Only if you like your journalism shoddy, subjective, and with a heaping side of factual errors.
This line of reasoning is just a recycled version of "No true Scotsman" designed to protect religion from genuine criticism.
I don't know anything about Fisk. I looked up his wiki bio after his name was posted, it looks like he has some serious credentials, I was wondering why you hold this opinion?
The religion does promote violence, because it's medieval stories by unenlightened and usually illiterate people.
From a review in the Guardian of his book The Great War for Civilization:
No, you are mistaken. It is MOSTLY the strict adherents of religion who commit these heinous acts of violence. Fundamentalists follow their holy books pretty much to the letter, and fundamentalists (of all religions) are usually the ones who become violent. Fundamentalist Christians commit domestic terrorism in our own country. It doesn't make them any less of a Christian. The ones who DON'T follow the violent commands of their holy texts are the ones who aren't actually Christians/Muslims. The ones committing these atrocities are the ones who are following exactly what their books say they should do. We SHOULD treat all religion as cancer, and we should acknowledge the effect which that cancer has on infirm and irrational minds. Moderate religious people are just as complicit, because they advance the idea that these books are the direct word of god, so even if the people say "Don't kill people", they are still saying "This book contains the word of God", which creates a situation where "God" is saying to kill people and "People" are saying not to. Who do you think a truly religious person will listen to? The words they believe come from God, or the words they know come from people?
Blaming an entire religion because of the actions of the 0.2% of their adherents that go full retard on the desert comicbooks is pretty sad.
8 is definately because we wear deodorant ....don't see why such hate because we like crotchless panties and to smell nice
It is the religion itself that causes this mindset. Do you think all fanatical Muslims have legitimate mental health issues?
That's like saying that Nazism isn't bad and didn't cause the Holocaust because most average Nazis weren't directly complicit in the Holocaust. Religions have billions of adherents, if they cause 0.2% of their adherents to commit atrocities, that is still tens of millions of people. If religion causes their actions, religion is responsible. End of story. Stop defending that which is indefensible.
Understanding why should be
Not really. The "thinking" of a group of people engaged in those sort of unspeakable acts is irrelevant.
you are aware that their very existence is contingent upon white supremacist shitheads like you who view them as somehow actually representative of islam, rather than a fringe lunatic offshoot that actually shoots up mosques during the holy month of ramadan, right?
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle." -The Art of War, Sun Tzu
You cannot successfully fight a war of words against an ideology without first understanding that ideology. If you can understand what it was that convinced people to believe it, you are one step closer to figuring out what could convince them to disbelieve it.
All religion is bullshit and should not exist. Islam isn't doing anything that Christianity hasn't done for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years. Religion is a sickness of the mind, a virus of irrational thought.
