Conservative Christians and Muslims do not mix. Its YOU GUYS who support their cause of destruction of freedom. You HAVEN'T DONE 1 THING TO FIGHT TERRORISM. All you do is shout the pulling out of Iraq giving them hope and comfort. You condemn the soldiers for defending themselves against these terrorist and call them the victims and freedom fighters.
Hm. Well, let's look at the whole thing from a historic perspective.
From even before Muhammad the Islamic region was a fairly hostile place. Muhammad made it even worse with his genocides and wars, which later lead to the invasion and occupation of large parts of Europe. And the continued occupation of Constantinople, one might say. With me so far, right?
Then, as a response the Crusades were used as a method of both pre-emptive warfare and a reduction of the amount of criminals and such in Europe. Now, given the pre-Islamic culture of vengeance and violence which was certainly not weakened by Muhammed, you can imagine that this alone was enough to cause some anger among the Muslims, which lasts even until today. While their own occupation of Spain for about 700 years is ignored. So we can see from even pre 1900s history that Arabic Muslims respond negatively (more so than us) to violence and vengeance enacted upon them.
Now, for modern history, which is more at direct fault for the terrorism you say you fight.
We saw an approximation to the west in both Iran and Iraq in the late mid to somewhat late 1900s. Then, the US overthrew Mohammed mossadegh, elected president of Iran. They replaced him with the Shah of Iran, and helped the Shah train his SAVAK, a secret police known to be as terrible as the Gestapo. The US and Europe both sold weapons and technology to Saddam Hussein when his regime stood ready to fall, and stood idly by as Saddam performed genocide on his own citizens. Then, when Saddam started threatening our interests, we (with the US in the very very clear lead) intervened with military force - in starch contrast to promises of friendship and promises that no intervention would be made to Saddam.
On top of this we have a strong pressure from the west on the Islamic world to abandon what we see as barbaric practices, to end the tyrrannical regimes they have.
When the US invaded Iraq after 9-11 the first things they did was to secure oil, mercury and other valuable resources. They then let their own corporations take control over these resources which were Arabic to start with, meaning the nation they perceive as the enemy (the USA) is getting resources and money which is theirs. It is rightly seen as theft. Not as liberation. And given their history and culture you better believe they won't roll over and take it. They'll recruit more and more sympathizers for their cause. More and more people with desires for violent responses will come forward, and what you do to fight terrorism will ultimately be one of the largest factors in the recruitment basis for the terrorist organizations.
Now, keep in mind that I am not saying that Islam and Muslims are blameless. What I AM saying is that while I find your attempt at doing something good admirable, what you're doing by using violence to try to fight terrorism is folly. It will only strengthen the foe.
You disgust me with your absolute slander. I would be beheaded in a heartbeat in Iran. MUHAMMAD(PBUH[the p isn't for peace, figure it out yourself]) IS NOT MY PROPHET AND ALLAH IS NOT MY GOD!
Yeah, you would. So would I. And I would also be killed in a heartbeat in the C.S.A. Because I am a socialist. And a man who will not allow dictators to oppress the population without doing something to stop him.
You're forgetting, FG -- in the C.S.A., SoF would have them both killed anyway.
*sigh* Yes. I know. The C.S.A. is the most anti-Christian nation I have even heard of.
This is what I was talking about to my complaint about the moderators in this forum. This is a obvious flame, yet you will not be scolded by this.
AND HOW DARE YOU COMPARE ME TO THAT NAZI MUSLIM!
Well, if you support the C.S.A. you're probably going to be compared with Hitler as well. Or at least Göring or Himmler or someone else from Hitler's closest circle of madmen.
And the comparison would be right. The differences between the CSA and the third reich are minute at best.
So I don't think the comparison to Ahmadinejad is all that bad. It's actually a lot milder than the comparison with the heads of the third reich. Which is not far off, if you're a supporter of the C.S.A.
And - there's a lot of data which has already been included into this thread saying why this is so. It's not a flame to compare someone who plans to do exactly what Hitler did with Hitler. It's a valid comparison with valid historical data.
So, the question is - do you support the C.S.A. - or did we misunderstand you?
Yes they are, they have been trying to bring up laws that define any group who speaks against homosexuality a hate group.
Well, when someone talks about exterminating homosexuals I would say that qualifies as a hate statement if anything does. Now I agree that homosexuality is wrong, but it is a thousand times worse than homosexuality to seek genocide!!!
Please get educated on America, were not a democracy.
So why do your leaders talk about 'spreading democracy'?