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Originally posted by DABIGRAGU
Those are radicals. I'm not defending them. What I am defending is the average Muslim who is just trying to live an ordinary life. Intolerant sentiments like those expressed in the snippet you posted are just meant to create fear and hate for a culture that is different. They have nothing to do with people blowing themselves up or instituting a primitive sharia law.
Originally posted by Logarock
The average historical muslim has nothing that wasnt gained by violence at some point.
Originally posted by evil incarnate
Originally posted by nenothtu
It's hard to follow you when you change horses in midstream, and now say the 80's "Team B" wasn't speaking about "terrorists", they were now speaking about "Soviets", when you plainly said "terrorists" before....
Try getting yourself straight first. I never said they never mentioned terrorists. I said they were not talking about the ME or Islam. I am not going to derail this thread to do your research for you if you cannot follow along from a post just a little higher on the page.
ETA, I guess I could have my decades wrong. The Team B I am speaking of was pushing propaganda for then president Ronald Reagan and I thought that was during the 80s. When was he president? Nevermind.
edit on 9/16/10 by evil incarnate because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by evil incarnate
Would that be the same Team B that made up so much scary "terrorist" crap back in the 80's by any chance or is this some completely different Team B that does not have a proven record of pushing lies about fear?
Originally posted by evil incarnate
Team B was not warning us about the Middle East and Islam in the 80s, they were manufacturing lies about the Soviets at the time. Speaking of just shooting from the lip...
Originally posted by evil incarnate
The Team B I am referring to is a think tank that was actually told they were full of crap by the CIA so yeah, must be the same folks. I went to the link and saw that it appeared to be the exact people I was talking about. Apparently you do not know what Team B I was talking about and asking would have explained that but I guess you didn't and just shot from the lip.
You'll discover that ancient cultures around the Mediterranean shared standard ideas about Gods and their powers and place in the universe—and that Christianity simply adopted those ideas, and applied them to Jesus. Christianity was a product of its time and place.
A true prophet sent by G-d will never preach a message contrary to even one of the Torah's precepts. If someone claiming Divine Inspiration, the Torah demands that this so-called prophet prove himself. In light of this, Jesus and Paul did some rather heinous things in their lifetimes. They completely vilified those who opposed their theologies, a crime from which stems two thousand years of Christian anti-Semitism. They did everything that a false prophet could do to loudly scream that he was false. Chapters 13 and 18 of Deuteronomy clearly define false prophets, and Jesus and Paul are the living incarnations of that definition.
Originally posted by Alxandro
Think about me the next time you hear someone say they have a right to build the mosque.
Sure they have the right to build, but I also have a right to say "They shouldn't".
I predict if they go ahead with the plans to build, it will pave the way for the next Timothy McVeigh.
Originally posted by evil incarnate
reply to post by nenothtu
I put "terrorist" in quotes for a reason. I am sorry if that confused but the context itself seems pretty clear to me. I stand by what I wrote and how I wrote it. Reagan was not president in the 70's and the CIA refuted many of Team B's claims. Really sorry quotations marks got you so confused.
Originally posted by nenothtu
So what sort of scary "terrorist" crap did Team B put forth in the 80's? A source would help here, I think, because I'm not finding it.
Originally posted by evil incarnate
Originally posted by nenothtu
So what sort of scary "terrorist" crap did Team B put forth in the 80's? A source would help here, I think, because I'm not finding it.
Oh you know the usual. They routinely exaggerated and fabricated "facts" about the threat of the communisation of America. Sound familiar?
You want sources, how about you find something better than a "think tank." Do they have their own HBO show and everything just like CATO?
Sorry if think tanks are not exactly my go to guys for "facts." It is not my fault that you are still stuck on the Middle East and the 70s.
You have some guys named Team B that are little more than some guys and they are warning of the Islamic takeover of America and yet their report does not have any Intelligence backing whatsoever.
In the 80s, a think tank called Team B put out reports about threats of the coming communism that had no Intelligence backing at all. They turned out to be wrong time and time again.
Prove your Team B is going to be any closer to correct.