Her point about the peaceful majority being irrelevant in all those situations is poignant. Her claim that approximately 200 million Muslims are "extremists," who are trying to destroy Western civilization is bullshit. If she's going to spout claims like that, she has to qualify what she means by extremist, otherwise it's just nonsense.
Ugh. For the millionth time: what do you expect them to do? Well good thing your concerns have no basis in reality, so sleep tight. Also: it's incorrect to use "jihadist" here. Unless you mean any Muslim who is on jihad, which if you do, lol.
Talk about double standards.....The TimberTrolls were banned for posting pics of Oden's privates, but nobody cares when Mags posts pussy pics!
No offense, but if you believe the death of 3 Americans in Benghazi was some kind of historical event, you have an odd view of the world. In the grand scheme of things, what happened in Benghazi is no more important than the recent murder of American Journalists. I flatly reject the notion that the life of a state department employee is somehow exponentially more important than the life of a journalist or military man.
That's an interesting analogy. I would offer one caveat: I once heard an interesting quote from a Moslem. The gist of it was that he was a Moslem who just happened to be born in Kuwait...not a Kuwaitii who happened to be Moslem. That doesn't sound like something a member of the IRA would have said. The Irish independence/unification movements were always about more than just religion.
In both cases, though, it's a willingness to do violence for one's "nation." The IRA for a unified and independent nation of Ireland and Muslim extremists for a unified nation of Islam. That, at least, is my rough understanding...I don't have any expert knowledge of what Muslim extremists (or "jihadists" want) so I could be way off. hoojacks could probably speak more to that.
my knowledge of the subject is the result of cloistered ivory tower unrealistic grad school for nonacademic millennial diaper babies. maxiep is the best person to ask about Muslims
I think the issue is that the Muslim religion orders those in that faith to never support any nation against "The Nation of Islam". The jihadist are trying to make this a religious war and placing anyone against them to be against Islam. So even the moderate peaceful Muslims are forbid to intervene. Saddam tried to do this, but people knew his intentions, especially when he warred against other Muslim countries. This ISIS group aren't of this mold. They are just taking the entire Quran literally, even if it means to murder innocent people.
You didn't give that much thought did you? Benghazi was caused by ineptitude of the Commander in Chief and a failure on his part to understand what his people are facing. In the case of the Journalist, the Commander in Chief had no hand in the event. This as nothing to do with the value of different people.
Speaking of thinking things through....you do understand that the only way to prevent what happened in Libya is to close all our embassies in countries where there is unrest? As long as they keep money in banks, there will be bank robberies. As long as embassies exist, there is a risk they will be targeted by terrorists.
Hope you dont mind if I butt in here.... You have a great point. Take into consideration how many embassies had done just that in Libya. There had been a loty of warnings that trouble was brewing and There had been requests to reinforce the guards. But none of this fit the rhetoric that oboma was touting..remember "Osama is dead and GM is alive" "We have Al queda on the run" What I most object to is the bull shit excuses this administration put forth as to being the cause, just to not contradict the party line. Sticking to that video story for weeks even after it was apparent that it was a lie.
I don't think that's the issue, because that's not a real thing. What "jihadists" are you talking about? They are most certainly not taking the entire Quran literally.
Nope, I'm saying that "the Muslim religion" doesn't "order" Muslims to "never support any nation against "The Nation of Islam"." Islam isn't an animate thing that can give orders; it is a religion. And if you want to give some evidence to your claim, great. Go ahead and bring in the verse that you're referring to and I'd be happy to talk about that. I thought you say ISIS wasn't "of the mold" of ... you know what? Nevermind. I probably just misunderstood what you were trying to say. I would ask you the same thing since you made the initial claim. How is ISIS following the Quran literally?
I'll just sum it up in this link... I'll provide a few verses it mentioned, but there are tons of them. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/023-violence.htm From the Hadith So you tell me bro...
Oh, I was unaware "the entire Quran" consists of just two verses. Sorry, I'm not going to tell you. You have to figure it out for yourself.
I can't wait till the day we (the vast majority) say no to any and all religion. Honestly, believe in god or whatever floats your boat, but almost every religion gets bastardized over time and used by perverse people in perverse ways.
