And truth does hurt sometimes. The point is: do you love it enough to stand the pain?
What a stereotypical sentence.
I really do not stereotype people lightly, it's just my intuition. Zaephon seems to know a lot about Judaism, but maybe he has studied or read a lot. I don't know. And then it's unusual to see an ex-muslim defending Zionism.
Well, you will have to learn tolerating other viewpoints. There is a great deal of difference between anti-Zionism, i.e. unconditional opposition to a Jewish state, and criticism of Israel. I accept the latter, and oppose the first.
I live in a society where anti-Semitism has become increasingly widespread, and where Islamists are preaching that secular Turks are to be hated as much as the cursed Jews. I live in a society where Islamists exploit the Palestinian-Israeli struggle to expand their own political agenda. Are you an atheist? Then you must be a Zionist trying to weaken Islam. Are you a socialist? Karl Marx was Jewish! Are you a Kemalist? Well, Ataturk was crypto-Jewish too.
Yes, I know much about Judaism and Jewish history. I know much about Christianity, too. Some of my favourite books are mediaeval Christian texts. I have sympathy for many minority religions trying to survive in the Islamic landscape, ranging from Zoroastrianism to oriental Christianity, from the Yazidi to the Alawis in Turkey. Every single heterodox, non-Islamic religion deserves some sympathy in the Islamic landscape. I have special sympathy for Jews only because anti-Semitism, traditional and Nazi-style, is quite similar to the anti-Semitism of Middle Ages. Jews are more than impure infidels in the eyes of an Islamist --they are malevolent demigods, responsible for everything. As such, the worst blasphemy in political Islam is to defend the Jewish people. I am doing it.
Interestingly, nobody has ever accused me of being a Zoroastrian or Yazidi, but I have been "accused of" being Jewish for so many times that I cannot remember, even in discussions completely unrelated to Judaism or Israel. Now isn't that interesting? And our very own Turquoise was saying that "the majority of Jews oppose the Zionist state," only to later speculate about my secret Jewish identity. How strange.
As I said, it is not important.
Why speculate about it, in that case? In another thread you have speculated how I must be ugly, and now you are speculating about my secret Jewish identity. One of the members here expressed his desire to see me hospitalised because I disagreed with his anti-Zionist views. Two years ago, an Islamist girl expressed his desire to see me decapitated, simply because I expressed that Israel has the right to exist. If such views are so widespread here and everywhere, how can anybody complain that Zionism is the new taboo of the West? Integrity, please.
Why I choose to support Israel is my business, just as why you choose to condemn Israel is yours. Speculating about secret identities is rude and puerile, but then again you expressed that you are ready to believe in ZOG conspiracy theories.
I really asked just out of curiosity. I made the comment about Jude Law, because when you joked that you were a zionist and eat babies too, for a moment a imagined him doing that, lol. Just a silly comment really, and I apologized for it.
I don't like Zionists because they have proven to have the same ideology of dominance and disregard for human life of Islam and other religions/ideologies.
So I am against the whole lot of them.
I am sure there are nice Jews that have nothing to do with all this. In fact I have met some in the UK who were not interested in either Judaism or Zionism. The ones I have talked to did not really like the Israelis as they though they were arrogant people. I have been there myself and can testify to that (generally speaking, of course).
I don't mind them having a nation. But this endeavor has proven to be more trouble that it is worth and they are putting the whole world in danger. If it was up to me I would ban them both (Arabs and Jews) from that land. Wishful thinking of course. They are both there to stay and they will f...up the world in the end.
About the conspiracy theories, I think most of it is rubbish. But then everywhere you can find a grain of truth. Can you prove that the Rothschilds don't own the Federal Reserve of the US? And then, the Rothschilds have been one of the main sponsors of Zionism. Well, it does make you think.
And, what is it you find stereotyped in the truth comment above?
Topic: Converting from Islam to Judaism