Salafism (Wahhabism)is certainly the cause of the spread of much radical Islamic thought, and Saudi money has built Mosques all over to spread the word. However, the number of Americans killed by Iranian IEDs reads in the thousands and the spread of terror with money and weapons to match by the Iranians is unmatched.

Both branches of Islam are to blame and both pursue the hatred of the West with equal vigor.

Is ISIS a bigger threat than Iran? ... Only time will tell. Both should be removed from the civilized world.

A discussion on the role of Saudi funding in British mosques, Nina of the Center for Religious Freedom sets Saudi Arabia’s program of Wahhabi indoctrination into a global context following the Center’s pioneering work examining the Kingdom’s textbooks. Among the tens of thousands of schools using these textbooks worldwide is the Islamic Saudi Academy, run by the Saudi Embassy, in Fairfax, VA.

Muslims are basically divided in two major factions, Sunnis and Shias. Sunni Muslims are the largest denomination of Islam they are currently four recognized schools; Hanafi, Shafi, Maliki and Hanbali. Hanbali is considered to be the most conservative of the four schools. Hanbali jurisprudence is predominant among Muslims in Saudi Arabia.
The Salafi movement (Wahhabism) was revived by Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab in the Arabia Saudi. Osama bin Laden was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family. He was Wahhabi, the leader of Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has continued to exist and grew through the decade from 2001 to 2011. Then came ISIS.

Obama said;"We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam ... They try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of Islam. We must never accept the premise that they put forward because it is a lie. Nor should we grant these terrorists the religious legitimacy that they seek. They are not religious leaders. They are terrorists."

Planet Earth is bipolar, but you Humans don't seem to mind that.

I'm not saying I believe in the existence of a god, because I don't.
I'm mostly posting here because the atheist forums are practically dead, which I don't really understand. Over 200k posts in religion and 1k in atheist forums. How do so many people in the age of logic and reason still believe in the existence of a god?

It is written in the bible that god is a loving god, god is a forgiving god, blah blah.

But in practice, god is a vindictive god, god is a childish god and god is a cruel god.

The whole story about Noah's ark is basically a story about a god that got mad, threw a childish temper tantrum and killed everyone on the planet save a boatload of people and animals. Does that really seem like an all knowing god of great wisdom to anyone?

If anyone has seen the movie "machine gun preacher". There's a movie based on the real life of Sam Childers, a biker that found religion after he thought he killed a man then traveling to Africa and helping to save a bunch of children from a corrupt warlord. On to my point. In the movie(based on real life) you see a bunch of children in a pile that were torched to death because they tried to escape. Was that all part of gods plan, did god "love" these children in their final minutes as they were brutally burned to death and screaming? Seems like a damned sadistic god to me.

Basically what I'm saying is that if god does exist, he's pretty much using us as lab rats in his psychological experiment.
All of the good stuff and "miracles" that he's let happen really do pale in comparison to all the atrocities that he's turned a blind eye to all in favor of fulfilling his "divine plan".

In my honest opinion the novelty of "god" died off in the 20th century. I think that many of us are smart enough to come to the realization that the invention of a god in inevitable because we all fear death and therefore invent the prospect of an afterlife, and who would be powerful enough to design such a thing? "God" and only that.

But all that is self defeating, instead of confronting our fear of death and helping to seek a method of prolonging our lives through science, we run to religion which has a long standing history of stifling science.

Many people will argue the existence of a god because they feel that they've seen him in one manner or another. His face is on a door, his face was on a grilled cheese sandwich or the classic "I see it in the miracles that happen every day". Such as what? Newborn life? Every time a baby is born it's a "miracle". Well what about those born into third world countries that starve to death before they're old enough to read or what about those born into overpopulous that struggle through their entire life just trying to make ends meet(because it's a rat race just to get a job)then ultimately succumb to suicide. Was there really a point in either of those being born just to live a life of pain and suffering with no chance for a happy ending? Or perhaps people will argue the "miracles" of rain or the sun coming up each day. Nope, the sun is a giant ball of gas and the rain is just precipitation.

God exists because like an imaginary friend when we have no other, we want him to exist and if we stop believing, he will not exist.

Why would any Non Muslim be surprised?
There is more in the Qu'ran about having sex with slaves than there is about prayer.

Yes, exactly. The purpose of my post was to promote this amazing exception to the general rule, which you were correctly commenting on. Most ultrabooks (and too many regular size laptops for that matter) sacrifice the ability to do future upgrades. Macs are some of the worst.

These days, it seems like most consumers value either 'thin and light' or 'cheap' so much, they are willing to buy a laptop with a reduced lifespan.

The Dell XPS 15 is an outlier, in several excellent and exciting ways, including the fact that they have achieved an ultrabook profile while keeping a large screen and replaceable components.

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Okay, this is the second time tonight I'm posting about Dell but I'm really excited about their latest XPS laptops. The XPS 15 has ultrabook proportions, while having a fully modular interior with easily replaced batteries, ram, harddrive, etc.

As far as I know, they are the only computer to produce such a powerful, modern machine in an ultrabook profile and STILL keep all of those components replaceable.