RECIPE FOR RADICALIZATION

If we started droning Amish wedding parties, they’d probably want to blow us up too.

WTF – “terrorism has no religion”??? Every single attack listed was perpetrated by people claiming to be Muslim.

The underlying disdain for religion in our culture that has advanced over the decades has painted Christians and Muslims with largely the same brush. The masses have decreed that religion itself is a sinner and must be shunned. But certainly common sense dictates that we pay attention to the fruits of whatever religion we follow and based on this measure there can be no comparison between the overall good that Christianity has fostered in our culture and what Islam has produced. If people can’t see that they are truly being willfully blind.

Rose,

Islam has been killing everyone around them that aren’t Islamic since way, way before a drone were even conceived in human imagination.

And killing each other when there was no one else available to kill.

They don’t need a reason, they do it by virtue of their own nature and the commands of their religion.

The Amish have no history of attacking anyone, even whey they are trying to kill them.

I don’t get why everybody has to take a “side” on this. One person says that Islam is a violent, aggressive “religion” that has been that way for hundreds of years and is perpetrating terrorist attacks around the globe. Another one says that “we” (western countries, especially the US) are triggering these terrorist attacks because “we” are droning and bombing Islamic countries. Then they argue about which of these is true.

THEY ARE BOTH TRUE. They are both problems. You don’t need to argue. You don’t need to attack the other person because they only referred to one and not the other in some comment. If we require that each person magically know what our current hot button is and make sure to include it (or not include it) in every comment then we’re no better than the “safe space” liberal whiny babies.

We need to figure out a way to protect ourselves from terrorism on our turf. We also need to stop “our” governments from aggravating the issue at its source. Maybe then the Muslims will go back to bombing each other instead of us.

This is not an “OR” issue, it is an “AND” issue.

Anon, you must be really stupid to not understand the word “AND”.

Araven: if this were limited to attacks by mideasterns on obvious western targets, I might see your point. But the horrors include innumerable attacks by Muslim thugs outside of the mideast, outside of countries that the US has bombed or invaded, and against huge numbers of non-westerners who simply are not Muslim. Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Liberia, the bombing of Pakistani Christians in Pakistan, the Bali nightclub bombings, etc., none of these are plausible as retaliation against western powers for things done to the perpetrators or the country in which the attack happened.

I can see how the actions in places like Iraq and Yemen can create or perpetuate a cycle of revenge, but the inherent problem is that too many modern day Muslims are simply bloody-minded horrible people out to kill anything that they feel is incompatible with their tiny and horrible 7th century world view.

When the U.S. gov backed the Mujaheddin and OBL against the Russians is when we crossed the line into this insanity. When we stop bombing people, they’ll stop bombing us, period.

We need to slam the door shut on the MIC, but it will not happen without a purge. And that won’t happen until we get money out of politics.

Here’s a quiz: Which Presidential candidate wants to get money out of politics and overturn Citizen’s United?

Regardless…let’s start over,

only the Amish guys please

“Here’s a quiz: Which Presidential candidate wants to get money out of politics and overturn Citizen’s United?”

I befoul myself in the milk of The Bern.