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PJABBER

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Kind of an aside to all of the limp wristed low fives being offered in the "pwnage" of Braznor, but aren't y'all aware that there has been a war ongoing between Islam and ALL other religions?

Though the focus here, in a predominantly Christian nation, is on Islam's Western targeting, there is an equally important standoff in other parts of the world with adherents of Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.

If the West has become too weak to defend itself from Islamic expansion, it will be the East that will have to do the job. And they will not be as kind as the West in doing so.

Iran may be the world's largest exporter of Islamic terrorism, but Pakistan is second in line. You may not hear much about it as theirs tends to be focused on the Indian subcontinent.

India has been in a virtual state of war with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for quite a long while. On a geopolitical level, there has been much consideration as to how strongly the US should support India as a secular bulwark against Islamic expansionism.

I don't know Braznor's personal opinion other than what I read in the quoted link, but be assured that same opinion is very common in India.
 
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dmcowen674

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Originally Posted by dmcowen674
Did you read?

The American Dream went down the toilet just like at least 80 million other Americans in the Great Recession. He was about to be homeless on the street with nothing after living in upscale suburbs of Connecticut.

He snapped like a lot of others except he tried to go for the virgins but failed?

He really did learn to be American at EPIC FAIL.



He read your book!

Oh the one you wrote? After all you are the expert on fail.
 

blackangst1

Lifer
Feb 23, 2005
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Did you read?

The American Dream went down the toilet just like at least 80 million other Americans in the Great Recession. He was about to be homeless on the street with nothing after living in upscale suburbs of Connecticut.

He snapped like a lot of others except he tried to go for the virgins but failed?

He really did learn to be American at EPIC FAIL.




Originally Posted by dmcowen674 Oh the one you wrote? After all you are the expert on fail.

lrn2multiquote. FAIL.
 

Sacrilege

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Sudden Jihad Syndrome (SJS) can affect Muslims of all socioeconomic backgrounds. It is a terrible malady, and does not discriminate in who it affects.
 

GarfieldtheCat

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HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAH!!!!! Are you actually trying to associate the weak, limp-wristed, skinny jeans wearing liberals of today to these men?! HAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!! The silly little liberal kids of today couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. Everyone knows this.

Speaking from experience, wittlewhineypiggie? Do you seriously think people believe you because you go "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" twenty times?

Not that I really liked him, but Wesley Clark is a democrat. Is he your definition of "unable to fight out of a paper bag"?

Liberal kids, neocon kids, centrist kids no difference. Generalizing with stupid ignorant generalizations is just stupid, something you should be well acquainted with, wittlepiggie.
 

Martin

Lifer
Jan 15, 2000
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I do a lot of reading on the motives of homegrown would-be terrorists such as Mr. Shahzad and there's usually one common theme. They're all misfits - fairly well-educated and well-heeled individuals who through whatever quirk of personality become loners and (at least in their own minds) failures.

In his isolation, the loner gets exposed to radical Islam (online or at a local mosque) and takes on this romanticized higher calling as a soldier, a warrior, in order to remake themselves in their own minds. Fortunately for the rest of us, their lifelong habits of being a failure usually reasserts itself and they fuck up at something as simple as blowing themselves up.

More on the above: PBS, Frontline, Canada: The Cell Next Door

That's an interesting vid, thanks for posting.
 

LittleNemoNES

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Oct 7, 2005
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I do a lot of reading on the motives of homegrown would-be terrorists such as Mr. Shahzad and there's usually one common theme. They're all misfits - fairly well-educated and well-heeled individuals who through whatever quirk of personality become loners and (at least in their own minds) failures.

In his isolation, the loner gets exposed to radical Islam (online or at a local mosque) and takes on this romanticized higher calling as a soldier, a warrior, in order to remake themselves in their own minds. Fortunately for the rest of us, their lifelong habits of being a failure usually reasserts itself and they fuck up at something as simple as blowing themselves up.

More on the above: PBS, Frontline, Canada: The Cell Next Door

this is the only sane post in this whole god-forsaken thread. lol
 

ProfJohn

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Jul 28, 2006
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I do a lot of reading on the motives of homegrown would-be terrorists such as Mr. Shahzad and there's usually one common theme. They're all misfits - fairly well-educated and well-heeled individuals who through whatever quirk of personality become loners and (at least in their own minds) failures.

In his isolation, the loner gets exposed to radical Islam (online or at a local mosque) and takes on this romanticized higher calling as a soldier, a warrior, in order to remake themselves in their own minds. Fortunately for the rest of us, their lifelong habits of being a failure usually reasserts itself and they fuck up at something as simple as blowing themselves up.

More on the above: PBS, Frontline, Canada: The Cell Next Door
Why does this post make me think of Achmed the dead terrorist?
 

Mani

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Aug 9, 2001
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Speaking from experience, wittlewhineypiggie? Do you seriously think people believe you because you go "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" twenty times?

Not that I really liked him, but Wesley Clark is a democrat. Is he your definition of "unable to fight out of a paper bag"?

Liberal kids, neocon kids, centrist kids no difference. Generalizing with stupid ignorant generalizations is just stupid, something you should be well acquainted with, wittlepiggie.

Don't bother taking this clown seriously. He talks about fighting as though he's ever done anything more combative than posting these penis projections from his mom's basement.
 

TehMac

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Aug 18, 2006
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terrorism is always inspired by plight. Maybe if we give the muslims more land they'll like us more.

Is it? Is that your best guess?

All the terrorists we have seen in the past year as well as in the London Subway bombings were highly educated men with everything to lose. And they were Muslim. Try harder.
 

werepossum

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Jul 10, 2006
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Kind of an aside to all of the limp wristed low fives being offered in the "pwnage" of Braznor, but aren't y'all aware that there has been a war ongoing between Islam and ALL other religions?

Though the focus here, in a predominantly Christian nation, is on Islam's Western targeting, there is an equally important standoff in other parts of the world with adherents of Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.

If the West has become too weak to defend itself from Islamic expansion, it will be the East that will have to do the job. And they will not be as kind as the West in doing so.

Iran may be the world's largest exporter of Islamic terrorism, but Pakistan is second in line. You may not hear much about it as theirs tends to be focused on the Indian subcontinent.

India has been in a virtual state of war with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for quite a long while. On a geopolitical level, there has been much consideration as to how strongly the US should support India as a secular bulwark against Islamic expansionism.

I don't know Braznor's personal opinion other than what I read in the quoted link, but be assured that same opinion is very common in India.

This is true, but historically support for India was limited by its pro-Soviet stance. Pakistan was therefore, by process of elimination, our horse even with the weeping warts of Islam. That is changing as India does more with the USA and as Islamic terrorism becomes more of an issue, but the anti-Western feelings in India haven't changed either.
 

TwinsenTacquito

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He did it because he's sadistic. The only reason there is for terrorism other than just causing fear and carnage is to give a government excuse to grow... which causes fear and carnage. There's no excuse for any terrorist. Nobody invaded his land at times square. Nobody invaded the mid east until they blew up our towers. They want people to die because they're bad people.
 

Mani

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Aug 9, 2001
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This is true, but historically support for India was limited by its pro-Soviet stance. Pakistan was therefore, by process of elimination, our horse even with the weeping warts of Islam. That is changing as India does more with the USA and as Islamic terrorism becomes more of an issue, but the anti-Western feelings in India haven't changed either.

Actually India is pretty pro-western. They threw their lot in with the USSR because at the time, Russia offered up more in the way of arms assistance and trade without strings attached, as well as a geographically advantageous foil to Pakistan.
 

Darwin333

Lifer
Dec 11, 2006
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This may, actually, help.

Terrorism is a bourgeois endeavor to begin with; the guy who spends 12 hours a day working doesn't have time when he comes home to think about murdering anything but a beer.

Unfortunately when you are given no allowance of beer, no way for a good number of men to ever get married (see polygamy) and promise eternal-awesomeness if you just kill yourself while killing some infidels, the proposition becomes much more alluring to the batshit crazy fuckers.

Fixed. If even 10% of Muslims are batshit crazy enough to blow themselves up we would already be dead. The real problem, as you illustrated, is the batshit crazy fuckers have a really good incentive to do batshit crazy stuff.
 

JSt0rm

Lifer
Sep 5, 2000
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Did I win? If so what's my prize? A year's supply of Rice-A-Roni? A free iPod? What? What? Whaaaaaaat? Tell me now!!

Daaaaam you necrod this for that. Somebody in off topic runs the ownership of the year award but only people who get owned get the award. You did the owning so no reward. Backwards I know.
 

shira

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Jan 12, 2005
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The guy who tried to bomb Times Square wasn't poor, wasn't uneducated, wasn't oppressed.

So what's the excuse now?

That being an atheist does not guarantee intelligence; it only correlates with intelligence.
 

shiner

Lifer
Jul 18, 2000
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Daaaaam you necrod this for that. Somebody in off topic runs the ownership of the year award but only people who get owned get the award. You did the owning so no reward. Backwards I know.

You mean I have to continue to pay for my own Rice-A-Roni?

DAMMIT!!! That isn't fair!!!