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Theodore,
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There is a difference between secular and Islamic terrorism. Nationalists and separatists tend to be limited in scale and location, and are often amenable to compromise. Islamists on the other hand are waging a global war to impose Islam on everyone.
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Any study of Islam will show that sharia and jihad are essential elements of Islamic orthodoxy, rather than fringe misinterpretations by a tiny minority of Muslims . All major schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree with this.
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Provide evidence of Christianity being similar to Islam regarding violence and women.
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The Pope does not speak for all or most Christians. His statements are not official dogma of the Catholic Church. They are personal opinions that Catholics aren't at all obliged to agree with. Many Catholics disagree. For instance, Cardinal Raymond Burke.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10 ... tting-win/The ultimate goal of Islam is world conquest and the “supine” West is only helping it achieve that aim, a senior cardinal has said.
Speaking in an interview with Italian newspaper Il Giornale, Cardinal Raymond Burke accused Westerners of being too weak to acknowledge the incompatibility of Christianity and Islam.
“It is clear that Muslims have as their ultimate goal conquest and power over the world,” the American cardinal said. “Islam, through sharia, their law, will rule the world and permit violence against infidels, such as Christians. But we find it hard to recognise this reality and to respond by defending the Christian faith.”
“Many people do not understand what Islam really is,” he added. “They create these slogans: we all believe in the same God, we are all united by love and so on. It’s not true.”
He also said that modern Christians are often unwilling to proclaim their beliefs, and should not be afraid to convert people of other faiths.
“Christians have neglected a fundamental truth: there is only one Saviour of the world: Jesus Christ. We must not proselytize, imposing Christianity, but if we believe in Jesus it is our duty to bear witness.
“I think that this witness is not very strong, even in countries that were called Christian once upon a time, such as the European nations.”
Cardinal Burke, who is regarded as a leading traditionalist within the Catholic Church, went on to say that Islam poses a threat to the Western order because it makes no distinction between religion and the state.
“Islam is a threat in the sense that for the true Muslim, Allah must rule the world. Christ said in the Gospel: ‘Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s’. By contrast, the Islamic religion which is based on the law of the Koran aims to govern all countries where there are Muslims.
“While they are the minority they cannot insist, but when they become the majority they must apply the Sharia.”
We can already see this in some Muslim-majority neighbourhoods, the cardinal added.
“Today there are enclaves, entire neighbourhoods, in Europe where there is in fact Muslim rule.”
Speaking about so-called “no-go zones” such as Molenbeek, Cardinal Burke said that the existence of such neighbourhoods represented a failure of integration, calling them “a state within a state”.
“The problem is that Muslims aim for expansion,” he added. “The whole history of the Islamic presence in Europe is an attempt to conquer it.”
And Pope Benedict XVI:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/global/r ... bout-islamIn his 2006 speech, simply titled "Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections," Benedict characteristically took up a knotty concept -- the interplay of faith and reason. He wanted to show how reason untethered from faith leads to fanaticism and violence.
To illustrate that case, Benedict dug up an obscure 14th-century dialogue between a long-forgotten Byzantine Christian emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, and a Persian scholar about the concept of violence in Islam.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," Benedict quoted the emperor as saying to his Islamic interlocutor.
In Islamic teaching, Benedict said, "God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality."
Given the tinderbox that was the Muslim world then, as now, it was no surprise that Benedict's citation of Islam as an example of a religion gone wild touched off the firestorm.
Not only were moderate Muslims offended, but extremists attacked churches in the West Bank, killed an Italian nun in Somalia and beheaded a priest in Iraq. Benedict's allies saw those episodes as proving the pope's point, and they cheered his willingness to "get tough" with Islam. "Benedict the Brave," the Wall Street Journal called him.
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If only Wahhabism is the problem, how do you explain jihadism and sharia by the other kinds of Muslims, such as Malikis, Hanafis, Shiites, etc.?
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Provide evidence that Christian doctrine was modified by liberals, governments, revolutionaries, etc.
Other ESOCkpuppets are free to answer any of these questions as well.