Are you so oblivious to cause and effect that you think it's "random" that people who ascribe to a religion the central doctrine of which commands them to "[...]slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. [...]" (Quran 9:5)? These people are doing what their sacred text tells them to do. It's not a coincidence, it's not random, and it's as much a "lifestyle choice" as a serial killer. Stop picking on serial killers, you insensitive bigots! It's a "lifestyle choice"!
Race doesn't motivate people to do anything, doctrine does. Whether that's secular doctrine or religious doctrine is immaterial. So they're white, but it's more important that they're radicalized Muslim converts, since that's what motivated them to kill innocent people. It's not like they woke up one day, looked at themselves in the mirror and said, 'shit, I'm white, better go blow up some kids.' What they did do is read things like the Quran's surah 9:5, the verse of the sword telling them to "[...] slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. [...]" Unless they convert of course. Convert or die, the divine command of the prophet of the "religion of peace".
Speaking as somebody who dispassionately discharges a laptop battery almost completely twice a day on weekdays, you sound like a twit with potential mental health problems. Find a therapist.
I love how you rush to say how Glass is catalytic in whole host of things when it isn't even in common use and no studies have been done. What a bunch of reactionary hyperbolic tripe.
They are giving you something, otherwise not only would nobody pay for it, they wouldn't use it even if it were free. I get so sick of all the something-for-nothing entitlement attitude that pervades society these days. Heaven forbid that companies actually make money to pay their costs, employees, and have some kind of, you know, profit for their shareholders. Google does this by selling data, boo fucking hoo. Meanwhile the people giving them data get in return free (huge) email, free phone service, free online storage, free office-oriented web apps, etc. etc.
For glass they get all sorts of services delivered in real time in a non-obtrusive but always visible way. Some people will find this useful enough to BOTH pay for and give Google data. If people don't know what's really involved, whose fault is that really? Go into any court and argue 'but your honor, I didn't read the contract I signed' and see how far that goes. You'll be lucky if they don't laugh at you while dismissing your case. People need to be responsible for themselves, and stop expecting that "free" means they give nothing. It just means they don't have to tender money. Everything beyond that is up to contract terms. Ugh. I blame parents. My parents sure as hell didn't let me grow up thinking I was owed anything, or that I could just flop around the world hoping somebody else would be responsible for my interests/rights. Fucking grow up people. Being an adult is more than just age, you have to take control of your own life and go to the trouble of understanding the framework you live in.
And all you wankers who defend the ignorant, knock it off. You're not helping them.
Your lack of trust in the guy on street vs. the government is what brings police states into existence. Nevermind the fact that all of the worst atrocities in history have been committed by governments, not corporations, and definitely not lone wolf single individuals acting on their own volition. You mollify yourself with fictions about how you "know who they are" (which is complete bullshit especially regarding undercover LE and spooks) and probably imagine they are accountable in some way. Pay no attention to the constant denial of FOIA requests which only rises year after year. Pay no attention to how the justice system frequently covers itself, refusing to hear cases when they think it might overturn laws ('oh no a good test case... quick, say the plaintiff doesn't have standing!') or burn the wrong elites, and/or refusing to hear appeals. Moving more and more cases into civil courts to lower evidenciary standards and avoid jury nullification. And don't forget, it's the government that has a monopoly on force. And you're afraid of people who want to sell you some crap they think you want because of other crap you happened to look at? I'll be sure to let all the piles of skeletons in mass graves know what they should have really been concerned about.
Corporations fleece. Government fleeces too, then imprisons or kills anybody who makes trouble.
I'm pretty sure that somebody could write a program that recognizes the barcodes of things in your pantry and then displays whatever you want about them.
Also it would be super bitchin' for overseas travel when combined with that real time text translating program whose name I forget.
It's such hypocritical bullshit to be worried about being recorded when right now anybody could be recording everything with their phones, surreptitiously or otherwise. Phones multitask now so it's possible for them to record things in the background even if the person holding them looks like they're playing LatestShinyDistractionMania. So that battle is long over. If people want to wank to whatever other people look like in public, there's been an analogue hole for that for years. Before all the modern convenience, it used to be they just... remembered what those other people looked like. Shocking, I know. All this hysteria rings rather false.
There is a lot more nuance in the Chinese/Korean relationship than that, especially in the last year or so. Kim Jeong Un has not made any pilgrimage to China, official or otherwise, since taking office, which many in China see as disrespectful (both elder Kims made such visits). "Ultimate Strategist" Kim is not giving China face (mianzi), not just in failing to visit, but in not responding to China's heretofore superficial gestures at mediation. Chinese Foreign Minister Hong Lei is starting to look really peeved in his press conferences and (in true career diplomat form) making all kinds of passive aggressive veiled denouncements that do everything but name DPRK directly.
If you're trying to view the peninsula situation through 70-year old glasses, I'd really advise you to take them off and listen to what's really going on over there. The geopolitical situation of the early 50s is dead and buried, as are all the major players who created it. The generation in power on all sides has completely different motivations and perspectives.
It's really hard to say what China would do. I've long said that China would probably try to take over the DPRK as a protectorate, since it needs Korea to stay divided. It can't let the DPRK fall from within or without, because either way will cause a huge refugee problem in the immediate term and huge economic rival in the long term (Germany Part II: Electric Boogaloo). Plus it could probably spin it in such a way as to look heroic to the wider world, eg "we're preemptively striking DPRK to save the world!"
If you don't think the Chinese could/would do something that daring, I would advised you to study Chinese history, especially the Warring States period. There are a lot of instances where Chinese hegemons have feigned alliances and attacked ostensible allies when they least expected it. (The Chu/Yue/Qi triangle springs immediately to mind.)
I was not a on a 1099 when I moved. So yes, the first increase was W-2 to W-2. The 1099 situation I'm in now was meant to be temporary (2-3 months) but it keeps getting extended, and that will force me to deal with it in a different way. Not sure what that will be since I'm not sure I want to be doing what I am where I am long term. I really only signed on to the whole package because I thought I would be out in a quarter. So yes, no talking out my ass and no lies.
BTW you know Robert Half IT puts together a little guidebook for tech contractors that tells them what wage/salary range they can expect by role for different geographic regions? The differences are indeed in tens of thousands/year. So just because you don't know what the industry really looks like on a national level, don't go around calling people liars.
Actually, I've normally been W-2, even on short term contracts. I've only recently been bumbling through 1099, and I'm doing it wrong. In my defense, this was only supposed to be a two month thing, and it's turned into four and growing. Thanks for the advice though, if I end up doing something like this over a longer term, I'll definitely get on that.
Nope, the error was actually regarding authorization. I don't remember it exactly since it was more than a year ago, but it was not that message and none of those symptoms were occurring.
Even if it were it would be moot, the problem you describe may be technically client side, but only because it was designed that way by Valve to serve their nefarious purposes.
*yawn* People need to realize that the problem is often, for lack of a better term, "talent density". The West Coast has technical people stacked like cord wood because generations were born with a mouse in their hand in a way the rest of the country was not. When I moved to the East, I immediately started making like 12k more than I was in the West, and I now make 14k more than that. So, that's 26k (gross) more for basically doing nothing but change timezones. Joke's on me of course since 1099 contractors get taxed out the ass such that basically all my gross gains go right to the g-men. Hooray.
I would further add, as a perennial contractor, I've been out of work more than a dozen times, never taken unemployment checks, and only three times have I had to actively look for work for more than two weeks. Never have I had to look for more than two months. Jobs are everywhere, people are only either too lazy or too proud to get them.
I know I'm just one person, but the last DRMed game I bought and will buy was Civ V. I had avoided Steam for a long time, but it was Civ and I love Civ and there was no non-Steam version. At one point one of their servers glitched, only for a few mins, and it wouldn't auth me to play the game I had just bought and paid for (one of the fears I've long had about Steam in general). It was a minor inconvenience, but it made the abstract objections I'd had against things like that a real thing, and I'm not going to be that sucker.
I've bought like a dozen games from GOG, and from now on they're the only people I buy from.
You probably didn't read the whole thread, but I already said in answer to another apologist: The Quran explicitly states, over and over, that women are to be considered less than men (2:228b, 2:282, 4:34) and should receive less than men (4:11, 4:176).
From this stratified framework, expanded in the Hadiths, was born the terrors of modern sharia. Maybe you should look into why it is that women routinely burn themselves alive in places like Afghanistan and what roles imams, and Quran-inspired sharia are playing in those dynamics.
The "oh but maybe it was just for political show" handwaving you offer with regard to pedophilia is pathetic, especially since this is obviously about more than just the Prophet's questionable morality, but also the consequences of that so-called morality throughout the subsequent millennium and beyond. Do you suggest that all the child marriages that this not only catalyzed but justified and endorsed as holy and right are so conveniently "for show"? That you would so glibly gloss over nearly uncountable generations of systemic child rape is beneath contempt. Indeed, I am wasting precious time on a dangerously amoral multicultural relativist. I wish you could live as a girl in the Caliphate, and then we'd see how long your glib relativism holds up.
So, the editor believes that James Randi's interview was long and strong, does that necessarily imply that the editor or Mr. Randi are 'down to get the friction on'? It just seems to logically follow, or so I've been told.
(This put Sir Mix-a-lot in my head, thank you ever so much./sarcasm)
And then establish an even more brutal police state where even more people were imprisoned, tortured and murdered without due process? You call other people ignorant when you willfully ignore the crimes of the Cuban communists.
You must be new here. Slashdot doesn't have 'mods' and doesn't delete posts. Bad posts are scored down by others, that is all. The system ultimately works better and is less frequently abused than I think any other on the internet.
I'm no fan of Obama, but it's obtuse to interpret his foreign policy in that way in light of how he continued both the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and intervened militarily in Libya and is training rebels for the Syrian Civil War. He's not a pacifist in any sense.
Not to mention that while the CinC is the top of the chain of command, he's still technically subordinate to the Congress, and if Congress says 'fight those people' it will be his duty to carry that out.
Quran 9:1-5 says that all pagans should convert or die (which the Islamic expansions in the centuries after its founding gladly obliged), I'd call that worse than the penny-ante tribe by tribe atrocities the Jews were directed to perform. Especially since the Jews (as a military force) never really left the Levant, whereas the Muslims brought their 'convert or die' atrocities to three continents. So, the genocidal language in the Quran is both more broadly written and more broadly applied, killing more people, thus more evil. QED.
Well, that's thorough. While I don't doubt I could go through the whole thing line by line, it would be a lot more work than I can justify to myself, especially considering how distasteful I find combing through religious texts and commentaries (I was forced to do it for nearly a decade by my parents, and there is no surer path to atheism than studying religious texts in depth for years with a respect for the truth). So, rather than address every little thing, I am going to focus on some broader themes and outright lies. Once it is demonstrated that you are, in fact, a liar, I won't need to do all the super tedious, distasteful work of debunking the rest.
Broad theme: it's the Hadiths and not the Quran
Are Hadiths not used as a basis for Sharia? For morality? Of course they are. I will freely admit that sometimes I get sloppy with my sources, but the effect is almost entirely moot, because Hadiths are still looked at as valid moral guidance and used as part of the foundation of Islamic moral and criminal justice systems. They are considered second only to the Quran, and you know it as well as I do.
Broad theme: violence is only permitted in defensive combat
This is false on its face. There are violent punishments outlined in the Quran. As already mentioned in response to Ardeaem, the Quran in 2:178 teaches that if a slave is killed by somebody with slaves, you can kill a slave of theirs. There are other punishments of course, but we're talking mainly about violence against people who haven't committed crimes per se. It's funny you want to give 4:89 a pass since it's supposedly in reference to people who have themselves initiated violence against Muslims, but you pick on Luke 19:27 for the same spirit of opposition to a faction that intends to fight whatever Christian kingdom is being alluded to in the verse.
All that to one side, there is another prescription for violence in the Quran 9:1-5, which outline how as soon as any treaty expires with pagans, they can and should be preemptively attacked and killed (unless they convert, of course, then such superficial, extorted desperation... I mean... deeply felt conviction must be honored). This is in direct contradiction to your insistence of defensive prescriptions.
Lastly, your lie: "Quran explicitly states that person should be rewarded on the basis of actions, not sex. (16:97, 4:124)"
The Quran explicitly states, over and over, that women are to be considered less than men (2:228b, 2:282, 4:34) and should receive less than men (4:11, 4:176). You are trying to lie to cover up the inherent evil inequalities, injustices, and misogyny of Islam, but that will only work on ignorant people. I don't really so much blame you for this personally, all religious people do it, especially religious leaders. They focus on the feel good parts and try to ignore the bits that point to the blatant flawed human origins of supposedly divine systems. Christians do these sorts of things just as much and just as badly. Religion itself is evil, and where I can I will expose its evil to as many as possible so that humanity can do the right thing and discard it from as much of society as possible.
(Reverse no true scotsman? That's all you've got?)
According to Wahabists, indeed they are not proper Muslims, which is why often when fundamentalist families think they're losing their kids to the evils of... being moderate, they murder them (a lot).
Actually, what's more evil is that the Quran says in 2:178 if somebody kills one of your slaves (slavery was super cool in Islam too, and in fact lasted longer than in Christendom, so where's the blind spot again?) you get to kill one his slaves to even things out. So yeah, while the Bible might justify slave beating, the Quran justifies slave murder.
The Quran is demonstrably, substantively more evil. Want to try again? This is fun!
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Are you so oblivious to cause and effect that you think it's "random" that people who ascribe to a religion the central doctrine of which commands them to "[...]slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. [...]" (Quran 9:5)? These people are doing what their sacred text tells them to do. It's not a coincidence, it's not random, and it's as much a "lifestyle choice" as a serial killer. Stop picking on serial killers, you insensitive bigots! It's a "lifestyle choice"!
You're the idiot.
Race doesn't motivate people to do anything, doctrine does. Whether that's secular doctrine or religious doctrine is immaterial. So they're white, but it's more important that they're radicalized Muslim converts, since that's what motivated them to kill innocent people. It's not like they woke up one day, looked at themselves in the mirror and said, 'shit, I'm white, better go blow up some kids.' What they did do is read things like the Quran's surah 9:5, the verse of the sword telling them to "[...] slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. [...]" Unless they convert of course. Convert or die, the divine command of the prophet of the "religion of peace".
Speaking as somebody who dispassionately discharges a laptop battery almost completely twice a day on weekdays, you sound like a twit with potential mental health problems. Find a therapist.
I love how you rush to say how Glass is catalytic in whole host of things when it isn't even in common use and no studies have been done. What a bunch of reactionary hyperbolic tripe.
(... the fuck is "battery phobia" anyway?)
They are giving you something, otherwise not only would nobody pay for it, they wouldn't use it even if it were free. I get so sick of all the something-for-nothing entitlement attitude that pervades society these days. Heaven forbid that companies actually make money to pay their costs, employees, and have some kind of, you know, profit for their shareholders. Google does this by selling data, boo fucking hoo. Meanwhile the people giving them data get in return free (huge) email, free phone service, free online storage, free office-oriented web apps, etc. etc.
For glass they get all sorts of services delivered in real time in a non-obtrusive but always visible way. Some people will find this useful enough to BOTH pay for and give Google data. If people don't know what's really involved, whose fault is that really? Go into any court and argue 'but your honor, I didn't read the contract I signed' and see how far that goes. You'll be lucky if they don't laugh at you while dismissing your case. People need to be responsible for themselves, and stop expecting that "free" means they give nothing. It just means they don't have to tender money. Everything beyond that is up to contract terms. Ugh. I blame parents. My parents sure as hell didn't let me grow up thinking I was owed anything, or that I could just flop around the world hoping somebody else would be responsible for my interests/rights. Fucking grow up people. Being an adult is more than just age, you have to take control of your own life and go to the trouble of understanding the framework you live in.
And all you wankers who defend the ignorant, knock it off. You're not helping them.
Your lack of trust in the guy on street vs. the government is what brings police states into existence. Nevermind the fact that all of the worst atrocities in history have been committed by governments, not corporations, and definitely not lone wolf single individuals acting on their own volition. You mollify yourself with fictions about how you "know who they are" (which is complete bullshit especially regarding undercover LE and spooks) and probably imagine they are accountable in some way. Pay no attention to the constant denial of FOIA requests which only rises year after year. Pay no attention to how the justice system frequently covers itself, refusing to hear cases when they think it might overturn laws ('oh no a good test case... quick, say the plaintiff doesn't have standing!') or burn the wrong elites, and/or refusing to hear appeals. Moving more and more cases into civil courts to lower evidenciary standards and avoid jury nullification. And don't forget, it's the government that has a monopoly on force. And you're afraid of people who want to sell you some crap they think you want because of other crap you happened to look at? I'll be sure to let all the piles of skeletons in mass graves know what they should have really been concerned about.
Corporations fleece. Government fleeces too, then imprisons or kills anybody who makes trouble.
I'm pretty sure that somebody could write a program that recognizes the barcodes of things in your pantry and then displays whatever you want about them.
Also it would be super bitchin' for overseas travel when combined with that real time text translating program whose name I forget.
It's such hypocritical bullshit to be worried about being recorded when right now anybody could be recording everything with their phones, surreptitiously or otherwise. Phones multitask now so it's possible for them to record things in the background even if the person holding them looks like they're playing LatestShinyDistractionMania. So that battle is long over. If people want to wank to whatever other people look like in public, there's been an analogue hole for that for years. Before all the modern convenience, it used to be they just... remembered what those other people looked like. Shocking, I know. All this hysteria rings rather false.
There is a lot more nuance in the Chinese/Korean relationship than that, especially in the last year or so. Kim Jeong Un has not made any pilgrimage to China, official or otherwise, since taking office, which many in China see as disrespectful (both elder Kims made such visits). "Ultimate Strategist" Kim is not giving China face (mianzi), not just in failing to visit, but in not responding to China's heretofore superficial gestures at mediation. Chinese Foreign Minister Hong Lei is starting to look really peeved in his press conferences and (in true career diplomat form) making all kinds of passive aggressive veiled denouncements that do everything but name DPRK directly.
If you're trying to view the peninsula situation through 70-year old glasses, I'd really advise you to take them off and listen to what's really going on over there. The geopolitical situation of the early 50s is dead and buried, as are all the major players who created it. The generation in power on all sides has completely different motivations and perspectives.
It's really hard to say what China would do. I've long said that China would probably try to take over the DPRK as a protectorate, since it needs Korea to stay divided. It can't let the DPRK fall from within or without, because either way will cause a huge refugee problem in the immediate term and huge economic rival in the long term (Germany Part II: Electric Boogaloo). Plus it could probably spin it in such a way as to look heroic to the wider world, eg "we're preemptively striking DPRK to save the world!"
If you don't think the Chinese could/would do something that daring, I would advised you to study Chinese history, especially the Warring States period. There are a lot of instances where Chinese hegemons have feigned alliances and attacked ostensible allies when they least expected it. (The Chu/Yue/Qi triangle springs immediately to mind.)
I was not a on a 1099 when I moved. So yes, the first increase was W-2 to W-2. The 1099 situation I'm in now was meant to be temporary (2-3 months) but it keeps getting extended, and that will force me to deal with it in a different way. Not sure what that will be since I'm not sure I want to be doing what I am where I am long term. I really only signed on to the whole package because I thought I would be out in a quarter. So yes, no talking out my ass and no lies.
BTW you know Robert Half IT puts together a little guidebook for tech contractors that tells them what wage/salary range they can expect by role for different geographic regions? The differences are indeed in tens of thousands/year. So just because you don't know what the industry really looks like on a national level, don't go around calling people liars.
Actually, I've normally been W-2, even on short term contracts. I've only recently been bumbling through 1099, and I'm doing it wrong. In my defense, this was only supposed to be a two month thing, and it's turned into four and growing. Thanks for the advice though, if I end up doing something like this over a longer term, I'll definitely get on that.
Nope, the error was actually regarding authorization. I don't remember it exactly since it was more than a year ago, but it was not that message and none of those symptoms were occurring.
Even if it were it would be moot, the problem you describe may be technically client side, but only because it was designed that way by Valve to serve their nefarious purposes.
*yawn* People need to realize that the problem is often, for lack of a better term, "talent density". The West Coast has technical people stacked like cord wood because generations were born with a mouse in their hand in a way the rest of the country was not. When I moved to the East, I immediately started making like 12k more than I was in the West, and I now make 14k more than that. So, that's 26k (gross) more for basically doing nothing but change timezones. Joke's on me of course since 1099 contractors get taxed out the ass such that basically all my gross gains go right to the g-men. Hooray.
I would further add, as a perennial contractor, I've been out of work more than a dozen times, never taken unemployment checks, and only three times have I had to actively look for work for more than two weeks. Never have I had to look for more than two months. Jobs are everywhere, people are only either too lazy or too proud to get them.
I know I'm just one person, but the last DRMed game I bought and will buy was Civ V. I had avoided Steam for a long time, but it was Civ and I love Civ and there was no non-Steam version. At one point one of their servers glitched, only for a few mins, and it wouldn't auth me to play the game I had just bought and paid for (one of the fears I've long had about Steam in general). It was a minor inconvenience, but it made the abstract objections I'd had against things like that a real thing, and I'm not going to be that sucker.
I've bought like a dozen games from GOG, and from now on they're the only people I buy from.
You probably didn't read the whole thread, but I already said in answer to another apologist: The Quran explicitly states, over and over, that women are to be considered less than men (2:228b, 2:282, 4:34) and should receive less than men (4:11, 4:176).
From this stratified framework, expanded in the Hadiths, was born the terrors of modern sharia. Maybe you should look into why it is that women routinely burn themselves alive in places like Afghanistan and what roles imams, and Quran-inspired sharia are playing in those dynamics.
The "oh but maybe it was just for political show" handwaving you offer with regard to pedophilia is pathetic, especially since this is obviously about more than just the Prophet's questionable morality, but also the consequences of that so-called morality throughout the subsequent millennium and beyond. Do you suggest that all the child marriages that this not only catalyzed but justified and endorsed as holy and right are so conveniently "for show"? That you would so glibly gloss over nearly uncountable generations of systemic child rape is beneath contempt. Indeed, I am wasting precious time on a dangerously amoral multicultural relativist. I wish you could live as a girl in the Caliphate, and then we'd see how long your glib relativism holds up.
Yeah, never mind that currency makes up for less than 10% of most developed economies. It's even common to be under 5% in Europe.
So, the editor believes that James Randi's interview was long and strong, does that necessarily imply that the editor or Mr. Randi are 'down to get the friction on'? It just seems to logically follow, or so I've been told.
/sarcasm)
(This put Sir Mix-a-lot in my head, thank you ever so much.
And then establish an even more brutal police state where even more people were imprisoned, tortured and murdered without due process? You call other people ignorant when you willfully ignore the crimes of the Cuban communists.
If I were working there, I'd spend every available hour looking for another job. Those people have the sword of Damocles over their heads.
You must be new here. Slashdot doesn't have 'mods' and doesn't delete posts. Bad posts are scored down by others, that is all. The system ultimately works better and is less frequently abused than I think any other on the internet.
I'm no fan of Obama, but it's obtuse to interpret his foreign policy in that way in light of how he continued both the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and intervened militarily in Libya and is training rebels for the Syrian Civil War. He's not a pacifist in any sense.
Not to mention that while the CinC is the top of the chain of command, he's still technically subordinate to the Congress, and if Congress says 'fight those people' it will be his duty to carry that out.
Quran 9:1-5 says that all pagans should convert or die (which the Islamic expansions in the centuries after its founding gladly obliged), I'd call that worse than the penny-ante tribe by tribe atrocities the Jews were directed to perform. Especially since the Jews (as a military force) never really left the Levant, whereas the Muslims brought their 'convert or die' atrocities to three continents. So, the genocidal language in the Quran is both more broadly written and more broadly applied, killing more people, thus more evil. QED.
Well, that's thorough. While I don't doubt I could go through the whole thing line by line, it would be a lot more work than I can justify to myself, especially considering how distasteful I find combing through religious texts and commentaries (I was forced to do it for nearly a decade by my parents, and there is no surer path to atheism than studying religious texts in depth for years with a respect for the truth). So, rather than address every little thing, I am going to focus on some broader themes and outright lies. Once it is demonstrated that you are, in fact, a liar, I won't need to do all the super tedious, distasteful work of debunking the rest.
Broad theme: it's the Hadiths and not the Quran
Are Hadiths not used as a basis for Sharia? For morality? Of course they are. I will freely admit that sometimes I get sloppy with my sources, but the effect is almost entirely moot, because Hadiths are still looked at as valid moral guidance and used as part of the foundation of Islamic moral and criminal justice systems. They are considered second only to the Quran, and you know it as well as I do.
Broad theme: violence is only permitted in defensive combat
This is false on its face. There are violent punishments outlined in the Quran. As already mentioned in response to Ardeaem, the Quran in 2:178 teaches that if a slave is killed by somebody with slaves, you can kill a slave of theirs. There are other punishments of course, but we're talking mainly about violence against people who haven't committed crimes per se. It's funny you want to give 4:89 a pass since it's supposedly in reference to people who have themselves initiated violence against Muslims, but you pick on Luke 19:27 for the same spirit of opposition to a faction that intends to fight whatever Christian kingdom is being alluded to in the verse.
All that to one side, there is another prescription for violence in the Quran 9:1-5, which outline how as soon as any treaty expires with pagans, they can and should be preemptively attacked and killed (unless they convert, of course, then such superficial, extorted desperation... I mean... deeply felt conviction must be honored). This is in direct contradiction to your insistence of defensive prescriptions.
Lastly, your lie: "Quran explicitly states that person should be rewarded on the basis of actions, not sex. (16:97, 4:124)"
The Quran explicitly states, over and over, that women are to be considered less than men (2:228b, 2:282, 4:34) and should receive less than men (4:11, 4:176). You are trying to lie to cover up the inherent evil inequalities, injustices, and misogyny of Islam, but that will only work on ignorant people. I don't really so much blame you for this personally, all religious people do it, especially religious leaders. They focus on the feel good parts and try to ignore the bits that point to the blatant flawed human origins of supposedly divine systems. Christians do these sorts of things just as much and just as badly. Religion itself is evil, and where I can I will expose its evil to as many as possible so that humanity can do the right thing and discard it from as much of society as possible.
(Reverse no true scotsman? That's all you've got?)
... being moderate, they murder them (a lot).
According to Wahabists, indeed they are not proper Muslims, which is why often when fundamentalist families think they're losing their kids to the evils of
Actually, what's more evil is that the Quran says in 2:178 if somebody kills one of your slaves (slavery was super cool in Islam too, and in fact lasted longer than in Christendom, so where's the blind spot again?) you get to kill one his slaves to even things out. So yeah, while the Bible might justify slave beating, the Quran justifies slave murder.
The Quran is demonstrably, substantively more evil. Want to try again? This is fun!