Does the peaceful quality of Bonobo communities prove Islamic lifestyles are the worst on earth?
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I'm not sure how to rate this, because I'm not even sure how this person came to this conclusion at all! Most Fundie statements do at least make a sort of sense if you follow their twisted logic, but the two ideas in this question aren't even at all related!
At first I thought Bonobo was some kind of Islamic thing, so it didn't make sense, but was at least a small bit coherent.
Then I remembered that Bonobos are monkeys, so now I'm WTF-ing to the max.
"Does the peaceful quality of Bonobo communities prove Islamic lifestyles are the worst on earth? "
Yes, in the same way that diced carrots prove the existence of aliens.
"Does the peaceful quality of Bonobo communities prove Islamic lifestyles are the worst on earth?"
Uh, yes. Err... no! Um... hm...
Not to play devils advocate or anything, but did this guy confuse the Bonobo (species of primate, forest dwelling) with the Bedouin (a diffrent species of primate, desert dwelling)?
NM, still WTFing taking that confusion into account...
Do you mean that the ability of the "hippies of the ape family" to live in peace with each other indicate that restrictive, combative societies, of which the Middle East could represent, are not beneficial?
I'm gonna go with no on that one. There are plenty of reasons to support living like bonobos, but the fact that bonobos already do isn't one of them.
You have to read the discussion after the question to understand what he's trying to get at: he's trying to draw a parallel between ape communities and human cultures.
Among apes, he claims, bonobos are the least violent as well as the least restrictive about sexual freedom and mating habits. The parallel would be -- since Islamic culture tends to be very restrictive about sex, perhaps a culture of violence should be expected.
Not to say I agree this is a valid or useful comparison or factually accurate, but that's the thinking that went behind the question.
Maybe they think that bonobos have a lot of sex and are very peaceful (females are equal to males) and Islam is the opposite of that so therefore Islamic lifestyles are the worst on earth (actually IMHO I think he's right on that one, at least from a woman's perspective). I dunno, I have been taking acid so maybe that's why it made sense to me ;)
The question's actually much more amusing before you read the explanation. Our friend Critical Thinker, BTW, isn't actually a religious fundie. He's an aggressive atheist, with a peculiar hatred of Islam. Sexual issues, apparently. I'd feign surprise, but I'm too busy watching paint peel.
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Not at all fundie, just illiterate.
Thinking that anti-Islamic comments = fundie is amazingly retarded (and America-centric). Islam is a major force for fundamentalism outside the Americas.
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Not at all fundie, just illiterate.
Thinking that anti-Islamic comments = fundie is amazingly retarded (and America-centric). Islam is a major force for fundamentalism outside the Americas.
Actually it's very literate, but still nonsense. Using the behavior of a non-human species to support an extremist view on a religion is fundie in my book.
And I'm not American.
I'm not sure I'm following you. Please explain your reasoning in a little more detail.
Actually, on second thought, don't fucking bother.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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