Questions about Christianity

[daisyseesthesun]

Religious freedom and safety are serious issues in everywhere on this earth. Islam, like Christianity, has a wide range of interpretations and practices. While some individuals may misuse religious texts to justify violence, most Muslims around the world advocate for peace, coexistence, and respect for others, including those of different faiths. And the Quran, like the Bible, contains passages that emphasize the sanctity of life and the importance of justice and compassion. Most Muslims do not support violence against others and seek to live in harmony with their neighbors.
But as we all know, people with Islamophobia tend to focus on the small black dots on a large white page.

I wish that were true you don't really know them untill you have this experience your at WinCo in Moscow Idaho buying grocery then suddenly you heel is rammed by a muslim man. Then he asks you to apologize for being in his way!

 

[Adstar]

Religious freedom and safety are serious issues in everywhere on this earth. Islam, like Christianity, has a wide range of interpretations and practices. While some individuals may misuse religious texts to justify violence, most Muslims around the world advocate for peace, coexistence, and respect for others, including those of different faiths.

Those that do are not devout muslims..

And the Quran, like the Bible, contains passages that emphasize the sanctity of life and the importance of justice and compassion.

Between muslims..

Most Muslims do not support violence against others and seek to live in harmony with their neighbors.

That is only true for devout muslims when their neighbors are true muslims..

But as we all know, people with Islamophobia tend to focus on the small black dots on a large white page.

The quran is evil and devout muslims must be evil to be devout muslims..

 

[ZNP]

It is truly a pity that you defend the criminals and give them the right to commit genocide. My question is why does God just watch as these criminals carry out terrible acts and not intervene to stop them? I want to understand.

I just saw a report on this war in Gaza and it turns out that the population of Palestinians during this war in Gaza increased by 2%. So maybe you can explain to me why you are characterizing this war as genocide? I can see the validity in claims of war crimes and a demand for investigation. I support investigations of any alleged war crimes. But I don't understand how anyone can characterize this war as a genocide if the population of the Palestinians was increasing during this time.

I would appreciate a detailed explanation because I have heard this accusation bandied about quite a bit and have yet to see any evidence at all that what is going on is genocide.

I can understand how the US governments treatment of Native Americans can qualify as genocide:

The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Genocide is an international crime, according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). The acts that constitute genocide fall into five categories:

• Killing members of the group
• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Although the term “genocide” is often used, its commission is rare when compared to other serious crimes that are not defined by an intent to destroy a targeted group, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes.

So I would think that Americans would be more focused on their crimes, New Zealand and Australia can also be seen as having been guilty of this as well. I can imagine Syrians could be focused on the crimes of Assad. Jews have also suffered this at the hand of Russians and Germans. We had a genocide in Rwanda, and in Cambodia. The Chinese are guilty of this with the Uyghurs, Armenia was guilty, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, India, Indonesia, and Iraq have had their own genocidal incidents. Also many countries in Africa have been guilty of this. So it seems most nations and citizens have blood on their hands they should be focused on. But I don't think the claim that war causes serious mental harm as enough of a threshhold to claim the war is genocide. Israel is not preventing births and they are not forcibly transferring children of Palestinians to others, and you can't claim they are trying to kill them when the population is increasing.

I would really appreciate an explanation because right now it seems the world is simply trying to take the spotlight off of their crimes and put it on Israel in a hypocritical move.