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Originally Posted by Old Vantaa Man
That's all very well Juho, but we have the right and freedom to say MUHAMMED IS A FUCKING DICKHEAD. Can we say that in Iran?
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Of course we have right to say it, but our world happens to be ruled by political religious forces. It's not only extreme fundamentalist muslims that can act stupid. I believe if for example Helsingin Sanomat would state "GOD IS A FUCKING DICKHEAD" I bet it would cause complete chaos. Even if the law says church and state are sepperate organisations, the church has ridicilous amount of political power here.
Besides what's wrong with Muhammed anyway? Afterall almost all those ridicilous fundamentalist customs are come from integrating the Islam to existing habits, not from Koran. Just like in the original Christianity Christmas, Easter, etc are not on the same dates as they are today. Some of the holidays didn't even exist until there were need for some anti-pagan adjustments. The Christianity was formed to replace the existing pagan customs in order to efficiently wipe out the competition - In other words destroy the old culture and replace it with something new and "fake familiar" to ease up the adaption.
Middle-East religions are plagued by these "deformations" due that they have always been more tools of politics than religions. It's all about the power. That's why they have evolved into numerous different cults and denominations that are almost like completely different religions.
For example compare Evangelical Lutherans and Amishes. Both are Christians, but that's the only common thing. Jehovas Witnesses? Nutcases.
Thanks to the Christian mission and other force converting methods of Middle-East religions world's cultural heritage has impoverished remarkably and the work is still in progress. Listen kids: If you give any contributions to any kind of mission activities, I'm coming to slap your head with a swatter.