.MASSHOLE.You just quoted someone who tends to vote republican...
You also seem to lack the ability to comprehend the unspoken goal of terrorist groups, to make it a Muslim vs. the world conflict. These groups gain supporters through a myriad of ways, one of which is rhetoric surrounding Western attacks on Islamic people, practices, and culture. By blatantly classifying all Muslims as dangerous and terrorists we are furthering the problem, not solving it.
Read a pew poll. Sorry bud, this is the manifestation of the doctrine of Islam. There's nothing fringe about this. The muslim world is overwhelmingly in support of honor killings, executing apostates, views women as undeniably inferior, and the quran explicitly calls for forceful conversion, or death. But, please, lecture me about bigotry, and how most muslims are just like any other moderate religious group. I don't classify ALL muslims as any one thing. Obviously not all muslims are culpable. But, you're adding nothing productive to the discussion by pretending that this is yet again another act of mass murder that just so happens to coincidentally be committed by Islamic fundamentalists.
Religion is a scourge, and at one time or another throughout the mire and cesspool of humanity's existence, each major religion has been largely responsible for the most reprehensible and disgusting acts ever committed. However, it's empirical and undeniable that within the last.....say 50 years or more give or take, Islam has a near monopoly on horrific acts committed in the name of God.
But, please, keep apologizing for a group of people whose so called moderates won't even outright condemn the actions of terrorists murdering innocent civilians.
I'm tired of people who want to pretend that there aren't differences amongst various groups and ideologies. The world has people with really bad ideas. Lately, the muslim world has been responsible for deplorable acts carried out on the back of fucking terrible ideas. It's ok to point out that that's the case. It doesn't make me a bigot, close minded, or whatever, it just means I've been paying attention for the last 32 years of my life, and I'm sick of people like you skipping the part where we honestly take stock and appraise the reality of the world and situation, and go right to the part where we act tolerant and accepting and spit platitudes about how dangerous stereotyping people is.
I don't give a fuck whether you like my opinion or not, and it's not really your fault that you've been raised to ignore any and all evidence of how various groups of people are fundamentally different from one another in a misguided attempt at achieving world harmony.
In closing, fuck the pieces of shit who carried this out, and fuck you for playing some high minded, enlightened prick who wants to chide people about stereotypes. Let me take a wild guess....no one you loved died today. Or on any other day like it. I hope the people responsible for keeping this country safe are the most effective stereotypers to ever walk the face of the earth.
