As a Jew I know what it is like to be called evil for my religion. I am not orthodox. I don't subscribe to a literal reading of the Torah. I don't support the current leadership of Israel, but I identify with the Jewish people deeply.
I prefer to be judged on my actions, not the religion or nation or skin color into which I was born.
I think anyone engaging in terrorism - from radical Islam to homegrown gun nuts - should be tortured to death.
Before you start putting Muslims on a train and slaughtering Muslim children, you should realize that there are many peaceful Muslim nations that have no problem with the West.
The goal of ISIS is to scare and intimidate moderate Muslim nations into hating and attacking the West. The goal of the Republican Party is to convince the U.S. Population that there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim - and that we must declare war against 1.4 billion people - thus ensuring an increase in blowback/terrorism. ISIS is depending on the west to bomb civilian Muslim populations. This is how they turn moderates against the west, making it impossible for Syria and Iraq to be rebuilt without a terminal US occupation, which will bankrupt the USA as surely as the Soviets were bankrupted in Afghanistan. This is the only way they can defeat the west, by destroying any partnership with moderate Muslims.
Your hatred of all Muslims helps ISIS, because it destroys any potential partnership between moderate, non-violent Muslims and the West. Without that partnership, the West will never be able to empower moderate Muslims to isolate and expunge the radicals.
The Republicans and ISIS need to radicalize Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan. You need Dubai to be a home for Jihad, even though it is currently filled with peaceful Muslims and Christians living together.. You and ISIS need non-violent Muslim nations to became anti-western jihadists.
Without a cosmic war for civilization, the ability of ISIS and the Republican Party to achieve and hold power goes down.
>>As a Jew I know what it is like to be called evil for my religion. I am not orthodox. I don't subscribe to a literal reading of the Torah. I don't support the State of Israel, but I identify with the Jewish people.<<
Well I do not expect you and I to agree on much. You do not support the state of Israel. Meaning what? They are the reason there is no peace in Palestine? I am always perplexed by those who have a totally different look at the last 100 years than others.
>>I prefer to be judged on my actions, not the religion or nation or skin color into which I was born. <<
Except this discussion is not about judging individuals. Nations and religions and ideologies are grounds for discussion and judgments of various nature.
>> Before you start putting Muslims on a train and slaughtering Muslim children, you should realize that there are many peaceful Muslim nations that have no problem with the West. <<
Yes, thank you. And before you embellish or engage in demagoguery we would prefer a more honest discourse.
>>The goal of ISIS is to scare and intimidate moderate Muslim nations into hating and attacking the West.<<
Their goals go far beyond that. I would go so far as to say what you state is a welcome byproduct of their primary mission. Whether the moderates go along with them or not will not stop the killing and the grand sinister long range designs.
>>The goal of the Republican Party is to convince the U.S. Population that there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim - and that we must declare war against 1.4 billion people - thus ensuring an increase in blowback/terrorism. <<
Ah, bunk. We are not so naïve. Do not let the internet rhetoric get in the way of sound reasoning. Yes, we KNOW, we KNOW, there are moderate Muslims who want nothing to do with violence. So what? I am sure most Germans and Japs wished they never got involved in WW2. The problem is not with the moderates, nor does anyone want to declare war on 1.4 billion Muslims. The problem is Islamic terrorism is a gigantic scourge on the entire planet. It will not go away, it must be dealt with! The problem is this includes many, many millions of Muslims all over the planet, and it is difficult to identify who and where. The problem is not with a majority of Muslims --- the problem is the religion of Islam itself! You do not sound very impressed with spiritual realities or ideas. Well I am. There is a devil and these demonic forces influence all of mankind. They have surely infiltrated the religion of Islam causing many of their adherents to act in a most horrific and evil way. Maybe if you were more Jewish in a religious way you might be more apt to consider that.
>>ISIS is depending on the west to bomb civilian Muslim populations. This is how they turn moderates against the west, making it impossible for Syria and Iraq to be rebuilt without a terminal US occupation, which will bankrupt the USA as surely as the Soviets were bankrupted in Afghanistan. This is the only way they can defeat the west, by destroying any partnership with moderate Muslims.<<
This is your theory. There are many other ways to assess what is going on. I do not think for a second what you state is their primary plan and primary hoped for results. I think all that is just a consequence of some of their other more driven designs. Devils delight in beheading and impaling children. They love to create terror and major grief, just for the sake of itself. They are creating evil and hatred in an almost haphazard manner. Wherever they see an opening, be it a train, a plane, a crazy Muslim father in the West willing to go shoot up a day care center, they say "do it!"
>>Your hatred of all Muslims helps ISIS, because it destroys any potential partnership between moderate, non-violent Muslims and the West. Without that partnership, the West will never be able to empower moderate Muslims to isolate and expunge the radicals.<<
I categorically reject what you accuse me of. I do not hate any Muslims, ok? I am rarely impressed with political tactics how our opponents like to describe who we are or what we are all about. It just so happens some of us consider Islamic terrorism to be a far, far, far greater evil and problem than perhaps you do or secular leftists do. I do not see how I can clarify it any more at this time.
>>The Republicans and ISIS need to radicalize Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan. You need Dubai to be a home for Jihad, even though it is currently filled with peaceful Muslims and Christians living together.. You and ISIS need non-violent Muslim nations to became anti-western jihadists. <<
No, it is simply your ideas and the ideas of pacifists and the B.S. insanity of our president are worthless. I have ideas of what to do but enough said for the present.