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  • #136
    Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

    Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
    What is it with the right that is so obsessed with labels? Yes, we know your a conservative. Yes, all other conservatives but you are rino's. This is somehow very important to you. Yes, we know there is a rash of Muslim violence. No, not all Muslims are violent...the vast majority of Muslims are fine.I would rather the government concern itself with all extremism and those that are high risk for major violence rather than -insert label here-.
    I'm sure many on the right would like to ask the left the same question, especially with all the labels ending in -ist and -ism.

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    • #137
      Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Find the time to read this.
      Find the time to read what the person shouted just before doing what he did.

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      • #138
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Find the time to read this.
        Good job. I wonder if the current mantra that "this country has always been tolerant of all faiths" is true?
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        • #139
          Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

          Originally posted by joecct View Post
          Good job. I wonder if the current mantra that "this country has always been tolerant of all faiths" is true?
          Many secular thinkers now regard “religion” as inherently belligerent and intolerant, and an irrational, backward and violent “other” to the peaceable and humane liberal state
          It could never occur here.
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          • #140
            Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

            Originally posted by busterman62 View Post
            It could never occur here.
            Wouldn't that statement make secular thinkers intolerant, because of their intolerance towards religious beliefs?

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            • #141
              Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

              Many secular thinkers now regard “religion” as inherently belligerent and intolerant, and an irrational, backward and violent “other” to the peaceable and humane liberal state
              Originally posted by busterman62 View Post
              It could never occur here.
              Quite the peculiar retort in this context given the not so magnanimous aversion to all things Islamic from the right.

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              • #142
                Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                Good job. I wonder if the current mantra that "this country has always been tolerant of all faiths" is true?
                It surely seems like it is true to me: people still seem very tolerant of other people's faith1; what we do not tolerate is anti-social behavior.






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                • #143
                  Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                  Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                  Wouldn't that statement make secular thinkers intolerant, because of their intolerance towards religious beliefs?
                  Some of the biggest bigots I've met are the anti-bigot bigots.
                  The preceding post may contain trigger words and is not safe-space approved. <-- Virtue signaling.

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                  • #144
                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Find the time to read this.
                    I'll bookmark that for later, but based on the executive summary, I am kind of surprised you'd be the one to post something like that.

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                    • #145
                      Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                      Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                      I'll bookmark that for later, but based on the executive summary, I am kind of surprised you'd be the one to post something like that.
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                      • #146
                        Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                        After a skim, a decent article which identifies some straight forward (and in my mind correct) hypotheses.

                        It does not say why many of the relatively small percentage of violent religious fanatics exist to begin with. That is due to underlying tendencies in many for extremism/anger that already pre exist in say 10 to 20% of all peoples without adherence to any ideology. Religion (or nationalism or even fanaticism of things like guns) then attracts that extremism as it adds perceived rationale or other 'grounding' which is typically a huge leap from what these ideologies are all about. The article does identify that those with similar strains of judgment fall into the secular camp which then proceeds to mis judge the cause of extremism and directly blame the ideology. It is the misdiagnosis of the ideology that then cause moderate adherents to feel like they're ideology is under unwarranted fire (which it is) and this misdiagnosis plus pre existing extremist lobbying spreads extremism within that ideology. Rinse, repeat.
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                        • #147
                          Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                          Police state is heightening: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/07/e...tary-personnel

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                          • #148
                            Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                            Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                            Police state is heightening: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/07/e...tary-personnel
                            They also purged their universities. That typically doesn't end well.

                            There is typically an ultra-conservative backlash against intellectuals during frightening times. We have our own dances with Gleichschaltung here in the US whenever the people are scared and want to run under the skirts of the nearest head ape.
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                            • #149
                              Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
                              Some of the biggest bigots I've met are the anti-bigot bigots.
                              Why should we be tolerant of bigots? I'm so sick of bigots claiming they are being persecuted. They deserve to be treated like *******s because they CHOOSE to be *******s.

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                              • #150
                                Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                                Originally posted by BassAle View Post
                                Why should we be tolerant of bigots? I'm so sick of bigots claiming they are being persecuted. They deserve to be treated like *******s because they CHOOSE to be *******s.
                                Yeah that little diatribe ranks up there with the whole idea of reverse racism...oh those poor WASPS!
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