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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
(1) If you going to argue that there is something unique about radical Islam that causes depravity, then you have to ignore all of the depravity connected with other religions (Sri Lanka, Rwanda, and so, so much more) or with nonreligious Christian societies (the Holocaust). Without minimizing the awful things done in the name of radical Islam, you can't make a case that it is uniquely inhumane.
(2) We all agree that Hamas is bad. Beating this dead horse sounds like a form of evasion.
(3) I do not think Israel "is trying to do the right thing" in Rafah, nor it seems do most Israelis.
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1. I don't think it's uniquely inhumane. Christianity still has a lot more blood on its hands. Islam, however, has the edict within it that all the world must be Muslim. Moderate Muslims of course ignore that, just as Christians and Jews ignore a lot of bizarre directives of their faiths. But within Islam, unlike Christianity and Judaism, where violent attacks on others are a perversion of the faith, within Islam there is a stated goal of world control, by violent conquest if necessary.
The Koran is pretty explicit about it. I think radical Islamists' reading of the Koran is akin to, say, radical Jews deciding to take Leviticus seriously. You get some really batshit behaviors. Most of them atrocious.
3. Israel tries at first to do the right thing in all instances. Now, it is arguable they may be going further than is necessary. I can't say for sure, but I can see the argument.
