On 1/18/2015 10:03 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
Because its not part of the party line is why. It's the ideology of progies to enable the jihad attacks against the west, perhaps so as to winnow down the forces of resistance, via Islamist attacks, and thus, get the party worldwide into power, placed their by beleaguered votes? Paranoid indeed, but it kind of makes sense.I observe a empirical fact, Muslims behave like homicidal imbeciles when their religion is insulted, but Christians and Jews and Hindus and Buddhist do not.Why the difference? It is a perfectly legitimate question. John K Clark -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jan 17, 2015 4:31 pm Subject: Re: Why was nobody murdered because of this cartoon?On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:33 PM, PGC <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:>> A fair question. >I'm not so sure about that. The question presupposes ironically that violence is a justified response to insult.I observe a empirical fact, Muslims behave like homicidal imbeciles when their religion is insulted, but Christians and Jews and Hindus and Buddhist do not.Why the difference? It is a perfectly legitimate question.
Of course it is not all Muslims who become homicidal, only a small number; yet certainly a much larger proportion than among those other religions. But the Tamil Tigers are Hindu and have engaged in suicide bombing and other terrorist acts. Christians and Jews certainly also in different times. Buddhist and Jains and Quakers not so much. Atheists...depends on how you count Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. I don't think they had their 'religion' insulted; they just wanted power, but that might be true of imams too. I think the important difference is Muslims have been marginalized by the advance of technological civilization and the Enlightenment. So disaffected young men, like the Kouchai brothers, see fighting for Islam as a worthy and noble venture to give meaning to their lives, without having give it themselves. By comparison, fighting for communism would have been attractive in the 50's but is passe now. Fighting for Capitalism makes no sense because Capitalism is dominant.
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