And whatever led you to believe that I perceive the Islamic Threat Vector in simplistic terms?
And, finally, whatever led you to post an irrelevant family photo on an impersonal message board like this?
I thought that was a very nice picture of the Kondor Family reunion... I'm surprised you didn't share it with everyone...
Enough of the moronic photos and thinly-veiled family pokes.
You are defending the indefensible... namely, Obama's faux equivalencies between Christian violence of 1000 (Crusades) or 500 (Inquisition) years ago, versus the Islamic violence of today, and Obama's de facto giving of rationalization or equalizing or justifying metaphorical ammunition to our adversaries; a.k.a. giving aid and comfort to the Enemy.
...Anyway, Cleetus, whenever you try to claim Muslims are like this Borg Hive-mind, you really are about as simplistic as can be...
Never claimed any such thing.
And you will not be allowed to get away with trying to pitch it as such, without challenge.
What I
DO claim is that the basic or Core Teachings of Islam are
saturated with rationalizations and divine permissions to wage war and to commit religiously-motivated violence and oppression against Unbelievers and those who accost The Faithful, and that these Core Teachings set Islam apart from its peers, as a far more dangerous seedbed of radicalism.
...If roles were reversed, if some technologically superior force made YOUR life a living hell, you'd do the same thing they are doing now.
Yes, folks, there we see it... rationalizing and excusing the actions of The Enemy - namely, Radical Militant Islam.
Kissing cousins to Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw, Pierre Laval, Philippe Petain, Vidkun Quisling, Benedict Arnold, Judas, and all that lot.
Newsflash, my little Arab butt-buddy...
Muslim polities routinely antagonize and strike out at their Muslim neighbors dominated by different sect-beliefs, and Infidel -dominated states.
They've been doing it off and on since the 7th Century (Anno Domini), right up to and including our present age.
They do this because they are - at their core - a Warrior Religion, rather than a Religion of Peace.
They are a Warrior Religion owing to the basic or Core Teachings left behind by their Founder (Muhammed) and his hallucinatory vision of The Godhead, which foster and encourage warfare and violence in a wide-ranging variety of circumstances, and which, through reinterpretation by any street-corner mullah with a hard-on for Infidels, leaves it supremely susceptible to manipulation to commit such violence. Basically, their vision of the godhead empowers them in this fashion, and they cannot stop themselves.
We did not begin messing with them, on any sort of broad scale, until they began threatening our interests.
Islam is a poison pill for The West - incompatible with modern Western culture and values and governance and personal freedoms and womens rights and the rest.
Transplanted beyond its domains, into regions of The West, it is to be tolerated, but watched closely, and perpetually. It is not to be trusted.
As the dumbass Euros are beginning to understand, having made the mistake of allowing so many of them to pour into their countries over the past few decades.
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And, as a point of interest to any good atheist... in regions where a fundamentalist variant or enforcement of Islam holds sway... they'll work on killing-off the atheists and agnostics and gays and womens rights folk, before they turn on the Jews and Christians.
That means that in areas where they are allowed to control, through fundamentalist teachings and practices, that they'll come for you, as an atheist, long before they come for most other folks.
The trick is, not to allow such variants to spread widely, lest other cultures and civilizations and traditions and belief systems and societies be placed in mortal danger.
Ultimately, that is why we (the US, and The West in general) have committed to regular watchfulness and periodic interventions, during this phase of Islamic re-awakening and re-militarization.
It has far less to do with oil and military-industrial complexes and such than it does long-term cultural survival and the occasional preemption or intervention required to assure such survival.
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And, getting back to the OP...
Defenders of Obama in this context, are defending the indefensible...
Stupidly equating Christian violence of 1000 (Crusades) or 500 (Inquisition) years ago, with Muslim-initiated violence of today...
Thereby giving The Enemy - Radical Militant Islam - more metaphorical or philosophical or dogmatic ammunition for their present-day actions - assisting them with the task of conjuring-up equivalencies which can have the effect of softening criticism of their violence - a.k.a. "giving aid and comfort to the enemy".
Inexcusable.
Despicable.
Unforgivable.
Another and pressing reason - in a long and growing list of reasons - for the Congress to isolate and marginalize the President to the greatest degree possible in his remaining 23 months as a Lame Duck, while we await January 20, 2017, when the long national nightmare will finally be over, and a peaceful, lawful transfer of executive power can be effected, out of the hands of someone who would do such a damaging and despicable thing.
