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You seem to think that Violence and killing of non-believers is unique
to Islam but fail to point out that Judaism, the forerunner to both
Christianity and Islam, had similar commandments too.
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I agree that the Bible
recounts of terrible acts of violence committed by Moses and Joshua and
most religions have violence in their annals. I am not a
religious person and do not support any one of them. Even though not all
of the religions call for killing the disbelievers like Islam does, they
are all the cause of disunity and much bloodshed amongst humankind. We must not tolerate violence in one
religion because other religions also have violent histories. Two
wrong does not make one right and tu quoque is not a valid argument. It
is as if that the followers of different religions are vying with each
other in bigotry and fundamentalism. As if each is encouraging the others
to dig deeper into their ignorance. Muslims, when face the dismal status
of women in their religion console themselves with the fact that other
religions also have discriminatory teachings about women, and the
Christians take comfort in the fact that woman in Islam are nothing but
man's property. This is absurd. Other religions are not the standard. We
have to compare the teachings of these religions to the modern
humanistic concepts of equality and oneness of humankinds. We are not in
competition with each other. The religionists are struggling to win at any cost. To
win what? Winning to establish barbarity? There is nothing to win. It's
all loss. This is a backward race to failure. We are racing
towards the precipice. The winner is the one who gets out of this mad
race sooner.
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