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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 16 2013, 12:11 PM (564 Views) | |
| ELUSIVEJIM | Apr 16 2013, 12:11 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-23...44-injured.html Graphic pictures above so please only click if you want to see this. The World continues to get worse
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| Pasta | Apr 19 2013, 05:06 PM Post #2 |
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I was talking to my friend in NY and asked what he thought was the chances of the Boston bombers being Muslim. He said greater than 95%. The American Muslim community is worried that the bombers would be Muslims because it gives their religion a bad name and they are worried about the backlash. Well guess what. Yup. Muslims. Again. There is something about this religion that fosters violence and stupidity and ignorance. For that there can be no simple dismissal. It is, in my view, the biggest agent for fostering evil from man to man in our world. |
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| John | Apr 19 2013, 11:59 PM Post #3 |
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The Boston bombing suspects are I understand, ethnic Chechens which means they happen to be Muslim. I have seen nothing as yet to say their motives stem from their Religion. About 25% of the worlds population (or around 1,600,000,000 people) are Muslim... lets be generous and say there are about 100,000 Muslim with terrorist leanings... ( I suspect it to be less others I'm sure say it's more) but that is a whopping 0.00625% of all Muslims... while the remaining 99.99375% of the rest are just honest ordinary people. Now just for comparision... there are about 25,000,000 North Koreans of which 1,100,00 are in the military and another 8,200,000 are reserves... personally I would say that these non-muslims (with nuclear capability) pose a far greater threat to the world at large... but that is just me. We all see things differently.. that is fine and in fact it is only to be expected... but we should be careful about tarring all Muslims with the same brush as the few exteremist... because @ 25% of the world population that is one bear you do not want to poke.
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| Pasta | Apr 20 2013, 04:32 AM Post #4 |
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The Koreans can be identified and contained. I consider them a much lower risk. Their armed forces have no where near the technology to fight a conventional war, and their ability to deliver nuclear weapons is primitive. Pakistan is a much greater threat and mainly because of the massive political instability caused by - yes you guessed it - radical Islamic forces. As to only 100,000 Muslims with terrorist leanings - well - where did that number come from? You completely made it up. There are millions in Pakistan alone. There are two things you cannot dismiss: 1. The vast majority of terrrorist acts committed world wide are committed by Muslims. 2. The religion does not tolerate criticism or free thought. And far too much of Muslims' lives are dictated by what they are told is the truth by Imams and what they are told to do by Imams. Personally I am against most organized religions simply because they promote primitiveness and suppress free thought and questionning. Far too much damage has been done by organized religion. But to me Islam is over the top. And the evidence - acts of violence, suppression, mal treatment of women - is irrefutable. In any case, the Boston bombers were Muslims. |
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| H16 BRM | Apr 20 2013, 09:38 AM Post #5 |
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| Steelstallions | Apr 20 2013, 09:54 AM Post #6 |
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Cannot argue with that. The day after 9/11 happened i was in a cafe having breakfast and a caretaker at the local college was discussing with the waitress who he appeared to know well how shocked he was at what he saw the day before. Not just the news but the fact the muslim students were he worked were joyous at what they had seen and were reenacting the planes hitting the Twin Towers by running around the canteen with their arms out wide. He was a close to retirement mild mannered guy in despair with what he had witnessed. Muslims born and raised in the UK in Burton on Trent, so hardly the radical muslim hot spot of the UK, celebrating a terrorist attack on USA!! |
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| Pasta | Apr 20 2013, 06:42 PM Post #7 |
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From a Canadian journalist: http://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.r...or8ca53mp6#mail
Michael Ignatieff teaches at the Munk School at the University of Toronto and at Harvard’s Kennedy School. |
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| H16 BRM | Apr 20 2013, 10:08 PM Post #8 |
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Mrs H16 used to live in Burton on the Beer! Not too far from where we live now, just along the A50 and down a bit.
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| PiquetFan | Apr 20 2013, 10:21 PM Post #9 |
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That's an excellent contribution from Michael Ignatieff, Pasta. Thanks for posting
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