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Originally Posted by Gnostic Christian Bishop
Should Canada and the U.S. tolerate an intolerant Islam?
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Haven't you tired of having your ass comprehensively handed to you in other threads? Or are you just a glutton for punishment?
There are `1.6 billion Muslims in this world. Are they all running around beheading people, committing suicide bombings, shooting up concerts? No, they are not.
Is Islam to blame for ISIS and Al Qaeda? No. WE ARE.
We, right here in the West.
We created Islamic extremism.
Just look at those lovely pix of that amiable dunce Ronnie Reagan sitting around with Jihadis! America has no memory, of course! I wonder why the Tea Party wingnuts who have seized control of Lincoln's party not convened a Benghazi-style panel to look into the errors and malefactions of their beloved idiot, that empty suit so fatuously nicknamed Das Gipper?
The roots of this mess go back much farther, though, to World War I, when the Western victors carved up the Ottoman Empire into colonies and protectorates without any understanding of local culture, history and religion. The "nations" of the Middle East are artificial constructions.
Then, of course, there was the forced imposition of Israel in the region in 1948.
The average Arab looks to the West and sees -- correctly! -- oppressors, imperialists and murderers. In fact, they see
terrorists. How many Iraqis, many of them children, perished under the forced sanctions regime imposed on their country by the U.S.-led West after the Gulf War of 1990? A war, don't forget, that was fought against another Western-made Frankenstein, Saddam Hussein. How many innocent Arabs have been slaughtered since the U.S. commenced its "war on Terra" in 2001? How many wedding parties have been blown to molecules by our brave Western drone strikes?
If you don't want to be terrorized,
don't be the world's No. 1 terrorist.
Islam has nothing to do with the attacks in Paris or anywhere else. Islam is not a
source of these attacks, or this rage; the source is decades of colonization, displacement, forced dictatorial regimes, and mass murder by the West against these peoples. At best, for the tiny minority of Muslims who commit these attacks, Islam is really just a
banner to be rallied around -- for after all, why not? All peoples rally around banners. The U.S. people mindlessly rally around the stars and stripes without thinking what that flag really stands for (slavery, genocide against Native Americans, suppression of labor, misogyny and homophobia, persistent efforts, only periodically rebuffed, to concentrate obscene amounts of wealth into the fewest hands possible). In World War II, the cultured German people, so recently humiliated by the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty, rallied around the Swastika. It had nothing to do with religion.
Blaming Islam in particular, or for that matter religions in general, for the ills in the world, is at best feeble-minded, and at worst blatantly dishonest. The truth is, the right-wing jingoes of the West who assail ISIS and call for war against them, secretly
love ISIS and are
in cahoots with them. America always needs enemies, in order to perpetuate and expand the military-industrial complex against which Eisenhower so presciently warned. ISIS is a godsend for these clowns.
As for Gnostic Christian Bishop, he's just a blithering, humorless, dishonest imbecile.
