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Originally Posted by Schroeder
And what does that have to do with anything? If you tried to tell me that there are other bad ideologies out there that should be fought as well then you are too late, I already knew that. 
It's just that Islam is the most dangerous one at the moment. |
Is it? Is it really?
Strikes me that there's a much more dangerous one, one that teaches hate and makes it so much easier to start marginalising whole sections of people.
It also strikes me that it's sweeping the whole western world right now, exactly as the extremists who encourage it want it to.
Before 2001, if people had seen some of the things written about Muslims in media they would have been shocked and surprised that people could suggest such things, and be supported by other people.
We hear again and again and again how Islam is the biggest threat to the western world, and yet Islam kills more of its own people than it does of us, and yet whenever someone kills a hundred or so in a western nation we all run around screaming like the world is about to end. How many have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 and 2003? More than every terrorist attack in the US and Europe since 2001 and then a whole lot more, that's how many.
But no, we keep creating that boogeyman, keep putting it out in the media, keep stirring up that hatred and fear, keeping hollering about how Islam is the threat and it's a war against Islam. Yeah, pretty much the same words that the extremists themselves use.
I don't fear Islamic extremists...I fear what they might turn us into.
