Pennsylvania Yank wrote:Practicing this type of moral relativism will get you a lot of accolades in certain circles, but is not really a sound and logical analysis of the problems we face in dealing with the dangers of radical Islam, and the threat Islam currently poses to Western Democracy.
In fact, it plays right into the hands of those who seek to destroy us.
There is a very good reason that Australia has a very strict immigration policy w/respect to so-called "refugees". I only wish my country(and Europe) had the stones to do the same thing.
The point is: rather than banging on about "Islam" as a whole and thereby defining enmity for an entire religion; it would be much better to name the beast for what it is, "Islamic extremism".
There are varying reports as to what this guys motivations where. Some say he was not aligned with isis but was strict Christian who was not mentally stable. This implies that the official reports of his alignment with radical Islam is just a ruse to utilise the tragedy in order to baulster support for further anti Islamic actions.
Saying that Christian extremists have abandoned forcible conversion is somewhat of a misnomer. The US ruling class is rather dominated by extremist Christians; given this and the forcible conversion to 'western democracy' by a military operating under a banner 'in God we trust', it can be said that the modern crusade has merely been re-branded yet, in fact, remains the same. An ongoing battle between extreme factions of religious sects who have managed to wheedle control of gov/military in their respective countries, over some rock strewn strip of land that is supposed to have some divine significance (and a s**t load of fossil fuels).
I disagree with extremist violence of all kinds. I disagree with oppressive cultural, religious and governmental policies of all kinds. Fact is, the Islamic world is not the only place that these iniquities exist. We all need to take a good, long, honest look in our own back yards before condemning others or forcing our way of life on them because our 'gods' know best.
Oh well. It's too early for this s**t. I'm going to brew some beer!