I figure that poverty didn't create Ebola.
No, but it was responsible for the epidemic that killed more than 11K people. If the virus had originated in a developed country, the death toll would have been much, much smaller. And without the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to establish and carry out effective clinical care, implement rigorous infection prevention and control measures, trace people who were exposed, and principally to develop vaccines to fight the disease, many, many more would have died. ("
Non-conventional humanitarian interventions on Ebola outbreak crisis in West Africa: health, ethics and legal implications,"
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 3(1):42, Nov 25, 2014
>>poverty [was not] the biological cause of its spread (the cause of Ebola spreading is the transmission of bodily fluids containing Ebola virus from one person to another)
A narrow and misleading analysis.
>>the cause of Islamic terrorism is people becoming convinced that Muhammed is the prophet of God
No, that is absurd. As has been noted here, many millions of Muslims, in fact many millions of Muslims living in abject poverty, are
not terrorists. One person contracting Ebola (apparently after being bitten by a bat) did not cause the epidemic — poverty did. Millions of people believing that Muhamm
ad was the prophet of Allah did not create Islamic terrorism — poverty did.
>>poverty may increase the chances of these things happening, but it isn't an ultimate cause
It's the cause of the epidemics of both Ebola and Islamic terrorism. Without it, they never would have spread.
>>Muhammed commanded his followers to wage jihad on the unbelievers.
And Christians are commanded by God to stone adulterers.
>>It's true that most Muslims do not follow this command, but Islam is not a democracy, so that's irrelevant.
More nonsense. It's true that most Christians do not follow the command to stone adulterers. Is Christianity a democracy?
>>Muhammed: "Kill the infidel"
Can you offer a citation for that? No.
"Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loves not transgressors." — Chapter 2, verse 190
"But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in Allah."— chapter 8, verse 61
The call to kill non-Muslims is associated with a
defensive war against forces attacking Muslim communities. Do Christians believe in self-defence?
>>It would be harder to come up with a better parody of liberal apologetics for Islam if one was trying to parody.
It seems to me you treat Islam the same way you approach Judaism — with hatred and ignorance. All three religions teach that there is one God, and that the path to Heaven is through peace and love for yer neighbors. The people who desperately want you and others to believe that Islam is an intolerant, violent religion … are the terrorists. You are playing their fool, just as the young people who engage in these murders are.