You keep saying “most Muslim countries”. Okay, exactly how many Muslim countries are there and what’s the exact number of said Muslim countries that are backward?
Am I wrong? How many people have been killed by Muslims in response to unflattering depictions of Muhammad or alleged mistreatment of copies of the Koran? How many people have been killed by Christians in response to Piss Christ, comics depicting God as a cannibal who eats people who go to heaven or showing God with his head blown off, or that picture of a bunch of gods having an orgy? Hell, how many people did the Buddhists kill in retaliation for the Taliban’s destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan?
Sure, backward Muslim majority countries:
Afghanistan
Algeria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Chad
Comoros
Djibouti
Egypt
Gambia
Guinea
Iran
Iraq
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine*
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Western Sahara*
Yemen
Not Completely Backward:
Azerbaijan
Indonesia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Borderline Modern:
Albania
Kosovo
Malaysia-
Turkey-
- = Pseudo countries
- = Countries heading in the wrong direction in this regard
Now define “backward”.
How charming.
Thankfully when Jewish terrorists from the Irgun kidnapped and executed British soldiers and civilians the British didn’t choose to do that to any captured Jewish terrorists.
Once again James Foley would roll over in his grave.
Agreed, certainly the Jews of Palestine wouldn’t have screamed about anti-Semitism if the bodies of executed Jewish terrorists were drenched in pigs blood before being buried.
Similarly, in his book A Place Among the Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t express outrage at Jordanian forces taking headstones from Jewish graveyards to make into latrines.
I’d invest the money in hunting the IS down. They need to go and times a wastin.
If I was about to be decapitated, I’d scream my head off.
So now a different American hostage, Peter Theo Curtis, has been released, after about 2 years in captivity. He was being held in Syria by Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda affiliate (who are generally not friends with Islamic State).
It sounds like negotiations of some sort, through Qatar, have been ongoing for some time, but I wonder if Foley’s death spurred a quicker resolution.
The U.S. denies that any ransom has been paid. Qatar I guess has a good deal of influence with Jabhat al-Nusra and some other groups in Syria, and has been accused of funneling funds to them (which they deny). Previous deals have involved prisoner swaps, as well as in some cases money changing hands. I doubt we’ll ever really learn what happened to make this deal possible.
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I linked to the study examining how these terrorist groups end. Obviously you cannot directly apply what was done in situation A to situation B, but the thrust of the paper as I understood it is that terrorist groups achieve legitimacy more than we acknowledge, and that a military response often doesn’t several our goals. As many have noted, ISIL seems particularly barbaric, so a strategy of cooperation may not work in this case. But, it’s worth noting the irony that ISIL’s barbarism has led some to suggest we align with Assad to take them down. Assad being the guy whose government many people were calling a terrorist regime only a few months ago.
Still waiting on that definition.
If you guys want to open a thread in The BBQ Pit where you can voice your hatred of and ignorance of Muslim people and nations, feel free to do so.
Posting this nonsense in Great Debates looks much more like trolling for attention–trying to get the most shocked reaction to the silliest and most inflammatory claim.
Knock it off.
[ /Moderating ]