Posted on 04/30/2007 3:44:17 AM PDT by rmlew
That’s a good point you make about the Gap countries blaming other countries for their failures rather than trying to learn from them. A counterterrorism expert, Randy Borum cites this cycle of recognizing a problem (it’s not right), comparing this problem to other countries (it’s not fair), attributing blame (it’s your fault), and stereotyping (you’re evil) as one of the biggest causes of international terrorism.
Blaming other nations, ethic groups and financial forces for the misery found in one own country is in fact very common among incompetent leaders throughout the world.
Just look at the regime of Syria which encourages their subjugates to ‘protest’ against the Danish cartoons. I can see why they wish people to direct their frustrations and anger toward foreigners instead of asking themselves who’s to blame for all of the domestic problems.
Accurate, but misleading statements.
Yes, the vast majority of muslims are not active terrorists, but for each active one there must exist 100 in direct support, and another 1000 complicit through silence.
The terrorist support system, as it were.
Yes, there is an incredible amount of ignorance required to deflect the discussion from reality to "understanding". The reality is islam, all of them, mean to kill us. They say it every day, none of them actively deny it in constant and meaningful ways, and I believe the killers.
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“The reality is islam, all of them, mean to kill us.”
That is not true to the slightest degree.
Darn! Gotta work. I’d love to see the movie, although I have my doubts about “moderate Muslims.” Assuming that term is used to mean non-violent, it’s clear that the vast majority of them are either Muslim by birth only or so terrified of their brethren that they dare not speak up. If Jews, Christians, Hindus, or even atheists were going around killing people to advance their ideology, they’d be condemned by their own so quickly the rest of the world wouldn’t have to bat an eyelash.
Still, I look forward to hearing your report.
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It doesn’t have to be “all” of them: it could be 1% and that is sufficient to destroy us. Where is the “silent majority” I hear about? They should be out protesting and stating that the lunatics don’t represent them. I take their silence as complicity.
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Read Khaled Abu El-Fadl’s “The Place of Tolerance in Islam.”
Not yet, anyway.
I'm afraid it doesn't take a whole lot to turn them into extremists, and that's the problem I have with Islam in general. We have seen it happen over and over again. The description of a moderate Muslim for some reason or another going bonkers and kill even their close associates and friends (roommates). Hmmm, that reminds me of the pit-bull threads.
“moderate Muslim for some reason or another going bonkers and kill even their close associates and friends (roommates)”
Change Muslim to Christian and you have the Virginia Tech killer. Marginalizing and categorizing the Muslim world as extremists only hampers our war effort. Assymetric conflicts like this demand that we co-opt the “neutral population” (ie, those who do not support either the West or the terrorists, which is by far the biggest portion of the Muslim world). In order to do so, we cannot afford to alienate them.
The days of limited Moslem tolerance of infidels ended a long time ago. You don’t want to be a Christian in Indonesia and forget about being a Jew in most of the Moslem world.
Please forward this.
The MSM has been rather silent on PBS censoring this film.
That’s because there is nothing to see here and you should just move along.
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