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       Blue Kumul
   DIR By: Blue Kumul
       Date: April 19, 2022, 4:58 am
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       People rioting because a BOOK has been burned?
       Think about someone burning a copy of Peter Pan, Lord of the
       Rings, das Kapital or even a maths textbook. Maybe it would make
       people sad, but certainly not rioting. There is only one book
       which makes people riot.
       It tells a lot about the toxic message of this book. And yet you
       True Leftists side with the rioters.
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       Re: Re: Rise of Islamophobia in Europe poses threat to Muslims
   DIR By: Blue Kumul
       Date: April 19, 2022, 6:28 am
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       Christians are also theists, who believe in a revealed divine
       book just like Muslims. Yet I haven't heard of Christians
       rioting because someone destroyed a Bible. It would be more
       likely for true Christian to pray for the book-burner's soul.
       This demonstrates the spiritual superiority of Christianity over
       Islam.
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       Re: Re: Rise of Islamophobia in Europe poses threat to Muslims
   DIR By: guest55
       Date: April 19, 2022, 4:17 pm
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       > It would be more likely for true Christian to pray for the
       book-burner's soul.
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       The Judeo-Christian bible is one of the most dangerous books
       ever created:
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       From the True Leftist point of view the Quran is just as
       corrupted with Judaism as the Christian Bible is:
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       Not everyone who claims to be Muslim is a Muslim, just as
       everyone who claims to be a Christian is not a necessarily a
       Christian either. (Unlike Judaism, where a person becomes a Jew
       through blood...).
       Jesus also happens to be one of the most quoted prophets in
       Islam. Surely an individual should be given the benefit of the
       doubt when they claim to be Mohammaden, just as one should be
       given the benefit of the doubt when they claim to be a follower
       of Jesus, right? Actions often speak louder than words.
       Had it not been for Western colonialism Muslims would never have
       had to emigrate, lest we also forget the Western crusades
       against Islam.
       In closing, the Judeo-Christian bible is about 100 times more
       dangerous than the Quran in my True Leftist opinion! Nor did
       Jesus, or Mohammad, ever promote an anthropocentric worldview!
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       Re: Blue Kumul
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 19, 2022, 11:25 pm
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       "yet you True Leftists side with the rioters."
       Why should we not? We despise tolerance:
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       We respect loyalty. Willingness to riot (despite the threat of
       legal repercussions) in response to Koran-burning reflects the
       loyalty of the rioters to what they consider sacred. This is
       what we need more of on the left. In the ancient world, if
       someone deliberately and openly burns something that you claim
       to be sacred, yet you do not retaliate, no one will ever again
       believe your claim that that thing is indeed sacred, for what is
       truly sacred can always inspire those who proclaim its
       sacredness to unhesitatingly lay down their lives to defend it.
       These ancient attitudes are what we are here to revive. We are
       regressives:
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       > [quote]Unlike Bernie, Coates is concerned with the
       old-fashioned comic-book virtues that appeal to 9-year-old boys:
       honor, status, representation, heredity, antiquity, and
       vengeance.
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       > Inigo is enormously popular with audiences because he
       heroically exemplifies unsophisticated premodern values.
       >
       > Likewise, Coates’ Inigo Montoya Progressivism isn’t based on
       any highbrow theory of class or liberty or even of
       minoritarianism.
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       > Instead, Coatesism is the reactionary idea that the Bad Guys
       are the people who impugned the honor of the Good Guys, and we
       know who the Good Guys are and who the Bad Guys are, and they
       will be Good or Bad forever.
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       "From the True Leftist point of view the Quran is just as
       corrupted with Judaism"
       This is true, but I want future Muslims to defend the Jamia how
       present-day Muslims defend the Koran. We can simultaneously
       believe that they are defending a corrupted book and praise the
       way in which they defend it.
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       Re: Blue Kumul
   DIR By: SirGalahad
       Date: April 19, 2022, 11:43 pm
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       "In the ancient world, if someone deliberately and openly burns
       something that you claim to be sacred, yet you do not retaliate,
       no one will ever again believe your claim that that thing is
       indeed sacred, for what is truly sacred can always inspire those
       who proclaim its sacredness to unhesitatingly lay down their
       lives to defend it."
       And clearly westerners have not forgotten this principle, since
       they're willing to applaud soldiers who lay down their lives for
       western values, and I'm almost certain that they would applaud
       hypothetical rioters defending western values in nations that
       are currently enemies of the western powers. Instead of simply
       criticizing the actions of these rioters as it pertains to their
       defense of the Quran specifically (since it's theoretically fine
       to criticize the Quran), they hone in on the act of rioting
       itself, especially as it pertains to defending something as
       "trivial" as a holy book, so that they can say "See? These
       people are massively overreacting and are quick to violence.
       They're subhuman and primitive, and so is their religion. This
       makes them unfit for our societies". I think it's another
       example of western hypocrisy. The discussion shouldn't be
       centered around whether rioting is a "primitive overreaction",
       but whether what's being defended is worth defending in the
       first place. Ironically, this'll never happen so long as
       westerners have cultural hegemony, since that shift would cause
       westerners to go on the defensive as they're forced to elaborate
       on why western values are worth defending to such an extent as
       they have been for the past couple of centuries
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       Re: Blue Kumul
   DIR By: Blue Kumul
       Date: April 23, 2022, 2:41 am
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       Westerners are definitely capable of rioting, this pertains to
       both the liberal variety (e.g. LGBT activists) and the
       conservative variety (e.g. Trumpist). So if these people condemn
       Muslims for rioting, they are hypocrites.
       For me, the only things which justify rioting are murder,
       torture and rape of innocents.
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