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Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by GlossomBoodchild
Originally posted by wylekat
reply to post by MBF
One good thing that he said is that islam will die out in about ten years.
When you're suicide bombing, beheading, and stoning everyone in the religion, who the heck is gonna be left.....
^ Pure Ignorance....The Muslims that believe in suicide bombing and various other violent acts only make up about 1% percent of the Muslim population, if not much less.
For the sake of denying (your ^) ignorance, let's do a little math based on your 1% of all muslims are the violent ones number.
Various sources put the world's muslim population at up to 1.6 billion people.
Now if even only 1% (your figure) of those are inclined to be violent, suicide bombers, etc. then that means we (the rest of the world) are facing an army of as many as 16 million "people" who only want to kill and destroy. And spread throughout the world so no one can really pin them down in one place.
Not sure about you, but 16 million violent religious fanatics sounds like a huge number to me.
Originally posted by GlossomBoodchild
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by GlossomBoodchild
Originally posted by wylekat
reply to post by MBF
One good thing that he said is that islam will die out in about ten years.
When you're suicide bombing, beheading, and stoning everyone in the religion, who the heck is gonna be left.....
^ Pure Ignorance....The Muslims that believe in suicide bombing and various other violent acts only make up about 1% percent of the Muslim population, if not much less.
For the sake of denying (your ^) ignorance, let's do a little math based on your 1% of all muslims are the violent ones number.
Various sources put the world's muslim population at up to 1.6 billion people.
Now if even only 1% (your figure) of those are inclined to be violent, suicide bombers, etc. then that means we (the rest of the world) are facing an army of as many as 16 million "people" who only want to kill and destroy. And spread throughout the world so no one can really pin them down in one place.
Not sure about you, but 16 million violent religious fanatics sounds like a huge number to me.
Uh...guy...do you read anything I say...or are you also like FOXNEWS...who likes to pick and choose information and submit only info that profits you??? I said...it is pure ignorance to say that NO ONE WILL BE LEFT since "all of them are suicide bombers"....come on...grow up.
I cant believe how many people on this board post their silly opinions without knowing any real, documented, verifiable information about the world that they live in.....ridiculous!
Originally posted by Bugman82
Sorry, but rationalizing suicide bombings and so forth shows a lack of denying ignorance.
It is disheartening to see this from well-versed members on this board. It shows that the philosophical ideologies of people here are just as twisted or morose than from j6p or the rest of the world.
When will people wake up to the fact that both Israel and Hamas are in the wrong?
When will people realize that rationalizing the evil of either side in any way, shape, or form simply adds to the problem?
The guy in this article says it best! He states, "It's not about Israel, it's not about Hamas: it's about both ideologies."
He is no parrot of Western pro-Israel propaganda. He never says Israel is in the right. He says both are terrible and both ideologies are wrong, and he is most definitely right!
Stop this nonsensical taking of sides when both Israel and Hamas are to blame.
Stop supporting one side's ideologies since both are evil.
Originally posted by Venit
Sigh. I'm not disagreeing that the Hamas movement is odious. However, it says on the daily telegraph link itself that he's somewhat against Islam and states that it is 'not working'. Surely that counts as bias on his part?
Originally posted by StellarX
I have far, far, far more sympathy with those people who end up strapping bombs to themselves than i can or will ever have with those who bomb civilians from the air with their 'precision' 500 pound bombs.
The problem here is that too many people believe that there are no suicide missions in the pursuit of freedom or in war; if Hamas could afford aircraft to attack Israel in response to attacks the chances for survival would not be significantly higher.
I apologise if i have less rosy view of the world where true change often requires people to knowingly commit to sacrificing their lives. I too would rather live in a world where we can bring about positive progressive change without having to take lives or sacrifice our own. If you can point me to a freedom struggle where this course of action have proven effective i would be most interested.
I can agree that both are committing crimes but only Israel can bring about true peace and and since it is the Israeli government which have so persistently avoided reaching ANY fair ( whatever the Palestinian authority of the time will accept the Israeli's then change to require even more sacrifices on the Palestinian side) resolution to the conflict Israel created by it's initial land grabs.
Once one knows which side is being terrorized and oppressed and which side holds all the military and economic power it's not hard to forgive the errors of liberation movements. I thus apologies for having been able to figure out that there isn't really two legitimate sides to this issue.
Yes, the ideology of Hamas and similar Palestinian organizations is to arrange a sustainable peace ( space enough to ensure Palestinian economic survival) while the ideology of the Zionist Israeli government is to give a inch , when it gives at all, only to take back two the moment international negotiators have left the scene in self congratulatory ecstasy. This is why Palestinian territory keeps declining as the Israeli's keep breaking their agreements by starting new settlements and expanding the older one's.
Originally posted by bignick
at the Christians celebrating this
Originally posted by Founding
Son of the founder of Hamas it does not get any worse than that. Can anybody see the difference between hamas and a cult?
[edit on 3-1-2009 by Founding]
Originally posted by StellarX
Originally posted by Bugman82
Sorry, but rationalizing suicide bombings and so forth shows a lack of denying ignorance.
I have far, far, far more sympathy with those people who end up strapping bombs to themselves than i can or will ever have with those who bomb civilians from the air with their 'precision' 500 pound bombs.
The problem here is that too many people believe that there are no suicide missions in the pursuit of freedom or in war; if Hamas could afford aircraft to attack Israel in response to attacks the chances for survival would not be significantly higher.
It is disheartening to see this from well-versed members on this board. It shows that the philosophical ideologies of people here are just as twisted or morose than from j6p or the rest of the world.
I apologise if i have less rosy view of the world where true change often requires people to knowingly commit to sacrificing their lives. I too would rather live in a world where we can bring about positive progressive change without having to take lives or sacrifice our own. If you can point me to a freedom struggle where this course of action have proven effective i would be most interested.
When will people wake up to the fact that both Israel and Hamas are in the wrong?
I can agree that both are committing crimes but only Israel can bring about true peace and and since it is the Israeli government which have so persistently avoided reaching ANY fair ( whatever the Palestinian authority of the time will accept the Israeli's then change to require even more sacrifices on the Palestinian side) resolution to the conflict Israel created by it's initial land grabs.
When will people realize that rationalizing the evil of either side in any way, shape, or form simply adds to the problem?
Once one knows which side is being terrorized and oppressed and which side holds all the military and economic power it's not hard to forgive the errors of liberation movements. I thus apologise for having been able to figure out that there isn't really two legitimate sides to this issue.
The guy in this article says it best! He states, "It's not about Israel, it's not about Hamas: it's about both ideologies."
Yes, the ideology of Hamas and similar Palestinian organizations is to arrange a sustainable peace ( space enough to ensure Palestinian economic survival) while the ideology of the Zionist Israeli government is to give a inch , when it gives at all, only to take back two the moment international negotiators have left the scene in self congratulatory ecstasy. This is why Palestinian territory keeps declining as the Israeli's keep breaking their agreements by starting new settlements and expanding the older one's.
He is no parrot of Western pro-Israel propaganda. He never says Israel is in the right. He says both are terrible and both ideologies are wrong, and he is most definitely right!
It's good to be a idealist but we live in a far less than ideal world where one 'side' always has a more legitimate claim than the other. If one can not discover which is best it's best to reserve judgement until you can.
Stop this nonsensical taking of sides when both Israel and Hamas are to blame.
The mistakes Hamas are making are in the interest of arranging national liberation; what can we say of the mistakes of the side with all the military and economic ( and according to some , intellectual) power as well as the influential powerful friends ( the US and Europe) to implement and sustain a fair solution?
Stop supporting one side's ideologies since both are evil.
Both ideologies are not evil and what you are basically doing here is the defense of the age old imperial mantra of blaming the victims for the aggression of the imperialist; yes wife beaters and murderers are not to be held responsible as they were clearly just provoked.
So goes the logic used to defend a illogical argument.
Stellar
Originally posted by Bugman82
reply to post by StellarX
I agree with everything you said about the imperialistic pursuits of Israel. That's why I label them as evil in their ideologies. They literally view the Palestinian people as animals. No matter how much you rant and rave about the evils of Israel it will not change my perspective because that is the light in which I already view them.