You are too young to remember the Christian Militia groups of the 1990s here in America.
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 29/08/2010 06:51:55 PM
I'd like you to find even ten examples where a Church has been used as a recruiting ground for terrorist groups in the last ten years.
If you can't, then quite frankly your analogy is both false and purposely misleading.
If you can't, then quite frankly your analogy is both false and purposely misleading.
After the Oklahoma City bombings a lot of different militia groups with far right Christian ideologies sprang up thinking it was the end of the world and the government was going to round them up and throw them in concentration camps. These groups were often quite violent-minded and had the clear intention of performing violence against the government. There were several arrests in Michigan near where I live, one group was going to blow up an expressway. The newest incarnation of these whack jobs are the Hutaree, but really the Hutaree aren't all that different form the groups that sprang up in the 90s.
You may call people like them and Fred Phelps fringe or radicals yet they all practice Christianity and operate as Christians with ideologies THEY seem to find in the Bible. The fact is, it happens in every religion. The Hews have their radicals, the Hindus and Buddhists have their radical (Buddhists invented suicide bombing), and Christians and Muslims do too.
Again, the best way to avoid radical ideologies is to discuss the new mosque/s with the leaders of the group and make sure they are on the up and up and then help them integrate into the community. Instead, in many places no one in the community is even talking to them or discussing what it is they want to do there, they are just protesting because of some rumor that bunches of mosques are centers for radicalization - something pretty much not true.
Then again, scared people historically typically act stupid. I guess some things never do change.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
This message last edited by everynametaken on 29/08/2010 at 06:52:37 PM
Arson at future Islamic Center site 'takes it to a whole new level'
29/08/2010 04:54:42 AM
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That is quite pitiful. What a douche, I hope the community there turns and supports them. *NM*
29/08/2010 05:10:43 AM
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Don't get too worried. Not every mosque in America is under attack. Take a breath
29/08/2010 06:25:31 AM
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Re: Don't get too worried. Not every mosque in America is under attack. Take a breath
29/08/2010 08:33:10 AM
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You have to be kidding. Or I wish you were anyway.
29/08/2010 03:13:42 PM
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churches temples and mosqes are often vandalized all of the country
29/08/2010 07:58:15 PM
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It's unfortunate.
29/08/2010 02:41:08 PM
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Re: It's unfortunate.
29/08/2010 02:58:29 PM
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I don't think it's that simple.
29/08/2010 03:45:44 PM
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those facts are not that easy to find
29/08/2010 10:56:55 PM
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Are there no books in America? *NM*
29/08/2010 10:59:00 PM
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Lots of those books show the history of Islam...
30/08/2010 01:24:34 AM
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what a well thought out reply *NM*
30/08/2010 03:18:40 PM
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I thought her reply was too short too, but she does have a point.
30/08/2010 04:23:01 PM
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apperantly Fox News
30/08/2010 08:32:28 PM
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heheheheheeheheheeheHEHAHEHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAaheheheheheheh
30/08/2010 08:35:19 PM
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it would be funny if most liberals didn't really believe it was true
30/08/2010 08:49:58 PM
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how about the thousands upon thousands of Muslims who haven't done anything? *NM*
30/08/2010 08:51:36 PM
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Re: those facts are not that easy to find
30/08/2010 01:16:09 AM
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Now aisha, you know full well you're personally responsible for all of the middle east.
30/08/2010 12:29:36 PM
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well she hasn't done much to sell the idea that Muslims are moderate *NM*
30/08/2010 04:19:40 PM
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but she does not represent Islam.
30/08/2010 07:12:20 PM
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less fallacious than claiming the country xenophobic because some morons torched a bulldozer *NM*
30/08/2010 08:51:50 PM
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Wow - that's paranoid
29/08/2010 03:00:09 PM
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That's absurd.
29/08/2010 03:47:31 PM
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You are too young to remember the Christian Militia groups of the 1990s here in America.
29/08/2010 06:51:55 PM
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If we break that down to approximate percentages, that analogy is much less impressive/believable. *NM*
29/08/2010 09:21:44 PM
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That isn't a valid comparison
29/08/2010 10:39:32 PM
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Yes, but everyone uses the abortion bombing example. I was offering somethign different.
30/08/2010 03:18:19 AM
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There are approximately 1,400 mosques in the U.S. Please name me 14 that have radicalized people.
29/08/2010 06:41:39 PM
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14? Easy
29/08/2010 07:31:24 PM
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Er...
29/08/2010 08:01:50 PM
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Yeah, not a very subtle name
29/08/2010 08:34:53 PM
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