Are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

[Anonymous1977]

Hi,

I'm not a Muslim, first of all...but I was just reading these links about "Christian terrorism:"

Terrorism in the United States - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Christian terrorism - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia .

What are everyone's thoughts about "Christian terrorism?" and are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

 

[September]

That which constitutes as "terrorism" will always be a matter of perspective.

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[Delta4Embassy]

Hi,

I'm not a Muslim, first of all...but I was just reading these links about "Christian terrorism:"

Terrorism in the United States - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Christian terrorism - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia .

What are everyone's thoughts about "Christian terrorism?" and are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

According to FBI stats on terrorism, since 1980, 85% of terrorist incidents on US targets have been by Christian groups, 7% by Jewish groups, and 6% by Muslim groups.

Muslims have the high score for dead, but not total incidents, and that's only due to 9/11.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

That which constitutes as "terrorism" will always be a matter of perspective.

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Agree, if you include deaths of civilians, the US is the chief culprit with hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis due to sanctions AFTER the Iraq war was over.To say nothing of being the one who started this whole mess all the way back to when the US created the nation of Iraq, put totalitarian leaders into power who then subjected their people, sells arms to these leaders to this day who then repress their leaders and neighbors, and on n on.

Not like arab terrorism is out of the blue or without rather a lot of justification. We all ive in a rich country made rich by being evil to others. When something blows up or somebody gets shot by someone from these places, it's not without justificaiton. Don't like it, don't support a government who invades other countries at will.

We didn't support the government's war in Vietnam and protests had a significant effect on ending that conflict. But we dont' do that any more so such conflicts continue along with the terrorist aftermath.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

That which constitutes as "terrorism" will always be a matter of perspective.

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No, that is stupid. Specious relativism is for those incapable of providing any sort of logical argumentation.

Terrorism is not a matter of perspective, but of actions, aims and ideology. Those who play so fast and loose with their definitions that it applies to whoever they want to apply it to are only serving a dishonest agenda.

 

[Agit8r]

Hi,

I'm not a Muslim, first of all...but I was just reading these links about "Christian terrorism:"

Terrorism in the United States - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Christian terrorism - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia .

What are everyone's thoughts about "Christian terrorism?" and are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

According to FBI stats on terrorism, since 1980, 85% of terrorist incidents on US targets have been by Christian groups, 7% by Jewish groups, and 6% by Muslim groups.

Muslims have the high score for dead, but not total incidents, and that's only due to 9/11.

What this tells me is that Xn terrorists just are not very handy with pipes and nails and all that...

 

[norwegen]

Hi,

I'm not a Muslim, first of all...but I was just reading these links about "Christian terrorism:"

Terrorism in the United States - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Christian terrorism - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia .

What are everyone's thoughts about "Christian terrorism?" and are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

According to FBI stats on terrorism, since 1980, 85% of terrorist incidents on US targets have been by Christian groups, 7% by Jewish groups, and 6% by Muslim groups.

Muslims have the high score for dead, but not total incidents, and that's only due to 9/11.

Less than one percent of the population is responsible for six percent of the incidents.

Islam - the religion of peace.

 

[Avatar4321]

No. There are communist ones too. Though admittedly that's become less popular recently.

 

[ninja007]

muslims are 95% of the terrorists yes.

 

[Grendelyn]

Hi,

I'm not a Muslim, first of all...but I was just reading these links about "Christian terrorism:"

Terrorism in the United States - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Christian terrorism - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia .

What are everyone's thoughts about "Christian terrorism?" and are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

According to FBI stats on terrorism, since 1980, 85% of terrorist incidents on US targets have been by Christian groups, 7% by Jewish groups, and 6% by Muslim groups.

Muslims have the high score for dead, but not total incidents, and that's only due to 9/11.

Of course, this is right . . . providing you exclude America's New World Order oil incursion into Iraq. Onward Christian soldiers <guffaw> . . . keep marching on with Sarah Palin leading you idiots. ~ Susan

 

[hortysir]

This thread covered it all.
Radical Islam apologists
Bush/Iraq
Evil Christians

And still on the first page

 

[PratchettFan]

That which constitutes as "terrorism" will always be a matter of perspective.

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No, that is stupid. Specious relativism is for those incapable of providing any sort of logical argumentation.

Terrorism is not a matter of perspective, but of actions, aims and ideology. Those who play so fast and loose with their definitions that it applies to whoever they want to apply it to are only serving a dishonest agenda.

Ok. Define terrorism then.

 

[High_Gravity]

No their not the only terrorists, but they are putting in the most work for it right now.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Ok. Define terrorism then.

Terrorism involves an individual or a group acting to select and then murder innocent people just going about their business, the motivations being to achieve some sort of political or social ends.

If the targets are military in nature, the act would be one of guerilla war. If the targets are themselves, terrorists, the action would be considered an extrajudicial action.

Those unevolved people who support Islamist terrorism often defend it by trying to claim other actions are also terrorist, even when they are not. They do this to try to establish a false sense of moral equivalence between two actions that have no actual comparison.

One of the most frequent ruses the terrorists employ is to use a term they call "state terrorism". Now, if a state were to truly select random people to be killed en masse, that would actually qualify, but what they call "state terrorism" is almost always a case of a state targeting known terrorists who have embedded themselves in a sympathetic civilian population.

 

[PostmodernProph]

What are everyone's thoughts about "Christian terrorism?" and are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

my thoughts are that is is laughable to claim these are acts of Christian terrorism.....
the KKK is not an organization based upon religious principles, it is an organization based upon a foundation of racism.....the examples of contemporary terrorism across the world are also not based upon religious beliefs, but upon political goals...

so, unless you want to count on the actions of six people who bombed abortion clinics as your evidence of widespread "Christian terrorism", you are blowing smoke.....

 

[PratchettFan]

Ok. Define terrorism then.

Terrorism involves an individual or a group acting to select and then murder innocent people just going about their business, the motivations being to achieve some sort of political or social ends.

If the targets are military in nature, the act would be one of guerilla war. If the targets are themselves, terrorists, the action would be considered an extrajudicial action.

Those unevolved people who support Islamist terrorism often defend it by trying to claim other actions are also terrorist, even when they are not. They do this to try to establish a false sense of moral equivalence between two actions that have no actual comparison.

One of the most frequent ruses the terrorists employ is to use a term they call "state terrorism". Now, if a state were to truly select random people to be killed en masse, that would actually qualify, but what they call "state terrorism" is almost always a case of a state targeting known terrorists who have embedded themselves in a sympathetic civilian population.

So if a government does kill innocent civilians that is not terrorism so long as they call it collateral damage?

 

[PratchettFan]

What are everyone's thoughts about "Christian terrorism?" and are "Muslims" the only terrorists?

my thoughts are that is is laughable to claim these are acts of Christian terrorism.....
the KKK is not an organization based upon religious principles, it is an organization based upon a foundation of racism.....the examples of contemporary terrorism across the world are also not based upon religious beliefs, but upon political goals...

so, unless you want to count on the actions of six people who bombed abortion clinics as your evidence of widespread "Christian terrorism", you are blowing smoke.....

Do we count the actions of two people bombing a marathon evidence of widespread "Muslim terrorism"?

 

[DGS49]

To most people who give it a few moments of thought, "terrorism" is the use of violence or threats of violence to prevent people from exercising rights and prerogatives that they would otherwise exercise.

In the minds of the terrorists, the evil that is done by the terroristic acts is less than the evil that is sought to be avoided. Thus, when a "Christian" bombs an abortion clinic (destroying property), he is trying to prevent the killing of innocent people through abortion. When Islamic terrorists blow up two large buildings in New York, killing thousands, they are trying to convince the United States to stop supporting and enabling the Zionist atrocities in what Christians refer to as "The Holy Land." When cartoonists in France are killed, it is to stop them and other "infidels" from disrespecting The Prophet.

While Islam may or may not be a "religion of peace," its adherents are responsible for a hugely disproportionate percentage of the "terroristic" activities in the world.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

So if a government does kill innocent civilians that is not terrorism so long as they call it collateral damage?

That's not what it is called, that is what it IS!

If a person starts shooting up an abortion clinic, the cops arrive with the crazy guy still shooting, and people lose their lives in the resulting cross fire, what kind of complete idiot would say the cops were indulging in terrorism?

Just because terrorist create rationalizations that act to justify their terrorism, that doesn't mean you have to turn off your brain and just repeat the platitudes they offer, you know.

 

[PratchettFan]

So if a government does kill innocent civilians that is not terrorism so long as they call it collateral damage?

That's not what it is called, that is what it IS!

If a person starts shooting up an abortion clinic, the cops arrive with the crazy guy still shooting, and people lose their lives in the resulting cross fire, what kind of complete idiot would say the cops were indulging in terrorism?

Just because terrorist create rationalizations that act to justify their terrorism, that doesn't mean you have to turn off your brain and just repeat the platitudes they offer, you know.

You also don't want to turn off your brain just because you are told it isn't terrorism. If a government drops a bomb on a village, town or city, it does so with the full knowledge that innocent people are going to be killed. Calling that collateral damage does not make those innocent people any less dead nor change the reactions of the survivors. Do you think the father of a dead child will not see that as an act of terrorism?

Terrorism was first coined, I believe, during WWII by Gen Curtis Lemay to describe our bombing campaign in Europe. We set out to terrorize the civilian population by fire bombing cities. So would you describe the men on those American planes as terrorists?