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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    badbrains said:

    fuck said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    It is now estimated that about 25% of Middle Eastern Muslims land on the extremist side.

    I'm not familiar with this study. Is this the one that was conducted by the think tank called "My Ass"?
    If it really is 25% then u better get ready for a take over lol. That's what, 400,000,000 MILLION extreme Muslims. What army can beat that?
    An army of 1,200,000,000 moderate Muslims could beat that.

    I don't know what the actual statistics are... but it seems to me that if the radicals are a dramatic minority... it wouldn't be that hard to squash them. And holy shit do they need to be squashed.

    Badbrains... don't get defensive on this board. Everybody here likes you.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    dancinacrossthewater said:

    I think there are probably around an equal percentage of nutty extremists within each ethnic/religious group.

    That's one of the reasons why us Jews get so defensive - cuz there's so damn few of us.

    Not an excuse for hurting people though.

    Picketing dead soldiers' funerals and bashing gays is one thing... cutting people's heads off and skewering them on poles is quite another.

    Let's not make the mistake of minimizing how extreme this group of brainwashed nutjobs are.
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  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    Godfather. said:

    Kat, yes please do.
    Badbrains...still blown away by your post about the radical muslims that took some balls, you will never read any post from me questioning your personal faith again
    now excuse me while I have some humble pie. LOL !


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  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    badbrains said:

    fuck said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    It is now estimated that about 25% of Middle Eastern Muslims land on the extremist side.

    I'm not familiar with this study. Is this the one that was conducted by the think tank called "My Ass"?
    If it really is 25% then u better get ready for a take over lol. That's what, 400,000,000 MILLION extreme Muslims. What army can beat that?
    An army of 1,200,000,000 moderate Muslims could beat that.

    I don't know what the actual statistics are... but it seems to me that if the radicals are a dramatic minority... it wouldn't be that hard to squash them. And holy shit do they need to be squashed.

    Badbrains... don't get defensive on this board. Everybody here likes you.
    You're right buddy, sometimes my smartass gene takes over and I have to learn to control it. Thanks for the heads up. Don't want to offend or have anyone angry at me. Worlds full of hate, don't want to add to it.
  • dancinacrossthewater
    dancinacrossthewater Posts: 800
    Good stuff in this thread today guys.
  • dancinacrossthewater
    dancinacrossthewater Posts: 800
    edited August 2014
    fuck said:


    The Middle East is a much more complicated place than you seem to want to give it credit for.

    Believe it or not, fuck, that's the point I've been trying to make to you for a few weeks now.

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  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,379
    dancinacrossthewater said:

    fuck said:


    The Middle East is a much more complicated place than you seem to want to give it credit for.

    Believe it or not, fuck, that's the point I've been trying to make to you for a few weeks now.

    To be fair, I'm quite sure I've seen fuck say that a number of times on here (regarding the complexities of the Middle East).
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,122
    how about we have one big ass thread, sticky it at the top of the train, where all of us can post the most ridiculous headlines/thread titles, and just call it "HYPERBOLE"??
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,122
    i would link to the video of the cops shooting that dude in my city and call it "black dude shot by white assholes".
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    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • dancinacrossthewater
    dancinacrossthewater Posts: 800
    I'm trying to be fair, and most of the posts I've seen in this thread have been among the best I've seen on the board in a while. People seem to be trying hard to understand each other and not assuming the worst about those with different opinions about very complicated issues. That's typically not been my experience of fuck on this board.



  • dancinacrossthewater
    dancinacrossthewater Posts: 800
    Its difficult for me to understand how someone can say in one breath that the Middle East is a complex place and in the next breath repeat again and again that Israel = evil and Hamas = good. Simple equations don't work in complex places.
  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,379
    dancinacrossthewater said:

    I'm trying to be fair, and most of the posts I've seen in this thread have been among the best I've seen on the board in a while. People seem to be trying hard to understand each other and not assuming the worst about those with different opinions about very complicated issues. That's typically not been my experience of fuck on this board.



    I'll retract my statement then. I've personally found fuck to be fair, but I'm happy to move on from that topic: these threads should be about the global issues at hand, rather than the people posting the information. This one has been particularly great for that so far.
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  • dancinacrossthewater
    dancinacrossthewater Posts: 800
    benjs said:

    dancinacrossthewater said:

    I'm trying to be fair, and most of the posts I've seen in this thread have been among the best I've seen on the board in a while. People seem to be trying hard to understand each other and not assuming the worst about those with different opinions about very complicated issues. That's typically not been my experience of fuck on this board.



    I'll retract my statement then. I've personally found fuck to be fair, but I'm happy to move on from that topic: these threads should be about the global issues at hand, rather than the people posting the information. This one has been particularly great for that so far.
    Amen to that
  • Godfather.
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    gimmesometruth27 said:

    how about we have one big ass thread, sticky it at the top of the train, where all of us can post the most ridiculous headlines/thread titles, and just call it "HYPERBOLE"??

    I think I have an unfair advantage =)) ...don't make me bust out the FOX NEWS celeb section. :))

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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Do these reporters and photo journalist who go to these places know what their getting into? Yes they do. They choose to go. My sympathy for the families of these reporters but these reporters know what their getting into, they know the risk and they take on that risk ... probably for the one great story or picture they hope will bring them fame.
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  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    dancinacrossthewater said:

    I think there are probably around an equal percentage of nutty extremists within each ethnic/religious group.

    That's one of the reasons why us Jews get so defensive - cuz there's so damn few of us.

    Not an excuse for hurting people though.

    Picketing dead soldiers' funerals and bashing gays is one thing... cutting people's heads off and skewering them on poles is quite another.

    Let's not make the mistake of minimizing how extreme this group of brainwashed nutjobs are.
    When I heard this on the News Nutjobs is one of the words that came to mind...absolutely Sick that Humans can still do this to one another.

  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    edited August 2014
    hedonist said:

    BB, though it's appreciated, you have no need to apologize for the actions of those who are a 180 from you.

    You beat me to the punch here Hedonist .BB You didn't have any part of this ,why you apologizing ?Fuck em.
    Thats like when someone walks into you and you apologize for their mistake? These cats are vile,and if they wanted to get the/our war pigs fired up,they succeeded.Watch this notch up by the day.The politicians finally got a issue they can both get behind and support.Im already hearing guys like Chambless pushing hard and talking the talk.
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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    PJ_Soul said:

    badbrains said:

    No surprise here that you're the first to come and post this. 1.6 billion Muslims with 99.999999999999% who are PEACEFUL, but let's forget that and talk about a group that our military can wipe out in 3 mins. So what's the issue? Why not take them out? Why keep them around? Oh ya, we need a bad guy to keep the war machine going. Where's your crying GF on gaza? Why aren't you up and arms, screaming about all the dead INNOCENT children on the streets of Gaza. Shit, 3 were murdered just last night. Why no rage from you? Oh, that's right, cuz they're Muslim so it's OK to kill them. Pages and pages of slaughters happening against innocent civilians in gaza and GF posts something about Muslims beheading a journalist. Did you hear his voice,
    Sounds British to me. Mite want to attack England next for sending these guys over there.

    I agree with your basic premise here. But 99.99999999999%? Not even close. More like 75%. It is now estimated that about 25% of Middle Eastern Muslims land on the extremist side.
    One thing I do think is that, while the majority of Muslims are peaceful, the majority is also very nonactive in countering the radical ones. The Muslim world should be doing a LOT more to quell radicalism. As it is, they do almost nothing. I don't understand why they don't. These radical Muslims hurt them all, yet there is close to no action against it within their own communities.
    PJ,I can't confirm numbers but I heard the report mentioned a few times.I thought it was more gauging anti western sentiment than if you agree with the extremist actions.But it did mention how recruitment was really way up among younger generation.to terror orginazations.
    I do agree with you and I've talked about it in other threads here that I was concerned that there wasn't enough outrage(at least visible and public) by the moderate Muslim populations and governments.
    We need to hear from more of the BBs out there.Calling for stop to the jack knobs who are hijacking there faith and painting it dark.
    In numbers the Muslim world could move mountains if they all were on the same page.
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    And people expect God to love them unconditionally with repeated acts like this? Some people cannot reason properly, lets not have prison or death penalty either lol
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    lukin2006 said:

    Do these reporters and photo journalist who go to these places know what their getting into? Yes they do. They choose to go. My sympathy for the families of these reporters but these reporters know what their getting into, they know the risk and they take on that risk ... probably for the one great story or picture they hope will bring them fame.

    So if no media or journalists goes to troubled areas...is this a step in the right direction? Who will have most to lose on that? yes, they risk their lives for the world to know and should get credit for it.

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