Mohammad cartoon contest in front of a Phoenix Mosque. What are your thoughts?

Repress witchcraft, repress women healthcare but pass out the Viagra to men..

I believe we are in agreement... I think I down voted the pictures. I don't hold an entire group of people responsible for what one dumb guy said. But I do hold people responsible if there is a trend of repeated behavior over a very long period of time.

The fact remains that Muslims do more harm to Muslims in countries ruled by Muslims than they do to anyone else and more than anyone else does to them. ANYWHERE. Your argument, CPT Ahmed Faried , comparing Americans to Nazis is specious at best. No one, to my knowledge is burning mosques or breaking store windows or calling for extermination. Few in the US Muslim community are speaking out against terrorism. I know of no other religion which embraces the concept of Taqiya. Unlike the Nazis, I am also not seeing anyone confiscating Muslims' property here to finance its wars, let alone pulling people's teeth out of their corpses to do it or making lampshades out of their skin.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-interview-fox-news-has-ever-do#.tvkbleE7m

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hopefully some knowledge can be gained.

Can we prove all mosques are supporting terrorism? How many have been proven to be supporting? Many!! How many religious leaders scream for the death of others? Only Islam.

Why do we allow a religion to dictate our way of life? Why do we give up our beliefs just because they conflict with another group? Let's talk sharia law it is being practiced here in communities. Honor killings, death to gays, kill anyone who dissent believe. That's Islam.

David, You are generalizing, but lets talk about sharia law then, because it does exist in every state that has laws then restricts women's health choices, the same applies to restrictions on gay marriages, and still those that demand their religious rights to discriminate against gays and lesbians because they say their bible says so.

No generalizations. The following are Sharia laws which are derived from the Quran.

1- Jihad, defined as "to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion," is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of state (Caliph). Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia and unfit to rule.
2- A Caliph can hold office through seizure of power meaning through force.
3- A Caliph is exempt from being charged with serious crimes such as murder, adultery, robbery, theft, drinking and in some cases of rape.
4- A percentage of Zakat (charity money) must go towards jihad.
5- It is obligatory to obey the commands of the Caliph, even if he is unjust.
6- A caliph must be a Muslim, a non-slave and a male.
7- The Muslim public must remove the Caliph if he rejects Islam.
8- A Muslim who leaves Islam must be killed immediately.
9- A Muslim will be forgiven for murder of: 1) an apostate 2) an adulterer 3) a highway robber. Vigilante street justice and honor killing is acceptable.
10- A Muslim will not get the death penalty if he kills a non-Muslim, but will get it for killing a Muslim.
11- Sharia never abolished slavery, sexual slavery and highly regulates it. A master will not be punished for killing his slave.
12- Sharia dictates death by stoning, beheading, amputation of limbs, flogging even for crimes of sin such as adultery.
13- Non-Muslims are not equal to Muslims under the law. They must comply to Islamic law if they are to remain safe. They are forbidden to marry Muslim women, publicly display wine or pork, recite their scriptures or openly celebrate their religious holidays or funerals. They are forbidden from building new churches or building them higher than mosques. They may not enter a mosque without permission. A non-Muslim is no longer protected if he leads a Muslim away from Islam.
14- It is a crime for a non-Muslim to sell weapons to someone who will use them against Muslims. Non-Muslims cannot curse a Muslim, say anything derogatory about Allah, the Prophet, or Islam, or expose the weak points of Muslims. But Muslims can curse non-Muslims.
15- A non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim.
16- Banks must be Sharia compliant and interest is not allowed.
17- No testimony in court is acceptable from people of low-level jobs, such as street sweepers or bathhouse attendants. Women in low level jobs such as professional funeral mourners cannot keep custody of their children in case of divorce.
18- A non-Muslim cannot rule -- even over a non-Muslim minority.
19- Homosexuality is punishable by death.
20- There is no age limit for marriage of girls. The marriage contract can take place anytime after birth and can be consummated at age 8 or 9.
21- Rebelliousness on the part of the wife nullifies the husband's obligation to support her, gives him permission to beat her and keep her from leaving the home.
22- Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as saying: "I divorce you" and becomes effective even if the husband did not intend it.
23- There is no community property between husband and wife and the husband's property does not automatically go to the wife after his death.
24- A woman inherits half what a man inherits.
25- A man has the right to have up to 4 wives and none of them have a right to divorce him -- even if he is polygamous.
26- The dowry is given in exchange for the woman's sexual organs.
27- A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married her marriage is annulled.
28- The testimony of a woman in court is half the value of a man.
29- A woman loses custody if she remarries.
30- To prove rape, a woman must have 4 male witnesses.
31- A rapist may only be required to pay the bride-money (dowry) without marrying the rape victim.
32- A Muslim woman must cover every inch of her body, which is considered "Awrah," a sexual organ. Not all Sharia schools allow the face of a woman exposed.
33- A Muslim man is forgiven if he kills his wife at the time he caught her in the act of adultery. However, the opposite is not true for women, since the man "could be married to the woman he was caught with."
34-It is obligatory for a Muslim to lie if the purpose is obligatory. That means that for the sake of abiding with Islam's commandments, such as jihad, a Muslim is obliged to lie and should not have any feelings of guilt or shame associated with this kind of lying.

Are you talking in favor of this individual conducting the contest?

So you would tell a General Officer to go fk off? Shouldn't respect come into play at some point?

Respect should come into play, respect our constitution.

MSG Morgan Fiszel, CPCM, CFCM , I have entered into a contract, of my own free will, which gives a GO authority over me. Thus I have willingly taken on the obligation to respect GOs, and be subject to penalties for not doing so.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be respectful of others, but I'm not saying they should be either. My point is that exercising a right isn't a matter of "should" or "should not", it just is what it is.

I don't believe that is an apple to apple comparison. First, 99.99% percent seem to have a solid grasp on the idea that free speech means your going to be offended sometimes and that violence is an unacceptable response. Unfortunately, if there are millions of Muslims in the country that .01% means there are a few hundred who believe a violent response is justified. Hopefully none decide to show up.

I take a different perspective on the image this portrays to the world. Instead of looking like a nation of disrespectful a**holes, I think it shows the world that we have a bunch of disrespectful a**holes just like they do, and yet we don't start shooting each other over it.

People around the world are aware that they have d-bags in their populaces too, but also that their d-bags are more likely to start shooting each other than we are, over differences of worldviews.

CPT Pedro Meza, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks of such a contest as idiotic and disrespectful!

Ei. please call me Pedro (team habit), I learned after experiencing death that Jesus lessons need to be practiced and not worshiped.

Written like a good little Socialist, LT. You are still a very young man. I can only hope you will come to see things more clearly when you are older. Taxation is robbery. A draft is kidnapping, even if you think it is "good for the country". Individual liberty does not yet seem to be one of your values, which is a pity. In fact, it terrifies me that you are entrusted to lead men with weapons, based on both your last post and that you support making dissent on ANY topic a crime.

"Seriously, your arguments don't seem rational", LTC Blink Romanick, doesn't seem like kidding to me or sarcasm.

Do I think people who deny the Holocaust have an agenda and are potentially dangerous, LT? Yes, I do. The problem with banning dissent is where do you stop? There is no more slippery slope I can think of. I don't know who "your people" are. Maybe that's the problem? From your presence on this website, I believed that "your people" are Americans? If that's not the case, maybe you should let me know. Capitalism is about free markets and individual choice, people taking risks with their own resources and succeeding or failing on the merit of their own abilities to meet consumer demand. Your expressed belief that that can include forced servitude for the greater good, regardless of whether that servitude is conscription (because it would be "good for society" or "good for the Romans" or "good for the Swiss"; I'm not sure the Swiss have conscription; maybe more like everyone is trained to defend their own homes and farms), or extortion through income tax because you don't like some people accumulating too much wealth. When you tax people's production, you make them de facto slaves to the state. Just as southern slave owners claimed ownership of their slaves' lives and production, you are claiming state ownership of people's lives and production by forcibly making them turn over a portion of their production to the state. Have you ever thought of that? This is NOT a Capitalist concept.

These are not mere "political differences" between you and me, they are fundamental philosophical ones. In a volunteer military, we agree to give up some of our rights temporarily, such as dissent and self-ownership, to (hopefully) defend others' rights to do these things. When we lose sight of this, we become, potentially, just a band of armed thugs.

I don't think they're too worried about any response from the hornets in Arizona. Unlike New York and other gun grabber states, most of the people in Arizona probably have any would-be terrorists outgunned.

I hope you are just as not pleased with the radical Christians that support murdering abortion providers.

SFC Robert Wheeler That is why I said "any religious follower" I guess I should have capitalized the ANY.