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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is so annoying. First of all, you posted this immediately after I quoted directly from the teachings of the religion, condoning this behavior. It's patently obvious you're wrong.
I don't know where this meme got started or how it became fashionable but it makes absolutely no sense. Of course it "has to do" with religion - specific passages, tenets of a religious faith are the impetus for this behavior. The fact that there are other factors in play - economics, historical conflicts, ethnic feuds and whatever else you can think of - does not eliminate the major role religion plays in this behavior.
Dismissing them all as brutes - as if no matter what they believed, people from a certain part of the world are predisposed to barbarism somehow - smacks of the bigotry of low expectations.
In debates, Hitchens used to use the quote, “in the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion”. Apt.
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Liberal elites primarily. People so busy being tolerant that they can't recognize clear and present danger that's right in front of them. This is why I have such a hard time understanding the likes of Chomsky, Greenwald, et al on this subject. Western colonialism is at the root of all this? Yeah - ok.
To quote Harris on this very subject "Specific ideas have specific consequences" and when your ideas are taken from a 9th century text that is believed by adherents to be the actual word of their perfect god and also that it clearly states that rape of pre-pubescent infidels is ok if not encouraged then no one should be surprised by these behaviours. I don't see a stronger cause and effect relationship.