From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/22/2026 3:49 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Feb 22, 2026 at 12:17:27 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2/21/2026 5:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2025203772901801984/vi   
   /avc1/1920x1080/sWXdkXFSbOs_aaC8.mp4   
   >>>   
   >>>   A promise of a better world!   
   >>   
   >> I'm duly impressed at the level of craftsmanship.  But I can't help but   
   >> hear pot calling kettle black.  Although Islam is a particularly   
   >> authoritarian doctrine, it's only following "divine instruction" ...just   
   >> like most all of its competition.   
   >   
   > You have to look back to the Crusades to find the kind of 'competition' Islam   
   > is advertising.   
   >   
   > When you have to reach back 900 years to find something remotely comparable   
   in   
   > Christianity to modern-day Islam, that oughta be a clue how weak your   
   argument   
   > has become.   
   >   
   >> (E.g., I wouldn't be surprised to find an equally vehement video from this   
   >> group targeting pro-lifers.)   
      
   The choice is whether to be satisfied with identifying a particular   
   manifestation of evil or identifying the evil itself.  Sure, I cringe at   
   Islam's treatment of women ...but I don't want to lose sight of its   
   pernicious appeal to the supernatural that we accept in principle.   
      
   (Texas classrooms are under orders to post the Ten Commandments.  Even   
   if punishments remain short of lethal, the pendulum is in place.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)