Originally posted by long pig
.The issue is this. Islam is a religion, way of life and political ideology. You can't be a Muslim without following all.
Islam political ideology is not compatible with democracy or a constitutional government with a bill of rights.
Anywhere Muslim go they have to try to install an Islamic theocracy as their government. If they don't, they are not considered Muslims.
I don't hate anyone, but I'm a realist and I can objectively see some cultures are inferior to others.
- Jerimiah 10:2-5:
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Guess anybody who sets up a Christmas Tree isn't Christian 👆
Although you're right in the inferiority of other cultures, which is the case for most countries in the Middle East. I have no problem, however, with someone who adapts to Western culture, and keeps their beliefs to themselves, which plenty of Muslims do. If you don't want to call those people Muslim, that's fine. I guess they're just people that happen to follow the Quran and go to mosques.