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this is perhaps the singularly most flawed premise in the history of premises. after all, I consider "Sometimes a Great Notion" by Ken Kesey to be absolutely without any mistake, and it could hardly be called "divine".

unless, of course, you take sufficient quantities of LSD while reading it to actually see and speak with God.

So, if I understand you correctly, you're a keen advocate for the Creation — that all the creatures on Earth were created in one fell swoop, in the form in which we see them today. Is that correct?

And the one and only true, divine, flawless text provided by -od is the Torah — also correct?

No, the question is why you think that a statement such as "there has to be a..." is something that will in some way support your argument.

I am late to the conversation, but i will do my part: the overwhelming majority of muslims feel their faith is being hijacked by ISIS/alqaida and do not support their actions.

Also remember that there are nuances and things are never exactly like the media shows. It has been already mentioned that the followers of ISIS and the paris attackers are not religious muslims but are criminals, drug addicts, cast away types. ISIS is mainly a sunni Arab nationalist organization using radical religion to spearhead their operations to clear away a "Sunnistan" in Iraq and Syria. The shadow commanders of ISIS are Saddam's former generals, secular Baath types, but the spearhead in their operations are former Al Qaida fighters. These alqaida guys are religious in appearance, but their interpretation of Islam is rejected by the mainstream Sunni orthodoxy, and has always been like that. Recent PEW polls show that, in average, only 5-7% of sunni muslims worldwide support the views of ISIS. This is a very small minority, I am sure more than 5% support the views of KKK in the USA, for example.

Many of the ISIS supporters are young people from war torn countries who have been bombed to stone age by western or western backed militaries, young people who have seen loved ones die in front of them (think about the 1 million dead during the two Iraq wars and Assad's barrel bombs). They are living through constant PTSD, have seen a lot of bloodshed during childhood.

Yes, it is muslims who should deal with this problem. However, the best thing West (USA/EU) and East (China/Russia) can do to help it is to stop supporting puppet governments and dictators in the ME, whose brutality led to radicalization of many young people. Perfect example is Syria and Iraq. They should stop looking at ME as only a source of hydrocarbon and remember that there are humans beings living there.

Thats my two cents.

Why do there have to be so many lunatics in the world? How can anyone of sound mind believe that if there was a God, he'd care how you wrote his name?

And why should God use the Roman Alphabet anyway?

Surely he would use emojis instead which could be understood by all his people, irrespective of which language they wrote or spoke?

Perhaps peoples attitudes would be different if so many Muslims didn't support violence in the name of their religion. 1 in 4 British Muslims supported the Charlie Hebdo attacks. This is a poll taken from the UK, a modern, free and liberal society. Now extrapolate these findings around the Muslim world and you get the picture.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10068440.html

I've learnt to treat polls with a pinch of salt

A society which, it would appear, does not have sufficiently rigorous academic standards, assuming that you're British.

"have some sympathy for motives behind Charlie Hebdo attacks" is not the same thing as "support the attacks". I sympathise with people who want less federal government in the US and more state control; that does not mean that I support lunatics who attempt to shoot up Washington D.C., even if they espouse "small federal government" as a motive.

...Because ISIS have made an unprovoked attack on civilians in a democratic society in another country that happens to be Britain's ally. Not because some cartoons were drawn of their pretend prophet.

Sorry, but what the hell does it mean then? This case is black and white. Either you think people should suffer violence for insulting your religion or you don't.

Why are you talking about god as if it's a male? I'd like to see the proof that indeed it is so.

As George Carlin said, "I believe if there is a god, he has to be a man. No woman could or would f**k things up like this."

If ISIS attacked Switzerland or Cyprus you could say it was unprovoked. I just want to be clear on the language here because the reasons given by ISIS (regardless of whether anyone agrees with them) is that France has been bombing them, and that has resulted in many civilian casualties (which ISIS can capitalise on)

France starting bombing ISIS after they decided to start their campaign of beheadings, mass violence etc. But this is besides my original point, which remains the same, many many Muslims find it acceptable to respond to drawings or indeed any affront to their religion with violence.

However, the questions were repeated in other ways...it is a "trick" used for any psychological or sociological study. A classic one at that.

You do the math.

According to the linked article, 94% of those interviewed would alert the authorities if someone they knew was planning violence. Seems pretty clear to me.

The case is black and white. Nonetheless it seems to me to be entirely possible to have some sympathy with the Hedbo murderers while at the same time rejecting their actions as abhorrent and inconsistent with Islam. E.g. saying "I can understand why they're upset".

There were three nutters who think they have direct contact with God on Songs of Praise on the BBC yesterday. Archbishop Welby, Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Dr Shuja Shafi - representing the Muslim Council of Britain, and condemning the violence without reservation.

That question is paired with the one of being loyal to Britain. And no, there is no contradiction between answers.

Which means that 6% wouldn't. That's shit loads! About 150,000 in Britain today by my reckoning.