The Religion of Peace meets The Religion of Peace

[vaskidmark]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-rakhine-state-thailand-malaysia.html?_r=3

radical Buddhists

                        

Yes, I know the stereotype is nowhere near the reality.

The Schadenfreude of considering jihad against the Burmese is just too much to bear.

stay safe.

[Scout26]

Whether it's good ol' fashion "them's ain't us" or Burmese/Myanmar looking at the rest of the world and seeing the **itstorms that Muslims have created in other countries and saying "Not here you don't";  I do feel for these people, individually, but until I see a Synagogue in Mecca and a Church in Medina, I will turn a deaf ear to Muslims screaming about lack of inclusion.

When their co-religionists are chopping the heads off/publicly executing people who refuse to convert and selling the remainder off into slavery, I just can't feel too sorry when they are told to GTFO of a country.

Call me callous, call me cruel and indifferent, but I just can't get too worked up over this.  

[MicroBalrog]

 I do feel for these people, individually, but until I see a Synagogue in Mecca and a Church in Medina, I will turn a deaf ear to Muslims screaming about lack of inclusion.

That makes no sense. What influence do, say, Israeli Muslims have over the Saudi government?

[Scout26]

None probably, but ask them if they would allow it.  Get back to me when you have that answer.

[Hawkmoon]

That makes no sense. What influence do, say, Israeli Muslims have over the Saudi government?

It makes complete sense. Muslims want to build mosques in American cities, including one a stone's throw from the former World Trade Center site. They expect to be accommodated when they perform their noon prayers, in the middle of busy streets. But they won't allow a Christian church or a synogogue or a Buddhist temple to be built on their turf.

Rampant hypocrisy.

[Jamisjockey]

http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/10/22/texas-man-holds-pig-races-to-protest-islamic-neighbors-request-to-move-or-get-rid-of-pigs/

[MicroBalrog]

It makes complete sense. Muslims want to build mosques in American cities, including one a stone's throw from the former World Trade Center site. They expect to be accommodated when they perform their noon prayers, in the middle of busy streets. But they won't allow a Christian church or a synogogue or a Buddhist temple to be built on their turf.

Rampant hypocrisy.

Are Protestant Christians in the US responsible for the fact that synagogues cannot be built in Vatican City?

[Scout26]

Given the fact that Vatican City is only 110 acres while Saudi Arabia is 531,200,000 acres, I think it becomes a question of space.  So nice try, but you are comparing strawberry seeds to watermelons.

I did take the time to check and it looks like there are ~10 Synagogues in Rome proper.  You can count How Many Synagogues there are in Italy on this page, but it looks like a Metric Revload more then Saudi Arabia, which, last I counted was ZERO.  



P.S. Recent Popes have welcomed Rabbis(and Imams among others) to the Holy See.  Have any other religious leaders been invited to Mecca by the Imams there?

Enquiring minds want to know.


P.S.S.  Still waiting for my answer.

[Hawkmoon]

Are Protestant Christians in the US responsible for the fact that synagogues cannot be built in Vatican City?

Straw man.

Non sequitur

Red herring

[MicroBalrog]

Straw man.

Non sequitur

Red herring

None of the above.

Islam is not a single monolithic religion, just as Christianity is not. Muslims in Indonesia (which has freedom of religion enshrined in its constitution) are not responsible for the actions of the Saudi government, over which they have no control. Muslims in the US are not responsible for the actions of the Saudi government, over which they have no more control than any other Americans.

Just in the same way as Protestants are not responsible for the acts of the Spanish Inquisition.

[White Horseradish]

Just in the same way as Protestants are not responsible for the acts of the Spanish Inquisition.

I didn't expect that.

[Scout26]

Still waiting on an answer to my question....

[Perd Hapley]

I didn't expect that.

I didn't expect anyone to miss the obvious import of MB's question. I'm an optimist in that way.

[Ron]

I didn't expect that.

Nobody does

[roo_ster]

[tokugawa]

Call me callous, call me cruel and indifferent, but I just can't get too worked up over this.  

 sounds like the first line of a country song.

 "You can call me callous, call me cruel and indifferent, but baby I just can't get worked up about this,
  you said you were thriving, on drinking and driving ,and now your old wagon is stuck axle deep in a ditch,
  etc.

[roo_ster]

Barring a ruthless imperial hegemon, folks of different ethnicities would rather not be pushed together, cheek by jowl.

In this era of crumbling empires and devolution, best prepare for a Great Re-Sorting.  The Balkans in the 1990s was but prelude.