Is Islamaphobia Irrational?
Since a phobia is described as an irrational fear, Islamaphobia becomes an oxymoron.
Need proof? The following are some reasons for a rational fear of Islam and its Muslim followers. I use the word "some" because for the sake of brevity, I could have listed many more. Keep in mind that the following were all perpetrated by Muslims:
The shoe bomber
The Beltay shooters
The underwear bomber
The USS Cole bombers
The Madrid Train Bombers
The Bali Nightclub bombers
The London Subway bombers
The Moscow Theater Attackers
The Boston Marathon Bombers
Pan Am 93
The Iranian Embassy takeover
The Israeli Olympic Team massacre
The Kober Towers bombers
Embassy Attack in Benghazi
The Beirut Marine Barracks massacre
The 1st World Trade Center Bombing
The 2nd World Trade Center Attack on 911
Tha Achille Lauro Hijack
The Peshawary Schoolchildren massacre
If that doesn't prove that it is perfectly rational to fear Muslims, nothing will. However, that doesn't mean that one should run cowering when encountering a Muslim. Quite the opposite should be the case.
Need proof? The following are some reasons for a rational fear of Islam and its Muslim followers. I use the word "some" because for the sake of brevity, I could have listed many more. Keep in mind that the following were all perpetrated by Muslims:
The shoe bomber
The Beltay shooters
The underwear bomber
The USS Cole bombers
The Madrid Train Bombers
The Bali Nightclub bombers
The London Subway bombers
The Moscow Theater Attackers
The Boston Marathon Bombers
Pan Am 93
The Iranian Embassy takeover
The Israeli Olympic Team massacre
The Kober Towers bombers
Embassy Attack in Benghazi
The Beirut Marine Barracks massacre
The 1st World Trade Center Bombing
The 2nd World Trade Center Attack on 911
Tha Achille Lauro Hijack
The Peshawary Schoolchildren massacre
If that doesn't prove that it is perfectly rational to fear Muslims, nothing will. However, that doesn't mean that one should run cowering when encountering a Muslim. Quite the opposite should be the case.
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among the good guys! -- j
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in my estimation. . u.s. citizens have become very
good at it. -- j
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Waco - how many children burned to death by Jackboot Janet Von Flamethrower Reno's private Schutszstaffel?
Vietnam - How many US service personnel killed in Lyndon Butcher Johnson's War?
(suck an egg if you don't like the comment unless you have more time there in the infantry than i do.)
You may or may not have noticed I was absent for three days. One of my twice weekly forced trips up to the USA where I assume my hide in the open act. Did my business and headed back south where it's safe.
I went to one shopping center for a few items and didn't make it past the third booth finally saying...I don't support left wing socialist fascism. That applies to all these butt-on holers. I think the pun was lost on the absence of intellect and sense of humor.
islamic extremist terrorists already here to do us in....... -- j
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A similar term for our troops would be ragheads the current version of krauts, zips, slopes, etc. A step above NVA and VC to quote my war...a step below more derisive terms.
They both serve to dehumanize the other side and somehow empower the other side.
It's a psyops tool to be kind. But it works especially when used against the righteous true believer types.
That's the roots but the cultural aspects that engender the use of such sloganeering are far more pandemic in societies such as those in the middle east where thought control is far more advanced.
It still exists in Western Countries where it's taught at home and in schools as acceptable behavior.
But them in our country almost any form of immoral perversion is considered acceptable behavior.
explicitly state that Only Radical Islamic Terrorists
are being considered. . it's a form of PC, I believe. -- j
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from our predominant Christian population. . maybe
I am wrong. -- j
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And do it without destroying the American Dream anymore than it's already been destroyed by our own government.Step Three.
Okay, here is my last devasting idea: if Islamist terrorist create civil strife in the US then Mecca, Medina and Temple Mount wipe from the face of the Earth.
You mean we need to put up with this crap 'till November?
What frightens me, or perhaps saddens is a better word, is that fewer and fewer of the mainstay contributors that abounded when I first joined the Gulch seem to be contributing less and less or have disappeared altogether.
My favorite party of Objectivism is to find out 'is it real and is it useful.' The others are Plato followers or as I like to call them Playdoughists.
After the election crap is over they will disappear again for another three years having accomplished nothing
I'm happy that I'm not the only racist in this thread.
Where do these people get this? By inference? Read the friggin words. They have meanings people. Don't read anything into the words that aren't there!
If it's only the government being called Satan it's pretty mild a compared to verbiage I would choose. As another example.
I often wonder what all the 'high spirited' conversation would be like if like definitions were used...leaving PC out of it obviously
consists of terrorists. . the terrorists who exist inside Islam
call us satan, and it doesn't cause us to recruit more like us
to attack them violently. -- j
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