Re: Obtuse logic at gupshup
Once again Lajawab, your interpretation is all wrong. While your intention may be for your posts (opinions) to not offend, they are extremely offensive to the objects (non-Muslims, Americans, moderate Muslims, free thinkers, etc) of your disdain. Just because you have 100% conviction in your beliefs doesn't make them any less offensive (or correct) to the causes and people you despise.
The only thing I hate is arrogance, especially when it comes with a big dose of ignorance and intolerance. You always try to make out those who are intolerant of the intolerant as intolerant. That just doesn't make sense. Case in point is your indignation of PD's exasperation over the fundamentalist view tht non-Muslims will go to hell. It's ok for you to tell someone they are going to hell, but that person doesn't have the right to react to that? What makes your interpretation of religion more sanctimonious than you banning him to hell? What gives you the right to trump his beliefs? When you are telling someone they are going to hell you really don't have any defense to how they respond to the deity that you worship that tells you that. The door is wide open at that point. Your opinion is he is going to hell - his opinion is that is the oppsosite of how God and spirituality operates.
You say he "he is not very happy with Islam and Muslims". Well how happy are you with non-Muslims or moderate Muslims? Post by post your hatred for them is evident.
I don't post to hurt anyone but to make them think. In your case to try and shed some light on what appears to be a dark soul of hatred for others. (There's an opinion for you.) I am opnionated as anyone, but as opposed to you and the other closed-minded fundamentalists, most of it is up for discussion and review. I don't pretend to have the answers to it all or even access to one ancient book that will have all the answers.