the bible is full of misogynoy,homophobia and other crazy stuff. but most Christians unless they are fundamentalist do those things. likewise with muslims. majority of muslims are not like. you only hear about the bad stuff because the media only reports the bad things about muslims. the media doesn't report when a muslim woman becomes a doctor or lawyer. they don't report on the happy marriages muslim couples have.helwa1988
if it bleeds it leads as the saying goes.
as for Grayfox, i'm almost convinced he's some kind of troll. only the most fundamentalist type of people think/want a caliphate, and everyone seems to think they'll be that Caliph (coincedence?...i think not). Hell... we backbite each others nations all the time, you think religion alone is gonna overcome that? I still lol whenever Saudi government says that 100% of it's citizenry is Muslim. there is no such thing as absolutes with populations,I do believe however it's overwhelmingly Muslim yeah. but it ignores anyone who may have a different belief/disbelief, and acts like they don't exist.
I understand that there are different ways of doing Shariah law, just as there is with all legal systems. but that law system applies only to Muslim, and even the tradition itself came about after Prophet Muhammed and the 4 caliphs later. the legal system is archaic and is trying to apply laws from Quran and Hadiths as well as from various fatwas (whenever it suits their needs). thing is we don't live in the year 600 AD anymore. so my response to enforcing Shariah on the world is...

I still vouch for secular law (even though that would count me as a kafir - a word i despise and hate - by the Saudi ulema) for everyone, and very small pirvate limited religious courts for family law - which would also require they be VOLUNTARY by the believers who want that. but that's it. that is the very farthest i'm personally willing to go.
Also as for not showing Prophet Muhammed's face, South Park did it already with their Super Best Friends gag. they did that skit before. Also historically there are pictures of Muhammed showing his face. examples:
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(the cave picture is for an Algerian postcard).

(even young Muhammed)


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fact is, it's been done before quite a few times. people just lose their minds when they make fun of the Prophet in picture. granted i'm offended as well, but i do think it's their right to say what they wish, but i don't have to buy their $hit either in response. Everyone has the right to free speech, but not free from reprecussions (that don't involve physical harm).
The whole idea of not drawing Muhammed i understand, no idolatry. except.... we have a religion that we say the Prophet was a mere man who was visited by angels, and in the same sentence we say this mere man was guilty of no possible wrong because everything he did was approved by God. this never really gell'd with me personally, i see the Prophet as human who was passing along a message, which was collected and put into the Quran (as best as that could of been done, seeing how it was assembled by Caliph Uthman, the third Caliph after the Prophet.) People have made him into an idol itself, even without the pictures. One of the definitions of idolatry is: "Extreme admiration, love, or reverence for something or someone."
but i don't expect this attitude to change at all in my lifetime.
as per the pedophile accusation, i'm with Bossperson, at the same time i'm against child marriages and have actually written my name down in ink on petitions to the Ministry of Interior to end in Saudi. potentially getting my self followed and imprisoned, and petitions seem weak (they are) but currently it's the only way to air out grievances to the princes. and you may be thinking "why bother you dumb moron come to the West!", because it's one of my homes and i do care about it, a lot of you can sit back at your keyboard and mock and insult the country/region, but some of us who live have to make a stand somehow, not because of your attempted shaming but out our convictions.
but i gotta lol at the attempts of labeling or 'owning' the great thinkers of history, and BOTH Atheists/Theists are guilty of it. and i'd like to just share what Neil Degrasse Tyson said about it.
and that's all i gotta say about that. i'm out before i get a sea of insults from both camps.
-peace out.
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