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originally posted by: masqua
a reply to: Silcone Synapse
The facts show that the Islamic radicalism comes primarily out of those ME countries bombed into rubble, Saudi Arabia (our good friends?) and other lands in North Africa.
Why is that?
originally posted by: Shiloh7
a reply to: Logarock
You hit the problem on the head with the term 'good muslims' Do you mean muslims who are true to islam or muslims who are existing and steadily increasing their numbers till they ultimately take over our countries and force them to adopt islam?
A high school hall-of-fame and Christian wrestling coach in Dearborn, Mich., claims he was muscled out of his long-tenured coaching job by the school’s principal, a devout Muslim, because the administrator was furious over a student wrestler who had converted to Christianity from Islam.
originally posted by: Silcone Synapse
a reply to: Logarock
Your theory would only stand up to scrutiny if there were no "good muslims."
Try travelling through a Muslim country like Malaysia,Indonesia or even Gaza,and you will find the majority of the people there will do all in their power to help you out,feed you,give you shelter.
You may even make some friends-and end up rethinking your theory.
There are evil people in every religious group-but although they may be the ones making the most noise,they are also in the minority from my experience,at least.
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
a reply to: masqua
I would like to know how 'wahhibism' made its way to remote regions in Nigeria? How did it get there when they had no TV or Satellite??
One day, during the Peace Conference, Arnold Toynbee, an advisor to the British delegation, had to deliver some papers to the prime minister. "Lloyd George, to my delight, had forgotten my presence and had begun to think aloud.'Mesopotamia... yes... oil... irrigation... we must have Mesopotamia; Palestine... yes... the Holy Land... Zionism... we must have Palestine; Syria... h'm... what is there in Syria? Let the French have that.' Thus the lineaments of the peace settlement in the Middle East were exposed: Britain seizing its chance; the need to throw something to the French; a homeland for the Jews; oil; and the calm assurance that the peacemakers could dispose of the former Ottoman territories to suit themselves.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Logarock
Further than that ... Go back to the Barbary Pirates. They were attacking American merchantmen as soon as we had them and taking our sailors as slaves. Our country either had to pay an annual ransom or they would continue doing it. Their stated reasoning was religious reasons Islamic religious reasons. We paid the ransom as a country until Thomas Jefferson put a stop to it.
originally posted by: Logarock
I am really not talking about "good Muslims". I am talk about how many deflect to "good Muslims" every time one of the nuts goes off. Its like a mantra.....you see the ditches filled with dead bodies by ISIS and always running in the back ground.....Good Muslims, good Muslims.....you see photos of the Pakistani school attack.....don't forget the good Muslims the good Muslims.
Most of us already know their are non offensive, easy going, solid citizen Muslims......but we are being sold by juxtaposition. Not to get us to go to war with all Muslims but to corral us like sheep into a box cannon. Otherwise get blown up.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Logarock
Further than that ... Go back to the Barbary Pirates. They were attacking American merchantmen as soon as we had them and taking our sailors as slaves. Our country either had to pay an annual ransom or they would continue doing it. Their stated reasoning was religious reasons Islamic religious reasons. We paid the ransom as a country until Thomas Jefferson put a stop to it.
Yeah, yeah - and the Christians did horrible things in the name of their God as well. Here's the difference. The West is now a much more stable area; the Middle East is anything but a stable area (that's not entirely the ME's fault, by the way). Unstable areas tend to bring out the worst in people. We've seen it on our end - it's happening on their end too.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: kaylaluv
So when an African American shoots up a place, would you go around screaming about all the good African Americans?
See how sort of wrong and insulting that implication is? There is demonstrably a double standard.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Logarock
What are you getting at? Are you denying that good Muslims exist? That they outnumber bad Muslims by like 90+%? That the views of bad Muslims isn't necessarily the views of all Muslims? That you can't admit when you've been racially brainwashed by the US MSM?