BF2S Forums It's not a full day without menacing threats from Ahmadinejad

Kmarion wrote:

Major_Spittle wrote:

One of these days Ahmangotabanjo is going to really piss off Europe and they will pass a real stern resolution in the U.N. condemning what he said.  And you know what, he will deserve it.

Unlikely.

He was being sarcastic, he hates the UN as far as I know.

Kmarion wrote:

Commie Killer wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Unlikely.

He was being sarcastic, he hates the UN as far as I know.

Tone in forums sometimes is missed. We need a petition for [sarcasm] tags.

Im not going off tone or what ever, Im going off his previous posts. But still, then UN doesnt do shit except get people killed and waste money.

boo

Ok, then lets compare the response of a member of radical Islam and a "fundamentalist" Christian.  A "fundamentalist" Christian may tell you you're going to hell, but he won't try to send you there personally by killing you, like a member of radical Islam would do.

Let's see, we have mass induced suicides by fundamentalist Christian cults, plenty of abortion clinic bombings, religiously motivated murder and other hate crimes, and the poster child for Christian fundie fuckwittedness Timmy McVeigh.

How many Christian fundie leaders are just chomping at the bit ready to unleash their army of little brain-washed Christian soldiers on the world and what thin line keeps them in check?  It must be those "liberal activist judges"...but I digress.  You want scary?  Go to a Christian youth rally sometime where they do a mock government raid on the place to show the kiddies how "under attack" their religious values are.  Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

The main answer is that there is NO difference between religious radicals of any stripe, Christian radical, Islamic radical, Jewish Zionist, Zen Buddhist...ummm...Tiger-style kung fu expert.  By the same token, there is a wide array of religiosity in the Middle east just like in the US, full of Islamic moderates and people that are born Islamic but haven't seen the inside of a mosque in decades.  There are also Muslim "fundies" that will shake a wagging finger at you or harrass any woman walking down the street in a skirt, but this is NOT the same as someone motivated to get violent.

Now, what we are seeing in Iraq and Afghanistan at the moment is a massive mobilization of RESISTANCE to an occupying power mixed with an ethnic hatred of one another.  It's like Northern Ireland in the early 80's but with about 5 million more people concentrated in the same place and an army that can't keep control at all, as well as NO legitimate government or law and order.  Religion is just one of many different tools to mobilize resistance and add a face of "legitimacy" to it, something for the common man to understand.   Basically, a propoganda tool.

I'll give you an illustration...I walk in to a small town USA and stand on a soap box in front of the city hall.
"The Saudis are buying the only bank in town and they just spent enough money to get their mayor elected."
People will shrug for the most part, some folks might get riled up a little at the thought of foreign control, but it won't be too bad.  Most people would just go about their daily lives as if nothing is going on.  Now, if instead I were to say:
"That muslim bank owner just took a dump on the nativity scene!" and made sure every church-goer in town was told this by their priest/minister, the town would be up in arms.  Buildings would get burned, and the National Guard would be called in quick.

Mogura wrote:

pppffff this start to boring me, usa have so much nukes, you guys should nuke all middleast, and erase the problem from the earths face.

I hope thats a joke.