[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]Bismark wrote:
Given the national tragedy that France, our oldest ally, has suffered today, political quips are wholly tasteless. As president Obama stated, “This is an attack not just on Paris, it’s an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.” Show a modicum of respect for those affected.[/quote]
I don’t think political quips are necessarily tasteless in this case but I do appreciate your sentiment.
I do not appreciate the Obama quote. It was not an attack on humanity it was an attack by Muslims on the Western way of life. This is very important to understand and not doing so, understanding and acknowledging, it is impossible to properly deal with the problem.
It doesn’t matter if it was ISIS or Al Qaeda or someone else, THEY WERE MUSLIMS. The Muslim religion is a religion of hate. This attack was small fries, just wait until they get nukes. They won’t hesitate to use them.
The current course the Muslim people are on and the current course the western world is on, as far as dealing with the Muslims, leads to the inescapable conclusion that we can say good bye to Israel, New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. This will happen in less than 100 years. I’ve probably got 30-40 years left. I hope I don’t see this happen but I’m not optimistic.
Our only hope is the Muslims keep up enough of these small fry attacks that the rest of the world wakes up to the severity of the threat and actually does something about it. Otherwise, like I said, it’s only a matter of time. Could be in just ten to fifteen years. Anyone who doesn’t know this is just living in denial.
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Setting aside the hysterics, what exactly are you proposing?[/quote]
The only thing I can think of that might work is a united world in a multi generational effort to force Muslims to remove the hate from the Koran and all their teachings until it has been forgotten. That’s never going to happen so we’re fucked.[/quote]
I understand the emotional content of what you are saying. I get it. If there are this many bad apples, maybe we should start looking at the tree.
I have 2 feelings on the matter. First, even though the extremist content in Islam is seemingly excessively large, we still have to let cooler heads prevail and not condemn 1.2 billion (give or take) people as innately fucked in the head.
The second, is that given the extremely large contingent of extremists in Islam and the very pithy effort of the majority of muslims to counter, squash, or otherwise try to contain their extremist problem, they do all share varying degrees of blame. They need to clean their own house, and too few have tried. It’s difficult to do anything about it, if they won’t take care of it themselves. All we can do is fight and kill terrorists, we cannot ‘fix’ their extremist problem. Only they can do that, and to that end, they have thus far failed.