Zebo
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Originally posted by: StormRider
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Braznor
Originally posted by: alchemize
None of this is really surprising at all, it reflects past polls. I really don't hold out any hope that any of this lunacy will decline, regardless of our actions in Iraq, and I don't think there's any answer. Fundamental Islam is a cancer, and it's very pervasive through the religion.
I wish we had invested a trillion in figuring out alternate energies, then let the lunatics drink their oil and eat their sand.
There is nothing new in this. The Islamic viewpoint always encourages an 'us versus them' attitude. It basically stems from the Quranic teaching to distrust non believers. Even if Muhammed himself awoke from the dead and tried to convince them of otherwise, they would not believe him because it would not fit within their worldview.
The problem also stems from another cause, the falliability of rationality when confronting Islam. They believe in propoganda and are taught never to question it.
Heh, the "us versus them" attitude is certainly not confined to Muslims. I hear it every day from a rather large number of Americans. We're trying to promote democracy and peace within a large Muslim country in the Middle East while making it clear that a lot of us think they are all a bunch of comrade terrorists. Not exactly a winning combination if you ask me.
Yeah, but isn't this more because of 9/11? Islam was and is the fastest growing religion in the world and I would think this is because the west is more open and has a less "us versus them" attitude.
When I was young, I saw an interview with a Quaker who gave the following reason for asking an exemption from going to war, "My religion forbids me to kill".
Years later when we were gearing up for the Afghan war, my local news channel interviewed some Muslim students in George Washington University about their feelings. The news reporter then asked, "There has been talks of a draft -- you're of age -- how would you feel if there is a draft?" and the Muslim student replied, "I don't know. I would have a problem going over there and having to kill innocent Muslims".
And then I thought, "Why use the term Muslim and not just people?"
I really do feel that Muslims have a more "us" attitude than other people. Whenever you have conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims in other countries, you always see Muslims of other countries streaming in. In Thailand, you have jihiadists from Saudi Arabia etc. becoming involved. Same with Russia, China, Philippines, Afghanistan, etc.
But I have never heard of this happening in other rellgions. I have never seen a Philippino Catholic saying, "I want to go to Ireland and wage "crusade" against the Protastants and help my fellow Catholics". Maybe this happens a lot but I just never knew it.
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Braznor
Originally posted by: alchemize
None of this is really surprising at all, it reflects past polls. I really don't hold out any hope that any of this lunacy will decline, regardless of our actions in Iraq, and I don't think there's any answer. Fundamental Islam is a cancer, and it's very pervasive through the religion.
I wish we had invested a trillion in figuring out alternate energies, then let the lunatics drink their oil and eat their sand.
There is nothing new in this. The Islamic viewpoint always encourages an 'us versus them' attitude. It basically stems from the Quranic teaching to distrust non believers. Even if Muhammed himself awoke from the dead and tried to convince them of otherwise, they would not believe him because it would not fit within their worldview.
The problem also stems from another cause, the falliability of rationality when confronting Islam. They believe in propoganda and are taught never to question it.
Heh, the "us versus them" attitude is certainly not confined to Muslims. I hear it every day from a rather large number of Americans. We're trying to promote democracy and peace within a large Muslim country in the Middle East while making it clear that a lot of us think they are all a bunch of comrade terrorists. Not exactly a winning combination if you ask me.
Originally posted by: Aimster
I wonder who the hell they actually talked to in these Muslim countries.
Did they go to the slums and talk to the people who live in camel farms?
Turkey is not even close to being a Muslim country. They call themselves Muslim but they are very moderate. Women walk the streets in mini-skirts. People flood the beaches.
Originally posted by: Zebo
The differance is Chirstianity has gone through a change and Islam has not.
If you were around at the time the Church was burning people at the stake, and killing lots of people it would seem just as bad and cult like as Islam.
However Chirstianity has evolved, esp in U.S its turned into this whole singing and dancing thing, and im sure if some early Chirstians could be around to see it they would be like WTF off with his head.
Islam however is still in the 7th century, just take a look at wherever it spreads and people take it seriously, those countries are in poverty, and have a whole host of problems like war, beheadings, rapes, salvery etc. My Saudi buddy at work who dumped his Sunni faith has a warrant on his head. And he'll tell you Osama is the real Islam.
Muslims have contributed nothing to humanity in the last say 500 yrs, even prior to that all Islamic inventions were really taken from advanced and peacefull cultures that muslims conqured. (the real crusades)
alchemize, ...i understand your opinion.None of this is really surprising at all, it reflects past polls. I really don't hold out any hope that any of this lunacy will decline, regardless of our actions in Iraq, and I don't think there's any answer. Fundamental Islam is a cancer, and it's very pervasive through the religion.
Would i agree with this website authors statements about Mohhamed and the religion he created? To some degree yes. But these author's words would not go far in diplomacy. They would in fact incite warfare. But kept on an information website for our educational purposes these words are appropriate descriptions of the real darkside of core Islamic teaching.Islam is a caustic blend of regurgitated paganism and twisted Bible stories. Muhammad, its lone prophet, conceived his religion solely to satiate his lust for power, sex, and money. He was a terrorist.
In what the survey, part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project for 2006, called one of its most striking findings, majorities in Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey ? Muslim countries with fairly strong ties to America ? said, for example, that they did not believe that Arabs carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Originally posted by: Tab
In what the survey, part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project for 2006, called one of its most striking findings, majorities in Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey ? Muslim countries with fairly strong ties to America ? said, for example, that they did not believe that Arabs carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
So, if Muslims don?t think a group of Arabs committed the attacks on 9/11 then who they think did?![]()
Oh waaaah they are so oppressed. Typical leftist victimization babble, siding with evil just because it happens to hate capitalism too.Originally posted by: Craig234
The amount of ignorance and simplistic views in the right wing is appalling.
Typical are the comments which treat the Middle Eastern people as one homogenous group, as if an action taken by the House of Saud represents, say, a farmer in Iran.
Saying anything about 'fanatical muslims' is about the same as attributing the views of Pat Robertson to all Americans as a group.
And the ignorance: put yourself in Iran's shoes for a moment.
A century ago, Britain began taking their oil for low prices at the point of a gun. In 1953, when the Iranians' democracy finally put someone in power who said he was going to stop the utter stealing from Iran and start getting a more fair price for the oil, the US, using its brand new shiny CIA, responded to England's plea for protecting cheap oil by arranging for a coup of their democracy, and returning the Shah to a new role, complete with supplying him with a brutal police force responsible for political murders and torture for 25 years.
Gee, you think they have a *reason* to be mad at the west? A year after the Shah was overthrown, we're in their supporting Saddam in invading Iran, in the longest war of the 20th century with a million Iranian casualties, many of which were from WMD while the world turned a blind eye to the WMD use and protected Saddam when he started losing the war - all in the name of weakning both countries for future exploitation.
Now maybe they have a reason to be mad at the US?
And yet after all that, the Iranian people still love the good side of the US and want better relations.
What so many fail to recognize is how often the Middle Eastern people are far more moderate, and abused by terrible rulers *the US protects*.
Osama bin Laden was a pariah with most people in the middle east, and the people largely opposed the US making him into a powerful figure with things like the Iraq invasion.
The ignorance amongst so much of the American people is a slap in the face to the principles of democracy which require some effort to get informed before voting.
The right wing should try reading books: try 'The Assassins' Gate', or many others.
Originally posted by: straightalker
While it is clearly stated by Mohammed in the Quran that all muslims should go out into our World and either convert or kill non-muslims, the actual results of these teachings are manageable.
Only bought and paid for despots who rule with an Iron fist or where they are in a infinitesmal minority like South America or USA are they "moderate". However once they gain a large presence they get alot more comfortable calling for Jihad- And if they don't guys like Zarqawi will throw down the gauntlet to moderate muslims forcing them to choose sides. Hmm lets see "something I've been indoctrinated all my life with or risk losing my life adopting this nebulous freedom these westerners preach" When your life in on the line the choice is never hard for a moderate to become a radical sympathizer anymore than your average German becoming a Nazi sympathizer back then.Muslims themselves moderate these teaching on killing human beings.
Absolutly untrue. See the europe piece I posted above.They do that by ignoring them.
Muslims have peacefully co-existed in many places side by side with non-musdlims for centuries.
Of course not, only the lions are brave enough just like we have our warriors - but most Muslims mislead non-Muslims about the central tenets of Islam you linked to and therefore is objectively furthering the Jihad by rendering non-Muslims unwary and keeping them in a state of appolgetic naivete which can get them kiled.I've talked to muslims before. They're not all the stereotypically crazed suicide bomber.
Originally posted by: dahunan
Religion is the Enemy
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Braznor
Originally posted by: alchemize
None of this is really surprising at all, it reflects past polls. I really don't hold out any hope that any of this lunacy will decline, regardless of our actions in Iraq, and I don't think there's any answer. Fundamental Islam is a cancer, and it's very pervasive through the religion.
I wish we had invested a trillion in figuring out alternate energies, then let the lunatics drink their oil and eat their sand.
There is nothing new in this. The Islamic viewpoint always encourages an 'us versus them' attitude. It basically stems from the Quranic teaching to distrust non believers. Even if Muhammed himself awoke from the dead and tried to convince them of otherwise, they would not believe him because it would not fit within their worldview.
The problem also stems from another cause, the falliability of rationality when confronting Islam. They believe in propoganda and are taught never to question it.
Heh, the "us versus them" attitude is certainly not confined to Muslims. I hear it every day from a rather large number of Americans. We're trying to promote democracy and peace within a large Muslim country in the Middle East while making it clear that a lot of us think they are all a bunch of comrade terrorists. Not exactly a winning combination if you ask me.
Typical of liberal western aplogists with a narcissistic guilt trip who dont understand history their main goal or the sick mentality.
The religon is incompatible with Democracy, peace, secularism, human equality, etc.. people fail to see that cause of the lies muslim leaders tell the media, but the real goal is to dominate and take over, thats why they kill people who leave Islam, cause they know all about thier BS.
Don't believe me? Here are two clips from Walid Shoebat and Zak Anani both former terrorists telling just how it is.
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Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Braznor
Originally posted by: alchemize
None of this is really surprising at all, it reflects past polls. I really don't hold out any hope that any of this lunacy will decline, regardless of our actions in Iraq, and I don't think there's any answer. Fundamental Islam is a cancer, and it's very pervasive through the religion.
I wish we had invested a trillion in figuring out alternate energies, then let the lunatics drink their oil and eat their sand.
There is nothing new in this. The Islamic viewpoint always encourages an 'us versus them' attitude. It basically stems from the Quranic teaching to distrust non believers. Even if Muhammed himself awoke from the dead and tried to convince them of otherwise, they would not believe him because it would not fit within their worldview.
The problem also stems from another cause, the falliability of rationality when confronting Islam. They believe in propoganda and are taught never to question it.
Heh, the "us versus them" attitude is certainly not confined to Muslims. I hear it every day from a rather large number of Americans. We're trying to promote democracy and peace within a large Muslim country in the Middle East while making it clear that a lot of us think they are all a bunch of comrade terrorists. Not exactly a winning combination if you ask me.
Typical of liberal western aplogists with a narcissistic guilt trip who dont understand history their main goal or the sick mentality.
The religon is incompatible with Democracy, peace, secularism, human equality, etc.. people fail to see that cause of the lies muslim leaders tell the media, but the real goal is to dominate and take over, thats why they kill people who leave Islam, cause they know all about thier BS.
Don't believe me? Here are two clips from Walid Shoebat and Zak Anani both former terrorists telling just how it is.
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Yeah, I prefer not to get my information on the religious beliefs of over a billion people from psychopaths. Call me a liberal western apologist with a narcissistic guilt trip, but I've got to believe there is a better solution than going to war with every Muslim on earth. Holy wars usually don't turn out too well.
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Braznor
Originally posted by: alchemize
None of this is really surprising at all, it reflects past polls. I really don't hold out any hope that any of this lunacy will decline, regardless of our actions in Iraq, and I don't think there's any answer. Fundamental Islam is a cancer, and it's very pervasive through the religion.
I wish we had invested a trillion in figuring out alternate energies, then let the lunatics drink their oil and eat their sand.
There is nothing new in this. The Islamic viewpoint always encourages an 'us versus them' attitude. It basically stems from the Quranic teaching to distrust non believers. Even if Muhammed himself awoke from the dead and tried to convince them of otherwise, they would not believe him because it would not fit within their worldview.
The problem also stems from another cause, the falliability of rationality when confronting Islam. They believe in propoganda and are taught never to question it.
Heh, the "us versus them" attitude is certainly not confined to Muslims. I hear it every day from a rather large number of Americans. We're trying to promote democracy and peace within a large Muslim country in the Middle East while making it clear that a lot of us think they are all a bunch of comrade terrorists. Not exactly a winning combination if you ask me.
Typical of liberal western aplogists with a narcissistic guilt trip who dont understand history their main goal or the sick mentality.
The religon is incompatible with Democracy, peace, secularism, human equality, etc.. people fail to see that cause of the lies muslim leaders tell the media, but the real goal is to dominate and take over, thats why they kill people who leave Islam, cause they know all about thier BS.
Don't believe me? Here are two clips from Walid Shoebat and Zak Anani both former terrorists telling just how it is.
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Yeah, I prefer not to get my information on the religious beliefs of over a billion people from psychopaths. Call me a liberal western apologist with a narcissistic guilt trip, but I've got to believe there is a better solution than going to war with every Muslim on earth. Holy wars usually don't turn out too well.
You can't be this oblivious to the world around you. The war is already on! Remember 911? Saudi Arabia? WTC 3x? etc etc etc..."Oh" you might say "that's just because of American Imperialism" Ok fine Then how do you explain what's going on in Russia, France, Germany, Sweden, Sudan, Indonesia, India and about 100 other countries many of whom dispise USA and don't support us? That has'nt helped them one bit.
Wake up Neville, war is on your door step you either fight, get assimilated or die.
And no I don't mean fight by invading any of these countries - invasion of Iraq and tarbaby that insued was a horredous mistake and actually made things worse - but combating will take a very long response I know you're not interested in. You're only intrest is the alter of PC to give you warm and fuzzies.
9-11 was an inside job perpetrated by the perps within our own USA Government. The 3 huge buildings were demolished with precision in classic straightfall downfall. Another logical fact. Never in human history has a single skysraper fell due to fire. Yet on 9-11 three fell. All the steel beams neatly sliced into sections by thermite charges. That's why you saw 3 perfect neat piles of chopped up rubble and dust. The two Trade Towers and building #7. The owner of Building 7 said "pull-it". That's the demolitionist term used to describe the order to demolish with explosives. Firemen reported the charges going off in the twin towers. We see the explosions going off. Their "squibs". Puffs of smoke. In organized fashion. Floor by floor. Just look for yourself. The videos prove demolition. Many experts concur. And the many are fast becoming more many.However, I ALSO remember that 9/11 was perpetrated by a fairly small group of men claiming Islam as their religion
Originally posted by: dahunan
Religion is the Enemy
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Braznor
Originally posted by: alchemize
None of this is really surprising at all, it reflects past polls. I really don't hold out any hope that any of this lunacy will decline, regardless of our actions in Iraq, and I don't think there's any answer. Fundamental Islam is a cancer, and it's very pervasive through the religion.
I wish we had invested a trillion in figuring out alternate energies, then let the lunatics drink their oil and eat their sand.
There is nothing new in this. The Islamic viewpoint always encourages an 'us versus them' attitude. It basically stems from the Quranic teaching to distrust non believers. Even if Muhammed himself awoke from the dead and tried to convince them of otherwise, they would not believe him because it would not fit within their worldview.
The problem also stems from another cause, the falliability of rationality when confronting Islam. They believe in propoganda and are taught never to question it.
Heh, the "us versus them" attitude is certainly not confined to Muslims. I hear it every day from a rather large number of Americans. We're trying to promote democracy and peace within a large Muslim country in the Middle East while making it clear that a lot of us think they are all a bunch of comrade terrorists. Not exactly a winning combination if you ask me.
Typical of liberal western aplogists with a narcissistic guilt trip who dont understand history their main goal or the sick mentality.
The religon is incompatible with Democracy, peace, secularism, human equality, etc.. people fail to see that cause of the lies muslim leaders tell the media, but the real goal is to dominate and take over, thats why they kill people who leave Islam, cause they know all about thier BS.
Don't believe me? Here are two clips from Walid Shoebat and Zak Anani both former terrorists telling just how it is.
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2
Yeah, I prefer not to get my information on the religious beliefs of over a billion people from psychopaths. Call me a liberal western apologist with a narcissistic guilt trip, but I've got to believe there is a better solution than going to war with every Muslim on earth. Holy wars usually don't turn out too well.
You can't be this oblivious to the world around you. The war is already on! Remember 911? Saudi Arabia? WTC 3x? etc etc etc..."Oh" you might say "that's just because of American Imperialism" Ok fine Then how do you explain what's going on in Russia, France, Germany, Sweden, Sudan, Indonesia, India and about 100 other countries many of whom dispise USA and don't support us? That has'nt helped them one bit.
Wake up Neville, war is on your door step you either fight, get assimilated or die.
And no I don't mean fight by invading any of these countries - invasion of Iraq and tarbaby that insued was a horredous mistake and actually made things worse - but combating will take a very long response I know you're not interested in. You're only intrest is the alter of PC to give you warm and fuzzies.
You know, you're pretty insulting for a guy I've had to explain this concept to several times already...
I remember 9/11...and I certainly am not part of the group that thinks it was just because of American Imperialism. However, I ALSO remember that 9/11 was perpetrated by a fairly small group of men claiming Islam as their religion. Do I want to hunt down the people in their group and groups like them? Of course. Does that mean I'm incapable of seeing the difference between doing that and waging war against every single Muslim on the planet? Of course not.
One of the most important factors in winning a war, any war, is good intelligence. And part of that intelligence is knowing who you are fighting. Muslims are not a homogeneous social group any more than any other social group, acting as if every Muslim was a supporter of the 9/11 terrorists is not an effective way to fight a war against the people that are truly terrorists any more than we should have invaded every country in the far east during WWII because they were all a bunch of Asians, and so were the Japanese. You're right, we ARE at war, and we're never going to win if we don't know just who our enemies are. Waging a wild, failing war against a widely varied group of over a billion seems like a poor way to root out a relativly small number of fanatics among them.
My interest in doing this doesn't spring from any sense of PC warm and fuzzy feelings, far from it. My interest in seperating the vast majority of Muslims from the Osama bin Ladens comes from a knowledge that this will be how we'll win the war on terrorism. You call me oblivious, and that's fine, but in my experience it's important to understand that not everything is some simple black and white situation you can slap on a bumper sticker.
Originally posted by: straightalker
<snip>However, I ALSO remember that 9/11 was perpetrated by a fairly small group of men claiming Islam as their religion
Disbelief was strong among Muslims that Arabs were behind the Sept. 11 attacks, with 65 percent in Indonesia and 59 percent in Turkey, for example, expressing that viewpoint. Even in Britain, 56 percent of the Muslims surveyed did not believe that Arabs carried out the attacks. The results, Mr. Kohut said, show that "many Muslims are still in denial" about something that even Osama bin Laden has acknowledged.
Originally posted by: straightalker
Long-winded and completely insane conspiracy theory...
