Chris Green analyzes a recent poll of British Muslims for the Independent:
A startlingly candid snapshot of the views and beliefs of Muslims living in Britain today has been uncovered by the first-ever study of Islamic interfaith relations across the world. The reseach, a collaboration between Gallup and the Coexist Foundation, challenges the view that the country’s 2.4 million Muslims are largely intolerant of the British way of life. British Muslims were found to identify more strongly with the UK than the rest of the population, and have a much higher regard for the country’s institutions.
However, the poll also found that the vast majority of Muslims have extremely conservative views on moral issues such as homosexuality and the death penalty, which differ dramatically from those held by the rest of the UK population. The wide-ranging study, entitled The Gallup Coexist Index 2009, was based on data collected through polls of residents in more than 140 countries. More than 1,500 interviews were conducted in the UK alone.
Read the full article here.
Isnt it strange how people who presume to be religious support capital punishment?
Murder in the form of revenge or capital punishment is not a human right. People and whole societies that commit acts of either murder or revenge thereby toxify and harm and potentially destroy themselves. The moral integrity and the altogether human integrity of humankind is aggressively discarded and lost in acts of murder and revenge, whether committed individually and collectively. Thus, the exercise of capital punishment violates an inherent moral law in the human depth.
To perform, or to watch, or even to condone capital punishment is, necessarily, to perform, watch, or condone murder, blood-lust, revenge-killing, evil intention, and heart negating purpose. Proof of this in the fact that, virtually universally, ALL who perform, watch, or condone any kind of real physical human to human violence feel an unavoidable and unquenchable hurt in their hearts.