want to dissuade as many Muslims and Christians as I can from belief in invisible almighty gods, miracles, and holy books which must be obeyed (“or else!”).
