‘An atrocity is within the eye of the beholder.’

If homicide bombing, head chopping, stoning aren’t atrocities ‘within the eye of the beholder’ then the beholder needs an intervention.

I’ll give terror apologists credit where it’s due though – they have the facility to justify anything and a seemingly unending will to do so.

Islam as got a world of public relations problems built into it so far as blending into the modern “civilized” world is concerned. When the Muslim extremists draw on the most militant interpretations of jihad, subduing the infidel and carrying out the “will of Allah” they certainly call attention to themselves, don’t they?

When the “let’s have a dialog” leftists start hammering the history of Christianity for its crusades, inquisitions, zealous conquistadors, etc. there is certainly a lot of foundation for a discussion on hypocrisy. However, disregarding the occasional Christian wacko, when was the last example of Christians arming themselves and randomly and wantonly murdering civilians in a terroristic manner and all because “God wills it”?

Sorry, but the idea that Christians started all of this and brought upon themselves is a dog that just won’t hunt.

Right on. All the tu quoque dodges—Christians used to do it, America is a terroristic state, and on and on—miss the point that, religion of peace or no, there are Al Qaidas out there plotting our destruction. So you don’t sit around and worry about how lousy America is. You stop the bad guys before they blow up more innocent people. I mean, the “resistance fighters” in Iraq—whom are they resisting when they blow up other Iraqi Muslims?

Adrian

Even granting that Islam is a “religion of peace” (whatever that means), the fact is that there are a lotta Muslims who would like nothing better than to bring down the Western world. I don’t really care whether Islam in its eternal essence is a religion of peace. I want the bad guys stopped. And yes, there ARE bad guys—moral equivalence may be good for ostriches, but not for responsible people living in a dangerous world.

Adrian

Who are these people? Throwing up “history” or mentioning one aberrant individual’s actions do not answer the questions you have put forth.

1. Jordan, Jordan, Jordan. How much did they really have to say until MUSLIMS from their own country were killed?

2. Christian Palestinian terrorists? H’mmm… Lets go back to the Olympic fiasco in Germany, how many Christians were among those Palestinian terrorists who first managed to get the World’s undivided attention by their cruelty and depravity. How many Palestinian Christians have detonated themselves in crowded markets, buses, and cafe’s over the years? How many Palestinian Christians have shot up buses, crowds in the open, schools, families in their homes, synagogues, churches, etc.? How many have shot helpless handicapped elderly men and dumped their bodies overboard from hijacked ships or blown up hijacked airliners? I could go on, but why?

3. Could it be because democracy and Islam just can’t co-exist? Or, is it that our “infant nation” just can’t go around trying to implant our newfangled ideas like democracy, and all it entails, among those countries and culture going back thousands of years?

4. Hey Christians used to do it seven or eight hundred years ago, so lets not get so hasty. Maybe Muslims will come around to our more “civilized ways” in another seven or eight hundred years give or take. In the meantime “don’t be hatin’”.

5. Because they don’t like “other” religions, and because being virtual dictatorships (some theocratic, some not), they can. Oh and don’t forget, Christians used to do it (see #4 above).

You mentioned that only one of the 47 Muslim majority countries is a free country. I hope that you are not talking about Turkey. I knew several expatriates (all female) who have had to leave Turkey because of the growing oppression there, especially of women. “Sheria law is becoming the de facto law of the land,” said one, “although no one will say it.” I suspect that at some point Turkey will simply drop the pretense and proudly declare itself an Islamist state.

Ironic that the only free countries in the Muslim world (Iraq and Afghanistan) are the ones the MSM and the Left are trying to snuff out.

Thanks for clearing that up, Tom. Eric Rudolph’s name will pop up next. – Admin

Similar to the way mostly mainstream White supposedly Christian leaders said nothing while the KKK, while claiming to be Christian and acting in the name of God, lynched and terrorized blacks by the thousands over many decades. And this ended less than 40 years ago in this country.

This religion of Islam is totally against any type of freedom, unless you are a man. Even our allies, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, are not democracies, they have no intention on being so.

Christianity is all about freedom, in Christ. We dont force our ways on others. We are to be a light so that others see and want praise Jesus.

This is why I feel there will be no democracy in Iraq or in the middle east as long as Islam is the major religion.

Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Citizens in the name of Patriotism?

Study your histories to see who started first.

There is far more to this issue than meets the eye that sees the cause of all evils in the here-and-now and according to one’s trained patriotic biases.

There is no such thing as ‘terrorism’, at least not in terms of describing the phenomena without compromising its scientific value in the historical scheme of things. Would you call american baby-killers in the vietnam war ‘terrorists’? What we have here are Transnational Militants. Many of whom, yes, engage in the most abhorrent of behaviour. But a movement is not to be understood by its means or methods nor by its intentions. It is to be known by what it is a reaction to.

Of course, to understand that, you’ll need to know more than just american history. But, like the medieval minds of ole who thought that the sun revolved around the earth, and upon which they based their cosmologies which were used to maintain their view of reality, the juvenile state of the american does exactly that, except in this case, it is the world that is supposed to revolve around america whilst america occupies the uppermost echelons of the ‘modern’ Great Chain of Being.

“I think the terrorists sow the seeds of their own destruction when they begin to target their own.” That’s what I said yesterday. It was encouraging to see the Jordanians in the streets protesting the atrocities. It was encouraging to hear King Abd…

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