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Do you consider Islam a threat?
Yes, I definetely do 39%  39%  [ 30 ]
Yes, but only to Europe 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
I'm not sure, I'm in doubt 9%  9%  [ 7 ]
No, not at all 36%  36%  [ 27 ]
I think Islam has some threat, but the danger isn't great 14%  14%  [ 11 ]
Total votes : 76

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28 Jul 2009, 11:31 am

The poll does not allow me to answer "No more than anything else that encourages people to believe that their success in life (and/or after-life) depends upon believing, without question or reason, what members of a theocratic hierarchy tell them to believe."

Or, to shorten it, "No more than, say, Christianity."

Absent such an answer, I think the poll is fundamentally flawed.



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28 Jul 2009, 12:02 pm

Yes, one of many, including the EU, authoritarian governance and the environmentalist movement.



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01 Aug 2009, 5:52 pm

No, Islam can be intererated in any way anyone sees fit, and as such it is not a threat. People are a threat, especially people who think there stupid delusions (how I see religion :lol:) are enough to justify murder.


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02 Aug 2009, 3:44 am

Tequila wrote:
Yes, one of many, including the EU, authoritarian governance and the environmentalist movement.

Have you joined the BNP, now, Tequila?



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02 Aug 2009, 3:55 am

Tequila wrote:
Yes, one of many, including the EU, authoritarian governance and the environmentalist movement.

Go back to Oklahoma! :P


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03 Aug 2009, 3:53 am

Islam is just as much a threat as other religions: It becomes dangerous when you make special allowances for it, as the case is with religion in general.



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03 Aug 2009, 11:53 am

can you clarify 'special allowances'?



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03 Aug 2009, 3:12 pm

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Islam is just as much a threat as other religions: It becomes dangerous when you make special allowances for it, as the case is with religion in general.


He probably means it's dangerous when the state, or society, writes off morally unsound behaviour as "part of the religion".


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