The motives of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Tunisian national aged 31 who rammed his truck in a crowd celebrating Bastille Day leaving 80+ dead and 200+ wounded before being shot dead by police, might not be Islam-related.
He was not documented as a suspect of terrorist activity by either French or Tunisian intelligence, and only had a minor criminal record involving a roadside altercation, a bar brawl and domestic violence.
In fact, he was allegedly not even Muslim, relatives and neighbors said. He did not attend a mosque, did not observe prayers, did not fast during the Ramadan, drank alcohol and ate pork; he was a loner mostly concerned with bodybuilding and salsa dancing, not religious practice.
What surfaced however is that he had been struggling with depression since the early 2000s, was recently engaged in a divorce procedure and was encountering financial difficulties.
The Islamist State nonetheless claimed the attack, as is customary of them whenever some sort of disaster takes place in a country they deem their mortal enemy for being part of the coalition that bombs Islamic State positions in Syria.
Islamism in ultimately a political position. Also, you're allowed to fool the enemy.
Hudson Anderson
I don't get why ISIS doesn't claim the attack, even if Bouhlel do not have a real link to them, that would be a cheap way to say "we're still dangerous". It's not like he can deny all ties with ISIS now.
Dominic Collins
they have
Lucas Johnson
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Gavin Bell
THEY'RE SCARY AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM
Juan King
Islamism is the desire to impose any given interpretation of islam over society. That's political.
Jaxson Ward
This. Almost all the lone wolf terrorists are like that. Not religious at all. Hell, the orlando dude was gay af regularly got buttfucked by latin dudes
Nolan Roberts
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Brayden Wilson
Seriously? Why are so few of these dudes actually devout muslims?
Cameron Young
To be fair, the Orland one makes perfect sense - he was raised devout as fuck, was told that being a fag was to be a sinner and struggled with that for the rest of his life up until the point where he decided to make up for his sins in the eyes of Allah.
Isaac Foster
So it offered him kind of an easy way out. Perhaps if it was not an option he could have reconciled and become a proud gay boi like he wanted.
sad tbh
Isaiah Scott
aight, lets see where this is going.
Just to make this clear to americans. A european guy with a truck could kill more people than an american guy with an assault rifle.
David Smith
they have and the right is very grateful
Kevin Powell
That's going too far. What is true, is that islamists are often less fundamentalist than conservative muslims, and promoting a conservative interpretation for islamists might make them less dangerous. Of course, conservative islam is really bad too, but the lesser of two evils in this context.
Gabriel Hall
regardless if the guy was a practicing muslim it's more proof islam is evil
Levi James
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Nolan Edwards
Thanks man, your attacks aren't too bad either.
Brandon Perry
EVERY
FUCKING
TIME
can't say I'm not laughing like an idiot as well tho
Lucas Taylor
I know. It's fucking retarded but still hilarious.
Jackson Morgan
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William Flores
That's not how burden of proof works. You can't just shout "Taqiyya!" if Islam isn't relevant to make it so.
Michael Butler
Lel, typical liberal context denial. Unemployment tempter tantrum havers who are blocking traffic to prevent individual from getting to their job or ambulances reaching hospitals are exactly the same as a crowd of people out for a sanctioned holiday.
I love how you stunned fucks think you are the good guys and can figure out why they hate you.
Jeremiah Rivera
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Anthony Thompson
They hate us because the Jews want their superstate and force goyim to kill each other for it.
If people would have willingly gotten out of your way, it's murder. Otherwise, it's their fault.
Elijah White
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Evan Cook
Where's that picture of the muslim in the van running over a crowd of people who are all yelling things like "he was a good kid" and "he was depressed"
Jack Taylor
"What do you mean 'gun homicide'? I just stood there and pointed it at him before shooting. He should have moved!"
James Gonzalez
Retarded on purpose.
Joseph Gutierrez
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Nathaniel Harris
This is your brain on pol, people.
Bentley Sanders
Do these people realize that Sharia is literally just religious rules for living? It's no different from obeying the Talmud or Bible or whatever horrible L. Ron Hubbard novella is used as a reference point.
Liam Perez
I WANT TO SMASH IT UP!
Brandon Bell
The point is Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was not Muslim.
Logan Fisher
go home and die under our bombs
Daniel Fisher
personally, I think 4 years of trump will be disastrous for the world.
the elites have no intention of changing their ways (robbing the 3rd world)
trump wants to double down on failed policies
Juan Price
The official responses to this were hilarious, the calls for bombing the whole ME and #NotAllMuslims starting instantly or even before the culprits ethnic background was revealed.
Then reports doubting the perpetrators connection to Islam(ism), and French security officials saying they had no info on this guy whatever. Now apparently the MSM take on the situation is that he "radicalized extremely rapidly", not even kidding
Justin Wood
who cares. He was an immigrant and he was brown
Camden Ramirez
So what?
Isaiah Kelly
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Gavin Kelly
dildo
Matthew Rodriguez
is Holla Forums historically illiterate when it comes to muslims or something? islam is dangerous to every liberal and is downright incompatible with democracy so why do you defend them even when their hands are literally dripping with innocent blood?
Austin Parker
There's a difference between defending the ideology and acknowledging it's spread was facilitated by western imperialism.
Jeremiah Sullivan
The whole point of the thread is that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was NOT Muslim. Read the fucking OP.
Besides, I've never seen anyone of Holla Forums "defending" Islamist terrorists.
Lincoln Edwards
Holla Forums sees no difference between someone screaming at you while holding a sign and refusing to move from in front of your car and somebody that will stand aside if you're trying to drive somewhere.
Really? if i recall it spread to India right through the innocent Buddhist pacifist nation of Khotan and to Indonesia a full century and a half before the Dutch, Portugese or the Spanish ever sailed to the East Indies
his names Mohammed where are you getting this idea he's not muslim? even if he's a 'lapsed muslim' like Omar and Florida hes still circumsized as part of their pact with Allah and he was probably raised in an islamic household and culture
The guy was yelling Allahu Akbar. But hey, I'm sure that means he was an atheist.
Andrew King
u wot m8
Camden Thompson
Islam is toxic. But some key nations had secular gov's pre western intervention.
I love how righties talk about how they love Christian ethics but then drop them at the first sign of them conflicting with their ideals.
Jack Diaz
u wot m8
Lincoln Williams
no you just defend the circumstances that allow them to kill and murder innocents
Lucas Nguyen
Why not? What if the person with the sign is a Trump supporter blocking the way to a B████ rally?
Alexander Cox
Then it's still murder.
Cooper Russell
People said Timothy McVeigh was a Christian, too, and even a Muslim on a few occasions. This shit is pure hearsay unsubstantiated by other evidence.
And even if he did say it, he probably only did it to deflect blame to ISIS instead of himself; it seems like something someone in his mental state would do. Nothing in his personal life suggested he was in any way a Muslim, let alone a radical one.
In comparison, San Bernadino and Pulse shootings were by people the feds had tons of red lights for, but simply failed to stop because they are worse than useless.
Carter Sullivan
Which are virtually any circumstances outside of an Orwellian ultra-authoritarian state.
Ian Nguyen
name them ive studied. ancient and modern name these pre western ideas of secularist society
Cooper Ross
The keyword here is "reportedly". This is nothing but an unsubstantiated rumor, and the fact that it is coupled with a downright disproved claim (as the killer didn't get out of his truck and didn't wield any firearm) should have tipped you off. The Sun isn't exactly known for its rigorous fact-checking.
Matthew Thomas
We want to kill all liberals by any means necessary.
Angel Edwards
Afghanistan.
Nolan Miller
if you want to get tetchy I'll specifiy why does Holla Forums defend the right for persons adhering to an ideology that compels them to commit harm against their fellow citizens and children to live side by side with people they consider inhuman or non-human an ideology that tells them women are unequal to men and that it is not a sin to rape a child or a woman as long as they are an infidel or you marry them soon after? a set of laws they learn and adhere to above the laws of their host nation and culture
you cant threaten them with death because they believe they will be rewarded in a make believe afterlife no matter what they do as long as they kill a single infidel a jew can commit no sin in his religion, a christian must be absolved of his sin by a priest and a muslim can only absolve himself/herself of a sin by murdering an infidel and waging jihad why is islam defended by leftypol?
Joseph James
didnt exist until the 20th century so move along
Nathaniel White
"I will move my car through this area regardless of if you choose to remain in it. People, including the drivers of ambulances, need to use this thoroughfare for a variety of reasons, some people's lives depend on it." "FUCK THE SYSTEM. HEY, OUCH!"
Also
Whenever a liberal says that, they're really just asking why you aren't completely passive and just accepting everything they say.
What if their blocking of the road prevents an ambulance getting through? Are they guilty of murder then?
The dude's ideology was some sort of white nationalism thing. He had the Turner Diaries in his car when he was picked up by police.
Granted, this one was a bit more unexpected, but it was given legitimacy and facilitated by the popularity of ISIS. It's no coincidence that in the last ten years, terrorists who kill people are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims.
Carter Green
Come someone explain to me why right wing nationalists and Islamic nationalists fight when they both basically want the same exact thing and just disagree about how to go about it.
Julian Bennett
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Jackson Butler
Come someone explain to me why left-wing cum-worshipers and Islamic nationalists fight when they both basically want the same exact thing and just disagree about how to go about it. Oh wait, Islamic nationalists are facilitated by leftists. It all makes sense…
Tyler Morales
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John Lee
Except that's wrong. Unless killing you is something we both want, then yeah that's fair I wish people like you could hurry up with the logical conclusion of your lifetime's and end up committing suicide.
Also, "cum worshipers"
Xavier Taylor
Because most Muslims aren't fundamentalists. Westerners are mostly members of religions with equally draconian rules, they simply choose not to follow them. It's no different from hating Jews because of Israel.
Religion simply isn't ideological for most people. There is an inextricable political dimension to terrorism, one rooted in history that boils down to power. Modern Islamism would be a tiny, unnoticed sect if it weren't for the West shaping the Middle East into what it is today.
In comparison, when was the last time an Albanian pledged allegiance to ISIS?
Ayden Gonzalez
He found us out. Shut it down.
Jaxson Watson
I S L A M I C G O M M U N I Z M
Camden Martin
A sand nigger country would be fine by me. Japan and South Korea understand how to run immigration policies.
Henry James
Christian ethics refers to not doing something to someone unless you are okay with that being done to yourself. The Categorical Imperative.
I'd like you to show me when they did that. BLM are dumb idpol, but I don't care if they bother someone by making them late for work. The notion that an oppressed group of people shouldn't bother anyone with their protesting is retarded. When they're protesting as long as they aren't preventing an innocent from dying by blocking the roads I don't care if they make you late for work and I still consider it murder.
Easton King
I've had the misfortune of reading several of their articles and I can confirm it's hardly more than a crass conspiracy-mongering website. It's not my fault if you get your political educations from memes, read a fucking book for a change.
Jaxson Allen
That's not what I'm saying lmfao
Jason Thompson
The right wing nationalist want a similar society. No "duh genewacy", no women's rights, no one other than those who are apart of the tribe. Islam is a far right wing ideology and it's toxic. We just sympathize with countries that were victims of imperialism. But it doesn't mean that the ideology they've turned to doesn't need to be stripped.
Nolan Williams
McVeigh was part of the militia movement, not a white nationalist; his interest in the Turner Diaries was limited to the terrorist methods mentioned in the book.
Christian Wright
Yes, they're the Other and you're not. :^)
Hunter Russell
I want Holla Forums to go home.
Elijah Evans
basically because this right wing nationalists want to protect their own borders without expansion and views on other people vary some are autistic and want a full on Nazi masturbation fantasy, others just want their own people to be safe nationalists have varied views on all issues
theres no such thing as an islamic nationalist just a muslim, meaning submission to islam they want a pan-global caliphate, a borderless society where islam is everyones religion, and everything that came before is destroyed All art and culture, all 'heretical' writing and media destroyed their leader is an unelected Caliph, a man who through either war or assasination has made himself powerful enough to declare himself as supreme muslim a world where the sunni muslim arab man from mohammed the prophets tribe can do whatever they want and get away with it a world where a man can own countless wives as his property from the ages of 6 to how ever old he likes them where a girl is not allowed to learn how to read and write and has her clitoris cut off before puberty so sex will hurt her for the rest of her life
they're fundamentally oppositive to our western ideas of democracy and platonic republicanism
wheres your evidence they arent? because what they say isnt neccessarily the truth with them Their religion allows them to swear on the holy prophet, allah and the Quran and lie as long as they lie to 'kuffar' like us look hard enough you'll find one, albanians are savage as fuck when you hear the horror stories coming out of scotland yard with what albanian crime gangs are doing if it wasn't for Western Imperial power and might of the 12th century Mongol Empire this virtual Bhutanian Mani Wheel collection wouldn't exist and you'd be speaking in arabic chum
William Anderson
If I aggressively try to impede someone's ability to pass through an area with a car, them hitting me with it is not to be unexpected.
Let me ask you a question then, why does ISIS never attack Israel?
k
Are you familiar with the practices of taking multiple wives and of Tea Boys? That's some degenerate-ass mudslime shit.
False. In the 1930s women earned more degrees than men. This was before the sexual revolution.
Every people deserves their own nation.
Define right wing
Caleb Anderson
Holy shit, this thread gets dumber and dumber.
Ryan Ortiz
A lame excuse by fat fucks like Robert Spencer whenever they lose an argument.
That's not how burden of proof works. How do you know ANYONE isn't a terrorist? You don't. Reality is dangerous.
Can does not mean will. And even then this is a very, VERY liberal definition of the term made up by fedoras on WikiIslam that got kicked out of RW.
Gangsters are not terrorists, you fucking idiot.
I don't care. Don't move the goalposts.
Landon Davis
I am saying that you're both reactionaries the difference is mostly your entire bite is saying shit that's awful making people repulsed but not actually acting on it, while they actually on it and don't use words. The only exception to the rule is the Aryan Brotherhood and far right militias, but they're mostly prison gangs and meth addicts.
You grossly over exaggerate your importance and political literacy, let alone the arrogance of believing any of your ideological groundwork is wisdom.
Aaron Baker
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Ryder King
I don't care what consenting adults do or how you define degeneracy. Islam and you match up on most types of "duh genewacy" like celibacy and not drinking or doing drugs, or being gay etc.
No. Almost all far rightist say that they would revoke a woman's right to vote, among other things like not taking rape seriously.
In favour of traditional values. In favour of a natural order and hierarchy.
Nice non-argument.
Brandon Wright
so your refutations are they both sell drugs, weapons and sex slaves when they get together in large numbersand use terror and violence to project power sooo
Jonathan Carter
I don't get how someones reading comprehension can be so selective. I never said that. What do you mean to tell me that imperialism had absolutely NO effect on how these countries developed and the populous's current attitudes towards the west?
Aaron Lewis
We are very against Islam just as we're against every religion.
However we are smart enough to examine the material conditions of society and know what leads to religion. We think Islam should be eliminated by ridding the world of poverty and economic insecurity and providing everyone with an education, if that happens you'll see Islam wither away almost immediately. We hate Islam but we don't hate Muslims.
Charles Clark
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Aiden Powell
ISIS will literally kill you on the spot if they think you might be doing this on their territory. Religious terrorists aren't like other kinds, they pretend to have standards. Emphasis on pretend.
12th century politics are inapplicable today. You are also beyond retarded if you think the West wasn't equally savage until the Enlightenment.
Well put.
Jace Smith
and what does their attitude towards us and their rate of development have to do with anything America has committed crimes in the middle east, like toppling existing monarchies and dictators installed by British-Franco puppets and replacing them with islamist republicans/rebels the Shahanshah of Iran was quite liberal, he saw Cyrus the Great the Zoroastrian Shah that freed the slaves and founded Persia as a role model women could wear a miniskirt and drink booze and have a boyfriend in his Iran in americas Iran we have the Iranian Islamic Socialist Republic that puts people to death on charges of morality crimes
Brayden Rogers
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Anthony Richardson
They never said "everyone is a terrorist". They're making fun of you by saying "How do you KNOW all Muslims aren't terrorist" is the equivalent of saying "How do you know EVERYONE isn't a terrorist." It's unfalsifiable.
Terrorist do acts of violence with political intent. Gangsters are aiming for a financial gain. Key differences.
What? My point was that we sympathize with the people of the countries as they were not aloud to develop as nations into the modern age out of their own volition. And you responded acting as if I had just said no Muslims existed in the ME prior to intervention. That wasn't my point at all. The point was that I understand why they have a strong distaste with the West, but they're ideology (Islam) is still incompatible with our belief system and must be stripped away for their sake and the worlds.
Luis Myers
Wrong post? Also, the US was as guilty as the UK because the Iran fiasco started in WWII when the Allies really wanted Iranian cooperation for better access to oil. The US actually reinstated the Shah because the elected leader of Iran nationalized the oil industry while the despot was perfectly willing to sell to foreigners.
Not to mention the Afghanistan thing where we accidentally invented modern religious terrorism.
Zachary Turner
trouble is that does very little to disrupt muslim ideology islamic doctrine is very all encompassing and is twice as contradictory as the bible but its harder to remove turkey is becoming increasingly radicalized by the year the turkish sultans fucked boys in the arse, drank their weight in wine and murdered their own brothers, sons and fathers for the throne for 500 years and they were deemed the supreme heads of the Islamic faith as the Caliphs of the entire islamic world even if the common muslim committed these acts he'd be castrated, tortured and beheaded under sharia law
ISIS collects and sells children and women as sex slaves, they grow opium poppies like Al Qaeda and the Taliban did so they can buy ammunition and weapons
wanna talk about how savage everyone else was as well? how about the Chinese giving their death by a thousand cuts to a peasant who talked ill of the emperor how about in India where a pariah or untouchables life was less than a dogs? Africa? with their brides of the spirits? where girls as young as 8 were and still are in some regions sold to the shamans who rape and torture them in caves in the jungle as payment for keeping evil spirits away from her family? and dont get me started on the middle east
John Butler
Islamic terrorism originated mostly in the '80s and is intrinsically related to the late stages of the Cold War, notably the Soviet–Afghan War.
I think the us wants terrorism needs it to survive
Colton Taylor
Religion does not magically strip you of agency. This is what you do not understand. Religion is largely a cultural thing; most adherents just grew up going to a given church and it became part of their identity. They very rarely fail to question what they hear.
The Western-backed leader is once again stripping civil rights and grasping for absolute power. I do not blame them at all, as cringey as those coup protests were.
I'm pretty sure the Koran bans those things so you must be lying. :^)
Exactly. They don't care about the word of god, they pick and choose what the religious law applies to and make up their own as they see fit.
Yes everyone was savage at one point. That was why we said 12th century politics weren't applicable to today.
Yes and the Catholic Church molested small children, stagnated intellectual development just as much as Islam did. The Arab scholars did a better job at preserving Classical culture than the West did. The point isn't that EVERYONE IS JUST AS BAD AS EACH OTHER SO WE shouldn't DO ANYTHING! But that these people are not beyond civilization and their material conditions are to poor right now to make progress out of their medieval cult.You can say what you want about "muh slims" but history shows that when material conditions increase secularization occurs right beside it.
Andrew Thompson
I know, I was trying to point out the ideological doublethink. In comparison, gangsters only want money.
Lucas Stewart
they wouldnt have become nations, colonialism was ended by the economic stressors of WW1 and WW2 and the republican american and communist soviet union sedition and propaganda in colonial states our own past is not a pretty one we've all been invaded and conquered at some point by foreigners why are you giving preferential treatment to the losers? because thats what the middle east is, its not the victim its the fallen contender we were in a boxing match with islam 1400 years ago and it wasnt until 800 years that we were able to stand our own with them for 600 years they were pillaging, raping, massacring and enslaving the people of the west why feel sorry for people who wouldnt feel any for you if the tables were turned see heres the problem you are actually naive enough that you believe you can strip away their beliefs and culture we have nothing they want in islamic nations there is no music but their prayers, there is no alcohol, there is no sex outside marriage unless its rape or adultery with both crimes punishable by death to the woman theres no fashion, no art, no ingenuity theres still race, theres still hierarchy and theres an abundance of inequality
Levi Torres
talaban wiped out poppies in afghanistan. now that they're free, they're the worlds biggest producer
No. I know people were Savage. Again, this is called Whatboutism. You're trying to excuse away X action by saying "WELL THEY WERE DOING IT TO!"
Dehumanizing them is a right wing trait, wouldn't expect anything less.
No.
Brandon King
Do you actually believe this? It was ordinary politics for the time. Caliphates back then were just the government; religious dogma played a part of most Western government as well.
Plus, the West was more at war with itself than any outside power by magnitudes. The most violent religious conflicts in history were between Christians and Protestants.
It's an ass-pulled narrative with no evidence. It's only useful to the kind of modern day idiot that thinks cancer can be prayed away.
Aiden Taylor
this is lefty pol
Camden Ortiz
MAXIMUM DAMAGE CONTROL
Christian Powell
Just cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there.
Easton Russell
yes it is. liberals get out.
Dominic Martin
you mean those texts they looted from Roman libraries and archives in the Eastern Roman Empire that they invaded those same libraries they burned afterwards
Turkey? India? Egypt? Algeria? they were all pretty modernized at some point now they're stagnating without interference
they wont, they had access to all the inventions of the east and west ever since they were first discovered on both sides of the world they did nothing with them
Jack Roberts
how convenient for the right probably typical wing-nut right up to when he hit the first body
Xavier Robinson
kek
How does one even "radicalize" if one isn't Muslim to begin with?
Caleb Campbell
I wouldnt call a supreme warlord and his cronies placing themselves above their own laws and enforcing their will with soldiers a government
tell me you're not serious the Abbasid and Umayyad Caliphates werent on friendly terms chum neither were the surviving Mahararajas of India big supporters of the Mughals or the Sassanids and the Rashomon Caliphate and what the Caliphate did to the peace loving Khotanese is a crime against all humanity
Leo Sanchez
Cherry picking.
Without interference? There is no country west of India that is without some kind of Western influence or other reason to socially stagnate.
What's ironic about Holla Forums bitching about muslims is most modern reactionaries by a very large margin are Muslim, and it's likely most posters on Holla Forums are radical muslims working to recruit by socially engineering useful American idiots into doing their job for them.
Ayden Reyes
No True Scotsman.
More Whataboutism.
It's called history. It was bloody and unpleasant.
It sounds to me like Islam being the Big Bad Evil is somehow integral to your worldview, like it has to be the bad guy.
Elijah Butler
>Implying The Catholic Church was against any sort of Pagan intrusion into their dogma. You can act like had they had those books they would've "used them" or something, but even before the library of Alexandria burned down they were vehemently against pagan philosophies besides Neo-platonism( and a Christianized version of it mind you). They went out of their way to stress the unimportance of the individual. So yes, the Moslmes did do a better job.
Try again. India's economy is expanding rapidly but it's one of the poorest nations on Earth and is literally one of the best example of victims of colonialism
Yes, and they were all just as bloody as the protestant vs catholic conflicts that went on. How you personally define governance is irrelevant.
The guy you're responding to is right. The Thirty Years' War and the French Wars of Religion are widely considered to be the most destructive religious wars ever fought. It devastated Europe and left millions dead, and I've yet to hear of a religiously-motivated conflict in the Muslim world that went so far in the scale of destruction it inflicted upon people and infrastructure.
Charles Rivera
meaning the west came, they modernized The west left, they stagnated
take sub-saharan africa as an example the railroads in Africa were built during the colonial period they havent been maintenced properly, extended or repaired since compare that to the chinese The railroads in china were also built by the west while they were under largely British colonial administration instead of the corrupt Qing empire that one time spent war funds on a luxurious solid jade boat and the chinese modernized and repaired and maintained their rail system properly why didnt sub-saharan africa do the same? they have the knowledge and the resources so why not?
nope thats a response to your misconception that the islamic golden age was anything different than muslims translating roman and greek texts stored in Roman libraries and then claiming them as their own or buying chinese artifacts and inventions and claiming them as their own or just simply taking it through war and claiming it as their own islamic architecture and art isnt Islamic its Persian with all the people images removed
it is a threat to our way of life I'm not american i dont live in america thats largely isolated with catholics in mexico and irreligious in canada I live on the border of the muslim horde and it is a threat to our way of life
from an earthquake and spilled oil lamps in a library full of dusty dry papyrus scrolls dont mislead
you're right the Vatican did horrible things to native European cultural heritage and our native religious practices unless you're from Britain or France the Romans already took our religion from us a full 3 centuries before Christ was relevant to anyone
I said modernized and then stagnated Delhi under the Raj was as modern as London under British colonial rule Indian people were equal before the law save some prejudice from the administration but i think mutual distrust is better than the 3 million peasants living on the outskirts of mumbai that will never go to school or have a job because the Hindu caste system has basically been reinstated in India after colonialism ended there
Joseph Walker
We call ourselves communists. No one yet has mentioned alienation, the same alienation mentioned by Marx that would cause someone to become so disconnected from his fellow person as to allow that person to ram a truck into a crowd.
No allusions to economic conditions that cause millions of people to turn to "Allah" in order to make sense of their shitty conditions which were caused by Western imperialism.
Instead you all want to eat the bait Holla Forums keeps throwing out. Our goal here should be coming up with a consensus, some sort of common agreement at which we can arrive and say "from the materialist perspective, this might be how life and material conditions caused this man to do this".
Decolonization of Africa was handled completely different from that of Asia.
I don't think you seem to understand how Western intervention and the famine caused by Churchill alienates people and causes reactionary philosophies to take place.
The Vatican did horrible things this was my point. The West for 1000 years, was worse at preserving it's own culture than the Moslems. Thanks for admitting that.
You're missing the point. More whatboutism. These still weren't as bloody as the protestant wars. And even if they were, that doesn't negate those same wars being bloody and useless, the same as the ones you posted.
Juan Johnson
Because this modernization was of no use to the natives. Colonies were stripped of their natural wealth, which was shipped back home. Treated as geographical warehouses. When colonialism ended, the native citizens had no way to maintain society because they had to start from scratch again, to form an entirely new economy and educate generations of people kept ignorant and complacent. In comparison, colonies like those that formed the US were just extra territory to live in, they were already trying to form cohesive societies of their own. The bourgies that ran the show were the rebels, so nothing really changed for most people.
You can also compare it to the ex-Soviet bloc countries. They didn't have an aggressively industrialized base to make things easy, they were left high and dry because none of them knew how to actually run a government–Russia did almost everything. So the vacuum was filled with corrupt pricks that don't care.
These despots in SSA aren't dumb either, they are rich and their aristocracy lives very modern lives; when African cities get modern internet, expect to see Kenyans in online games and YouTube comments. What they are is a middle man for neocolonialism.
Bullshit. They literally invented modern number systems. It wasn't a long golden age, but it was real nonetheless. Material conditions, breaking news.
What is "our way of life"? American and Balkan Muslims are highly secularized. They drink, wank and eat porkchops like the rest of us. The conservative ones are very similar to modern Western traditionalists, too. My state had one of the first Muslim legislators and people barely remember because he's not as known for that anymore. It's benign.
Hudson Hall
Thing is, it's not even pol bait. It's official government bait.
He was a relegius fanatic and radical islamist and so on, because that's what he had to be. It deosn't matter what you are, as long as you are said to be X and enough people believe you are X .. YOU ARE X!|
.. The rest of the thread has been derailed to shit by pol. Get it together people!
Evan Barnes
africa is a fucking heap of natural wealth but a lot of it is useless to the native populace; what they can use, like metals, actually does get put to use locally
western corporate interests fucking vacuum their wealth out every year, the foreign aid they receive is a comparatively tiny pittance that actually stagnates local economies and thus perpetuates the exploitation while legitimizing it
Ian Moore
I've been mentioning material conditions over and over.
I'm quite sure catholics and protestants dont stomp babies to death and shit on the heads of statues for their god in a war
muslim is not a culture you moron islamic culture is a mixmash of arabic, berber, persian and an overwhelming amount of judaism and christianity non-muslim arabs were the first to suffer the 'let me rape your daughters and kill you and your sons you infidel' rhetoric way back in the 6th century AD
they werent using it . the native citizens had no way to maintain society because they had to start from scratch again, you know id believe that if free schooling wasn't in place that taught those who wished it all how to read and write and so on
again no they didnt Burma still exported precious gems, South Africa still sold their diamonds
news flash they by and large still dont democracy is not something they like
again news flash we had numerals, most of the western civilized world used Greek numerals or wrote it out im pretty sure the arabic numerals were first introduced in italy during the renaissance simply because they were shorter and simpler to write as symbols
a secular society where individual citizens are by and large free to live their lives how they choose
where do you live user? do you not have the hordes banging at your door
dont pretend China's not doing the exact same thing ive seen african spokespersons also argue that foreign aid is the crutch the african leans on because he's too lazy to stand on his own too feet another made a very good argument that charity only harms africa and does nothing to help them
Benjamin Diaz
I bet they do
I wonder if they talk the goyim into a genocide
Lucas Sanders
The early Arab-Muslim conquests cannot properly be described as a religious in nature. In fact, Arab-Muslim conquerors usually were more tolerant of religious differences than former regimes, for a variety of reasons including but not limited to clever political games.
It certainly cannot be compared to the bloody conflicts that opposed Catholics and Protestants in early modern Europe. Remember that up to 30,000 Huguenots were slaughtered by Catholic mobs during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre alone.
Ian Evans
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Cooper Garcia
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That justifies it right?
Yeah the protestants and catholics did kill children. You're wrong.
Yes they did. They had to form a new system of gov from the ground up he already told you how that manifest itself in the Eastern bloc.
im pretty sure the arabic numerals were first introduced in italy during the renaissance simply because they were shorter and simpler to write as symbols
Excuse, excuse blah blah blah. I don't care they invented a system of numerals that was more efficient than the one we were previously using. The point still stands.
MORE WHATBOUTISM!
Evan Torres
It was very basic education. They had no skills aside from working labor. Nothing for bureaucracy.
And you really think Average Joe benefited? These operations are handled by major companies based outside of the third world.
Unlike the West which is totes not on the verge of another fascist movement.
And Greek numerals are ass. You know nothing of math, then. Modern numbers are one of the most important innovations in scientific history. Period. Plus, y'know, the other shit they did. I dunno. Historians agree it was pretty significant though.
You live in a fantasy world.
Hudson Garcia
anyone think trump could be the first president known for genocide?
William Ramirez
ew
Benjamin Wilson
I love how easily offended the right are, you look on Holla Forums after something like this and they've made an mspaint image of a man running people over who are all spouting liberal maymays, then they cry about their opposition doing it when they namefag up.
Lincoln Torres
I'm sure we'd have accurate official figures of how many the muslims killed or victimised too if any lived to tell the tale remember for most of history the muslims were considered liberators of the copts in Egypt it wasnt until very recently it was discovered through piecing together of various evidence that the copts were just another victim of the muslims that survived because they were christians
wew when they're clearly labeled as jihad against the Roman empire go on read the part where mohammed tricks everyone into thinking the byzantines were going to attack them and leads them out into byzantine territory to intercept an army that never shows up but hey ho mohammed had another premonition so while we're here lets raid their territory amirite?
what with puppet governments not much different from colonialism was it?
I say the Anglo-Indian populace of the British Raj would be mad at you theres you saying they couldnt be officers in the British army or clerks in a bank or even lawyers like Gandhi when they all were exactly those things
wew 2700 years of history and the basis of all math middle eastern or western and its total shite because it came from the west amirite? you're totally an unbiased sane individual
well if you say so ill just pop in my time machine and tell John Lister not to bother inventing sanitation and i hope you cease to exist since you and your mother died of a massive infection however so many years ago because Mr Lister never introduced ideas like cleaning surgical instruments before use or separating sewage from the water supply
I really do I hope other people can be as rational as myself and get proven wrong all the time
Christian Allen
what does that have to do with anything
western politicians call their own people lazy too, welcome to politics
Blake Nguyen
Nah, Christians were only burning witches and torturing and slaying the heretics (cf Cathare heresy)
China started much more recenlty, so their historical influence on Africa is neglectible, for now. IFM and various institutions fucked the third world over with neoliberal policies. Before that the foreign aid essentially ruined local peasants by flooding local markets with free goods.
Adrian Cruz
And the Indian government is incredibly corrupt and greedy for Western bucks.
No, I am saying they improved upon a flawed system.
This statement doesn't even make sense.
Yes, it's the entire world that is wrong, not you.
very sad and very bad i agree, the Cathars didnt deserve their fate neither did the Zoroastrians of Persia at the hands of the muslims or the Buddhists of Khotan at the hands of the muslims or the Sikhs, Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Zoroastrians of India at the hands of the muslims or the Manicheans at the hands of the muslims in China
indeed
well of course they are The Vsayrishta or Krysihta class, i dont know how to spell Vedic Sanskrit in english forgive me is back in power since the Raj left and India became a pseudo-republic ruled by a caste elite after the reign of the dictators Gandhi and his family and the religious genocide they pursued against the indian people and the illegal wars with Assam and Sikkim which now no longer exist because India annexed them quietly with invasions a few decades ago
you claimed some semitic symbols invented a thousand years ago to represent numbers were one of the most important inventions in history and they're not they're really not
Landon Adams
What? I sad the Eastern Blocs had no idea how to run their country after the Soviets dissolved. It's an analogous but not completely the same example.
If Greek Numerals were not shit, we would still be using them today. Just because a Mcdonalds Hamburger fills you up, it does not make it of the same quality as one you get from a 5 star restaurant.
How does whatever you just said negate the fact that modern numbers were one of the most important inventions in science?
Cool conjecture. Even then the most you're doing is whatboutism AGAIN!
The world isn't some libertarian paradise. There is a rising Fascist movement and the West rejected democracy for years. The GOP platform is literally a neotheocracy.
Jason Richardson
Why are you arguing? You slowly concede one point after another? You rely on Whatboutism and you keep failing to address it? You just admitted decolonization of India was handled poorly and they're material conditions are shit. You haven't refuted anything.
Sebastian Gray
As a Muslim living in America, I know that my only life line is the Latinos,Blacks, and Asians living in America.
Dominic Garcia
narrow minded american i see with that reference keep typing that buzzword it means nothing
how does you claiming something and not providing evidence give it validity
what the hell do you think decolonization is? the powerful groups that called for it get what they want a country what does the west have to do with any nation that has called for independence? fuck all thats what
what have i conceded? nothing you are formulating an image of me, an assumption which is not true and you're trying to argue from that standpoint my argument throughout this entire thread is that islam is bad for liberalism, so why does leftypol support islam while lampooning nationalists?
Blake Perez
It's not a buzzword you retard. It's when you try to justify an atrocious act by saying that the accuser once did the same thing. It comes from the Soviets excusing their horrible acts by saying "and you're lynching negros" to the Americans. It is EXACTLY what you are doing.
And we don't support Islam. We just don't think it's inherently worse than any other religion. We want to abolish ALL religion. This includes Islam. We want to do this by attempting to increase the material conditions of these regions.
I don't know maybe because they are the oppressors that said country is calling for independence from?
You conceded that Christians did horrible things to after first saying they weren't the same and then tried to justify it by going "THE MUSLIMS DID IT TO" which is whatboutism.
God you're a retard.
Liam Ward
There is a bit of confusion there. You're aware of course that Islam is religion, not a race. Muslims include Arabs, Turks, Persians, some Chinese and Balkan people. Islam is an ideology, we're not supporting it, but we're not assuming that every person from a muslim background (as coming from a country with islamic history) is some kind of Islamic drone. Something a fair part of the nationalist crowd tend to assume. Nationalism and Islam (at least the Wahabit variant) are shit because their logical conclusion is the anhilitation of the Other.
Justin Stewart
he's losing the authoritarian crowd
Easton Jackson
I wonder if hillary will be known as the most evil president
interesting notion did you know India didnt exist as a nation before colonialism? colonialism created India
and just like with the Romans i dont consider it oppression when you actually do uplift the native populace of the place you've come to
i forgot you dont see the rationale or reasons behind events and actions aside from marxist rhetoric explanations that simplify everything down to movement of capital shite if you compare Christianity with Islam, Islam has far more blood on its hands a thousand years of bloodshed in the name of christendom does not even amount to the number of people that died under the islamic turkic caliph Tamerlane
muslims are inherently more savage and aggressive than any other existing religious group because their religion actively preaches violence against others there is numerous historical evidence of this they've killed and victimized people all over the world but act like the innocent victim when it happens to them and the left always comes running in their defence when its some westerner getting attacked though its because they're an imperialist colonial monster the double standard is the irksome part
nationalists in non-arab nations tend to dislike islam iranian nationalists have started converting to Zoroastrianism because Zarathustra/Zoroaster is a Persian prophet for a Persian religion because of this they're being victimized by Irans socialist Islamic state surprising enough i know but the nationalist utopia isn't all that different from the isolationist policy of the Shogunate in Tokugawa era Japan and thats a fact fam
cant Theodore Roosevelt already beat him
Ethan Reyes
You wot? The concept of nationalism wasn't even relevant to Japan at that time. At best it was isolationist feudalism. As for proper nationalism, what's lebensraum fam?
Connor Nguyen
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Michael Bailey
socialism at its finest the isolationist part is the one we want no overseas fucking around or interfering, none of our own people dying overseas in a foreign war, no big corporations outsourcing jobs to the third world and making everyone poorer isolationism is the key goal
to recount an earlier reply no refutations here
Luke Lopez
last year if you didn't support them you were anti freedom this year if you do, you are pro terrorist
Xavier Lopez
u wot m8
Anthony Watson
I can't get this out of my head.
Here's some phresh OC
Blake Nelson
That claim wasn't made. It just means that is not valid logic.
Nathan Ross
10/10
Parker Howard
Yes they are the oppressor. I don't care who drew up the borders. The resources being extracted did not go to help the native population. kys.
And more whatboutism! Your world view depends on Islam being the bad guy but historians largely disagree with you. There as no good reason for the Protestant and Catholic conflicts other than religious dominance.
And way to go bucko ignoring my entire part about how we don't support Islam but we think material conditions will assist in eradicating it more so than killing them. There is no double standard. The only double standard is yours.
Christopher Gonzalez
wing nut world must be scary They're coming to get you THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU!!
Julian Morgan
Historians are supposed to be objective biased history isnt history the jewish account of the Assyrian invasion of Jerusalem isnt history because its not reliable and its a lie so no historians should disagree with me and neither should they agree with you history is facts, numbers, names and dates not who did what to who and why thats good/bad because thats all subjective the arabic conquest of Persia was good for arabs and bad for persians the mongolian conquest of china was bad for china but good for mongolians
it wont plain and simple thats a fantasy, that genocide is somehow less efficient at eradicating an ideology than making them richer and smarter? the Ancient Celts would disagree if there were any left alive to refute that claim
Aiden King
the muslims are coming!!! and im so intellectually weak, there could be shria law next week
Samuel Reyes
wing-nuts are their own worse enemy
Caleb Young
Okay well you have fun with your genocide right winger. I'm done arguing with you. I, of Jewish ancestry have to go back to work in my kitchen working with my Muslim head chef who said she would make me a free dinner and of which I just made. Have fun with your paranoid delusions and odious double standards.
Charles Long
nothing of this post i have a problem and im not a right winger famo im not on your corporatist spectrum wage slave
Andrew Kelly
That was debunked as made up by the media by the FBI. They found no link between him and the grindr profile.
Ethan Moore
I was browsing wikipedia at work and was really surprised when I found out that the UK and Soviet Union made a joint invasion of Iran and that the UK was briefly at war with (and nearly lost) Iraq during WWII. I don't remember it ever, ever being mentioned before.
Jackson Thomas
Cenk caused this
Ryan Morgan
That leftists would be "defending" Islam is a strawman made up by the right in order to distract from the fact that we are merely pointing out the real causes of terrorism.
Julian Rogers
the real cause of terrorism is being brown/muslim. It really is as simple as that
Joseph Clark
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Isaac Sanders
Stop enabling them. To paraphrase your precious zizek, even if it is true that they were radicalised in part due to western interventionism, it does not mean their radicalism was not a willful act
Easton Hill
I agree, not pursuing imperialist wars would go a long way for that.
Henry Lopez
Did u even read the second part of that post?
Sebastian Baker
You should stop enabling your own idiocy
David White
Of course its a willful act. I don't understand your point. Anyone except a pacifist monk would willingly decide to retaliate if they were attacked.
Learn2Causality
Brayden Wood
Because being brainwashed and subhuman is an act of volition.
Cooper Wilson
That's still not how this logic is going. You can't ban religions without a) severe backlash or b) a total dystopian surveillance state where nobody is in any way anonymous.
Bentley Butler
On the wrong board dude. Go back to Holla Forums, you vacuous spewing hypocritical faggot.
Lincoln Hill
Good news! You don't need to ban Islam, you only need to ban brown people
Henry King
That was my point, user, it's doublethink. They want to hold people responsible for things that are, by definition, not a choice.
kek, that'll go down real fucking well with the non-Muslim racial minorities.
Jordan Myers
Man the Muslim engineers next to me are subhuman af.
Brody Reed
I don't think you quite understand that was sarcastic.
Sebastian James
Well sorry comrade. It's poe's law.
Aiden Butler
Who said we should ban religions?
Nicholas Edwards
(You)
you know what gets me? this retard thinks the rest of us should clean up their mess. pay for it, and be happy about it. they broke it they should fix it. the ussr is gone, why should I be paying to protect other ppl's oil fields and pipelines?
Isaiah Richardson
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Logan Wilson
americans are so used to conning their own brainwashed public, they forget we aren't them
Jack Smith
do the americans think the arabs will drink all the oil if they don't control it?
Zachary Lopez
time to walk away from nato and let the americans surround russia and china on their own dime
Jose Nguyen
does america control the oil? i thought the arabs controlled it and sold it to America via pipelines to Israel
Josiah Collins
I laughed a bit
Brandon Sanchez
yes they control the oil
you don't actually believe the americans liberated them do you?
well thats not really an explanation Africa and the Middle East are different but that major difference wasn't oil the nations of the middle east were a lot more organized than african tribes or states plus oil wasnt desired or found in Arabia until after Lawrence of Arabia united the arab tribes so they could be used as guerrilla fighters against the Ottoman Empire
Alexander Watson
The same with fascism
Evan Brown
the general just said if their was no oil they wouldn't be there
Jose Carter
but we were Germany and Britain were in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Egypt and Arabia and France was in Syria and Lebanon all of this before Israel, Saudi Arabia or crude oil famo
Eli Turner
and communism and socialism
Nolan Watson
americans are trying to start ww3 I don't wanna fight ww3 for the american empire I know italy is sick of it, france could walk away. all we need is an idiot like trump to make it happen
This is ridiculous. How can a major news network (yes, even if it's Fox News) make such a bold claim when nothing is confirmed yet? What the fuck happened to basic journalistic deontology?
Carter Anderson
they just want to be clear about who is to be blamed. and get everyone in the right state of mind for the coming genocide
I know it's a rhetorical question, but no, they don't.
Tyler Reed
Pic saved
Nolan Carter
I don't think that's all there is to it.
Austin Rivera
How?
Jaxson Foster
Oversimplistic representation of events.
It's not like grand politics are actually motivated by revenge.
Joshua Campbell
Well yes, the cycle has to initiate somehow. In this case the initial cause was Western imperialism.
The cycle ends when one side decides there is nothing left to gain from further destruction.
Joshua Rogers
I'm not sure. GWB's foreign policy was so inept it looks more like petty grievances based on pure emotion, rather than some grand scheming chess master.
Jason Williams
The 9/11 hijackers were getting drunk at a stripclub like a week before the attack
Blake Wright
Are you Bill Maher?
David Martinez
Do I really need to spell it all out?
Aiden Collins
I don't get it
t. other guy
Hudson King
Not intentionally, but it is indeed the main motivation of groups like al-Qaeda, let loose by the US and now used an excuse to wage eternal war on the Middle East.
Bitterness and revenge are how dangerous radical movements appear seemingly from nowhere. It's why people risk their lives to join.
Xavier Brown
Where does al-Qaeda get the money? Out of thin air?
Idpol.
As long as you have someone safe to hate, you don't have the time to hate someone you shouldn't hate.
As long as you have some crazy (but safe) idea to support, you don't have the time to support some other idea.
Joseph Anderson
The Middle East is full of wealthy monarchs that like to fund radicals. Bin Laden himself was very wealthy.
Jonathan Sanchez
Well, if the Guardian and the BBC report it, then it's Gospel truth from the Mouth of Jesus Christ himself!
It's not as if the Establishment were desperate to keep tempers under control and prevent reprisals against Muslims, which might escalate into widespread unrest.
Adam Cruz
Yep. Just a coincidence. Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
Jose Davis
Sectarianism in the Islamic world is pretty extreme. They hate each other as much as they hate the West.
Nathan Phillips
Yeah Arab supremacists of the 7th century and their subsequent centuries of imperialism and slavery in the name of Allah had nothing to do with it spreading.
Kevin Sullivan
You're holding the caliphates to an impossible ethical standard for such a time. Conquering and slaughtering was just life back then. They talk the talk, but most reactionary Muslims life far too decent lives to risk them for ideology.
If you think recent history is all irrelevant because the Muslim conquest was super scawy, you are mentally impaired.
Jace Bell
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Charles Reyes
Islamic imperialism predates western imperialism.
Jacob Young
The egg came before the chicken. …oh, sorry. I thought we were correlating things that have no correlation whatsoever.
Camden Russell
And still is in that part of the world. And imperialism never ended on behalf of Islam. Islam just encountered newer stronger empires. When did Saudi Arabia ban slavery by law, 1953?
Wew. If you are going to play the blame game then you should not get butthurt when pays in kind.
Jayden Harris
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Connor Butler
Irrelevant. Islamic imperialism of the West ended centuries ago. The "bomb cycle" for that has long been dead.
Nathan Mitchell
It only ended because the Europeans surpassed them technologically. It would still be ongoing to this day if it weren't for that. Do not play the blame game. Do not attribute the horrors of any imperial machine to the common man trapped within. Otherwise reasonable and intelligent people on this board seem to do this constantly when criticizing the global capitalist hegemony that rules the west. Mautists the lot of you.
Alexander Price
Reminder to all idiots that insist on referring to the Arab conquests of the medieval era as relevant comparison material: it is ENTIRELY unrelated to the phenomenon of Jihadist terrorism, which originated in the '80s and was enabled by the foreign policies of the Western block.
This makes as much sense as mentioning the Crusades, comparing them to Ku Klux Klan activity and coming to the conclusion that they're significantly connected "because Christianity".
Zachary Gutierrez
this
John Cox
The modern Islamic world is wholly unrelated to the caliphates of old. It was pulled out of thin air by the Saudis and other figures put into power by the Western allies for their own ends. In the mid-20th century, secularism was getting popular in the Middle East until the endless foreign meandering made Islamic fundamentalism popular. Religion in law has actually increased from a low point because of this.
The real world is not a Sid Meier video game.
Jeremiah Adams
See what I did there? You are playing the blame game and then moving the goalposts. Shit that happened in the past does not excuse atrocities committed today by anyone to anyone. Get that through your thick retarded Mautist™ skull.
Mason Bell
It started with the splitting up of the Ottaman empire after WW1 but I get your drift cumrade.
Bentley Bailey
Imperialism is imperialism no matter who does it. Western imperialism does not grant Jihadists a moral justification. This is just cause and effect and Jihadism and western governments apolgists will cause a reaction within the western population.
Michael Russell
Islamist(like ISIS) are our enemies. Muslims, in the entirety of their nation are not.
Zachary Smith
It is not playing the blame game IF RESPONSIBILITY IS RELEVANT TO THE ARGUMENT. Fucking idiot.
Evan Scott
I don't think anyone here is talking about "justification". You think we are providing excuses when we are just providing explanations.
Wyatt Adams
The MidEast "crusades" of US have nothing to do with it.
The existence of big radical groups has nothing to do with it.
People can do things for no reason once or twice. But they can't repeatedly pull off things that require immense expences and organized effort on a grand scale just for lulz.
I hate you.
Jaxson Ortiz
Nope
Zachary Allen
Fundamentalist Muslims are generally idiots, basically SJW with guns. The reason they are so effective is because we gave them top-tier military training, which was passed along to future insurgents.
Elijah Green
Nope.
William Wilson
Are you arguing that a people can be collectively held responsible for the action of the elite that rules and oppresses them? For the actions of the elite that ruled and oppressed their ancestors? But only if they are western?
Blake Hill
Rome is in Western Europe and it is the basis of Western civilization. Rome killed, crucified, and enslaved people in the name of imperialism for centuries before Islam emerged. If you want to exclude the classical era and only consider the modern period then you are dealing with colonialism but in that case there is no comparable element in the Islamic world. The Muslims were strictly the victim of colonialism as their countries were colonized by the Western European imperialist powers. This continues to modern times.
Cameron Foster
Yup it is the blame game. Western civ is the big other, the ones responsible, the guilty. Hmm.. I wish we had a name for this guilt.. Maybe something to do with skin color perhaps. As for Muslims, well they did nothing wrong in their conquests, colonialism and slavery. Why? Because they have no agency since they aren't "western" and subjects of collective skin color guilt.
Jayden Williams
Not him, but what exactly are you implying? That middle easterners are evil by nature or that administering "guilt" is pointless and we should look at material conditions instead?
Jordan Torres
You faggots are really autistic.
Jose Taylor
You blatantly denied that Muslims engaged in imperialism, colonialism and slavery.
Not going around attributing collective guilt on entire peoples would be nice since it is pure idpol to do so.
Blake Ramirez
Good job misreading his whole post, it's probably hard for a retard who loves jumping to conclusions about how people are out to get you, but I'm not him. Just want to say, if you are that faggot who claims to be palestinian, please, for the sake of the board, kill yourself or actually engage arguments instead of cowering behind your "idpol" to make them for you.
Michael Smith
So you approve of fostering collective guilt for past crimes committed by the few upon an entire people? I suspect you don't but by what I have been seeing here recently it wouldn't surprise me.
Lincoln Turner
Reading comprehension, retard. Do you have it?
Isaiah Roberts
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Joshua Harris
No. Learn how to read.
Oliver Bennett
Who implied Jihadist terrorists had any kind of moral justification whatsoever? Explaining is not justifying.
Luis Clark
Not sure what you're talking about. Could you direct me to significant instances of Islamist terrorism pre-'80s?
Nicholas Roberts
Muslim. Case closed.
Daniel Thomas
So you support terrorism. I'm not surprised that a leftist would support terrorism and abolishing human rights, like freedom of speech in favour of supporting and defending the "victims" fanatical, bloodthirsty death cult which is Islam.
Juan Peterson
There's been some development in the case.
Police searches of Mohamed Bouhlel's phone and computer turned up evidence that he had recently been watching ISIS beheading videos… and that he had been dating both men and women through the Internet, including a 73-year-old man. He also started growing a beard a few days before the attack, and apparently told some unspecified people that he did so for religious reasons.