The Horror! Evangelical Protestants are beheading Jehovah's Witnesses?

[FrodosPet]

Where was that happening at again?

(WARNING: Graphic video)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=00c_1406413136

[DonViejo]

1. Huh?...

Your link leads to a video showing this:

50 Soldiers Beheaded And Their Heads Put On Poles Part II
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=00c_1406413136#d7kh3UKDiU7A6rij.99

[Go Vols]

36. Earlier today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025368740#post32

[Jackpine Radical]

2. *sigh*

[Nye Bevan]

3. But Catholics and Protestants DID burn each other at the stake in the Middle Ages.

And don't forget the Crusades. And the Salem Witch Trials.

Hundreds of years ago, yes, so hopefully by the year 2400 the different Islamic sects will treat each other like Episcopalians and Methodists do today.

[Rhinodawg]

4. Excuse me...How do you know those are Evangelical Protestants who did that?

[Rhinodawg]

6. Ohhhhhh....I see.

[edhopper]

5. I think this says more about the current cultures

Evangelicals and JW's live in. The enlightenment did a lot to end laws and actions based on religion. Maybe these countries where the atrocities you satirize take place have their own enlightenment, things will improve.
As long as they let their religion dictate behavior, this kind of thing is apt to happen.

[haele]

7. well, we aren't too far away from the troubles

I remember some of the horrors people who tried to live peacefully in Belfast went through, when your house could be bombed just because your kid was seen cutting across the wrong streets in his way home.

It wasn't that long go - a few decades.

Haele

[Nye Bevan]

8. Was that mostly to do with competing faiths, or wanting the British out of Northern Ireland?

If the UK had happened to be a Catholic country, would the Irish have been just fine and dandy with British rule?

[Kurska]

9. Little bit of column A

Little bit of column B

[hrmjustin]

10. I don't get this op.

[FrodosPet]

11. Too many people are painting false equivalence

Between the Christians, who can be intolerant assholes, but in modern times are not chasing down people of different denominations and coldly murdering them, while cheering and videotaping their acts of brutality, and the people (if we can call them that) in Syria and Iraq who are doing exactly that very thing.

[hrmjustin]

12. Thank you for helping me.

Without liberal democracy things can go very bad very quickly as we are seeing now.

I will say in Africa we sttill have Muslim and Christian tribes killing each other and doing these horrible things.

[Chathamization]

13. Of course Christians wouldn't kill others!

Never would happen. Just never. Buddhists don't either. At all.

But we thank you sir, for demonstrating how much you know about the world.

[LeftyMom]

16. Remind me again who keeps shooting doctors in this country?

There's a log in your eye. Do you needsome tweezers and a mirror?

[FrodosPet]

19. So a few lone wolves make most Christians the equivalent of ISIL fanatics?

I am afraid you may need to have your lenses checked.

[LeftyMom]

21. Lone wolves my ass. They're all tied to Operation Rescue and other organizations

supported by any number of churches.

[FrodosPet]

23. How many thousands of abortion doctors died last month?

Is it in the thousands?

That's how many non-Sunni have been shot, point blank in the head.

How about hundreds? Dozens? Were any at all killed last month?

Lots of evil going around, but Operation Rescue is unlikely to trigger a nuclear war. ISIL is capable of it, and looking forward to it.

[LeftyMom]

27. How many weren't trained because medical schools are terrified of Christian love?

How many fake anthrax letters are mailed to clinics?

Your religion isn't better than any other, its' criminal element is only contained by a more stable country and a great expenditure of police and health resources that could be better used HELPING THE POOR LIKE THAT GUY IN THE SANDALS WANTED.

You're not better than those people. You just live in a functioning society. No thanks to the evangelical right.

[JackRiddler]

14. It's parroting some ignorant, racist propaganda

about how all those people out there are animals, not like civilized Westerners who don't behead people. (Unless a drone strike happens to knock off their head, you know? We always behead collaterally, so to speak.)

With most people who do this it's a psychological device for distancing oneself from the crimes of one's own culture, one's own nation. The U.S. government launched a war of aggression, destroyed one nation directly and helped destroy another (Syria had to absorb four million Iraqi refugees for years, and of course the faction that became IS were originally set up by Gulf States and CIA).

As a means of dealing with the situation in Iraq, the U.S. started a genocide among factions that it armed heavily. Now the latest round of ethnic cleansing is underway and Americans who think they're smart and enlightened tell themselves such stories to pretend they had nothing to do with it. It's all because of their religion, nothing to do with economics, history, imperialism, etc.

[oberliner]

24. Racist?

Isn't it more directed at a particular religion than a particular race?

[LeftyMom]

30. Hey guys, oberliner thinks you can criticize a religion without being racist now.

Somebody bookmark, you'll get a lot of mileage out of it.

[oberliner]

32. Huh?

I just thought it was more anti-Islam prejudice than anti-Arab prejudice?

Maybe I misunderstood the initial comment.

[FrodosPet]

29. Where is the word ALL?

Do you actually study what is happening over there?

Do you watch any videos? Seen the masses with fiery determination and religious glee anxious to go on a bloodthirsty rampage?

Thank goodness our President is far wiser and better informed than the people who would let these monsters run unimpeded!

[JackRiddler]

33. Islamic State is bad news.

The Gulf States should have never supported it, and the U.S. shouldn't have thus armed it indirectly.

[LeftyMom]

15. If they knock on my door before I've had my coffee...

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Right now, Kenya, which is 70% Christian, is debating a law to kill all the gay people and to put

their friends in prison for life. I'm not sure you really have a strong contrast between the faiths.
"A new gay genocide bill that would see gay citizens sentenced to death by stoning is under discussion in Kenya."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014867816

[LeftyMom]

18. Evangelical Protestants are killing gay people in Uganda.

And beating adopted children to death in the USA. For that matter they kill gay people here too.

[FrodosPet]

20. OK, I get it. I see the light! You are absolutely right

No one can criticize Islamic extremism because some Christians are sadistic fuqheads as well. Or, if they do, they must point it all out.

Makes me want to buy a ticket to see Robin Williams and skip the cruel stupidity coming at us full speed.

[LeftyMom]

22. Criticize your own fuckwitted coreligionists.

Attacking people on another goddamn continent that nobody here supports to begin with is intellectually lazy slacktivism at best and a deliberate obfuscation of the problems in your own religion at worst.

[FrodosPet]

25. I am not religious

I am an agnostic.

And what they are doing over there has repercussions over here.

[LeftyMom]

28. Pull the other one.

[JackRiddler]

34. You introduced the idea of Christians being better.

[Scootaloo]

26. If we wanted gellarisms, we'd visit her site.

[FrodosPet]

31. Pam Gellar made that video?

What is it that you are saying?

People are NOT being beheaded in Iraq and Syria? This was all special effects?

Or it's not our problem, shut up, we should not be bombing?

[JackRiddler]

35. Not the video, your rhetoric is Gellarist.