Anyone know why Muslims hate being photographed?

Yes, we were attempting to speak about terrorism. It has been difficult to get you to do so,
but here is another chance.

Please explain what ever justification you have for how the plight the farmers in India and the IMF have combined to cause the Muslim Jihadist to attack us using their terrorist tactics.

Then, what is it you think we should be doing to prevent slave labor in the Islamic world that will
pacify the Jihadist if we would only do the deed?

 

I would expect the number you use wouldn't even account for the Pirates around the South China Sea or the coast of East Africa. Muslims for the most and a miserable lot of degenerates they are.

 

Shoot, I don't think the taste matters in your scenario.

 

I agree with Denny on this one. Stereotyping Muslims first of all is never going to work because people born into geographical areas may seem to be religious by their birthright but it's like talking about Buddhists, the young go through the motions to appease grandma and grandpa but don't really believe the dogma. Mercenaries are not part of this conversation, they don't practice piracy because of Jihad, they want money. Big difference. In some places if you're young you can't express dissention in any fashion without losing your life. Kind of limits the options you know? Bottom line is that fundamentalist terrorism from militant groups is horrible and against everything we know as civil and right. It exists as do the Nazi party in this country and the KKK. In my two decades working overseas I've met many young people from all over the globe and found a lot of great young people out there breaking away from their roots and most say this will go away when the elders die off. Iran has a huge majority of the population under 30 years of age and they fly to Dubai to drink and dance and feel a part of the modern world. They, like many of these young people, have limited choices at home. We really don't so until you walk in their shoes, it's good to have some peripheral vision.

 

I recall a good many years ago, a few Fleet Marines and myself managed to relieve this group folks on Banggi Island (between Palawan and Borneo) of a hostage they were holding. They wanted a little more money for the Kafir than we were offering but we managed to get it done anyway.
I think Kafir means something like Infidel. But you know, I never took the time to wonder how they would taste, it felt pretty good to bring the fella out of there. Pirates I believe, likely still in that business according to the reports I hear off the cruising net.

 

Ok, how about trying this from another direction?

http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Muslim_Statistics_-_Terrorism

Could you check my math on even the low number from the guy YOU quote? Like, would you agree that 7% of 1,700,000,000 = A WHOLE FRICK'N LOT OF RADICALS.

Using the larger number of 36% of 1.7B is....a lot more than a couple hundred thousand.

Go Blazers

 

a civilian is a civilian, whether we "didn't really want to kill them" is irrelevant to their grieving families I would adsume.

If al Qaeda "accidentally" killed 100000 civilians while trying to take over our country, that would be fine?

 

So, the same.

Go Blazers

 

I don't understand your answer

 

I'm pretty sure this thread was about why Muslims "hate being photographed," and then got derailed into terrorism as all threads about Islam or the Middle East do. Single minded much?

That comment I made wasn't about Muslim terrorism. Go back and read what the comment was in response to.

Radicals, jihadists and terrorists don't care about the slave labor in the Gulf because the slaves are from east Asia and are not Muslim. We can't prevent slave labor in the Gulf.

Again, that comment wasn't in response to Muslim terrorism.

 

He was the one who ran for his ivory tower and used it as pedestal. I was simply reminding him that most of us in here have ivory towers on which we can stand.

 

And yet, Islam is the only major religion where it's common to preach hatred for other religions and other peoples, and where people who blow themselves up are called "martyrs" by mainline "leaders" of their religion. You never hear a Pope embrace the terrorist methods of the IRA.

Part of the problem with Islam is that it's more than a religion. We're used to religion being separate from the state. Even in Israel, Judaism is somewhat separate from the functioning of the state. Islam combines the two, using the Qur'an and any number of hadith collections as the basis for Sharia. The Torah or the Bible is used as more of a moral guide, rather than laws of the state.

But getting back to the root post, I would imagine that being photographed my have something to do with the Islamic tradition of not allowing drawing, because only God can create form or shape.

 

Not to me. Pigs don't eat other pigs. How do pigs get to taste like bacon?