Careful. Catholicism/Christianity has been used the same way for a couple thousand years as well. Different god, still a lot of dead people. Just because it isn't the predominant religion waging holy wars today does not make that point less relevant.Originally Posted by CYCLE_MONKEY
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than sincere ignorance
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True, but those barbaric acts (and they WERE barbaric) occurred many hundreds of years ago. I can see a primitive people commiting such acts, but we're to the point where for the most part the world is civilized enough to realize that those acts are not acceptable today. If people are civilized enough today to make a call on a cell phone, they're (or should be) civilized enough to NOT use that cell phone as a bomb trigger.
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"...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
-Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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What were Muslims doing in Jerusalem? ...and Turkey, Greece, Spain, Austria, etc? hmmmm
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"...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
-Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Blowing shit up.......
I'm sure it was peaceful, whatever it was. I'm sure they were just migrant workers.
And this is why the tread will continue until an admin locks it. There are a lot of terrorist acts that go on in the world and the US doesn't hear about most of them (gotta love filtered news). Many of these different attacks in Asia and South America have nothing to do with Muslims. The ones we hear about do. Because that perpetuates fear (back to a firm Catholic belief)Check out more world news.
Maybe I'm wrong, but didn't it start out as the belief/religion behind the government? And then evoled much more into politics after? The point I was trying to make is that terrorist attacks on the US were not completely religious based. It was only one of their motivators.
Where they attacking on behalf of Saudi Arabia? Iran? Afghanistan? Oil? Or perhaps they have something against tall buildings or those that aren't square shaped?
Are you implying that we deserved it? That we "had it coming" so to speak?
No, none of those reasons. I would say display of power, domination, being recognized/heard as a group/leader, proving that they are a global power to be contended with, are aspects that could play a role in prompting attacks.
Not sure how you got that out of my statement, but no.
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