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Originally posted by bsbray11
reply to post by JJay55
You didn't answer my question.
www.slate.com...
wasn't the gallant major also subject to ill treatment and even abuse? Only up to a point, when you consider that his parents had been given refuge from Palestine and enabled to build a life here, that he himself had knowingly joined an all-volunteer army, that he had been promoted (it seems rather faster and higher than his true abilities warranted) and allowed on the job to vent extremely noxious opinions about members of other faiths, to say nothing about his adopted country.
No doubt he came in for a taunt or two, but if you want to avoid that, then don't express contempt for your fellow soldiers while in uniform. Black Americans used to be segregated. Jewish recruits were mercilessly hazed, as were men or women who looked as if they might be gay. Did any of them ever come up with an act of mass murder as a response? Did any of them ever offer a black or Jewish or gay ideology in justification of it? Would they have earned sympathy and understanding if they had?
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the three most salient characteristics of the Muslim death-squad type were self-righteousness, self-pity, and self-hatred. Surrounded as he was by fellow shrinks who were often very distressed by his menacing manner, Maj. Hasan managed to personify all three traits—with the theocratic rhetoric openly thrown in for good measure—and yet be treated even now as if the real word for him was troubled. Prepare to keep on meeting those three symptoms again, along with official attempts to oppose them only with therapy, if that. At least the holy warriors know they are committing suicide.
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The most obvious points of comparison would be these:
Both movements are based on a cult of murderous violence that exalts death and destruction and despises the life of the mind. ("Death to the intellect! Long live death!" as Gen. Francisco Franco's sidekick Gonzalo Queipo de Llano so pithily phrased it.)
Both are hostile to modernity (except when it comes to the pursuit of weapons), and both are bitterly nostalgic for past empires and lost glories.
Both are obsessed with real and imagined "humiliations" and thirsty for revenge.
Both are chronically infected with the toxin of anti-Jewish paranoia (interestingly, also, with its milder cousin, anti-Freemason paranoia).
Both are inclined to leader worship and to the exclusive stress on the power of one great book.
Both have a strong commitment to sexual repression—especially to the repression of any sexual "deviance"—and to its counterparts the subordination of the female and contempt for the feminine.
Both despise art and literature as symptoms of degeneracy and decadence; both burn books and destroy museums and treasures.
Originally posted by bsbray11
reply to post by JJay55
No one has to die for our rights to be trampled on and taken away by force. Then what are we even fighting for anymore? What makes it even WORTH fighting for this country anymore? It was our freedoms that made this country what it was in the first place. NOW WE ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN THE FASCIST ISLAMIC COUNTRIES YOU'VE BEEN CONDITIONED TO HATE.
If you would give up our rights that easily, or even make EXCUSES as to why we shouldn't CARE that our rights are being taken away, you don't deserve to talk about anything in this country anymore. You don't even deserve to live here. You have no sense of where this country came from, what it's about, or especially what in the hell is going on today. You are not an American.
Btw why can you NOT answer my simple question about how many Iraqi, Iranian or Pakistani military installations or naval patrols you have seen in US territory?? Is it because you are allergic to thinking? There are NONE here. OUR country is the one going around bullying others and forcing things upon them against their will. That isn't freedom EITHER!
[edit on 17-11-2009 by bsbray11]
Originally posted by bsbray11
This is fascism
The problems we are currently facing here at home with our own constitution and government are FAR worse than the threat of extremist Muslims. The threat of extremist Muslims is only being perpetuated to divert attention AWAY from this kind of stuff, which MSM will not even TOUCH.
Originally posted by bsbray11
reply to post by mmiichael
Yes, yes, we all get it, you're not saying ALL Muslims are terrorists. But then would you shut the hell up already about the ones that ARE terrorists? You are blowing this up WAY out of proportion and you don't even LIVE in the US!!
Originally posted by bsbray11
Yes, yes, we all get it, you're not saying ALL Muslims are terrorists. But then would you shut the hell up already about the ones that ARE terrorists? You are blowing this up WAY out of proportion and you don't even LIVE in the US!!
Originally posted by bsbray11
You seem to think extremists attacking us sporadically, here and there, is totally unprecedented and uncalled-for.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
it is Zionist politics not Islamic fundamentalism that is at the root of Islamic terrorism.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
it is Zionist politics not Islamic fundamentalism that is at the root of Islamic terrorism.
Somebody better inform the Mullahs in Iran of this. They thought they enacted their Islamic Revolution to create a perfect Islamic State from which to spread their Shiite interpretation throughout the Middle East and ultimately the world.
Just as the Saud family believe they are fulfilling the goals of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab who advocated an aggrssive form of Islamic puritanism still being adhered to. The roots of which began before there was a State of Israel or even a United States.
Can anyone with half a brain believe millions Muslims have died at the hands of other Muslims in territory and resource disputes, civil and Holy Wars, from the Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Algeria, Syria, Jordan, a dozen other countries, due to the existence of a Jewish state it the region?
These pronouncements just get more absurd and grotesque by the day.
[edit on 17-11-2009 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by bsbray11
reply to post by mmiichael
Yes, yes, we all get it, you're not saying ALL Muslims are terrorists. But then would you shut the hell up already about the ones that ARE terrorists? You are blowing this up WAY out of proportion and you don't even LIVE in the US!!
Can anyone with half a brain believe millions Muslims have died at the hands of other Muslims in territory and resource disputes, civil and Holy Wars, from the Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Algeria, Syria, Jordan, a dozen other countries, due to the existence of a Jewish state it the region?
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Major Hassan as we all are is just one more in the long line of victims created by Zionist manipulation and machinations and its eternal quest for dominance and Muslim attrition.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by bsbray11
Yes, yes, we all get it, you're not saying ALL Muslims are terrorists. But then would you shut the hell up already about the ones that ARE terrorists? You are blowing this up WAY out of proportion and you don't even LIVE in the US!!
Tens of thousands of threads on this forum covering a wide range of subjects. This one is on a recent mass murder at a US army base with Islamic ideological underpinnings. How can the terrorism issue not be discussed?
If you don't like the subject why are you on this thread and responding?
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
it is Zionist politics not Islamic fundamentalism that is at the root of Islamic terrorism.
Somebody better inform the Mullahs in Iran of this. They thought they enacted their Islamic Revolution to create a perfect Islamic State from which to spread their Shiite interpretation throughout the Middle East and ultimately the world.
Just as the Saud family believe they are fulfilling the goals of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab who advocated an aggrssive form of Islamic puritanism still being adhered to. The roots of which began before there was a State of Israel or even a United States.
Can anyone with half a brain believe millions Muslims have died at the hands of other Muslims in territory and resource disputes, civil and Holy Wars, from the Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Algeria, Syria, Jordan, a dozen other countries, due to the existence of a Jewish state it the region?
These pronouncements just get more absurd and grotesque by the day.
[edit on 17-11-2009 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Major Hassan as we all are is just one more in the long line of victims created by Zionist manipulation and machinations and its eternal quest for dominance and Muslim attrition.
The last time anyone looked Muslims were in full control of 99.8% of the territory of the Middle East extending into North Africa. They were also selling trillions of dollars of oil to the US, Europe, the rest of the world.
Iraq and Afghanistan have governments elected by the citizens of these countries.
I know the Muslim world would be be in a state of tranquil bliss if they could get control of that outstanding 0.2% controlled by those manipulative world-dominating Jews who made poor Maj Hasan go berserk.
Life just isn't fair.