Paranoid Christian video may have a point

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Paranoid Christian video may have a point

Post by TheGreatGatsby » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:06 pm

A Christian video on the rise of islam in the West offers some figures that seem to suggest a rapid increase in muslim populations in Europe and North America over the next few decades. Most of the figures seem fairly close to reality.

The message of the video involves a call to spread the word of the gospel to prevent the world domination of Islam.

It does seem that there may actually be a threat not only to Christianity but to secular Western values and freedoms that many Muslims do not agree with or look upon with fear. This may result in increased fear in the Western public and media for 'offending' muslims (there is plenty of evidence for this already). Many immigrant muslim women rarely leave home and do not even learn the language of the country they live in. There is, therefore, a serious threat of very widespread misogyny and oppression, as well as a resurgence of homophobia, anti-semitism, and other movements that are typical of radical Islam.

On the other hand, it may give muslims more self-confidence in their religion, reducing their isolation from Western society and contributing to their assimilation.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:08 pm

Will those folks stay muslim just because they were born into a muslim family?
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Post by Psi Wavefunction » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:11 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Will those folks stay muslim just because they were born into a muslim family?
Seems like all too often that tends to be the case...

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:28 pm

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Gawdzilla wrote:Will those folks stay muslim just because they were born into a muslim family?
Seems like all too often that tends to be the case...
But the lure of Western-style society is strong in them. I hope we'll have a break with tradition in a major way in the next decade or so.
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Post by TheGreatGatsby » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:38 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Will those folks stay muslim just because they were born into a muslim family?
They don't have too many options. Reminds me of a faith-school debate RD once participated in.
He asked some black-robed Muslim religious figure "What is the penalty for apostasy?" about 20 times until he got the D-word out of him.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:40 pm

TheGreatGatsby wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Will those folks stay muslim just because they were born into a muslim family?
They don't have too many options. Reminds me of a faith-school debate RD once participated in.
He asked some black-robed Muslim religious figure "What is the penalty for apostasy?" about 20 times until he got the D-word out of him.
It won't be pretty, I know that. I imagine an "internal revolt" of young people against the system.
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Post by Feck » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:56 pm

I wish them Good luck with making Scotland a dry country :td:
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Re: Paranoid Christian video may have a point

Post by PsychoSerenity » Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:37 pm

[Disclaimer - if this is comes across like I think I know what I'm talking about, I want to make it clear that I don't. I'm just trying to get my thoughts down]

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