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So, Islam is now the biggest religion in the world.

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by ClicheGuevara

Hmmm...

ClicheGuevara | 31 Mar '08, 13:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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lolreligion


OH NO

A RELIGION THAT'S BIGGER THAN OURS IS NOW IN MAJORITY. GET JULIAN AND CHARLOTTE IN THE BUNKER, DARLING. HIDE THE RANGE ROVER IN CASE THEY TURN IT INTO A MOSQUE. I'M GOING TO LONDON TO TORCH THE HOLIDAY FLAT IN CASE THEY USE IT AS A BOMB FACTORY.


:O

get out of my head!


:D


Don't worry.

I'm sure British high command will just send Prince Harry out in a big tank to shoot enough heathens to balance it all out again.


PRINCE HARRY

HE'S A GOOD ONE, ISN'T HE? GOING OVER THERE AND FIGHTING ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE GOING TO INVADE US. HE'S GOT NICE FAIR HAIR AND BLUE EYES TOO.


^

satire


^

fatire


^3xPOTD

lead to a nice, logical conclusion


^ clever


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EURABIA

LONDONISTAHN


:D:D


iSlam

Fo' any self-respecting pendulumuslim.


You mean

that time everyone hilariously put Jedi as their religion counted for NOTHING?


i actually quite like the ideas

they have there, what the 'religion' involves. it's just a shame they give themselves silly SCIENCE FICTION names.


don't worry

we'd still win a war, we have more humvees and bullets and stuff.


As long

as they don't bomb my aspidistra I'm fine.


Bum your what?


religion is on the decline in the developing world

and like mobile phone operators, the penalty clause on leaving Islam dissuades people from doing so?


do

they charge you on your phone or what


Somewhere

there is someone who is .3 muslim. Interesting.


...

As good as place as any for someone to provide the answer to this question: "Why are there so many Muslims in Chile?"


they get dumped in the sea

and ocean currents carry them there?


What with spiritual disillusion brought on by the enlightenment

AND the rise in bombing campaigns against brown people, I don't know why they haven't gone under.


Either 0/10 or 10/10

I can't decide


^


H aha ha.. My friend Cindy and I actually sketched out a board game

a few years back called CONVERSION.
You had to convert as many as possible to your own religion. Object of the game was mass populous religious domination of course.. and you got extra points for converting, say, Jehovah's Witness' to something like Muslim faith (I think that was the triple whammy score from memory).

I found these sketches (she's an artist so they are really good) recently.

Ha - there goes my retirement fund from sharing this idea.


OH NOOOES!

Srsly though, it's not true that all religions are "much of a muchness". Hinduism and Buddhism, for example, tend to be much more tolerant religions (doctrinally and socially) than the stifling legalistic Abrahamic religions (Christianity/Judaism/Islam). So, yeah, let's all be hindus. Or Sikhs, you never hear about sikhs causing trouble.


...

Argument From Self: -10 points.


^is this aimed at me?

if so, I'm not sure what you are getting at? "Argument from self"- I didn't just make up that religions like Hinduism Buddhism are in general more tolerant than Abrahamic religions- it's a pretty well acknowledged fact. As for the bit about sikhs, I wouldn't take that entirely seriously...


define 'tolerance'

because hinduism isn'yt very nice if you are born in the wrong caste


hmm

I guess that's why I put *in general* more tolerant. The caste system did cross my mind as I wrote that, and to be perfectly honest it's something I know very little a bout. So yeah, maybe time to stop arguing about things I don't know about.


nazis

lolwut?


thule society?


Umm

I don't know the exact details, but i'm fairly sure there's some rather nasty sectarian violence that goes on in india. Hindus attacking muslims and stuff?


Yeah I think the Hindu's don't look too kindly to Muslims or something

I did learn this in a Bolywood film, mind.


Sacred

cowcow


um, the caste system? sectarian violence? bjp?

and sikhism - whilst generally pretty liberal - had a long-running sometimes violent campaign of separatism which culminated in the assassination of indira gandhi. oh and the psychopathically violent tamil tigers of sri lanka, whilst socialist or something, are of hindu background.


Oh yeah

but if you ignore *all* that, then you'll clealy see that I'm basically exactly right. :P


this is a bit odd though, no?

comparing all Muslims with a particular sect of Christinaity (the report is actually that Islam has overtaken Catholicism, not Christianity) is a bit odd - ask a Sunni and a Shi'ite (sp?) what they think of having the same beliefs...


Indeed, it is Catholocism and not Christianity.

And your Sunni o))) / Shi'te comparison is a very pertinent one I feel.


Sunni o)))

Funniest thing I've read all day.

Thanks.


I'm pretty sure

that, while i can't be arsed to confirm this, but that the Pope was saying that there are now more Roman Catholics than Muslims, but if you put all the Christians into one basket, presumably one with a bit of fusty smelling cloth in it with a few coppers and a fiver from my show of Auntie who's trying to buy her way in that they pass around during the last hymn at church, then Christ's posse still has the majority.

I might be wrong, but damn it, I also might be quite right.


this post

IS REDUNDANT


No

It's entirely correct. Your post deserves to be heard.
I'll help...

LOOK!! ^^^


I read this twice

The first timr I thought you wrote 'god save us from life!'.

prettty good jihad-mongoring call


Conservatives:

theyre not called the "no pussy blues" for nothing.


^This post wins the thread.

And any other thread it ever gets posted in.


:)

that is all.


have you got the figures for everything else as well?

How did they arrive at those figures?