AgNoStiC MuSliM
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However, Islam is a powerful ideology that can be misused, and has been misused throughout its history.
All ideologies have the power to be misused - because they have the power to motivate vast swathes of people.
You say any ideology can be misused but that is not what you really are arguing.
An oversimplification - fighting against injustice is not the same as "common cause".Islam stresses group unity and fighting for the common cause.
-has a fixed set of rigid rules that vary between sects, but never within the sect.
Wrong - even within sects, and from Muslim to Muslim, interpretations vary.
Any thing is open to interpretation - one cannot control what others think.- has a set of rules for religious warfare, called Jehad, that are unfortunately open to a wide number of interpretations.
Hinduism encourages individual worship, and the conduct of the indivudual.
It doesn't have fixed rules and regulations (or regimentation).
It has myriad interpretations that vary so much that two hindus rarely do the same thing.
Bar point 1, the others apply more or less to Islam as well.
Aah see, now you are back to "Islam can be distorted" from your earlier "any ideology can be distorted".Its nobody' fault, but then Islam can be distorted...and that's my point.
Not my point.But you are forgetting one thing.
Its not possible to motivate people to suicide bomb after reading Grimm's fairy tales.
Most Muslims would argue that Islam says nothing about suicide bombings.
Heck, there was no explosive 1400 years ago, so technically it isn't possible to motivate anyone to "blow themselves up" in Islam either.
On the other hand, its possible to do so with the Islamic or Christian texts.
Infact, its possible to do so with Hindu texts as well, but the problem is that there are far too many of them for us to arrive at any consensus.
And as you admitted, it is possible to do so with any ideology, but your last sentence implies that there is a consensus in Islam and Christianity that suicide bombings are justified, and that is a blatant lie.
I call it a lie since you know there is in fact a consensus that suicide bombings are not justified in Islam amongst the overwhelming majority of Muslims (google the TFT, Pew and Gallup polls).
The only ones who have a consensus over suicide bombings being justified are the terrorists, and if you want to actually believe their interpretation, well, then stop smoking that Afghan special.