BF2S Forums Religious nutjobbery and the US military

imortal wrote:

FallenMorgan wrote:

Muslums in the ermy?  Dang billy-bob, I thought thuh confaederacay won!

Seriously.  The fact that Muslims are in the US army is evidence against stereotypes of people who follow the Islamic faith.

Well, that and the fact that in the quagmire of the '90s (Bosnia), we were unofficially rooting FOR the muslims (aka, the Bosnians) against the Serbs and Croats.

Yeah.

Most of the people who associate Islam with violence are ignorant hillbillies anyways.  Just so nobody quotes me and points out the obvious - the Muslims that go around shooting people and whatnot are Radical or Fundamentalist Muslims, many of the former mis-interperet the Qu'aran.  According to the Qu'aran:

"permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed... who have been driven from their homes for saying,'God is our Lord'" (22:39)

Also, we see all this bullshit in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban.  The two, as well as many violent radicals, subscribe to Wahhabism.  Mainstream Islam actually even encourages women to be educated and whatnot, yet fundamentalists such as the Taliban brutally enforce their beliefs.

Turquoise wrote:

Wahhabism is the majority of the problem, but there are other factors as well.

There are several pre-Islamic customs that were incorporated into Islam in the Middle East.  Many of them are the origin for abuses against women.

Nevertheless, it is undeniable that Mohammed himself was a warlord.  We can only hope that the majority of Muslims move towards reformism, so that we can all get along better in this modern world.  Thankfully, our good relations with the Albanian Muslims is evidence that working together is possible.

Same thing in Europe during the middle ages.  During that time, women actually had more rights in Muslim countries than they did in European countries.