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10,000 Muslim Men Against Domestic Violence

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/15/2010 4:43:37 am PST

re: #17 kreyagg

I have said nothing about Muslims at all. The closest I have come to that is linking those videos. The problems with Islam/Christianity/Judaism are the foundational texts. They will always be there to be read literally by the truly faithful.

No, you are, for reasons of your own, defining the literal readers as the ‘truly faithful’. I have no idea why, except sheer laziness in argument.

I have done no such thing. I have claimed that the religion and its texts sponsor and according to some of the videos I linked require such behavior

Again: You’re treating all of Islam as a monolithic belief. “The religion” doesn’t have any existence. CuriousLurker and Osama Bin Laden do not follow the same religion, any more than Fred Phelps and Stephen Colbert follow the same religion.

The texts were written during a period of time where counseling people to first talk with their wives, then deprive them of sex, before beating them, was actually a very liberal and forward thinking policy. This is why moderate Muslims, as CuriousLurker demonstrated, do not interpret that text to mean that God thinks it’s great to beat your wife, but as an attempt to change people’s behavior so that they’d beat their wives less often.