Bill Mahar may be misinformed and a little on the loud side, he also is most of the time wrong but we must remember that in the end he is a comic shooting for nothing more than ratings, this however does not make him a racist when he speaks about the facts of a group and those facts are wholly negative. Now I do not condone any media person attacking anyone on their personal beliefs unless the person/victim is in the know of the attack and agrees to the debate, so I do not agree with Bill Maher’s attack on Ben Affleck just like I did not agree on Rosie O’Donnell’s attack on Tom Selleck, having said that being inconsiderate of other peoples thoughts and rights does not make you a racists, evil maybe but not a racist.
Now lets take a look at the 5 reasons ISIS states it is OK to behead prisoners;
1. Is that the Koran states that those people who do not worship Allah must be punished severely so they strike fear into others. Well this is a nice religious sentiment and all, but can you call killing someone punishment? It is more removing them from the equation and beheading, really, you couldn’t find something worse like death by a thousand paper cuts.
2. The second reason is that a Kufar must be killed so that they never pose a threat to Islam again. Did these people pose a threat in the first place and what a wonderful sentiment from the religion of peace, basically kill them so they do not harm us in the future with those pesky ideas of freedom and woman’s rights.
3. Basically this one states that unless a prisoner converts you can never let them go, even if ransom is paid, I guess ISIS hasn’t heard of prisons, yet again what a wonderful idea coming from the holy book of the religion of peace.
4. Well this one is kind of interesting, the Koran states that amnesty is only possible after killing many of the enemy, another wonderful idea from the religion of peace, are we sure anyone can call Islam peaceful anymore, moderate or not?
5. Is the Imam can tell us to do it so we must, sounds a little like the Nazi defense in Nuremburg to me, didn’t work then either. Imam being a religious leader and stating that beheading is right kind of leads one to think that Islam may have a violence problem and since these reasons are in the Koran this problem exists for all Muslims not just radicals. Muslims who do not agree better start fighting these people soon or no one will believe there is a difference between radical and moderate Islam. I for one am having a difficult time calling Islam a religion of peace, they seem like thugs and psychopaths to me, hopefully they will do something peaceful soon, I will be holding my breath.