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Meanwhile, in Ferguson, Missouri, American police are repeatedly threatening to kill demonstrators and journalists.
So are rioters.
Yes, exactly the same.
Thanks for the laugh idiot.
tons of countries make weapons, who cares where they came from.
Hamas is getting what it deserves...maybe next time the Palestinians will think twice about who they vote for.
I'm pretty sure the Mohammedans know how to make butcher knives. They created the nation of the 'zero' after all. Didn't do much afterwards though.
The same could be said for Americans who voted for Bush and Obama, who have authorized many civilian killings in efforts to bring about political change. We Americans really should stop voting terrorists into office.
but really, fuck ISIL. no quarter.
Damn right. Bush's biggest crime was thinking Arabs could create democracies and make the world a better place. On foreign policy, he as a liberal.
I'll bet you three testicles radical Mohammedans blew up more bombs TODAY around the world than Christian wackos have in America in the past 30 YEARS.
yes, because those are so common..nice try, but fayle.
false equivalency is your friend.
"a roadside bomb has struck in a school van with children and teachers in the country's northwestern tribal region, killing five people."
"A suicide bombing killed at least four people, including a woman and two children, and wounded more than 20 on a major commercial boulevard in the Afghan capital just"
"A suicide attacker targeted a NATO convoy in Kabul on Sunday, killing four civilians and wounding at least 35 others, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the capital as politicians wrangle over election results."
"A suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near the home of Iraq's new prime minister Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad, local media and police sources said."
"Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed and nine others injured in a suicide attack on a patrol base in northern Mali, the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA) said"
"A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in a college campus in northern Nigeria's biggest city of Kano, killing three people and critically "
"There were four suicide bombing attacks by young women in Kano, Nigeria, last week."
"A British aid worker who died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest following a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan "
"The Australian suicide bomber who killed five people in a terrorist attack in Iraq last week is believed to be 18-year-old Adam Dahman."
But one happy story for civilization:
"ISIS Suicide bombing instructor blows up class accidentally, killing himself and 21 (successful) students"
as opposed to breaking iraq as i was, i do care if a fanatical wahhabi state is carved out in the levant and uses oil money to eliminate religious minorities, oppress women, and terrorize the kurds and iraq's shiites. i think it would be bad, and not just because that's our oil.
Why do you have any pride in yourself?
No, I wasn't equating Pat Robertson with abortion bombers - my "joke" was more extrapolated than that.
I took well-known right-winger, Pat Robertson, and juxtaposed him with a well-known left-winger. Then I took ISIS and "joked" that the well known right-winger (Pat Robertson) isn't as medieval fanatical as they are.
Get it now?
Points for using ironic quotation marks around the word "joke" correctly, if inadvertently.
Does that also apply to American Christian wackos? Or just the Mohammedans?
Well in terms of head counts, the Mohammedans kill more every few days than American Christian wackos have over the past 3 decades. But that fact doesn't fit into your prejudices, so best you ignore it.
But of course that's not really the point. It's YOUR prejudices which need exaggeration and lies for support. After all, for every murderous Muslim there are 1,000-10,000 who are not.
Further, and as always, religion is a smokescreen. If it weren't, we would have Indonesians by the hundreds of thousands trying to kill. But they want nothing to do with it.
@48
“At least one person has been killed and several injured by a suicide bombing at a church in Central Java, Indonesia.”
“A suspected suicide bomber attacks a market, killing himself and wounding at least 28 people, in the first such attack in Indonesia in two…”
“An unidentified motorcycle driver carried out an apparent suicide bombing at a police headquarters in central Indonesia, “
“A suicide bomber attacked a packed Indonesian church Sunday wounding at least 27 people”
ISIS and all their ilk are to the vast majority of Muslims in the world as abortion clinic bombers, Timothy McVeigh, and predatory priests are to the vast majority of Christians in the world: a tiny and unrepresentative minority.
Religion of Tolerance:
Embrace of Atheism Put an Indonesian in Prison
By JOE COCHRANE
MAY 3, 2014
Alexander Aan served more than 19 months in prison after publicly declaring himself an atheist.
Rony Zakaria for The New York Times
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Growing up in a conservative Muslim household in rural West Sumatra, Alexander Aan hid a dark secret beginning at age 9: He did not believe in God. His feelings only hardened as he got older and he faked his way through daily prayers, Islamic holidays and the fasting month of Ramadan.
He stopped praying in 2008, when he was 26, and he finally told his parents and three younger siblings that he was an atheist — a rare revelation in a country like Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. They responded with disappointment and expressions of hope that he would return to Islam.
But Mr. Aan neither returned to Islam nor confined his secret to his family, and he ended up in prison after running afoul of a 2008 law restricting electronic communications. He had joined an atheist Facebook group started by Indonesians living in the Netherlands, and in 2011 he began posting commentaries outlining why he did not think God existed.
“When I saw, with my own eyes, poor people, people on television caught up in war, people who were hungry or ill, it made me uncomfortable,” Mr. Aan, now 32, said in an interview. “What is the meaning of this? As a Muslim, I had questioned God — what is the meaning of God?” He was released on parole on Jan. 27 after serving more than 19 months on a charge of inciting religious hatred.
Indonesia’s state ideology, Pancasila, enshrines monotheism, and blasphemy is illegal.
More like 'reach-around'.
Tiny? Are you sure? Seems they have a few spare Mohammedans every day to blow up in a school, market or church.
You don't fairly judge a major religion by its worst adherents. Such as religiously motivated terrorists.
Tell me, please, how abortion clinic bombers are not religiously motivated terrorists.
@ 52, that the best you can do? You've just described nearly every Indonesian terrorist that has ever been attemting jihad. YOU ARR PROVING MY POINT, NOT YOURS.
Yet given the chance, most of these nations (sorry, "quarrels with borders") would vote in these head chopping, homosexual executing Mohammedan thugs.
That is EXACTLY what you did in @27 buddy.
Really? Can you point to a US candidate for office who calls for executing homosexuals, jailing nonbelievers and infidels? And their party affiliation and vote count?
Sound of crickets...
Internet pro tip: Saying "crickets" only stings when the subject does not reply. When instead they both respond quickly and decisively show you up, you look double the fool for your presumption.
Guess that means you can't point to any communities in the US big enough to elect Mohammedan style leaders who would execute homosexuals and infidels and jail non-believers.
Have fun in Indonesia; every time I've been I write down "no thanks" on the immigration card where it asks what religion you are. What do you say?
Shame the Mohammedans are going to fuck up that country too like every other one they've taken over. Theo Van Gogh was right.
Many states that voted to ban gay marriage would have voted to outlaw homosexuality on pain of death if that was on the ballot instead. The absense of such measures say nothing about the tolerance of those in deep red states. They simply haven't had the veneer if civility removed. Your floundering about who is running on what positions changed nothing about those communities. These were the same people who saw AIDS as proof that God hated gays and let thousands die. They would vote to make homosexuality a capital offense given the opportunity.
Say what you will, but you set the discussion when you said "Yet given the chance, most of these nations (sorry, "quarrels with borders") would vote in these head chopping, homosexual executing Mohammedan thugs." These American places will do the same with Christianiat thugs who have the same theocratic desires, the only difference being which holy book supposedly justifies it all. Keep bringing up modern politicians all you want, but that wasn't the card you played.
Got research to prove that?
Ahh, and that's the same as want to criminalize homosexuality "on pain of death". I see. Nice research there. Got any more up your tight ass?
Poor unregistered troll. You want to be fed, but such a route wasn't what you hoped to feast upon, was it?
I mean, that a man passionate about reporting world news and suffering was brutally murdered is horribly shitty, but what is most exponentially shitty is how quickly people seem to be totally ready to jump back into the full-blown-war saddle in response.
Seriously. Can we just stop fucking killing each other. Us stop killing them; them stop killing us; everyone stop killing everyone. Just don't kill one another. I know in situations like this it doesn't seem so simple, but actually, it is: our government waged war on their people and they are so upset and so fully indoctrinated into their religion and culture that beheading an innocent person seemed like an appropriate response. And now here we are thinking that an appropriate response to that is killing more of their people! How do we not see the insanity in this?!
Let's not forget that when it comes to Iraq, we were actually the Assholes first. Because war is profitable, my friends. I guess as long as that's true this shit will go on in circles forever and ever.
Well Saddam did have a habit of butchering his people, gassing the Kurds and using genocide against the Shiites. now personally I think we should have let him keep doing that if it kept the Mohammedans at bay but Bush was a foreign policy liberal, he thought his job was to make the world a better place and free people. Should have left Saddam there.
But you're right, it's all our fault the Mohammedans live in the 12th century still.
Do I think we should just "let" murderous dictators continue? No. But isn't it convenient that we only become involved when we have something to gain from intervening? It's not about freedom or making the world a better place. It's about power and making the military industrial complex a richer industry.
If you are living in fear that somehow Iraq/Iran/Syria would've invade our country if we didn't start to murder their people, you have been woefully misled. That is so far off from what was ever close to happening before we invaded Iraq in '02.
You think they was a less murderous alternative available in the Mohammendan world? Oh pray, do share the ma who would unite Iraq without using a butchers knife.
Personally, I say put a fence around the middle east and let them murder each other to their hearts content. The oil will still flow. Besides hummus, what else do they have to offer?
Christians have killed far far more than just a few women and docs seeking abortions and gay Americans. That is as long as you count brown skinned foreigners as people and our congress and presidents as Christians.... Helloooooo???
"Basically, Hussein rose to power with the help of US foreign policy decades ago"
Er, no. I agree with everything else you said, but this is flat out wrong. Saddam came to power through some wacky UAR shenanigans. Really random, actually.
Not every asshole/bad event is a direct result of foreign policy blowback.