I’m not interested in arguing this away, or spinning any blame. Most terrorists, or a very disparate amount of terrorists, belong to one of a few sects of Islam. Those sects really suck and I hope they disappear.
No, just to point out that you were wrong in your assumptions about me.
I’m not ignoring your experience, I’m just adding it to my experience (which is far more than just shore leave) and the experiences of others. I’ve spoken to people who have probably spent far, far more time in Muslim countries then you, and who have probably been to far, far more countries then you. It doesn’t mean that their opinions are more valid than yours – but it means that I’m not just going to take your word for it. I have my experience, and you have yours, and I’ve spoken to lots of other people with lots of different experience. Some agree with you and many don’t.
So stop with the condescending bullshit. You’re not any more enlightened than me, and your opinions are not more valid because of your experience. I’m not just going to give in because one guy who’s spent time in Muslim countries disagrees – plenty of people who have spent plenty of time in Muslim countries agree with me, and I’m sure plenty agree with you. All opinions can be valid and reasonable.
I dunno how much terrorism has been linked to Christian immigrants, but in the ME itself, there have certainly been Christian Arab terrorists.
The guy who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (which split from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah for being ‘sell outs’) was a Christian. He orchestrated terror attacks on Western targets that led to the infamous “Black September” in Jordan.
Of course, he was no inspired to terrorism by Christianity, but by Marxism and Arab Nationalism … same as Yasser Arafat. How soon we forget that “Islamicist Terrorism” is a relatively new thing in the ME, that most ME terrorists were, historically, not inspired by Islam specifically.
BS, all opinions are not equally valid or reasonable. Is this like the ‘we report, you decide’ shit that foxnews spews to the rubes, so they can just default to their ignorance instead of being educated?
Some opinions are based upon facts. I stated mine above in a reply to another poster that are indisputable, as well as what I have experienced. You have your shore leave in Bahrain and your alleged multiple friends that are cool with barbaric treatment of women, for example, in WHOLE COUNTIES BY LAW. This is not isolated small sects. Yeah, these two opinions are all a wash after it is all added up. :rolleyes:
I think it a somewhat overlooked point that the modern Islamicist terrorism scare is a relatively new thing.
The previous terrorism scare from the ME, from the late 60s through to the early 80s, had nothing to do with Islamicism - and, as noted above, Christian Arabs were among some of the most notorious terrorists.
This tends to show that terrorism is more linked to the situation and culture, than inspired by the doctrinal details of the religion.
And the author of that cartoon makes the mistake of equating all members of one faith with extremists. Or did I miss where he put the word some, a few, or certain?
“I am the Lord Thy G-d, and Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Anonymous reacts in its typical creepy way. Have they ever threatened outright to kill anyone? Part of me wants to cheer them on, but the other part is pretty sure an outright gang war on a world-wide scale is not the way to go.
