Radical Islam V The Far-Right

[anotheoldgit]

Going on a past thread, there seems more support for radical Islam than there is towards Far-Right Groups, so I ask who are the most dangerous?

[jackthehat]

Do you have a newspaper link for this?

[emmie]

both are to be despised surely?

[naomi24]

Radical Islam - on numbers alone.

[sp1814]

The Far Right are more dangerous. If allowed to flourish, they tend to form governments that murder millions.

We have evidence of this in the 20th century.

[emmie]

wouldn't you say that radical Islam is a threat to us all.

[ichkeria]

IS for example is more dangerous than Britain First for example.
Not sure support levels has much to do with it, tho it would be a bit rash to base your analysis on a thread on AB (!)

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

And you don't think that Islam is not after World domination, given the chance? I think you will find that there are more Muslim politicians than there are Far-right politicians.

[emmie]

With the 2010 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs increased by nearly three-quarters, to a total of 26. The first three Muslim female MPs were elected. All ethnic minority MPs were either Labour (15) or Conservative (11).

[sp1814]

AOG

Islam or radical Islam?

But whatever, I think it’s a very bad idea for any fundamentalist religion to start colonising other regions. We’ve seen what they has done before. It never ends well.

A secular world - that would be the ideal.

[emmie]

but we aren't heading for a secular world any day soon. and more radical preachers are turning young minds to their way of thinking and not just in the Middle East.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Your 13.32 post couldn't be a covered snipe at the introduction of Christianity into Colonial Africa could it?

[jim360]

I don't know, was Christianity introduced to Africa and the Americas with or alongside destructive effects for the local population?

[Khandro]

The far right seem to be interested in trying to maintain a rapidly diminishing status quo, and radical Islam is hell-bent on destroying and superseding it.

[jim360]

That's why I'm voting for change...

#obvioussarcasmisobvious

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

If you are talking about South America then I don't think the two can be compared since it was the Spanish who introduced their Catholicism with great force into South America, but the Christian missionaries used a much more peaceful approach in Africa.

[jim360]

Catholicism being, as it is, a form of Christianity, it's an odd distinction to make. Nor can Christians in Africa be exactly regarded as innocent of causing divisions and hardships.

It's not exactly an uncontroversial point. Religions of all kinds have served as a convenient excuse for conquest and oppression.

[-Talbot-]

The Far Right are more dangerous. If allowed to flourish, they tend to form governments that murder millions.


Yes, much better that radical Islam is allowed to flourish ... to steal a line from Sam Cooke 'what a wonderful world this would be'

[Khandro]

jim 14:15 You are wrong on all the three points you make; Catholicism isn't a form of Christianity - it IS Christianity.
Give examples of Christians causing hardship in Africa, and apart from contemporary radical Islam you will have to go far back a few centuries before you can demonstrate how religion alone has caused conquest and oppression.

[jno]

Christianity seems to have reached Africa before it reached Europe; there's still some dispute over whether Armenia or Ethiopia was the first Christian country.

[ToraToraTora]

yes AOG, I always find it quite fascinating when the right on brigade berate us for various "isms" then defend Islam, "it's their culture" yada yada.