OK, well what other religion has such a doctrine? Evidence? Or do you deny that it's a part of traditional Islam?
Its your use of the word DOCTRINE (why did you capitalise for emphasis?) which I object to....its not DOCTRINAL. That would mean that pretty much every muslim that I have ever met would be duty bound to kill or subjugate me, funnily enough that hasn't happened yet.
I'm saying if you don't think Christianity had a policy of killing if you didn't convert you are ignorant in this matter. Plus there is no doctrine in Islam for that is all in the interpretation.
MODS! Delete this thread now please, when religion start's being mentioned things get messy and all the goons in the world turn up!
(a) The Muslim world isn't in a position today to wage conventional war against unbeliever nations. (b) Individual Muslims were never required to just kill people they happened to meet.
Whatever you are talking about, it isn't the same as what I said: "But Islam is the ONLY major world religion with a DOCTRINE of general warfare against the unbelievers." The religion has traditionally understood itself (very much) to involve aggressive violence. Whether you want to call that a "doctrine" I don't think makes much of a difference...
Some 17 year old rookie steps on a landmine during a patrol in Afghanistan and blows himself to pieces. = Hero. atsch It really is pathetic. What's heroic about that?
Logically, some of the soldiers who fought on Hitler's side in WW2 were heroic too. Brave brave men who displayed amazing courage beyond the call of duty, and made ultimate sacrifices to save the lives of their comrades. Whatever the politics behind the war, the same standards should apply. I guess Small's point, however shitty, is the flipside of that, and it has its own merit even if his overall agenda is a load of bollocks .... no one says much to defend the German pilots who dropped bombs on Polish or French civilians when they invaded their countries, but British newspapers and government do routinely say we should be grateful to the bravery 'our boys', some of whom's war efforts must be sitting a few hundred miles away from the conflict area and pressing a button on the aircraft carrier that ultimately results in nothing more than the destruction of some civilian block in Iraq or Libya. It hardly makes for heroic stuff. And in fact, if the other side was doing it, it would be labelled 'evil'. Anyway, I think Anthony Small should be matched with the best the Armed Forces have got, on the Haye v Chisora undercard. Frank Warran said he'd never promote him again, so inevitably he is bound to. The Sun could have 'great fun' promoting this one :dead
The fact that he managed to smuggle himself there, and was able to con everyone around him that he was old enough to fight. Its not heroic I suppose, but it certainly does show initiative. I've only witnessed the actions of one proper hero before, and in retrospect what he did was completely insane rather than balanced and cool. Its not DOCTRINAL, I thought that we had established that....and yes, it does make a difference because its the whole basis of your argument.