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I disagree
I agree with you. More educated people tend to be more permitting of difference.
It is, but that is besides the point. Those 500 million, it's likely they would still disagree even if they had a different religion, or no religion. For a number of various reasons, they'd probably still be that way even with a different ideology. America is very guilty of using monetary prophet as a means of justifying violations of human rights. Soviet Russia was atheist. Even ones like Pol Pot - who had more of Syncretic Eastern world view rather than Western Abrahamic - disagreed with basic human rights.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/...ligion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/
Muslims also tend to believe sharia has only one, true understanding, but this opinion is far from universal; in some countries, substantial minorities of Muslims believe sharia should be open to multiple interpretations.
Although many Muslims around the world say sharia should be the law of the land in their country [my addition: many Christians throughout the world believe this in regards to their rules], the survey reveals divergent opinions about the precise application of Islamic law.14 Generally, supporters of sharia are most comfortable with its application in cases of family or property disputes. In most regions, fewer favor other specific aspects of sharia, such as cutting off the hands of thieves and executing people who convert from Islam to another faith.
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In 17 of the 23 countries where the question was asked, at least half of Muslims say sharia is the revealed word of God.
Muslims in Southeast Asia and Central Asia are somewhat less likely to say sharia comes directly from God.
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Muslims differ widely as to whether sharia should be open to multiple understandings. While many say there is only one true interpretation, substantial percentages in most countries either say there are multiple interpretations or say they do not know.
In a number of countries, significant percentages say they are unsure whether sharia should be subject to one or multiple understandings,
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Support for making sharia the official law of the land varies significantly across the six major regions included in the study.
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Among Muslims who support making sharia the law of the land, most do not believe that it should be applied to non-Muslims.
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Compared with attitudes toward applying sharia in the domestic or criminal spheres, Muslims in the countries surveyed are significantly less supportive of the death penalty for converts.
And here are some of the charts:
So, as you can see, although Sharia is believed in, it's exact belief and interpretation widely varies.
And we see this same thing with other groups occurring for other reasons, such as the period when Japan almost entirely sealed its borders and placed severe restrictions on the amount of Western influence coming in and spreading. Race and ethnic identity is another issue where people are heavily indoctrinated, and have the same dim views on teaching children. And then there are also the pure capitalist, libertarian, and social-Darwin ideologies that hold that only those who can afford an education should be educated, and of course the massive pollution, severe environmental degradation, and widespread health threats that we have that came into existence over the pursuit of profits. Mao used the idea of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie to further and enforce his ideas.
Actually it was a "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones" argument.
There are Buddhist fanatics murdering Muslims and a growing number of Jewish fanatics murdering Muslims. The Israeli government is doing a much better job for the extreme Jewish fanatics but there are many settlers illegally stealing Muslim land with a wink and a nod from the Israeli government.Hehe recently in a refugee camp in Germany a Christian refugee supposedly ripped pages out of a Koran and flushed them down the toilet. (it probably never happenend, just like it never happens in Muslim countries)
What ensued was the hilarious stuff you usually only see in Muslim countries. It went on until riot police arrived. By then the enraged Muslim refugees had trashed the shelter they live in.
Since then there have been more and more reports that Non-Muslim refugees are actually too afraid to call the police when they are harassed or something worse happens because they fear it might give them problems with the state.
Its only going to get worse.
We agree on the problem of fanaticism. And no one should be let off the hook.
"Fundamentalist" applies to Christian denominations but in general these people want to live the "old time religion" or what they imagine it to be. I have no problem, in general, with the Amish who live the way they feel is right but don't try to impose it on others. In this context, fanatics want everyone to live that way and often will kill those who disagree.
Quagmire said:
No, only 500 million or so.
Of course dislike of an idea isn't xenophobia. But dear icehorse,here we are talking about lives that do matter. You know what,I cannot even bear someone who takes the wrong knife in a dinner table,but I cannot let simply these uneducated ones to be killed. That's why I say xenophobia kills and it does kill .