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  • #76
    Originally posted by gunnut View Post
    The problem with your theory is that the western "multicultural" socialist will just declare "ISIS is not Islam."

    Notice that we haven't had a single "muslim terror attack" on continental US since 9-11? We've had plenty of "isolated incidents," "work place violence," "lone wolf attacks" by "social outcasts." Basically anything but "Islamic terror."

    "Islamic terror" does not exist in the world of western multiculturalism.
    That is absolutely true in the progressive left "respectable media". But a lot of conservative, libertarian and neoconservative media - specially the neocons - talk about Islamic Terrorism and even though they are not deemed as "cult" or "respectable", they are the ones with more listeners and that shape the minds of the silent majority of the people.

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    • #77
      Originally posted by gunnut View Post
      Moderate muslims need to stand up and clean house. What do we do when someone murders a bunch of people in the name of Christ? We hunt him down and end his crimes, one way or the other.

      When someone kills a bunch of people in the name of Allah, moderate muslims need to hunt him down and put him away. No ands, ifs, or buts.
      Exactly... There were mass demonstrations "Je ne suis Charlie" (I am not Charlie) throughout the Muslim world but no march against violence or against the Muslim extremism in the Muslim world.
      Now I am absolutely sure that if someone did a big terrorist attack in name of Christ, the next day there would be mass demonstrations of all denominations of Christianity against the attacks and the Church would excommunicate them.
      The same thing happens in Jewish communities when someone goes too much "out of line" to the point that people boycott all their business and cut all types of relations to the peoples they expel from their communities.

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      • #78
        The world it it how it's look, In everytimes wethere its 80 or 90's Or 21st century, the consquiences are differents, With rapidly growing technology and Media and by becoming the world global villege; We are aware form the whole world masscares. As a result We all are scared

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        • #79
          Originally posted by aileen View Post
          The world it it how it's look, In everytimes wethere its 80 or 90's Or 21st century, the consquiences are differents, With rapidly growing technology and Media and by becoming the world global villege; We are aware form the whole world masscares. As a result We all are scared
          That is true. The world "appears" far more dangerous today than ever before because of the ubiquitous presence of video cameras. A small flood or land slide or bombing gets recorded from multiple angles and repeated 24/7 for weeks on end. People tend to focus on the negative more than positive already.

          I was in Paris during the terror attack in November. I had the TV news on. It got depressing after 2 days of continuous reporting and I just had to watch something else.
          "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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          • #80
            For fuck sakes, 100,000 cities were slated to disappear under a mushroom cloud in the 60s and 70s and I am supposed to be scared of a some virgins whacking off of fucking 72 sixteen yearolds?
            Chimo

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            • #81
              Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
              For fuck sakes, 100,000 cities were slated to disappear under a mushroom cloud in the 60s and 70s and I am supposed to be scared of a some virgins whacking off of fucking 72 sixteen yearolds?
              As usual, The Colonel deconstructs the argument in one, simple statement.

              Never change, sir.
              “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
              Mark Twain

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              • #82
                Originally posted by gunnut View Post
                The problem with your theory is that the western "multicultural" socialist will just declare "ISIS is not Islam."

                Notice that we haven't had a single "muslim terror attack" on continental US since 9-11? We've had plenty of "isolated incidents," "work place violence," "lone wolf attacks" by "social outcasts." Basically anything but "Islamic terror."

                "Islamic terror" does not exist in the world of western multiculturalism.
                If ISIS and Al Qaeda are Islamic terror will you allow the same logic to the IRA being catholic terror and the Ku Klux Klan being Christian racism?

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                • #83
                  Was going through my previous posts and don't think I ever read all the responses to this one.

                  Feel the same.

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                  • #84
                    What I find interesting is the (to me apparent) increase in global geopolitical instability since the mid 00's as opposed to the the almost continual decline experienced by the world in the last quarter or so of the 20th Century. To me it seems tied to the lasting impact GFC and the end to what was almost 50 years of more or less continuous economic growth and rising rising levels of global prosperity prior to that event. Now that the world appears to have entered a period of extended low to zero economic growth we seem to also be seeing rising levels of political disengagement and/or frustration by the electorate in the West and an outright breakdown in political authority in other parts of the world. The worrying thing is that instability and uncertainty are by default counter-productive in terms of increasing global wealth. The 'real' or physical economy by and large thrives on certainty not uncertainty. So the question is - assuming global economic growth doesn't improve in the near future, have we reached some kind of global tipping point?
                    Last edited by Monash; 21 Jul 16,, 12:53.
                    If you are emotionally invested in 'believing' something is true you have lost the ability to tell if it is true.

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                    • #85
                      Periods of crisis happen.But global economy is mostly harmed by fighting.And fighting is provoked by rising competitors of the west.Who rose because they had enough peaceful years to grow.
                      Those who know don't speak
                      He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Luke 22:36

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                      • #86
                        China.
                        Politicians are elected to serve...far too many don't see it that way - Albany Rifles! || Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it - Mark Twain! || I am a far left millennial!

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