Quote from traderNik:
I don't agree with your views, and I think that the fact that you didn't know the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas is somewhat relevant here.
But leaving that aside, let me just say that Hamas is a terrorist organization who kill with impunity. They are almost as likely to murder fellow Muslims that get in their way as they are to murder Israeli Jews. They teach their children that if they blow themselves up in the vicinity of Jews, they will go to heaven and be serviced by 62 virgins. Recently, a man along with his brother and cousin hung his own child, a son, for 'collaborating' with the Israelis.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8096742.stm
Just a quick fact check for this thread. I do respect your right to state your opinion, as misguided as it is. As a mod, though, aren't you're supposed to show impartiality?
Terrorism... what a vague term. What about all the acts the CIA has done throughout the world? Does that constitute as terrorist acts? Take former military dictator of Pakistan Musharaff... the CIA helped him organize a coup against a democratically elected moderate government in Pakistan. He was a military dictator for crying out loud. We put Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq. too. And don't forget that we were allies with Osama bin Laden and helped train the Taliban during Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union (1979).
And both Israel and Palestinian factions do evil acts to one another. Israel has shot missiles into Palestinian neighborhoods with schools... supposedly accidentally. The media is more sympathetic to Israel so we don't hear both sides. Both sides are to blame.
I am against any form of radical religion. People that blow themselves up are crazy. The fundamental evangelicals that believe in the Rapture and support the war in Iraq because destruction in the middle east will result in Jesus' saving them is crazy too.
And as I posted earlier... I am a moderator only in the Economic and Stocks forums. I don't have to hold my views back.