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PenWing said:
Pariah, did you ever watch Highlander, the TV series? There were these guys called watchers, and they watched the immortals though history?

Well, the only difference between the watchers and my people, is that we unfortunately had to experience the history.



This isn't good enough PenWing.

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r3x29yz4a said:
this argument is like saying there's more crime in Harlem therefore all black people must be criminals.



No. It's not.

I'm saying that a confirmed Muslim terrorist is 99.9% likely to be representing Islam than some other cause that's....Secular or something.

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Christians and Muslims both do bad shit. Most of the times though the Christians are "legit." Bush is Christian, he's killed more than Osama.



If you'd please to note, the Iraq War and the elimination of the Taliban had nothing to do with religion.

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The IRA are Catholic and have been pretty much in the same vein as the Iraqi insurgents.



In the sense that you're referring to Christians doing "bad shit", you're correct, but it's not entirely analogous with the motivations of the Iraqi insurgents. While it isn't any excuse, the IRA....Was angry about God's doctrine being changed by the Protestants and they, in turn, said fuck off. Truth be told, I don't know who started the actual violence, but the point is that the reason they started terrorizing was because they both felt their respective religion was threatened to destruction by either one's presence. At this point, eye for an eye has denominated their motives into pure hatred. In the case of the Muslims' actions: They were always hate-inspired.

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magicjay said:
The difference between Christian violence and terrorist violence seems to be the level of detachment by the perpetrator of the violent act. Xtian from far away, Muslims, in your face and personal. For example, you're riding on Muni and a guy gets on with explosives strapped to his body and detonates it during the morning rush. You are killed or injured. Transport this scenario to Fallujah. You're on the bus and a US F-18 is overhead and the pilot decides that your bus looks like a military target so he launches an air to ground missle and blows the shit out of your bus. You are killed or injured. In what way is this different from what happened in San Francisco. Either way, you are fucked. The Muslim terrorist committed suicide for the greater glory of Allah. You looked him in the eye before the explosion. The Xtian pilot was 10 miles away and 5000 feet above you. One perp goes to the morgue in pieces, the other returns to base and drinks beers with his buddies. In a moral sense, what differentiates these two?



You're a moron.