War on war
Shelley's podcast has me all fired up.
How do we win this war on terror? Shelley is calling for a 'war on Islam' and wants to 'outlaw' several religions.
Can you really call all Muslims 'evil' I find that assertion shocking.
Did we call for an end to groups of Christians after Jim Jones, or Heaven's gate? What about Timothy McVeigh, did he ever go to church.
Honestly how do you stop someone from blowing themselves up in a free society? Some, like Shelley propose measures that in my view make us less free.
Gitmo isn't really a solution. Yes I want to protect innocents, and yes I understand that a dirty bomb could be so much worse. And while it's true these terrorist are often fundamentalist Muslims, it is too much of a leap to say that Islam = Terror.
There are no easy answers. Outlawing Islam, and rounding up all Muslims is one of the more outrageous suggestions I've heard.
Would I like to see more Muslim leaders speak out against terror and Bin Laden? yes that would be nice.
Oh, and innocent until proven guilty isn't a liberal tradition, it's an American one.
How do we win this war on terror? Shelley is calling for a 'war on Islam' and wants to 'outlaw' several religions.
Can you really call all Muslims 'evil' I find that assertion shocking.
Did we call for an end to groups of Christians after Jim Jones, or Heaven's gate? What about Timothy McVeigh, did he ever go to church.
Honestly how do you stop someone from blowing themselves up in a free society? Some, like Shelley propose measures that in my view make us less free.
Gitmo isn't really a solution. Yes I want to protect innocents, and yes I understand that a dirty bomb could be so much worse. And while it's true these terrorist are often fundamentalist Muslims, it is too much of a leap to say that Islam = Terror.
There are no easy answers. Outlawing Islam, and rounding up all Muslims is one of the more outrageous suggestions I've heard.
Would I like to see more Muslim leaders speak out against terror and Bin Laden? yes that would be nice.
Oh, and innocent until proven guilty isn't a liberal tradition, it's an American one.
posted by Robert_M at 4:08 PM
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Freedom of religion. Unless we don't agree with it.
Democracy, free will and freedom of religion are sacred tennents of this country. But there are heavy costs associated with these privileges.
One of the only positive things about the repressive communist government in the Soviet empire was that crime was really rare there. Now that they have a democratic form of government (sort of) crime is out of control. You give people free will and they'll do a lot of immoral stuff with it like robbing, killing and starting mafias.
The same thing goes with freedom of religion. The Soviet Union really cracked down on religion and hardly anybody went to church --- another sad consequence of this form of government. But when people are free to worship as they please, they'll follow false profits, attempt to impose their religion on others and engage in terrorism in a twisted attempt to serve their God.
Crime and domestic terrorism have existed in this country since its inception. The only thing new is we've had immigrants and foreigners perform those acts here. For all of the talk about fighting a war on terror, there is really only one way to win that fight. And that is to set up a really repressive form of government that watches all of its citizens, forbids international travel incoming and outgoing and attacks foreign governments that threaten us. Sound good?
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