i heard on the news this morning that fundamentalist islamics

[catmother]

are telling the people that the earthquake in pakistan is god's wrath for them helping america.

anyone else hear this?

[chelsea0011]

1. So, they are taking a page out of the Pat Robertson rules of life?

Fundies all run in the same circles

[noahmijo]

2. They cut off the heads of little girls in Indonesia

To hell with ALL religious fanatics I'm not shy one bit about calling out religious freaks from Islam or Christianity it's all a bloodthirsty cooperation designed to control and bring out the worst in what is usually already sick people.

FUCK ALL OF THEM

[catmother]

3. i couldn't have said it better myself. n/t

[radwriter0555]

8. hmm, so electrocuting people, or pumping poison into their veins in the

name of US law is any better?

I don't see the difference.

The US has killed thousands of innocent iraqis for oil and profits. Where is that justice and what is the difference?

[Ravenseye]

13. Really? You honestly don't see the difference?

Look i'm against the death penalty but I can see the difference here.

Three schoolgirls beheaded by a street gang of four men, simply for being chrisian, who are later arrested by the civil authorities...

Is in your mind analogous to...

The execution of Michael Ross, who himself raped and killed eight women, who himself begged to recieve the death penalty for his actions.

Those are the same are they?

[radwriter0555]

17. So how is killing those kids by those guys any different than any other

killer doing the same, but for a different reason? Are they any different than those columbine kids? Or Ted Bundy?

Or are they any different than the guys on death row?

Death is death is death is death. Rarely do the guilty die... I Often hear the phrase, "innocent children", and wonder, is that opposed to guilty children?

Death is death is death is death. Does it matter how it's perpetrated when it's done with violence and hate? Do the reasons actually matter? Does one reason make a violent death or murder slightly less violent or rational?

That people kill anyone in the name of gods or politics or law or real estate is just STUPID. They're the guilty ones.

[Yupster]

14. I see a big difference

It's the difference between guilt and innocence. You really can't?

[noahmijo]

16. Did I say it was any better?

The US is largely moved by superstitious religious beliefs just like Syria, Iran and virtually every Middle Eastern country that based its government on the religion of Islam.

It's all sick and demented, and truthfully the notion of the death penalty that you speak of stems from the adage "eye for an eye" type superstitious religious belief.

Not to mention bringing to justice a mass murderer is NOT the same thing as beheading innocent children or setting them afire via Napalm like our Christian government does.

When I say bringing to justice I don't necessarily mean killing the person either; even the most pacifist among us don't believe a mass murderer or even a serial thief who steals for wealth not to live should not be allowed to walk amongst the masses.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Hear, hear!

By that rationale, shouldn't there be earthquakes in Great Britain? Or Poland?

[Teaser]

4. ISLAMICS?

The word you are looking for is "muslim."

[catmother]

5. sorry about that. if the religion is islam -- wouldn't they be called

islamics -- like christianity -- christians.

[Tesha]

6. "Islamic" is an adjective.

It would modify a noun as in "Islamic fundamentalists".

The noun for people who are of the Islamic faith is "Muslim(s)".
(And there's the probably now-archaic "Islamicist" which is
what I think you were probably thinking of.)

Tesha

[radwriter0555]

7. Maybe the *islamics* issued a press release from their islamic HQ

in that Mosque that's akin to the vatican or something.

Hey, who does the islamic public relations????

[MountainLaurel]

15. Snork.

:spray:

[catmother]

9. remove message

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. A loonie is a loonie

whether in a three piece suit or a robe and turban.

[catmother]

11. well said. n/t

[The Magistrate]

12. Probably Some Are, Ma'am

It is pretty standard for fundamentalist preachers to claim any natural calamity is divine punishment for something the preacher disapproves of....