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University of Maryland cancels ‘American Sniper’ after Muslim students complain

And yet, you provide no such documentation. How convenient.
I don't know whether you're serious or just trolling but here are some photos.. https://www.google.ca/search?q=phot...a=X&ei=ZKQ-Ve_MEMzooATzwYGYDA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ
Christians DO make exactly those types of protests and petitions. Heck, one Christian group is boycotting Girl Scout Cookies, because they erroneously believe there's a connection between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood. I find it downright bizarre that you fail to recognize this, despite having it pointed out to you repeatedly.
Oh, so it may not be that you are unaware of the Muslim riots and murders, only that you have no sense of proportion.
No, we don't. Go ahead, tell me. Tell me what happens when a Muslim student group at an American college doesn't get its way. Please provide concrete examples.
We? Who are you speaking for? I note you also try to ignore the international violence created by Muslims and want to restrict it to an American university. In fact their reputation is international but here is one where they tried to stifle free speech.https://ca-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=3drupt24jble9#2
Again: If you live in sheer abject terror of 300 students who sign a petition asking a student organization not to show a movie, that's not the fault of the UMD's Muslim Students Association. That one's on you.
I lie in abject terror? Now you are just being stupid.
lol... No, I don't think so. I certainly haven't seen any evidence to make any such claim. But thanks for yet more unproven partisan nonsense, can never get enough of that.
You'll never see much of anything if you don't do some research.https://www.google.ca/search?q=univ...AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=university+leftists+protests
Except the ones who shoot up a bunch of Sikhs, or a bunch of school kids, or blow up a federal building, or....
Do some research and then post your findings.
In fact, if you follow the news, you'll see that Muslims spend most of their time attacking other Muslims --
I agree. They are killing each other, deliberately targeting Christians to slaughter and want to murder Jews as well. This is all well documented.
in the same way that Christians spent centuries mostly killing each other Christians, and only occasionally taking a break to slaughter Jews in their communities, or Muslims.
Every claim you make must have documented suport.
ISIS is attacking mostly Shi'a Muslims in Syria and Iraq; the conflict in Yemen is Muslims fighting each other, with sectarian involvement; the Iraqi civil war was mostly Sunnis and Shi'a killing each other; Iran and Iraq fought a decade-long war.
The fact is that Muslims are creating terror throughout the world, and you don't appear to even be aware of this!
The Christian minorities in those nations are mostly caught in the crossfire.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=univ...y-one-christians-beheaded.html%2F;837;467Does this look like any "crossfire" to you???
Or, to put it another way: There are around 1 billion Muslims in the world. If they were actively trying to kill Christians, it'd be a little more obvious than a handful Copts in Egypt getting mistreated by the government.
Do you think ALL Muslims are terrorists or NO Muslims are terrorists?
And of course, right in the here and now we see numerous Christians bashing on Muslims, just in ways you conveniently ignore.
Muslims are murdering innocent people throughout the world, riot with little provocation and it is seldom necessary to even point it out. In most well read circles this is common knowledge.
Europe is awash in far-right and fascist groups, who blame "migrants" (read: Muslims) for all their social, economic and political woes -- sound familiar? Muslims are routinely attacked in France (usually women), mosques destroyed by arsonists -- sound familiar. Of course, the occasional mosque in the US also gets firebombed. But hey, we're Christians, we're the good guys, we don't have to pay attention to that, whatever....
It seems you are also unaware of what happened at Charlie Hebdo. That's amazing!!
 
University of Maryland cancels



Freedom of speech is a one-way street these days.

And this country has lost its spine.

Maybe Muslims that don't like this movie should do something about their religious leaders and/or terrorists using the name of Islam as a weapon instead of bitching about a movie being shown that they don't like... people like that can **** off.
 
Maybe Muslims that don't like this movie should do something about their religious leaders and/or terrorists using the name of Islam as a weapon instead of bitching about a movie being shown that they don't like... people like that can **** off.
That would seem like a sensible alternative.:)
 
I don't know whether you're serious or just trolling....
I asked for evidence; REAL evidence, statistical evidence. A link to some scattered Google images is not evidence. I'm not surprised that you do not have anything real to back up your biased claim.


Oh, so it may not be that you are unaware of the Muslim riots and murders, only that you have no sense of proportion.
lol

Yes, I'm aware of Muslim riots and murders. I'm also aware of American riots and murders, including murders by Christians for sectarian reasons, and (of course) the American government remotely dropping bombs in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. I'm also aware that a small petition by a Muslim student group is not going to result in a riot or murder if they don't get their way, as you so clearly imply.


We? Who are you speaking for? I note you also try to ignore the international violence created by Muslims and want to restrict it to an American university.
Uh, hello? What do you think we're discussing here? Are you not even reading the title of this thread?


You'll never see much of anything if you don't do some research.
:lamo

That's not "research." That's a dead link. If you want to claim that "leftist groups are more violent," you'd actually have to conduct a survey of all the violence conducted by political groups (which, by the way, is going to include the KKK, pro-segregation groups, right-wing death squads and so on). Somehow, I seriously doubt your broken link leads to any such survey.


I agree. They are killing each other, deliberately targeting Christians to slaughter and want to murder Jews as well. This is all well documented.
ISIS is deliberately targeting everyone who does not subscribe to their very narrow and extreme ideology. Again, Christians unfortunately happen to be in the way.


Every claim you make must have documented suport.
:lamo

You want me to what, exhaustively list every war in Europe between 500 CE and 1975 CE? Teaching you basic European history is definitely not my job.


The fact is that Muslims are creating terror throughout the world, and you don't appear to even be aware of this! Does[/url] this look like any "crossfire" to you???
It looks like you don't have anything that resembles a cogent assembly of evidence.


Do you think ALL Muslims are terrorists or NO Muslims are terrorists?
I think that is the most ridiculous question I've seen in a long time. It's barely worth any reply at all, but what the heck.

It is a very small percentage of Muslims who are engaged in international terrorism.

More importantly, terrorism is merely a tactic, and one that has been used -- and will be used in the future -- by a wide variety of ideological groups. Right-wing Christian groups used terrorism, notably the KKK and less organized opponents of desegregation; left-wing revolutionaries used terrorism in the 1970s; right-wing Latin American governments often used death squads to fight against socialist revolutionaries in the 70s, 80s and 90s; the FARC, a pack of former socialist rebels turned drug dealers, use terror against Colombian citizens for years on end; Tim McVeigh, a right-wing Christian, was unquestionably a terrorist; the list goes on.

Terrorism is a tactic. Everybody does it. You have to be wearing exceptionally narrow blinders to think that the only groups that use terrorism are Muslims and/or leftists.


Muslims are murdering innocent people throughout the world, riot with little provocation and it is seldom necessary to even point it out. In most well read circles this is common knowledge.
lol

The American government is murdering innocent people throughout the world, we just use drones instead of suicide bombers. Americans (almost all Christians) riot with little provocation, notably when a favorite sports team loses -- or wins. It is unnecessary to point this out, as it is common knowledge.
 
The American government is murdering innocent people throughout the world, we just use drones instead of suicide bombers.

When we kill civilians, it's by accident. Drones are precision weapons that are used to limit collateral damage.
Jihadists target civilians on purpose. Suicide bombs are not precision weapons. They are used for shock value.
 
When we kill civilians, it's by accident....
When we kill civilians, it's a death in the name of war. We also know, without question, that our weaponry is nowhere near precise enough, nor our intelligence good enough, to avoid killing civilians while waging war. Anyone who participates in drone strikes, in any way shape or form, has an obligation to recognize that we are making a deliberate decision that results in the deaths of civilians -- even though the public does not know for sure how many civilians have died in US drone attacks.

We also spent decades intentionally targeting civilians. Carpet-bombing Vietnam and Cambodia were not accidents. Firebombing Dresden was not an accident. Nuking Hiroshima was not an accident. The whole targeted bombing thing is brand spanking new.

The people on the ground also don't give a **** that it was an accident. What they know is that their loved ones and friends and neighbors were killed by the US military. Neither would you, if someone you loved was killed by a drone strike against a terrorist that accidentally hit the wrong location.


Jihadists target civilians on purpose. Suicide bombs are not precision weapons. They are used for shock value.
First, there is no reason to limit this particular tangent to jihadis. Terrorism is a tactic, and pretty much everyone uses it. The IRA and its affiliated groups (all Catholic, attacking Protestant and British/UK forces) selected civilian targets. Israel waged a guerrilla war on the English in Palestine; today, it often demolishes buildings that belonged to Palestinian militants, tortures captured militants, assassinates others. Baader Meinhof/RAF (left-wing socialist revolutionary terrorist group) robbed banks with plans to attack non-military targets. Tim McVeigh (right-wing, Christian) chose a non-military target which happened to have a day care center. Numerous right-wing dictators, with a wink and a nod (or outright support) from the US government used death squads that attacked civilian troublemakers.

Left-wing, right-wing, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, racists, US government, tiny cells, even Buddhists attack civilians. Your implications that only leftists and Muslims engage in terrorism is so thoroughly inaccurate, it's patently absurd.


Second, there is little doubt we're using drone attacks not just because it carries no physical risk for the pilots, but also for shock value. It'd be foolish to think that a high-precision drone strike, even one that kills no civilians, is a shocking event that sends a message to everyone in the area.


Third, yes there is no question that terrorists often pick soft targets and civilians to make a big splash. That's one reason why terrorism is unethical. But if that's our standard, then we should also call out the US for the many times when it does know its actions will kill civilians, including in drone attacks.
 
When we kill civilians, it's a death in the name of war. We also know, without question, that our weaponry is nowhere near precise enough, nor our intelligence good enough, to avoid killing civilians while waging war. Anyone who participates in drone strikes, in any way shape or form, has an obligation to recognize that we are making a deliberate decision that results in the deaths of civilians -- even though the public does not know for sure how many civilians have died in US drone attacks.

We also spent decades intentionally targeting civilians. Carpet-bombing Vietnam and Cambodia were not accidents. Firebombing Dresden was not an accident. Nuking Hiroshima was not an accident. The whole targeted bombing thing is brand spanking new.

The people on the ground also don't give a **** that it was an accident. What they know is that their loved ones and friends and neighbors were killed by the US military. Neither would you, if someone you loved was killed by a drone strike against a terrorist that accidentally hit the wrong location.



First, there is no reason to limit this particular tangent to jihadis. Terrorism is a tactic, and pretty much everyone uses it. The IRA and its affiliated groups (all Catholic, attacking Protestant and British/UK forces) selected civilian targets. Israel waged a guerrilla war on the English in Palestine; today, it often demolishes buildings that belonged to Palestinian militants, tortures captured militants, assassinates others. Baader Meinhof/RAF (left-wing socialist revolutionary terrorist group) robbed banks with plans to attack non-military targets. Tim McVeigh (right-wing, Christian) chose a non-military target which happened to have a day care center. Numerous right-wing dictators, with a wink and a nod (or outright support) from the US government used death squads that attacked civilian troublemakers.

Left-wing, right-wing, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, racists, US government, tiny cells, even Buddhists attack civilians. Your implications that only leftists and Muslims engage in terrorism is so thoroughly inaccurate, it's patently absurd.


Second, there is little doubt we're using drone attacks not just because it carries no physical risk for the pilots, but also for shock value. It'd be foolish to think that a high-precision drone strike, even one that kills no civilians, is a shocking event that sends a message to everyone in the area.


Third, yes there is no question that terrorists often pick soft targets and civilians to make a big splash. That's one reason why terrorism is unethical. But if that's our standard, then we should also call out the US for the many times when it does know its actions will kill civilians, including in drone attacks.


Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur
US policy of using drone strikes to carry out targeted killings 'may encourage other states to flout international law'

Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur | World news | The Guardian
 
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