Quote from murray t turtle:
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Agree,SiSe;
now see this.
True most muslim natioms don't act like insane -asylums!!!!
But in the Florida panhandle, panhandlers may shout repent to infidels. Yes i have been to Florida panhandle
Most so called'' fundamentalist '' fanatics muslims would kill an infidel [unbeliever].
Thank God only about 100 million of the 1 billion fundamentalist fanatics actually believe in killing infidels
.So even the 10% are still a big threat, much bigger threat than panhandlers in FLA panhandle.
murray, your point is taken and I was over-exaggerating perhaps due to the ridiculous nature of the post I was responding to.
Anyone with any semblance of historical knowledge should realize that while we have become entangled in the middle east, mostly due to our own actions, they(middle eastern people) have been living in violent societies for a long time. Many middle eastern countries were formed out of the breaking up of the Ottoman empire LESS than a century ago...before that you had a number of warring clans living near each other.
We live in a different world than them, but we also created the means by which they do, and have done, what they do. Look at indigenous tribes in S. America or New Guinea, they are as violent or more violent at times than muslim militants...do you see them attacking us? Me either...it's because a)they don't have the resources and b)they have quite a bit less reasoning to than middle easterners.
We've never really been saints in the Middle East and supporting Saddam, arming Afghanistanis, stadnoffs with Iran, etc. etc. is not really the way to treat a violent ally/enemy...they don't respond well. Oh yeah, and add in the fact that we've armed different groups of them, paid them, given them free reign, etc.
The point is that there isn't much of a difference between blaming a school shooting on our violent society(film, music, tv, etc.) and realizing that our middle eastern affairs and support of terrorism in the middle east over the last 100 years will lead crazy people to do crazy things.
Remember Jim Jones? David Koresh? Timothy McVeigh? The middle east is filled with people who do have a number of reasons to hate our country...their history and the way that they have traditionally settled grudges has only been helped by the weapons we've enabled them to buy. There would be no surprise in realizing that it's probably the American heroin junkies who end up getting money to Aghani warlords to buy weapons...the Taliban was more effective in destroying the opium fields than we are.