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When Leftist Ideologues Revert to 'It's All Our Fault' (it's never islam's fault)
americanthinker.com ^ | 11/30/2013 | Andrew E. Harrod

Posted on 11/30/2013 7:48:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux

"We did this," popular British religion writer Karen Armstrong said in a November 21, 2013 keynote address at Georgetown University. She was referring to her country's imperial history and al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Speaking to Georgetown's Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), Armstrong clearly showed with bizarre, anti-Western self-accusatory explanations for jihadist violence how "I like to turn the finger against myself first."

"We have all done terrible things," Armstrong stated at ACMCU's 20th-anniversary conference on "Muslim-Christian Relations in the 21st Century: Challenges & Opportunities." Armstrong in particular was "very conscious as a person of the British Empire" about how "we are all implicated" in problems afflicting Muslims globally. Armstrong referenced Anglo-French involvement during World War I in determining Middle Eastern borders and Pakistan's "almost impossible" borders derived from Indian partition in 1947. Armstrong also considered "our Palestinian mess" a British sin inciting Muslim violence today.

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In Armstrong's relativistic reasoning, pilots Paul Tibbets, who ended a war over Hiroshima, and Mohammad Atta, who began a war in New York, are equal. Not a vigorous fight for freedom, but guilty mourning for Muslims should result from 9/11. Such is the analysis of Armstrong, a member of the High-Level Group at the United Nations' Alliance of Civilizations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; leftism

1 posted on 11/30/2013 7:48:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The British had considerable success in corralling the Koranimals.

That was a good thing.

I have no idea what this person is complaining about.


2 posted on 11/30/2013 7:50:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Leftists have ideological hardons for Islamic imperialism and global Communist imperialism.

No other excuse.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.


3 posted on 11/30/2013 8:03:23 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: RoosterRedux

The leftist history of the world is peculiarly one-sided. The Moors never invaded Europe before the Crusades and made their way halfway through France. The Mongols never overran Asia and much of eastern Europe. The Turks never threatened Vienna and occupied much of south-eastern Europe for centuries. The Aztecs never conquered their Indian neighbors and slaughtered them in mass human sacrfices. The question is not that Europeans have been saints, it’s why is it impossible for liberals to see the world as it was and currently is?


4 posted on 11/30/2013 8:13:11 AM PST by driftless2
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To: RoosterRedux

The easiest way for narcissism to disguise its self-centered nature without having to inspire any real world action is to effect a speech or write a book bearing the appearance of self deprecation while really only pointing the finger at others.

But narcissism’s most loyal companion is foolishness. This explains why the me generation is incapable of understanding that stealing virtue is a logical impossibility.


5 posted on 11/30/2013 8:27:31 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: RoosterRedux

6 posted on 11/30/2013 8:31:09 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!t happened world wide.)
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To: reasonisfaith

The wiles of evil are weird.

If you don’t have the love of God, evil will twist you up 8 ways from Sunday. You will not have any integrating view of what God desires to achieve and your foolish heart will be darkened. You’ll still chase virtues but in a discombobulated and self defeating way. And related to this is the adage that hypocrisy is the tribute that virtue pays to vice.

God would rather pity than censure the sinning soul, but the soul’s choice to come to Him is allowed to that soul.


7 posted on 11/30/2013 8:36:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: reasonisfaith

ARGH. I’ve been rassling with the devil more than is good for me, perhaps. I mean hypocrisy is the tribute that VICE pays to VIRTUE.

My bad (happily it has gone to the Cross and I repent).


8 posted on 11/30/2013 8:37:22 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“We did this”

True, in the sense of: We continued to exist. We polluted Saudi Arabia by putting non-Muslim soldiers in that country and protecting it from invasion. We humiliated Muslims across the world by prospering, and further in the eyes of some by not paying them a tax for our continued existence. When made plain his immorality and criminality, we refused to remove and punish Clinton.


9 posted on 11/30/2013 8:50:17 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: RoosterRedux

Note this difference:

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor Americans said...”Then dirty Japs! We’ll get you!” Then they rushed to the recruitment centers.

When the muzzies flew planes into the twin towers, Americans said.....”OH what did WE do to them to make them hate us so!”

The public has been so conditioned to blame themselves for everything, when a young actress was shot to death, by a man she had never met, as she bled out she cried...”WHAT DID I DO? WHAT DID I DO!”


10 posted on 11/30/2013 8:56:14 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Look what Islam has done to Islamic people around the world, and what it is doing to everyone else. Non Islamic nations are foolish for not outlawing Islam, and disgorging themselves of Muslims. Islam is a cancer that never does anything but destroy the body it infects.


11 posted on 11/30/2013 9:18:35 AM PST by pallis
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To: RoosterRedux

The thing is..when the left states “It our fault” they really mean “It your fault”..when does the left ever fault itself..never.. the modern progressive left has more historical blood on its hands in the last 150 years then anyone..and it sop for them to blame it all on others


12 posted on 11/30/2013 10:11:35 AM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: tophat9000

I think what the Left ultimately hates the most is God...hence their hatred of Judeo/Christian civilization.


13 posted on 11/30/2013 10:22:57 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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