Random Politics & Religion #00

never heard of it...

*insert manufactured outrage of modern sci fi fans here*

not this guy. put me on the ground 100x first.

Is no safe space safe?

Stealing me jokes :|

Cruz comes out and calls for more police patrols in muslim neighborhoods, the media explodes so hard.

I wonder what they're gonna do when they learn about what trump said.

When people say "Muslim terrorists" they mean terrorists who carry out their terrorism in the name of their religion. The term "Muslim" is not meant to describe the particular faith of the terrorist. Kinda like when people talk about immigration they usually mean illegal immigration.

Therefore you can't really compare them to "Christian terrorists" or "Jewish terrorists" because the frequency of such things is either VASTLY or ENTIRELY one sided. None of the abortion assailants you linked claimed to be carrying out those acts in the name of their religion. While on the other hand we are littered with news reports citing terrorists decrying "Allah is great" in these attacks.

Furthermore even if the abortion assailants did, the comparison of single individuals to tens or hundreds of thousands of militant terrorist fighters is just an example of self imposed "willful" ignorance. When you consider the overall opinions of most of the worlds millions of Muslims on violence in the name of their religion. It becomes pretty clear Islam and Islam alone has a pretty unique problem with violence.

Many people point to some reference of US Japanese camps in WW2 as an atrocity as some kind of analogy to what they fear is gonna happen with modern day Muslims. I'm no longer sure at this point if this is attitude is ultimately a specific rejection of certain tactics of war (as in we can wage war without doing such things) or a fundamental cowardice against properly standing up and identifying where the enemy comes from.

idk man...sand all up in your business... walking for miles and miles ... carrying heavy stuff... shooting people in the face at point blank range...

I would be all can I use my xbox controler!?

at least, if you survive, you know who you killed. drone killing would be super weird to deal with.

they didn't happen during our lifetimes though...

It's not like our fathers and grandfathers dressed up like
Teutonic Knights and attacked Jerusalem....

and if were going back that far... then why not all the way?

it's all cyrus the great's (no relation to Miley) fault!!!

It's reminder that singling out minority groups based on irrational fear was a national embarrassment then just as it is now with Cruz's 'patrol the Muslim hoods' (lol) and Trump's 'let's ban and torture them' statements.

It would be more accurate to say violent people are using religion as an excuse for their violence.

And there we go, three attempts to stand up and deflect for Islam.

I did.

I saw more of those though.

lock up every male from 16-24, bam, no more violence.

It is not ignorant to state a fact. Islam does have a serious problem with violence, to stay otherwise is making it seem like one is blinded by the PC wool being pulled over their eyes. Christians do not currently have a religious death-cult rampaging across the Middle East and killing innocents in Europe all in the name of jihad. As macabre as it sounds you simply cannot compare the acts of Christian militants in the US (planned parenthood, etc) with the insane ***ISIS is getting up to.

Then lets just say fundamentalist terrorism. It covers all basses.

Today, in 2016, we have Jewish, Moslem, Christian, and, so help me god, even Buddhist terrorists*. But they are all fundamentalists.

*Probably other minor religions as well.

I have never heard of zoroastrian terrorists.

Your move!

Better solution: Take a page from Nik's book and throw the book at anyone with the name Cyrus. First, middle or surname, doesn't matter. 'Achey Breaky' should never have been released on the line dancing segment of primary school gym class. Eye for an eye, and all that jazz.

Even The Economist is suporting Dilmas impeachment.

Really, its time to exterminate those rats that gave up their dignity to maintain a power they dont deserve.

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It's random p&r, Kojo. Not random t&a

Interesting bit at the bottom of a CNN article:

Linky to the whole thing

I read an interesting article a while back about how each side is in the strange position of electing the candidate that fares the worst in head-to-head polling with the opposition. With the Supreme Court on the line you'd think people would care more about just winning, but apparently it's the season for self-destruction.

Disney, Marvel and AMC to boycott Georgia if discriminatory bill is passed

Also similar statements from Microsoft, Google, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, etc.

Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, SURE.

Lol at the only picture included in the article. "Let's go with Chris Evans shirtless. The gays will eat it up!"

Anyway, I didn't realize *** were still trying to get bills like that passed. Not surprising but I guess they've gotta drum up the bigot vote somehow.