That's not my point. It would be like saying all Catholics everywhere wanted a free Ireland and would be willing to kill for it. Again, there is a religious angle to this geopolitical mess, but tarring all Muslims for the acts of a few flunks the logic test.
And the IRA killed a lot more Brits in and around London than this guy did today. I'm not downplaying the overall problem, but people need to keep it together every time there's an attack of some sort.
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Chipper (03-23-2017)
The problem with this whole situation is even though 90%-95% in any given country probably would assimilate to a point there will always be that 5%-10% who either don't fit in or whose minds and hearts are fertile ground for the Wahabi BS that will apparently always be floating around out there, just like that crappy pollen that makes people sneeze and get sick during certain times of the year. Of course our schizo foreign policy doesn't help either.
I think you hit upon one problem here, what does "assimilation" really mean? Of course, they didn't uprooted themselves and cross an ocean to completely leave their culture behind, nor should they have to. But at the same time, there are limits to the way people behave publicly, with regards to religion or other movements. The rule of law has to be above any religion, period.
Don't go to big cities, major government buildings, avoid large crowds and don't fly with Muslims and your pretty safe. Or heck, just don't let any Muslims into the country in the first place.
It's far more than just Catholic priests. I will post a link when I get home.
There are probably 1000 teachers for every Catholic priest. If you go by percentage Catholic priests will be at the top.
That just depends on how far back in history you want to go. Religion has led to a **** ton of wars and deaths. One of the leasing causes of death throughout history.
We shouldn't be fighting wars half the world away. We might destroy ISIS but we just create another larger group that hates us by waging that war. Evil doesn't happen in a vacuum. There are reasons these people hate us and do evil ****. Odds are if all of us on this forum grew up in the same area with the same environment some of us would be ISIS members. Thethe would be allahakbaring all over the place if he grew up in the middle east.
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It’s over."
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You are using this syllogism:
Hassan is a terrorist.
Hassan is a Muslim.
Muslims are terrorists.
While religion plays into this, you cannot tar all Muslims because of the terrorist acts of a subset of Muslims. There are extreme Muslims. In the 16th and 17th centuries there were extreme Catholics and Protestants that tore up Europe. Ask the Irish about Oliver Cromwell. We can't deal with this problem by issuing blanket statements about a religion.
mqt (03-23-2017)
An attempted attack (with car) in Antwerp just now. Knives, other weapons found in vehicle. Sounds eerily similar.
50, were you in charge of lifeboats on the Titanic?
Just want to know when we can officially worry a little.
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getting crowded under that bed ?
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit 13h13 hours ago
I can't help but think that, deep in the ocean, the skeleton of Osama bin-Laden is laughing his ass bone off at how weak we really are.
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
There is a difference between ignoring something and making ill-conceived blanket statements about something. Sh*t happens in the world. As for the Titanic, what's that got to do with this? I don't see the entirety of Western Civilization sailing blindly toward an iceberg and if it is, we've done that to ourselves, not by ignoring Islam, but by being distracted by shiny objects that have allowed the West to rot at its core. As a Scandinavian, I'm supposed to be the pessimistic Bergmanesque one of the bunch. Glad to see I'm not.
Hawk (03-23-2017)