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- David Loy’s “Buddhist” revanchism: five more examples
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- Deep background on Sudeshna Sarkar’s smear campaign against Buddhism
- Barbara O’Brien joins in the smear campaign against Nepali Buddhism
- Sudeshna Sarkar’s Journalistic Jihad Against Nepali Buddhism
- Chronology of a Smear Campaign (Updated and Expanded)
- “I wanted to murder whoever did this to my daughter.” (Nepali Times story on raped Buddhist nun)
- Chronology of a Smear Campaign
- Don’t Believe the Lies About the Raped Nepali Nun (Are Western Buddhists Fucking Stupid, Or What?)
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>As far as individual Muslims go, I have known many and I have honestly never met a Muslim I did not personally like.My own family includes many Christians, including conservative Evangelicals and arch-conservative Catholics. I also have friends who are Mormons.The same is true of political affiliations. I know many people who hold political views that I consider to be deeply wrong. Rarely, if ever, do I bother to engage friends and family members in disputes over religion and politics. I consider the bonds of friendship and family to be infinitely more important than whether or not I agree with someone concerning such things (especially if they have never really seriously thought about these things — which is usually the case).
>Exactly.The problem is that even if most of the ordinary muslims are honest in seeking peace or dialogue, at the end of the day they cannot change the tenets of their religion, a moderate Imam will preach from the same Koran that contains a lot of intolerance and calls for discrimination and hatred. Another problem is that once the mosque is built, The land will be considered an Islamic Waqf (property), which means that no one, even the highest Islamic authority is allowed to sell it, rent it or demolish it, the Islamic Waqf is considered an Islamic property for ever.I'm not saying that muslims as people are bad, i come from an islamic country and my family is a mixed muslim -christian one, but Islam as an organized movement is a discriminatory and supremacist ideology and socio-political movement with long term implications.
>This is what the Muslims refer to as taqiyya, no?
>It seems that american politicians are avoiding to talk about the psychological reasons that stand behind choosing ground zero to build a mosque – of all the places in New York. It's not a message of tolerance really, it's a message of VICTORY, a mosque at ground zero is already considered in middle east as a victory for Islam, they're treating it as another sign of the coming golden age of Islamic domination.Another issue arises about those who are behind the mosque, are they really moderate? The leading figure behind the mosque, Imam Faysal Abdel Ra'ouf, is a guy who advocates to create sub-islamic states within western countries. His speeches in English are way too different from what he says in Arabic, e.g he's saying that the Center's goal is to enhance religious dialog, but in this interview in arabic on 24 March 2010 he says literally: "I don't believe in religious dialog" (just copy paste the title on google translate: http://www.rights4all.net/?p=67