god of the gaps: earthquakes in Afghanistan

5.9 magnitude earthquake hits Afghan-Pakistan-Tajikistan border

If I was a religious person, and I lived in an earthquake-ridden place like Afghanistan, then I would

tend to believe that god had forsaken us with all the famine and war and earthquakes.  Can a god be so merciful and kind and forgiving yet torture his people so badly?  Imagine if the people of Afghanistan had ignored god and sustained their strength for natural disasters rather than blowing all their resources and young people on religious wars that lead to religious peace. As a prelude to disaster by natural causes. Religion poisons everything...

Modern Society is incompatible with Islam

Islam is a language of doom-saying prophecy that is incompatible with modern values and goals. It's not that the majority of Muslims are violent and death-seeking, it's that having the religion around makes it available to people that succumb to the temptation to exploit it for evil.  The longer it is legal to practise, the more people will die needlessly for other people's delusions.

One cannot defeat an ideology with bullets

As much as everyone wants to clamour unto war, it must be pointed out one cannot defeat an ideology with weapons. At the end of a victorious campaign, we would still be against an ideology that spreads in our midst to rise and start all over again. Cutting off the head is pointless, the chimera spreads.  Defeating the ideology means vanquishing the ideas they stand for.

Even Buddhists can persecute and be intolerant.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/muslims-are-dangerous-myanmar-buddhist-monks-threaten-democracy-with-support-for-anti-muslim-laws

Religion poisons everything, even Buddhism which can be interpreted for ill as well as any orthodoxy, any dogma, as even Bill O'Reilly has pointed out about nihilism and atheism, although nihilism can be argued to be a belief system as much as a formal religion. Buddhist monks in Myanmar have spawned ultra-nationalistic supporters of anti-Islam sentiment, even participating in protests and calls for violence against Muslims.  It saddens me to see Buddhists getting so upset about tempo-material things. 

On the other hand, it can be argued that only the most severe conditions would make normally-peaceful, esoteric Buddhists drop the separation and advocate against another group. One can't argue that Islam is not without danger and harm for non-Muslims. Perhaps this should be a wake-up call for those that are sympathetic or too liberal to see the truth.