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| Yes, It Is About Religion |
| 2008-02-01 |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 I recently attended a briefing by a U.S. Air Force colonel who declared that the current terrorist threat had “nothing to do with Islam.” I related news: WWII's blitzkrieg threat had nothing to do with Nazism. Such well-intentioned statements appeal to political correctness at the expense of meaningful understanding. Such well-intentioned parsing of complete bullsh*t do nothing to promote meaningful understanding either. It is true that the War on Terror is not a religious war between Islam and any other religion; No. The "War on Terror" is newspeak to avoid the blindingly obvious fact Islam is at war with all other religions (including and especially other versions of Islam). it is also true that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists. It is also true that the overwhelmingly majority of Muslims think the only terrorists are British, American or Jewish; that the overwhelming majority of Muslims say nothing which is not in the form of whining or seething and htat the overwhelming majority of Muslims tacitly and materially support the war against us. However, the global war against the extremists who attacked America on September 11 has a theological dimension that we must acknowledge. You could f*cking knock me over with a feather. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-02-01 17:05 |