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Aladdin Sane · 02-09-2006, 10:26 AM

If the Mohammedans were not responsible for 99% of terrorism in today's world, then my assumption that they are responsible for today's bombing in Pakistan would be misplaced. When the perpetrators are discovered to be Danish Lutherans I will be the first to apologize for my "rush to judgment."

As this incident in Pakistan so clearly reveals, it is not a cartoon that has caused a growing disrespect for Islam and a growing distrust of Muslims. When innocent people are slaughtered in the name of Allah, where were the thousands of Muslim moderates and why didn't they pour into the streets of London and Beirut shouting with righteous anger at those who butchered in the name of their god? It is Muslims who have publicly beheaded other Muslims while screaming "God is great!" and then broadcasting the horrific images around the world. Does such brutality not rise to the level of offence as, say, a badly drawn cartoon? It is Muslims who have declared global jihad and made statements like "We do not fight you because we want you to give us something; we are fighting to eliminate you." I did not see Muslim rioters burning effigies of Sheikh Nasralla and Khalid Mishaal when commuters were incinerated in Madrid. Where were the moderates when van Gogh was executed on a street in Amsterdam?
I can remember one exception: when Al-Zawahri blew up the wedding party in the Jordanian hotel, thousands took to the streets of 'Amman.

As for the tired and twisted red herring defense of the Islamofascists by pointing to the misdeeds of others (Look! Egads, there go some Christians!), children use the same sort of excuse when they are caught being naughty. "But Jesus also kicked the dog! Why are you picking on me?" Grown-ups know that learning individual responsibility is for children a fundamental step toward adulthood; some adults even recognize a societal corollary and understand that individual responsibility is a sign of civilization. This point is lost on the apologists for the Muslim rioters who burn, murder, insult, and threaten when the day doesn't go the way they had expected.

The "root causes" argument has been floated in this thread as well: "They become terrorists because they are poor." This is armchair Marxism at its finest. As others have pointed out, many of the terrorists come from the middle and upper classes. The "Daddy was a thief, Momma was a whore" excuse didn't work for the accused at Nuremberg and it surely won't work for the Islamofascists today.

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Aladdin Sane Degenerate Location: San Marvelous	If the Mohammedans were not responsible for 99% of terrorism in today's world, then my assumption that they are responsible for today's bombing in Pakistan would be misplaced. When the perpetrators are discovered to be Danish Lutherans I will be the first to apologize for my "rush to judgment." As this incident in Pakistan so clearly reveals, it is not a cartoon that has caused a growing disrespect for Islam and a growing distrust of Muslims. When innocent people are slaughtered in the name of Allah, where were the thousands of Muslim moderates and why didn't they pour into the streets of London and Beirut shouting with righteous anger at those who butchered in the name of their god? It is Muslims who have publicly beheaded other Muslims while screaming "God is great!" and then broadcasting the horrific images around the world. Does such brutality not rise to the level of offence as, say, a badly drawn cartoon? It is Muslims who have declared global jihad and made statements like "We do not fight you because we want you to give us something; we are fighting to eliminate you." I did not see Muslim rioters burning effigies of Sheikh Nasralla and Khalid Mishaal when commuters were incinerated in Madrid. Where were the moderates when van Gogh was executed on a street in Amsterdam? I can remember one exception: when Al-Zawahri blew up the wedding party in the Jordanian hotel, thousands took to the streets of 'Amman. As for the tired and twisted red herring defense of the Islamofascists by pointing to the misdeeds of others (Look! Egads, there go some Christians!), children use the same sort of excuse when they are caught being naughty. "But Jesus also kicked the dog! Why are you picking on me?" Grown-ups know that learning individual responsibility is for children a fundamental step toward adulthood; some adults even recognize a societal corollary and understand that individual responsibility is a sign of civilization. This point is lost on the apologists for the Muslim rioters who burn, murder, insult, and threaten when the day doesn't go the way they had expected. The "root causes" argument has been floated in this thread as well: "They become terrorists because they are poor." This is armchair Marxism at its finest. As others have pointed out, many of the terrorists come from the middle and upper classes. The "Daddy was a thief, Momma was a whore" excuse didn't work for the accused at Nuremberg and it surely won't work for the Islamofascists today. __________________ Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. Last edited by Aladdin Sane; 02-09-2006 at 10:29 AM..