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If you are serious, then you've severely limited your thinking on this issue. As soon as you say, "no Muslims", then they start setting up non-Muslims to attack. As soon as you say, "our borders are closed" they'll infiltrate using those on the inside. Is your next step going to be 'shut down the internet'? It's a game of whack-a-mole and we'll never win.
lol yes I am not sure why these bombings offend me. I should just sit back and just shrug like the rest of you.....
I believe my thinking is enough is enough. Something drastic has to change to increase the odds in our favor. I don't believe continuing to let radical muslims wander around the globe doing as they please is the answer. That pretty much is what they are doing now since you really don't want to "offend" them God forbid.....
So, you mean just the brown people or the ones with head scarves? As if it weren't already bad enough being a female American citizen of Latin descent with breast cancer.
The color of their skin is irrelevant, their religious beliefs aren't since that is what is behind it. Of course hard to really complain since their religion demands it.....
So, you can identify someone's religion just by looking at them.
Yeah, I am very talented like that.....They posted the pic of the 3 guys in the Brussels airport, I knew immediately they were muslim....
Its all perspective. I don't go in with the naïve thought I am going to change anyones mind. I really don't care....
The perceived threat you are talking about is called poverty.
I think it goes deeper than that. The perception is that western culture is a threat to their ideals. It's not just the poor that are being recruited. The well educated are also being drawn in because the propaganda suggests that the ideals of their religion are under attack and God commands that they fight back at any cost.
I don't think its that simple. I could be wrong and poverty is no doubt adding fuel to the fire, but there seems to be more to it than that.
Its not perspective... Its a fact you saw a picture of a man and thought he was Muslim or close enough.
I wouldn't your hippy head about it....
I think we are talking about two different things then. Crippling terrorist organizations is a less difficult than the concept of stopping terrorism. McVeigh wasn't motivated by poverty and neither was Bin Laden. Sure you can deplete their resources, but to truly stop terrorism takes more than that.
Their religion to the core is the problem. You wont stop that since these are people from birth raised to believe its perfectly fine to kill the evil infidels. Hell its their God given right!
Apologies. I was talking about the terrorist organizations that allow demagogues like Trump and Cruz to convince Americans that terrorism is an existential threat to America. Here's a hint Poncho: They're not. You're never going to destroy them completely, and there will always be lone wolves but you can choke them of their resources and their primary need is cannon fodder.
Lone wolves would be very easy to handle if all the Muslims were chilling in the desert herding goats....
Yeah. There's no way they could recruit people already in the US. The telephone and internet won't be invented for another 100 years.
Honestly, I'm willing to listen to your plan and whatever "extremes to stop it" you think are necessary. Unfortunately, the only idea you've come up with would fail miserably. So you may want to step off that high horse you're riding until you come up with a better idea.
Why would it fail? Is the better idea letting any middle easterner in the country? That's working out well for the world....
You're obviously not reading my previous posts. As soon as you say, "no middle easterners", they'll recruit non-middle easterners to do their bidding. Try to shut down the borders entirely and they'll just recruit someone from the inside. It's not like they're going to say, "they're not letting middle easterners in the country. Guess our jig is up."
Then obviously you deal with that when the situation arises. I don't believe it would be as common as you believe. Joe Bob from Kansas wont be as inclined to put on the bomb vest in the name of Allah since he wasn't raised since birth being taught to hate and kill the west as his religion seems to give them a free pass for murder.....
Nah bro, quite frankly they're both fruitless pursuits. You can't eliminate the feelings and mental processes of being human and eliminate terrorism. There are also undeniably too many people on this planet who we struggle to feed as it is, and are one famine or animal virus from starving hundreds of millions more.
I imagine they are trying to recruit non-middle easterners already. Doesn't seem like that group will ever make up a large portion of groups like Daesh.
Because Em hasn't posted in the last 10 minutes. These people aren't going to troll themselves you know.
But you think radical Muslims just woke up one day out of boredom and decided not to like Americans. And that we did nothing to warrant their disdain.
But you think a bunch of Muslims just woke up one day out of boredom and decided not to like Americans. And that we did nothing to warrant their disdain.
I don't really care! I am not sure how you can justify these 20 something year old men going into public places and killing innocent people who have never done anything to them. I understand that their religion supports and encourages them to kill all non muslims, that doesn't make it right imo but you go ahead and justify their actions ace.....
No one is justifying it and you know it Ponch. I am pointing out that your stance is naive and your solutions are ill considered, childish and will only foment the very evil you are railing against. But I know you won't understand that so...
Bull####. You just tried to justify it don't be a little phony when you just wrote it, own it.
yup because nothing stops extremism like extremism.
