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| Paris attack |
| 2015-01-09 |
| MUCH of the world is reacting in shock and grief over the massacre at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Gay Paree on Wednesday. Nevertheless, regrettably enough, some are still trying to contextualise the attack by bringing in the larger issue of provocation in matters of faith, Lion of Islam Islamists'' demonstrated tendency to resort to violence in such situations, and the marginalisation from the mainstream that Moslems in many countries feel despite being perfectly law-abiding. Of these people, there is a simple question to be asked: in choosing to adopt such an abhorrent method of voicing their disapproval of the publications editorial choices, did the perpetrators of the attack do their religion and its 1.6 billion adherents any sort of positive service? Or have their actions poured yet more fuel on the fires of prejudice and fear that are lighting up in many parts of the West regarding the inherent ''otherness'' of Moslems? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Sew each one of the ba$tards into a pig, entrails and all. Run each package through a wood chipper. Cremate the resulting slurry. Drop it in the ocean somewhere. Televise the whole thing. Anyone who complains about it needs to be killed. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-01-09 12:56 |
| #4 One of the things to keep in mind is that Islamists are pretty much attempting to do what the U.S. minority group activists have done with some success: namely create a malleable victim class either by getting the entire group in on the blame, or by forcing a backlash, or by establishing a climate of "white guilt" with respect to Moslems. They're doing a pretty damn good job on the last one in the US and OK, methinks. IMNSHO, Choudry is no different than Al Sharpton or LaRaza, except in who's doing the funding. The political elites are responding to the jihadists, and Moslem community by extension, in the same way that they've responded to other militant minority groups. It also pretty much explains why the Left seems to be falling all over themselves in supporting the jihadists. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-09 12:53 |
| #3 The same media people who keep burying the ugly fact that the Nazis were Socialists, try desperately to separate terrorism (let alone several hundred years of military conquest) from Islam. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-09 08:25 |
| #2 was certainly not the will of the majority, and neither does it reflect their mindset. Bull. Read Chowdrey and tell me that the majority of Muslims don't cheer this, at least silently. I didn't believe this way in the past but I have been forced to agree with the position that their are two types of Muslims: 1) The type that will kill you/all infidels; 2) The type that want type 1 to kill you. Any one who isn't a type 1 or type 2 Muslim is not a Muslim but an apostate. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-01-09 08:24 |
| #1 Not at all surprising, many still deny “Arbeit Macht Frei,” Little difference in my book. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-09 02:38 |