[Discussing Gitmo Hunger Strike]
[MrMannn writes 'Not all muslims are terrorists. But all terrorists are muslim.']
[Smile replies 'Well, except for Eric Robert Rudolph, the Unabomber, Timothy McVeigh, the Anthrax mailer, . . .']
Smile, all the terrorists who blew up the twin towers, sabotaged and blew up part of the World Trade Center and blow up people are Muslim.
Those two you pointed out were Americans who had mental problems.
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In reply to #491:
You mistakenly attributed poor math skills to the moron. I think he can probably count to four ... the problem is more a lack of awareness of the world around him.
He believed that Eric Rob't Rudolph WAS the Unabomber, and that Timothy McVeigh WAS the anthrax mailer.
I blame the school system.
*rolls eyes*
So let's move on to the Christian terrorists:
Army of God
God's Army-A terrorist group in Myanmar.
Lord's Resistance Army -Christian/Pagan/Muslim terrorist group that operates in northern Uganda, it seeks to overthrow the Ugandan government and create a country based on the ten commandments.
Nagaland Rebels (1947-present)- Active in predominantly Christian state in Hindu majority India. Involved in several bombings in 2004. Goal: Independence from India after annexing parts of neighboring Indian states and Burma if it has Christian majority.
National Liberation Front of Tripura (1989-present)- A group that seeks the independence of Tripura from India to create a Christian Tripura.
KKK is a fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism.
Phineas Priesthood- An American based Christian Identity movement.
(From Wikipedia)
And that's one category out of many, many more.
I think A.
A is demonstrably untrue, see, B, C, D and E.
No...still A!
Of course, when the terrorists are white, all-American boys, they're "misguided" and "suffering from mental illness." When the terrorists are darker-skinned and speak in foreign accents, they're "hateful devils" and "godless unbelievers." Get a clue, Becky, why don't you?
All terrorists are religious.
Anyone with the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities.
Islam is not the problem. The problem is religion.
"Those two you pointed out were Americans who had mental problems."
So, by your own logic...
Not all Americans have mental problems. But all people with mental problems are American. Right?
I mean, if you can identify two common factors between two individuals or groups like (Muslim, terrorist) or (American, mental problem), then you can immediately reject any idea that they are independent variables and confidently assert that they always appear together. Because otherwise your whole argument would be just so much s**t!
All the terrorists who blow up people are Muslim? Yeah, right! Baader-Meinhof, IRA, ETA, Aum shinrikyo, Jacobines during the French Revolution, Contras, the Inquisition. There are LOTS of non-Muslim terrorists.
If you can blow up people, you have mental problems, it's as easy as that.
Sure, defend the guilty when they happen to be Americans, but any hint of Arab or Muslim, and it's time to shanghai them and feed them to the sharks. Shit-eating fuckwad.
Because, you know, those Muslims couldn't have issues, eh?, non-true-American?
Christian terrorists do exist (Ireland conflict) and do have mental problems, believing in a supernatural outside force is a mental problem.
The 911 terrorists were dedicated to a God too. Oddly enough the Abrahamic one, yours
Just as an iPod is a media player, but not all media players are iPods, not all Christians (Quakers, Unitarian Universalists, those here in FSTDT et al) have mental problems, but all right-wing Fundamental ist Christians have mental problems. After all...:
You can't spell 'Fundamentalist' without 'Mental '.
@Johntheatheist
There are plenty of non-religious terrorists too, actually. Baader-Meinhof, the RAF, FARC, NPA, etc.
@JohnTheAtheist
"All terrorists are religious.
Anyone with the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities.
Islam is not the problem. The problem is religion."
'People just do the strangest things, when they believe that they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe . '
-Agent Keenan (John Goodman), "Red State"
Um, JohnTheAtheist, it is entirely possible to be a terrorist and also NOT be a religious fundie.
I don't remember the Unabomber having a big stack of Bibles in his hut or ranting about how God told him technology was evil.
All you need in order to be a terrorist is the willingness to cause death and suffering in order to achieve your ends or promote your cause.
Religion doesn't have a monopoly on that sort of ruthless dedication.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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