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I thought you were the spelling Nazi, not the grammar Nazi? :lol:
I'm ambinazious.
I thought you were the spelling Nazi, not the grammar Nazi? :lol:
I'm ambinazious.
We flipped for it. This week is my week to be spelling Nazi.I thought you were the spelling Nazi, not the grammar Nazi? :lol:
liblady,
seems to me that this post was in no way directed at you personally. methinks she doth protest too much. by taking offense at this post, you label yourself as one of those leftists to which it applies. ironic
Not reading 21 pages:
So, my answer: No.
Hell, I don't even know where to get a Koran, even if I wanted to burn one.
You are just looking at a symptom, not the cause.
Radical Islam is merely a symptom and is ultimately, not the problem. The problem is that "radical" Islam is not "radical". We call it that to disenfranchise it and separate it from the politically correct "moderate" Islam.
Islam declared jihad and fought to spread Islam from 632 AD until 1699 AD. Over a thousand years. Was that "radical" Islam. The destruction of Israel is pretty recent. Obviously, until recently, there was no Israel. But prior to the establishment of the British Raj, most of the Indian sub-continent was ruled by the Mughal Emperor, a Muslim. India had been part of dar el Islam and Muslims joined in the Sepoy rebellion of 1857 with the stated intention of restoring India to dar el Islam.
So there is historical precedent to re-conquering land that was once Muslim.
So, wtf is "radical" Islam? The fact of the matter is, it is a part of Islam that has always existed because the Koran and Hadith contain so much to support it and this is a common bs misconception (1-3% are actively enganging in active jihad against the Dar al Harib)
In reality, the vast majority of religous (practicing) Muslims support active jihad either passively or actively (money) because it is the bedrock of what is Islam. First, it is 'uncreated' - it has (to a practicing Muslim) always existed, even before the alleged revelation to Mohammad and second...it is the literal word of Allah, in Allah's own language (Arabic) and therefore can not be questioned.
Radical Islam is like radical Christianity... they both blow up their enemies. Most Chrisitans and most Muslims have nothing to do with violence of any kind. Attempts to make it sound worse than it is, or more of the people more violent than they are, is nothing more than a fallicious attempt to smear the religion.
Last time I looked, it was the USA with more military bases and in more countries around the world and with the largest military force and most spending and with the most invasions, insurrections, and coup attempts than any other save the old USSR.
Not reading 21 pages:
So, my answer: No.
Hell, I don't even know where to get a Koran, even if I wanted to burn one.
No it would be a waste of a perfectly good match and lighter fuel (or gas).
MSgt I appreciate everything you say. I went through a period of examining world politics and war as you just described, wherein the root of the problem is governments that are using radicals and made-up foreign enemies to distract their people from domestic problems that they created. Eventually I started to bury this notion because it seemed like whenever I spoke about it, no one was listening to me. I was even called a conspiracy theorist. It is so relieving to see someone with your education and experience say something that reflects what I have sort of thought for a long time, but convinced myself (through countless dead-end debates) that maybe I am wrong.
If the root of the problem is the failure in Middle Eastern governance, then what is to be done? I agree that the solution is education, but government controls what that looks like, and if radicalism is serving political interests then it seems like radicals would infest education as well (as they have done in Iran). Is the solution to continue invading these nations and replace their defunct governments with something more realistic? I mean, how do we create a shift? It seems like the modern Muslims are the majority, but as you said they are just busy tending to their own lives. If a radical minority can cause so many problems and the government welcomes it, then what is to be done?
I also really appreciate your FOX/CNN parallel because the western world is not above this kind of behaviour. Our governments use the bait/distract/deploy methods all the time through the news media, and now that the news is controlled by conglomerates it takes a simple phone call to change the game. You'll notice that as there are more domestic problems in the western world, the media will become increasingly volatile and outrageous. It's no coincidence.
C'mon now. Look at the history. With Europeans having "embassies," in the form of colonies, all over the world they still managed to create two World Wars and sucked the whole world into their civil matters. America's military bases since Europeans left voids post WWII has done wonders for not creating a World War III. Sometimes you have to accept imperfection in order to repell greater devistation.
I am not against our US military bases around the world. I am for them. They have made the world, and are continuing to make the world, a better and safer place. I was just countering his argument as having limited scope.
Ok.......... first of all, recognize who I am and my reputation. .
No ; but hyper mania about immigration and religious extreemisim is darn near at a feverd pitch.
I remind you, They STARTED it! By bombin our buildins with our planes and jumpin our fences to hide out in plain site and work here or live off our entitlement programs. We are in a fight to get back a more perfect union with liberty and justice for all. And yeh - it is like , Da be rapin ery body out here, and expecting us to continue to take it. Ainta gonna happen - NOMO!
No ; but hyper mania about immigration and religious extreemisim is darn near at a feverd pitch.
I remind you, They STARTED it! By bombin our buildins with our planes and jumpin our fences to hide out in plain site and work here or live off our entitlement programs. We are in a fight to get back a more perfect union with liberty and justice for all. And yeh - it is like , Da be rapin ery body out here, and expecting us to continue to take it. Ainta gonna happen - NOMO!
Wow.... you just set conservatives back about 150 years.
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