Bin Laden To Be Announced As Kiiled

[Al B. Sure!]

Why do you think things like this are somehow unique to Christianity? Under the rule of the Almohad Calpihate Jews and Chrisitans where expelled from Morocco and Islamic Spain. To give another example Judaism was outlawed in the kingdom of Mali, the Jews where given a choice either to leave or convert.

The Almohads were fanatical Berbers unique at the time for their extreme religious views.

The name Almohad derives from the Arabic al-Muwahhidun meaning "those who believe in the unity of God".

The fact that the name the dynasty is remembered by in history refers to its religious purity says a lot about the Almohads being uniquely fanatical.

[Al B. Sure!]

With regards to the founder of the Almohads, Ibn Tumart:

Ibn Tumart's main principle was a rigid unitarianism which denied the existence of the attributes of God as incompatible with his unity and therefore a polytheistic idea. Ibn Tumart represented a revolt against what he perceived as anthropomorphism in the Muslim orthodoxy, but he was a rigid predestinarian and a strict observer of the law. He also laid blame in these "theological flaws" of the nation upon the ruling dynasty, and declared a Holy War against them. He also blamed them for the public sale of wine in the markets, something the Qur'an forbids. He also forbade the sale or consumption of pork. Another reform was the destruction or hiding of any type of religious art in mosques. His rule and the rule of the Almohads after were full of reforms that attempted to turn the area under his control to the times of Mohammad.

[SlowwHand]

Now reports say Bin Laden was unarmed but resisting. Does it matter to anyone if he was unarmed? It doesn't matter to me.

[Felch]

[Darius871]

[SlowwHand]

[DaShi]

Hera, go away! Your stupidity has been trumped by DFG. We don't need you anymore.

[Boris Godunov]

As I said, I'll not continue to discuss Boris's strawmen. It doesn't take any time at all to determine that Jihad is a central tenet of Islam originating from both the Koran and the Hadith. While not the only meaning, the major meaning of Jihad, clearly taken the Hadith, and understood that way through all of Islamic history has been war against unbelievers and the conquest of their lands. One doesnt have to be a 'rocket scientist' to understand that the long term effect of moslem conquest through Jihad is religious conversion. The fact that Islam has not been able to pursue Jihad in the most accepted meaning of the word since the Ottoman Empire is due to their cultural fragmentation and the western worlds overwheming scientific and military superiority rather than from an absence of desire.

And yet the very Professor you tried to cite as a source doesn't agree with you.

That you can't accept the rather simple fact that the vast, vast majority of Muslims don't care about world conquest any more than the typical Christian or Jew just shows how far off into cultural paranoia land you are. Are you one of those guys cheering on the laws passed against Sharia in Nebraska? Do you interchange your anti-Muslim tinfoil hat with your anti-Steam one?

[Boris Godunov]

Boris, your history is bad if you think Islamic expansion stopped during the Umayyad Caliphate.

You really are the most pedantic nob on this site. No, I didn't say that. Are you aware of the concept of a period separating sentences that contain two different ideas?

Considering your idea of knowledge of history is limited to what you can Google, you really shouldn't be going around here trying to correct people.

[Boris Godunov]

What's wrong with the occasional pogrom?

Would we have gotten Fiddler on the Roof without them? A good question!

[Tupac Shakur]

Considering your idea of knowledge of history is limited to what you can Google, you really shouldn't be going around here trying to correct people.

Albie is the new Molly Bloom?

[Boris Godunov]

Albie couldn't hack the obscure Dennis Milleresque literary allusions thrown in to give the semblance of erudition.

[Boris Godunov]

New drink: the Osama shot. It's actually two shots followed by a splash of water.

[Al B. Sure!]

New drink: the Osama shot. It's actually two shots followed by a splash of water.

clever

[SlowwHand]