If Islamic extremists really love their religious institutions in the way that they claim they do, then pointing an ICBM at Mecca may not be the most irrational thing to do. They may not care if the rest of the world goes up in a nuclear mushroom cloud, as Bill points out, but Mecca is not the rest of the world. Would they really risk blowing up New York City if they believed the consequences of such an action would be a 30 kiloton nuclear explosion over the Kaaba stone? After all, the nuclear destruction of Mecca would end Islamic forms of worship as they presently exist.
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That sounds good on paper, but ask any Islamic extremist about such a strategy and they'll tell you that Allah won't *allow* anyone to drop a bomb on Mecca. And they believe that.
The best thing to do is probably get them to moderate their belief systems so it's compatable with living with the rest of the world.
After all, the nuclear destruction of Mecca would end Islamic forms of worship as they presently exist.
No, idiot. That's a cargo supertanker load size of fail.
I know they're fixing up the site and all, but are we going to get the awards back?
"Nuclear Strike For Jesus" Award nomination
Dale is the character in "King of the Hill" who believes in every conspiracy theory known to humankind, and uses the alias Rusty Shackleford to "stay out of the system." Yet he is so clueless that he is unaware of his wife's affair with her Native American masseur John Redcorn... and that their son looks more like John than Dale.
Right. And then the 0.1% of the Islamic world that is currently fundamentalist becomes 100%, and instead of thousands of Muslims ready to kill Americans, you have over 1.5 billion Muslims ready to kill Americans.
Brilliant! No more trips to play-land in Indonesia and the Phillipines, no more good will from Pakistan or Saudi Arabia (whom we just nuked, asswipe).
Yeah. The Islamic fundies would probably be MORE likely to nuke New York then, if that meant converting 100% of the world's Muslims to hate America.
After all, the nuclear destruction of Mecca would end Islamic forms of worship as they presently exist.
You don't know much about human nature. They'd just worship the hole, and attack unbelievers even more.
So you would doom the entire world to a perpetual religious war for the sake of your machismo? Just how small is your penis that you feel compelled to compensate for it?
Or are you just that simpleminded and silly?
b. beau wrote:
"I smell Poe... that name happens to be Dale Gribble's alias..."
You'd be surprised the number of people I've met in real life who are exactly like Dale Gribble.
Then again, I DID hang out with the Sovereign Citizen Tax Protestor crowd in 1997.
Euclid wrote:
"We need a new award: Ironic Forum Name Award. For example, when someone posts to "Truth and Grace" a rant that contains neither..."
We could call it the "Holy Roman Empire" award.
Or the "English Horn" award.
Or, for that matter, the "Moral Majority" award.
If you get my drift...
Wow...I mean...wow...yeah. Destroy the most religiously significant place to them. THAT'S not gonna make them retaliate. Nosirree Bob.
Moron. Sometimes...and I know this is a shock, but bear with me, the solution to the problem isn't necessarily to blow shit up.
Muslims would still pray towards Mecca, even if it was just acres of radioactive glass. What would seriously change is that they, and the rest of the world, would consider the U.S. a genocidal threat and try to wipe us out first.
"then pointing an ICBM at Mecca may not be the most irrational thing to do."
Don't you have any fucking clue how missile targeting and guidance works? Our ICBMs only need the coordinates of the target (they can reach anywhere on earth) entered prior to launch. They don't need to be "pointed" at the target; the targeting and guidance systems take care of that. Right now they're just as much "pointing" at Dr. Rusty Shackelford's house as they are at Mecca.
Fucking idiot.
Confused?
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