Where did I ever claim that islamic terrorism is the only kind of religious extremism in the history of the world? How about we compare the impact of a few religious (American) nutjobs attacking abortion clinics to that of ISIS trying to destroy the Middle East and exporting terrorism all over the world by killing as…
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He IS a terrorist, but not motivated by religious extremism. Most other live shooters aren’t motivated by religious fundamentalism either. They commit acts of terrorism, but those are an expression of American gun extremism and gun violence.
SA is the religious center of islamic faith, because it harbors the two most important sacred places of Islam, you imbecile. I never said that the SA government is the political center of Islam, even though it wields considerable economic and therefore also political power in the region. You want to split hairs about…
How many of those were religiously motivated and what is the respective bloodshed, besides those are all attacks on US soil. I don’t give a shit about your homegrown gun nuts and terrorists, but I do give a shit about innocent people in foreign countries all over the world getting blown to pieces by islamic…
So, the victims today deserved to die b/c other people died in the name of religion a long time ago? That is the rationalization for islamic terrorist attacks today? Does that include the enslavement of women as sex slaves by ISIS? Raping and selling them? Cool!
Did he do it for religious reasons? Hardly, it was unadultered racism. That’s like saying shooting people in a mall is an expression of ones aversion to consumerism.
In the 21st century, are those ‘strict christians’ called upon to kill those heathens whenever they can, by scores of preachers at the church on Sunday?
Very few people would state that all muslims are dangerous, but almost all religiously motivated terrorist attacks are perpetrated by muslims these days. A religion that refers to non-muslims as ‘kuffar’ (infidels) isn’t exactly a beacon of tolerance, especially in light of the fact, that there are many religious…
One day I will learn to read the bylines on articles before I dive in and will not be super-confused when they take a turn.
ive never understood the fascination with rand. her writing was so bad. terrible awful writing.
Oh, half my family is these people (which is why I’m probably only celebrating Hanukkah but not Christmas this year). So I can tell you the most likely “rationale” (or spin):
You know racism’s gotten bad when male cheerleaders think they have the right to make fun of anyone else.
I disagree with the Trump-Pence administration about a ton of things. But the most effective way to do so are with proven facts, not exaggerations found from twitter and facebook posts. Snopes did a good article showing the evidence for this often-repeated statement:
...and was was untrue about it? So Bill Clinton WASN’T a serial womanizer while married?? And his wife DIDN’T disparage all of them regardless of the evidence? Did she ever apologize? So I guess Trump’s accusers are all telling the truth, but Hillary’s husband’s were not?
You mean that the 15,000 people that weren’t gonna vote for her anyway can’t be blamed for Nixon in a Pantsuits’ lack of winning last night?
Sanders would’ve taken it in a landslide; Trump didn’t win this election, Hillary lost it. She is, and always was, a bad candidate.
“Please know that this is not a reflection of how MANY Americans feel.”
Whether Hill was already prepping for certain questions is a total nonissue. Stealing debate questions and sending them to a campaign is a gross abuse of trust and power. The idea that a presidential debate was tampered with and there is credible evidence of collusion is deeply disturbing. That’s not ridiculous.
Unfortunately, Brazile outright lied about passing on the questions, clearly saying she would NEVER do that. The statement she put out denying that she did what it turns out she did communicated that it would be wrong of her to do so.