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Emmerging pattern?Originally posted by BONDI BOY
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Emmerging pattern?Originally posted by BONDI BOY
No link , oh it must not have occured. Not all of us need the web.
Originally posted by acludem
My primary textbook is Inside Terrorism written by a man named Bruce Hoffman. Hoffman is, in fact, considered to be one of the world's pre-eminent experts on terrorism. He is the director of the terrorism research division of the RAND Corporation in Washington D.C. His book, as well as my other textbook, discusses theories from leading experts across the spectrum.
..... the original "terrorists" were the people we call patriots. Terrorism started right here in America.
Terrorism originally was associated with democracy movements. Only later did it become what it is today. Religious terrorism didn't become a big deal until after World War II. The very first true act of international terrorism was the massacre of the Israeli Olympic Team in Munich in 1972. A good book on this event is The Blood of Israel by Serge Groussard.
I take issue with your broad characterization of my professors. The professor I have taken most of my upper level political science classes from is a Libertarian (so he won't be instilling any liberal propaganda, now will he?). My current professor has never really discussed his politics, so I can't say where he is on the spectrum.
Terrorism is a complex, difficult topic. There is no one simple solution.
acludem
Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
The koran PREACHES terrorism
Provide examples or back down.
Note that you're not the only one who's read it.
Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
So - you kill your neighbor because he hits his wife?
Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
The koran PREACHES terrorism
Provide examples or back down.
Note that you're not the only one who's read it.
Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
So - you kill your neighbor because he hits his wife?
http://www.usmessageboard.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4936Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
So far, my message still stands: by throwing all Islamic militant movements for all causes on a heap, you're making a mistake of judgement that will eventually work to your disadvantage.
Now where's that thread, NewGuy? Can't seem to find it.
Originally posted by acludem
New Guy, pick up ANY and I mean ANY book on terrorism and it'll say exactly what I told you. What we now refer to as terrorism started with the American and French revolutions.
Religious war and terrorism are NOT the same thing. Please try and learn something about what terrorism is and where it comes from.
I'll admit, I haven't read the Koran. But you obviously haven't ever read a book on terrorism. You do realize that there is secular (that means not religious) terrorism I hope.
The Irish Republican Army, and the Basque separatists have both committed terrorists acts, neither for religious reasons. Timothy McVeigh wasn't a religious terrorist either. Do you assume that the only terrorists in the world are Muslim extremists?
Do you assume that all Muslims are terrorists?
acludem
Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
Thanks NewGuy.
I'm on here for my second day so I don't know my way around here that well yet.
Please don't be so low as to project my unfamiliarness with usmessageboard.com on my political viewpoint. Speaking of which, what is my political viewpoint, do you think? And what is wrong with it?
EDIT: And what exactly did I need to read that thread for? It's all Constitution gibberish! Can we stick to the topic, please.
Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
- Iraq had little to do with international terrorism when it was invaded.
- This fact was distorted by the US government when they used the WMD argument.
- Now that the WMD argument doesn't seem to hold water, the issue of Human Rights is suggested as a sort of revisionist cause.
- However, in their need to control the situation and deal with the enemy, the US are neglecting these same Human Rights in various places in the world.
- This display of using two standards is the reason there is so much resentment against the US.
Originally posted by acludem
It's pretty hard to base a religion on a concept that didn't exist until several thousand years after you founded the religion. Evidently New Guy thinks Mohammed jumped into a time machine, met with Osama bin Laden, and then went back and wrote the Koran.
acludem
Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
NewGuy,
I asked you a direct question on why you think the Koran is based on terrorism, and you still owe me an answer. The answer in not in that thread. If you think it is, would you please so kind as to show me where?
Actually I don't care what your viewpoint is until you express it. Also, I don't care to assume what is wrong with it until you point it out by expressing it.
And you say my attention span is short? You even quoted my (repeated) viewpoint:
I'd like to add to that the following concept, which I've developed since coming here. It seems there is some misconception about this, too.
- Iraq had little to do with international terrorism when it was invaded.
- This fact was distorted by the US government when they used the WMD argument.
- Now that the WMD argument doesn't seem to hold water, the issue of Human Rights is suggested as a sort of revisionist cause.
- However, in their need to control the situation and deal with the enemy, the US are neglecting these same Human Rights in various places in the world.
- This display of using two standards is the reason there is so much resentment against the US.