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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @03:59AM
I don't quite understand your signature. Who the hell bombed you because you wished them Merry Christmas? Just more anti-muslim rhetoric? Because from where I'm sitting you're just as crazy as half the guys in ISIS.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2015, @05:02AM
Perhaps you don't read the news. Or, maybe you don't understand the news. In the levant, today, people are being killed because they aren't the right flavor of Muslim. That includes Muslims from other tribes, that includes Jews, that includes Christians. Not to leave out atheists, gays, women who are not properly submissive, children who don't learn their "lessons" "properly". Do anything that those madmen don't like, they behead you, unless they decide to set you afire, or run over you with trucks, or whatever.
This conduct is not limited to the levant, either. The same sort of thing is happening in eastern Africa, central Africa, southeast Asia, and the Pacific islands.
Are you aware that a bunch of Muslims taking advantage of liberal Belgian's permissiveness staged an attack in Paris a few weeks ago, slaughtering Europeans like animals?
Islam is the least tolerant of movements in the world today.
And, before you cry about religious prejudice, let me remind you that Islam is not just a religion. Islam is a political movement, a judicial system, an armed movement, a philosophy, as well as a religion, all rolled into one.
The very word, "Islam", means "submissiont". Submit or die. That is what it's all about. Islam is a death cult.
If you don't understand any of that, then the failure is yours, not mine. I suggest that you tour the levant, to get some up-close-and-personal experience of Islam. Maybe you'll get to hear an imam proclaim, "I love the smell of rotting infidels in the morning!"
(Score: 3, Informative) by cubancigar11 on Monday December 28 2015, @07:37AM
FTFY
It's amusing how easy it is to shoe horn your bias onto a stranger's death. Also, "people" means "men AND women". Now let's get down to logical arguments instead of emotional bigotry.
It is not a movement. It is a system.
Just like Christianity where you are forcefully 'brought to the court' (resisting itself is a bigger crime), 'submit evidence' before a court, give 'prayers' to 'my lord' and await for the 'judgement day' which can only be questioned in a 'higher court', lest you are in 'contempt' of the 'rule of law' and be termed 'outlaw'. And which country is still giving death penalties to its citizens and a president that kills people of other countries by pressing a button? Here are some fun facts in your support: France is Saudi Arabia's new arms dealer [nationalinterest.org], If the US Won't Sell You Weapons, France Might Still Hook You Up [vice.com] etc. [google.com] It was always about studying 'em developing monkeys while selling arms to them until that war came to the door step.
Islam is a verbal noun originating from the triliteral root s-l-m which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of wholeness, submission, safeness and peace.[21] In a religious context it means "voluntary submission to God". [wikipedia.org] Btw, which one of the Christian movies is about 'just believe' and 'submit to the will of God'? Answer: All of them.
The failure is all yours as you chose sides in which dick is more comfortable.
See, there is no doubt that Islamic system is primitive. But you went there first. It just came back with you.
- Not a muslim
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2015, @10:56AM
You will one day have to pick a side. Choose your sides wisely. That "verbal noun" bullshit doesn't cut it - read Mohammed's biography. The cult was based on violence, and spread by the sword.
And, before you remind me of the Crusades, let me remind you that Islam had murdered millions throughout Europe before the Euros started fighting back, long before the first Crusade was even a dream.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday December 28 2015, @01:58PM
There is nothing exceptional about spreading by the sword. That is how everyone spread, whether it be Genghis Khan, Qings, Japanese, Nazi, British, French, German (who exterminated and drove away Celts to the farthest end of GB), Romans, Asoka the Great, Ottomans etc. The extent of this truth is only realized by the presence of military courts and military laws that only apply to people living at the periphery of so called civilized world.
As technology makes this world more and more globalized, plus the horror of WWII that created UN, now it is not easy to spread with swords without the whole world starts banging the shit out of you. Only NOW people talk about something called 'soft power', and the constant rise of intellectual strength over physical strength is being heralded as a good thing because it is less violent.
Except that it is not. It just means committing genocide under the carpet.
And I have picked my side, you know. Which is why I am here talking. But the massacre is real and it is happening here in 3rd world countries in very vast and very brutal and very open way and all you get to see as a citizen of more powerful country is whatever repercussion seeps through.
And why do we need to pick sides anyway? It is easy to not get involved in middle east - just don't go there! Most of it is not even next to next neighbor to east Europe, forget about USA. But they have oil - and USA is not content with just oil - it has to be cheapest oil!
Men suffer because they love everything except themselves. If men were wise enough they would get up and say it is okay to not have the best thing right now if it means working less everyday and not being the most powerful nation of the world. But USA has to be that, right? It is perpetually on the holy duty of pushing forward God's Kingdom. Why else would God bless America? France or Germany might give other reasons - such as 'humanitarian approach' or 'multiculturism' or 'hatred of American superiority' but they also want to be the most powerful... and so men suffer. I bet if Obama was flipping burgers he would be against extra judicial killings - but he doesn't have a drone over his head nor he is stationed in Afganistan or Iraq nor he has to worry about potential security checks when he is traveling in airplane so why would he care?
The only side is your own side. I chose myself over any country.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2015, @03:36PM
If the violence were confined to the levant, your post might appeal to me. However, the violence is widespread throughout the areas I've mentioned above.
As for "most powerful nation" - we have pissed our power away. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq - our power pissed into the frozen hills, the jungles, and into that fabled "cradle of civilazation".
We'll see how you choose on the day that some imam/warlord sends for you. Will you still stand proud and tall, or will you kneel to Mohammed?
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday December 28 2015, @05:36PM
See man, they have been sending terrorists long before I was born. When Taliban gave refuge to terrorists hijacking a plane [wikipedia.org] and India was forced to give up infamous terrorists and the whole world sighed and looked away. When Bill Clinton visited India in 2000 then current PM of India went around showing him all the weapons that were caught my Indian army all over the country. They were all made in USA and were provided to Taliban. If you search for it on news today you will be hard pressed to find any link to it - it is safely kept somewhere in the archives of public TV. There was no report of it in USA. Similarly, no one batted an eye when parliament of the largest democracy in the world was attacked in December 2001 (yep, 2001!) there was little coverage of it and everything was brushed aside as valid move by the best partner in War On Terror(TM).
Guess what, when you sell a 100 missiles you can be doubly sure than 100 of them will get used. And if they have a shelf life of 3 years, most probably they will get used just before the warranty runs off. And USA is in the business of selling millions of weaponry all over the world. A day will come when those weapons will turn towards USA. Or France. And who buys all those weapons anyway? The people who will sell their country and all its resources just to gain some fictitious sense of power over people who they disagree with! USA is directly responsible for genocidal extermination of the whole population of educated, intellectual and peace loving citizens in many countries all over the world. Now you can't complain when all you see is assholes willing to kill themselves to harm some innocent citizens who even their own government doesn't care about.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2015, @06:19PM
So - the question arises. WTF were those terrorists alive? Why hadn't they been executed? You can't free a terrorist from a tomb. Or, if you do free him, he isnt going to accomplish much.
Don't bother answering - I alraedy know why. It is for the same reason that our own impotent government took captives from various places around the world, then imprisoned them in Guantanamo. The same reason we have maximum security prisons scattered around our nation, partially filled with people who have committed truly heinous crimes. The same reason that the terrorists who gunned down innocent victims in Paris will ultimately go free, unless they die of old age in prison first. No one has the balls to do the necessary things, like executing animals. No balls at all.
As for Wall street exploiting the world, while paying the military industrial comples to act as their hatchetmen - yeah. You're preaching to the choir on that one.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday December 28 2015, @09:30PM
No it is actually simpler. They were in jail awaiting trial and Indian judiciary has huge backlog [scroll.in]. India does have capital punishment, but the Sri Lankan terrorists who killed them got 11 years to live in jail before final judgement was passed.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2015, @09:59PM
Yes, my bad. I forgot all about the crazy backlog that India's justice system has. In this case, the police never should have taken them prisoner. They should have been shot to death while resisting arrest.
Hey, if US cops can get away with shooting unarmed people in the back, then claim that they felt threatened, I'm sure the Indian cops could have staged a convincing scenario for shooting these swine down.
On the plus side, in recent years, their legal system has made some serious strides in the direction of timely justice.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday December 29 2015, @08:30AM
Yes, that is true. Cops do that all the time anyway, but high profile targets get high profile attention. It is ultimately the poor and powerless who suffer. If you are powerful then you can even be a terrorist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @08:14AM
There is something called "education" and those who have it rarely behead anyone. The issue is lack of education (religious education does not apply).
We've been wishing Jews... They don't shoot
Last time I checked, Jews supported military action and world wars War declaration [rense.com]. Destabilized entire regions (Support war against Syria among others) and then ask the west to take in unlimited refugees Unlimited refugees [therealistreport.com]. Put entire peoples in open prisons Open-air prison [juancole.com]. Purposefully bombed civilians because of a few enemy soldiers. Burnt people alive with white phosphorus White phosphorus [hrw.org]. Ran over peace activists with bulldozers Murder of peace activist [theguardian.com].
They don't shoot, bomb, or behead us
Yes they do. And they have got their entire schlong up your arse. You need education.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 28 2015, @09:10PM
Meanwhile, here in the US, there are about 7 million Muslims you can safely wish "Merry Christmas" to.
Give it a try, you won't be beheaded or anything.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2015, @09:51PM
Tears of Jihad
Mar 3 2008 | by Bill Warner
These figures are a rough estimate of the death of non-Muslims by the political act of jihad.
Africa
Thomas Sowell [Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture, BasicBooks, 1994, p. 188] estimates that 11 million slaves were shipped across the Atlantic and 14 million were sent to the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Middle East. For every slave captured many others died. Estimates of this collateral damage vary. The renowned missionary David Livingstone estimated that for every slave who reached a plantation, five others were killed in the initial raid or died of illness and privation on the forced march.[Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions, David Livingstone, p. 62, 1888] Those who were left behind were the very young, the weak, the sick and the old. These soon died since the main providers had been killed or enslaved. So, for 25 million slaves delivered to the market, we have an estimated death of about 120 million people. Islam ran the wholesale slave trade in Africa.
120 million Africans
Christians
The number of Christians martyred by Islam is 9 million [David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-10] . A rough estimate by Raphael Moore in History of Asia Minor is that another 50 million died in wars by jihad. So counting the million African Christians killed in the 20th century we have:
60 million Christians
Hindus
Koenard Elst in Negationism in India gives an estimate of 80 million Hindus killed in the total jihad against India. [Koenard Elst, Negationism in India, Voice of India, New Delhi, 2002, pg. 34.] The country of India today is only half the size of ancient India, due to jihad. The mountains near India are called the Hindu Kush, meaning the “funeral pyre of the Hindus.”
80 million Hindus
Buddhists
Buddhists do not keep up with the history of war. Keep in mind that in jihad only Christians and Jews were allowed to survive as dhimmis (servants to Islam) everyone else had to convert or die. Jihad killed the Buddhists in Turkey, Afghanistan, along the Silk Route, and in India. The total is roughly 10 million. [David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-1.] 10 million Buddhists
Jews
Oddly enough there were not enough Jews killed in jihad to significantly affect the totals of the Great Annihilation. The jihad in Arabia was 100 percent effective, but the numbers were in the thousands, not millions. After that, the Jews submitted and became the dhimmis (servants and second class citizens) of Islam and did not have geographic political power.
This gives a rough estimate of 270 million killed by jihad.