Armband? I got some cousins who think Jesus wanted them to handle rattlesnakes, but I don’t know about this “armband” stuff. Is that something they do in Oklahoma?
They had lotsa help, from a prominent political party that did its level best to squeeze every last drop of power from the hysteria they exploited and promoted.
You truly are a dumb-dumb. Newsflash, dummy: Just because someone skewers ONE thing in The Pit doesn’t mean they think other things aren’t pit worthy. If I tell you I fucking hate techno dance music, that doesn’t mean there aren’t other types of music, or other things, I don’t also hate. So I can say “Yum, I love ice cream”, and you would assume there is no other food I enjoy, right, dumb-dumb?
And I am tickled to no end by the charges of racism in a thread talking about radical Islam. Do you really—REALLY—think that I or anyone else who is disgusted by what happened to that little girl cares one iota what shade the barbaric assholes who raped and then killed her were? You really are a dummy, aren’t you? The only people who are bringing racism into this thread at all are those accusing others of racism. That’s some funny shit. For those of us who understand it.
Deflect. What’s next, duck? Do youreally think if the Dems had been in power that we still wouldn’t have been hugely effected by 9/11?
No, I don’t believe that, which is why I didn’t say it. Want me to type slower?
Then what was your point? If you agree with the point I made, why post what you did?
Everyone’s afraid of a fatwa being issued against them. I guess that Rushdie stuff rubbed off on people. You can wind up getting knifed for making a cartoon character of any Islamic type in Europe. It’s a free country here and if I don’t agree with Islam or what they are about I am free to proffer my opinion and ya’ll can stuff it up your assbutts.
Why are you channeling J D Salinger?
Yes, the root words are “crumb” and “dumb.” But the slang words are not “crumby” and “dumb-dumb;” they are “crummy” and “dum-dum.”
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
As a percentage, it seems like there should be a LOT more Jordanian terrorists than Lebanese terrorists. This does not appear to be the case.
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Addressed in previous reply, but let me add more:
I initially took one position on the issue raised by the OP:
(1) the numbers suggest mainstream Muslim homicidal depravity.
I expanded that, when I said I thought it was:
(2) likely that most terrorist recruits came from the most religiously
fundamentalist segment of Muslim society.
The correctness of (1) does not rely at all on the correctness of (2).
The correctness of (2) does not rely at all on a mathematically exact
correlation.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
Oh ok, then read that post without the ME reference.
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OK, so what? Is Islam supposed to get some kind of credit or bye
for *not *providing any solutions?
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
What is the significance of the non-local nature of the Islamic terrorism?
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A battlefield stretching from Bali to India to Pakistan to Afghanistan to
Iraq to Turkey to Egypt to Algeria to Spain to the UK to the US must be
considered as a threat to more people problem than one limited to the
UK and another limited to Palestine, am I right?
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
My point was that Islam is driving the terrorism about as much as catholicism drove Irish terrorists or Judaism drove Irgun and Lehi. It isn’t the ridiculous things that are in centuries old religious texts that drove the terrorism or radicalized these folks.
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Catholicism and Judaism were just about perfectly correlated with IRA
and Irgun/Lehi membership. I would say that religious texts were definitely
a root cause for the development of RC and Jewish terror.
Catholic and Protestant have been at odds over the meaning of religious
texts for 490 years. The disputes have frequently led to violence including
full-scale war. I believe the northern Irish sorrows of the last few decades
were of one cloth with the earlier violence.
As for the pre-1948 Palestinian Jews, their 25 centuries-old scripture depicts
the land they were committing terror over as literally given to them by God,
and I do not think I need to add any more on that note.
And as I wrote before, if Muslim religious moderates are as much of a
terrorist threat as the fundamentalists that could only make the Muslim
threat worse, not better.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
I’m not sure what you are getting at.
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I was just thinking out loud of the nearest historical analogy that
I knew of.
It now occurs to me to observe that although anarchist and Islamic
terror share much the same scope and method, the only Islamic enjoy
the support of hordes of useful idiot apologists in the very ranks of
their intended victims.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
Using the phrase “destruction of the jewish state” is a bit dramtic. It sounds like these people want to kill all the Jews.
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Come on- that phrase was voiced by Muslims in the clear for over
60 years now.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
Isn’t anti-zionist a better description?
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No.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
I strongly disagree with Zionism and the notion that Israel MUST remain majority Jewish forever and by any means necessary. Is THAT what you are talking about?
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No.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
I could say that there is Jewish support for Israel as a jewish state and Jewish antipathy towards Arab Muslims even though these Jews are unrelated to any inhabitants of Israel except by religion.
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You would be mistaken because besides religion all Jews share
linguistic and ethnic identity going back to Biblical times. On the
other hand the ME and Central Asia are filled with Muslim ethnic
groups whose language is Indo-European, not even in the same
family as Arabic. That includes the Iranians and the mostly Pashtun Taliban.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
Does that mean that I can generalize about jews and Zionism?
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You may if the generalization is reasonable.
[QUOTE=Damuri Ajashi]
Is there some global Zionist conspiracy merely because jews around the world can identify with the perspective of Zionist jews in Israel?
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Conspiracies are secret and Zionism was never a secret movement.
Otherwise, is there any reason to doubt that Zionism and Israel have
benefited from the support of numerous Jews who identify with the
Jews of Israel, even if they themselves never intended to migrate to Israel.
A big diference is that the Jews did not set off bombs to further their
aims anywhere but Palestine, while the Muslims have been setting them
off all over the world.
Islam is a foul, violent and disgusting religion. It subjugates woman and treats them like chattel and it represents the most henious tragedies on innocent children and women, unable to defend themselves. Women are cut, defaced, and beaten. Women are left to lie in jails, where they cannot get out unless a man is willing to take them out of a jail. There are too many disgusting features of Islam, and I am not willing to take it any further.
Consider this notice: Most religion is a pile of shit and the top of the shit pile is where Islam sits.
The crazy is strong in this one.
Which explains why I can’t even go to the local mall without hearing one of them Muslim bombs going off! I’ve complained to my local Congresman, figuring that since he’s a Muslim, maybe we would get a break, but no! Bang, bang, bang, day in, day out.
Which makes sense, since about a billion people are Muslims, and even if only *half *of them are seething with bomb-making fever, we gotta have about ten-twenty thousand bombs going off every day. Which figure accords with your reasoning, yes?
If you are not going to read more then no need for me to change
my style to suit you.
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I was about to post roughly the same thing. NC, you don’t have to put in hard carriage returns to mark line breaks; the board software will sort that out for you
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I have been in on the political chat room racket for exactly 7 years
and about 11,000 posts on several different boards now, and I am
hip to the formatting options.
I have always used short lines because of
[ol]
[li]Eccentircity [/li][*]Short lines are more pleasing to my eye, and more easy for me to read. [/ol]
Applied to present circumstances, “eccentricity” is a very polite word. Most likely, you will be the only one using it.
Yeah, the religion of peace…is trying to hamstring freedom of religion wherever it treads and that isn’t so marvelous in my book.
You ARE stupid, aren’t you? Even without reading the text, your style throws the line of the page off, and it’s terribly distracting.
Never mind, I’ve taken care of it.
Actually, lines with a shorter measure are easier to read. It strikes my eye as odd, too, but once you begin reading it does make it easier. Particularly if it’s more than a sentence or two.
No.
Since you don’t seem to be the type who is too swift when it comes to logic
let me help you out with something I posted earlier:
[QUOTE=NCDane]
I initially took one position on the issue raised by the OP:
(1) the numbers suggest mainstream Muslim homicidal depravity.
I expanded that, when I said I thought it was:
(2) likely that most terrorist recruits came from the most religiously
fundamentalist segment of Muslim society.
The correctness of (1) does not rely at all on the correctness of (2).
The correctness of (2) does not rely at all on a mathematically exact
correlation.
[/QUOTE]
And let me add that the correctness of neither (1) or (2) depends on the
number of terrorist incidents.
I never claimed to be Einstein.
I have no idea what you mean by “the line of the page”.
I thought you weren’t going to read any more of my posts.
Would you be upset if I encouraged you to follow up on that?
I live not far from where this trial took place. 5 Muslim men of Jordanian, Albanian and Turkish backgrounds were convicted of planning to shoot up Ft. Dix. Even though they claim they were set-up, the jury didn’t see it that way and the judge didn’t either.
They were ready to buy guns when they got themselves arrested and are now in prison. They were going to use a rouse that they were delivering pizzas, when they were going to shoot up Ft. Dix.