I just heard Geert Wilders of the Netherlands Freedom Party being interviewed on TV. He said that Islam is a totalitarian ideology like communism and fascism and has no place in a liberal democracy.
What does everyone think?
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I'd agree; of course I'd extend that to monotheism in general; and perhaps to other religions as well.
I agree with Nyarlathotep. All of the Abrahamic religions are totalitarian. Geert Wilders can spot an islamic problem from a mile away but can't discern a christian problem in his own bathroom mirror. The 'plank in your own eye' bible verse is lost on him.
This is fascism at it's best. It's Brexit, Trump, Alt-right, demonizing. I don't like any religion but I cannot agree with this nonsense. Wilders doesn't want a liberal democracy. He wants to END liberal democracy for fascist conservatism. Wilder is appealing to nationalist populism and nothing more. I bet Wilder wishes Mexicans were crossing the border in the Netherlands so he could demonize them as well. There aren't many blacks there either so it would be pointless to demonize them. All Wilders has are muslims to demonize. He would like to villify the jews as well.
@Mykcob4: "I bet Wilder wishes Mexicans were crossing the border in the Netherlands so he could demonize them as well."
Well he's got the right hairstyle for it!
The real irony is that the Dutch once colonized and exploited the bigget Muslim nation on Earth, Indonesia (the Dutch East Indies). The Japanese drove them out, and the Allies drove out the Japanese. Then the Dutch returned expecting to reclaim their colonial fiefdom. So after growing rich on their colonies, the Dutch are now turning isolationist.
The last thing the world needs now is isolationist nationalists. Hummanity will face collapse by the end of this century. we must prepare by forming unity not alienating our fellow man. We must destroy walls not build them!. I have strange feeling we will be getting that third sequel we have long been asking for.
I've expressed my thoughts about the Islamic culture in one of my previous posts, and Truett clarified me that my hate, wasn't xenophobia, but the fear of having the base of rights taken away from me (in short words). I loathe Islam in all possible ways, and it is a Totalitarian Ideology just as any other Abrahamic religion. Wilders is spotting Islamic problems in his Country, but he doesn't seem to detect Christian ones either, so as much as I hate to say this, that hate on Muslims is nothing but Political. Trump won when he expressed Xenophobia and Racism against Mexicans right? Why wouldn't Wilders for his hate on Muslims? He's a demagogue, as simple as that.
Wilders is using fear and hate of muslims to try and win an election.
I seriously can't tell which of the Abrahamic religions are worst right now. Which is most totalitarian right now. Which requires our most urgent attention right now.
Evangelical Christianity has given the world's most powerful military and tools of extinction to a pitiless, empathyless, narcissistic autocrat and is urging him to war against the enemies of America and god with the full might at his disposal. They urge him to callously harm over 200 million Americans because of their gender, race, religion, income, sexual orientation, contrary political views, or insistance on relying on science based information about our environment. They urge him to place a subset of Americans' interests over those of the other 7.2 billion humans on this planet and to ensure that the chosen Americans win and every other human loses. They urge him to reject the demonstrable science of greenhouse gas emmissions because god has the whole world in his hands and we're going to heaven soon so earthly concerns don't matter. And they demand that he mandate teaching impressionable young people that god made the world and that evolution, radiometric dating, and the paleotological and archaeological records are not to be believed. They are risking the annihilation of most life and species on this planet. They are the most powerful religious group in the history of the solar system and they are self-righteously assured that they'll live forever in heaven regardless how grissly things get down here on earth.
Catholics support a number of these hideous dangers, plus they demand that hundreds of millions of humans in Subsaharan Africa and Central and South America not use condoms because cardinal sins of the flesh are worse than contracting the AIDS and Zika viruses and infecting children. Hundreds of millions of deaths are being caused right now by their iron age policies. They advocate for the continued and accelerated overpopulation of our planet. And they insist that adult male virgins adopt unhealthy celibate lifestyles then live their neurotic sexual lives in constant private contact with children for decades, then the church recycles those delusional pedophiles into fresh crops of children when they've spoiled the crop of kids currently under their control.
Islam demands that all humans on the face of the planet submit to sharia law and abide by the preachments and dictates of a pedophile warlord from the 7th Century. They demand that neither Mohammed nor Allah be drawn, questioned, critisized, opposed, or in any way disagreed with. The Islamic faith demands that women be subservient to men and under mens' physical and emotional control. The Koran dictates that anyone who changes their mind about Islam be executed for apostacy, and that homosexuals be killed. And their holy book urges unending hostility with their Abrahamic co-religionists.
The followers of Judaism, while tiny in number, unhelpfully insist that a barren patch of contested land is theirs by order of god. The fact that the ground is supposedly where Jesus was crucified and promises to return and where Mohommed supposedly rode a winged horse and flew up to heaven is of less importance to them than their own demented fairy tale. Followers from across the world support the zionistic policy of turning the blade in the bellies of muslims instead of recognizing the insane level of damage done by dominating the holy land, dome of the rock, Jerusalem, and all that the 4 billion-plus Abrahamic adherents seem to hold dear. Oh, and they insist on controlling the Valley of Megido where hostile American evangelical christians plan on holding the battle of armageddon to end all life on this planet.
I'm convinced that humanity's single greatest mission at this point in time should be freeing itself from religion, and the Abrahamic religions are without question the first that needs to go. Hell yes they are totalitarian. All of them.
I agree. islam makes the claim that it is the best and final religion