In a bigot's world, it's never about attacking, is it? So yeah, it's obvious that you don't see it.
It could well be being that I am not a bigot and presumably neither are any of the people here talking about radical Muslim extremism or Muslims in general, you have really failed to make a point. Who amoung us have been critical of Islam? Who has said that Muslims are all rasdicalised and dangerous? For God's sake, what position do you think you are actually defending and from whom?
See, this is why I don't respect your opinion. This is why you are a bigot, and you don't even see it.
At least Al is taking on views he disagrees with and will argue till the cows come home with people he disagrees with, that's not bigotry. Your complete dismissal of views you disagree with makes you a complete bigot in the true sense of the word.
i think you just fingered the real problem there . And Our Glorious Leader will snark til the cows come home. And we are all idioits and bigots. ofc. And Even Walkie is tiring of this same old. Can't we talk about Islam, instead , FFS?
I'm happy to talk to you about Islam etc. I can see that you are mislead though. You seem like you are getting your information from people like Sam Harris, who just blames everything on Islam. If there are suicide bombings, it's Islam or religion in general. I guess he must forget that the Japanese and Vietnamese carried out suicide bombings. I like to get to the route causes of the problem instead.
I don't regard Islam , Christianity, Bufddhism etc as significantly different from other ideologies, such as Capitalism, Communism, Rationalism etc. and further, I do believe that ideologies
can be influential. Maybe you , or somebody , could explain what's wrong with that POV?
Incidentally, America doesn't have a good record for tolerating different ideologies, does it? For all that banging on about the "Land of the Free" . i'm not especially inclined to blame the American
people for that, I hasten to add, but some of them do become pretty damned radicalised.
I can probably say the above , about America, wthout provoking a shitstorm...I think (but then again, I'm not
in America)
Well, i've got various responses queing up in my head, but right now I need to do other things, and also give my brain a rest, cos I'm heartily sick of clicking wrong buttons etc. I hope
that won't become an issue in my absence
. I'm pleased to see that this thread has got to be less about personalities and more about other issues, since I last checked. I don't wanna ruin all that by letting myself get accused of deliberately snubbing people *wince*