Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "" video.

  1. I'm a retired teacher who taught at a school where the majority of students were either American or Persian Jews. The Persian Jews have despaired of ever returning to Iran because of its government and particularly its enforcement of so-called "shariah" (religious law), which is a misinterpretation of Islam. The American Jews, almost all of whom have visited Israel at least once, say that Israel is also much changed from their parents' time: it's far less secular, perhaps an "equal and opposite" reaction to the rise of militant Islam. One boy said that his father told him that Israel today is unrecognizable from the Israel of 30-40 years ago, with Orthodox Jews insisting on strict adherence to religious codes governing diet, dress, etc. I do know that at both our school and at the neighborhood synagogues, it was felt necessary to post armed guards (and I mean kitted out with military gear and military-grade weapons) to protect them from attacks. Two of the synagogues were attacked in the past five years, once by "white Christian nationalists" and another time by Muslim fundamentalists. Iran is not solely to blame. Remember, 15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudi nationals; two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt, and one from Lebanon. I say that Saudi Arabia is a far more malign influence in the world than Iran.
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  2.  @ShanghaiRooster  Let's not give Blair too much credit, a poodle follows when his master yanks the lead. The US invasion of Iraq was the stupidest thing any US president has ever done in foreign policy and has permanently undermined American power and credibility.
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  3.  @monikaengelsfeld686  If we follow the Bible literally, no one would work on Sunday, for example, on pain of death, and slavery would not only be legal but encouraged. When I say that Shariah is a perversion of Islam, I mean that it violates the spirit of the religion, the same as fundamentalists who interpret the Bible literally pervert the message of Christianity.
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  4.  @geoffdundee  Jehovah describes His people as “my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms” (Jeremiah 51:20). Is Christianity a militaristic religion, then? Or does interpreting the Bible literally lead us to think so? You can find cruelty in any of the monotheistic religions IF you want to. You can also find a message of peace and brotherhood, too. Today, the most quoted — and the most misinterpreted — Quranic passage (2:190-192) is the one giving permission to fight the unbelievers. What many don’t know is that it speaks only to a specific time, and only at the city of Mecca, when the idol worshippers of Mecca had broken a truce with the Muslims and did horrible injustices. The passage speaks to the Muslims with numerous conditions, including that fighting in self-defense was a last resort. 2:190 Fight in the way of God those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. God does not like transgressors. 2:191 And kill them wherever you find them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah [Persecution] is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers. 2:192 And if they cease, then indeed, God is Forgiving and Merciful.
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