Comments on: when it comes to terror, Sheila Musaji s…

By: shams

shams — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:40:31 +0000

But what is the PROXIMATE CAUSE of a lot of poverty in MENA?
Colonialism, missionariism, imperialism, the arbitrary partition of MENA nation states to create societies forever at war with themselves.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:37:09 +0000

Shams, take 5 on your WEC-Bashing. We were not even talking about the USA or the religious right so you can spare your self-loathing American schpiel. The reference is to the Muslim Community.

If Islam is a superior and just way of life, than all Muslim countries should be just and moral beacons of religious light. Since we know that is not the case, clearly, either something is wrong with Islam or with the people.

My opinion is Islam is God’s will and absolute so there has to something wrong with the people.

Manas offered a plausible diagnosis. The same greed that is tearing the United States apart already wreaked havok on these countries. Greed has mostly left a 2 tier society with a few selfish elites and the majority in crushing poverty.

Something for the US to look forward to.

By: shams

shams — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:25:09 +0000

the Amish are fundamentalists…..Quakers were fundamentalists…fundamentalism IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!

By: shams

shams — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:01:24 +0000

fundamentalism is NOT a problem…..evangelism is the problem…the idea that evangelists have the right and duty to push their ideology on others…..through proselytizing, missionariism, or force of arms aka the Grand Misadventure of the Manifest Destiny of Judeo-xian Democracy.

By: aziz

aziz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:50:39 +0000

as a matter of fact...

By: shams

shams — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:26:31 +0000

Dr. Major Hasan was a singleton event.
And finally we are seeing push back against the idea we all have to flagellate ourselves everytime Islam is mentioned.
Do you think there will ever be an apology for the hundreds of thousands of muslim civilian deaths resulting from white evangelical christian doctrine masquerading as “democracy promotion” in Bush’s Gog/Magog war?

By: manas

manas — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:36 +0000

*The cause is most likely trauma.

By: manas

manas — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:12 +0000

Fort Hood shooting is a very different thing than events in, say, Iraq or Palestine. Those are response to occupation (that does not make them good, but they are a response to occupation.)

Fort Hood is not a phenomena. It’s an isolated event. The cause is not most likely trauma.

By: Mr Moo

Mr Moo — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:17:38 +0000

Riazat Butt thinks we shouldn't condemn: She said this back in 2007. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/jul/04/muslimbutnotguilty

As a Muslim, I have to prove I am human and that I object to people blowing themselves up, murdering others and creating a climate of fear. Why would my reaction be different to anyone else's? Here's why: Islam connects me to the terror suspects. A religion is all we share but this link is enough to make my friends, my family and me guilty, as if we are somehow to blame for what is happening

By: manas

manas — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:43:45 +0000

As to Fort Hood, there the problem was clearly the invasion and subsequent PTSD.