BartSimpson wrote:
Thanos wrote:
I suspect that for every sub-moron in the South that puts on a white sheet and torches a cross there's probably about ten to twenty of his fellow citizens who nod in silent support.
I trust you won't bitch or complain anymore when I say exactly the same thing about jihadis and Muslims, right?
Why should I bitch and complain about an opinion that I share myself? Yes, everytime some Islamic fundamentalist blows something up or kills some innocent civilians there's a large gaggle of his co-religionists whooping it up in joyous agreement and support. Explain to me though what benefit is accrued by some jackass cracker preacher publically burning the Koran in response. I've made no secret around here that I detest the Vatican hierarchy of the Catholic Church, but I doubt you'll find that I hold much enmity towards Catholics as a demographic. Where's the justification then for eternally hating and demonizing the majority of Muslims for what only a portion of their polity is committing?
You should have read most of my totally awesome stuff more carefully. My points usually centered around the belief that some Muslim blowing up something somewhere does not justify sending the entirety of the US military after them in response. Or wiping out other Muslims, as despicable as their leadership may be in their own right, who had nothing at all to do with the the most recent aggression. Or putting the United States on a permanent war-footing and into a state of permanent paranoia for a conflict that's still hasn't claimed as many lives in total than the American tobacco industry usually claims in one year. Or following assholes like Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, or Pamela Geller who genuinely want to make this current terrorist threat into a permanent state of world-wide religious war. Is this really something you want to see happen too? If it is maybe you should be better at explaining yourself to the rest of us instead of the rest of us having to justify ourselves to you.
I don't, and never did dispute, that there's a lot of dangerous Muslim fundamentalist terrorists out there that need to be dealt with in a judicious manner. But for all their lethality they're still a far cry away from being an existential threat like the Axis states of World War 2 or the Soviet Union assuredly were.
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