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[A] group of Islamists in traditional Muslim garb showed up outside the Melbourne Convention Centre in Australia to protest the Global Atheist Convention. The atheists, unafraid of confrontation [primarily 'cause they're Aussies, I'll wager — dm], poured out of the conference to counter-protest the Islamists.
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It could be that this scene is more than just a humorous bagatelle, but is instead a preview of the coming global conflict — not between Muslims and Christians, as everyone has long assumed, but between Muslims and secularists.
As if it hasn’t always been Islam against everybody else.
(What? Nah, I’m skippin’ the Christians-vs-Hitchenists* part. It’s good-natured, but it’s old-hat and silly and distracts from this new wrinkle. Gotta love Aussies.)
* Cultural ref: Hitchenists are a self-appointed anti-belief sect, the jackass wing of non-belief
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We told them this would happen….
You do your thing, I’ll do mine.
I enjoy a good debate with a Hitchenist. I had a real decent one once that I thought was going really well and really was an interchange of thoughts and ideas. But it turns out he became pretty upset with me when I didn’t see things his way -I was suddenly guilty of taking away his rights and instituting a theocracy in the US.
I would that more Christians and Hitchenists would see it as old-hat and silly, because rarely does either side say, “Oh, I never thought of that before”.
We really can all get along until someone wants to force someone else to see things their way or suffer the consequences. I don’t care who it is, people need to make up their own minds. That’s the kicker about the Mussie’s theology: By Mohammed’s mammaries, If you don’t follow Allah they won’t rest until you do.
A). Allah is kind
B). Allah is generous
C). Allah is merciful
D). Allah the above
Paladin (2)
Precisely.
Para 1: i.e. a jackass
Para 2: Yeah, when it comes to deeply held principles, you can’t convince anyone during an argument/debate. They’re not considering the merits of your argument; they’re formulating their own. You’re asking them to admit that they’ve been wrong, sometimes for their whole adult life. They have to come to a new way of thinking on their own. Worth a
shottry, though.Para 3: Indeed. (see: First Amendment)
The European kill-the-infidels denominations/sects have “grown up” over the past millennia; and the Islamists will have to, as well. It’ll be messy, though.
Actually, it’s between Islamists and everybody else. That’s just how Islamists roll, man.
Where is Bacon Boy when you need him?
He is great at crowd control. Infidels mob him while fidels disperse fast than Moses parting the Red Sea.
What’s that you say? Hardcore atheists vs hardcore Muslims?
I really liked the way the Aussies responded,
‘specially with the ‘BULLSHIT’ chant!
Hey, Doug, you must find this enormously entertaining. Like two different subspecies of jackass going after each other.
snap-e-tom (9)
You betcha!
I’m totally in sync with Apo (7), here.
“… [primarily ’cause they’re Aussies …”
You got that right.
The technical term for the atheist’s approach is “back at you, mate”.
One of the Muslim’s signs read “Islam: the only monotheistic religion”. Minus two points for gross stupidity.
Hog (#3): “Allah is merciful” – so therefore, Muslim’s don’t have to be.