To: Amberdawn
[Which explains why theyll go around the world to murder Christians in the name of islam.]
Suicidal religious zealots are an infinitesimal % of the ~2b Muslims on the planet. A few thousand kamikaze types are not representative of the entire population. That’s why most Middle Eastern regimes remain standing today - their troglodyte ISIS and al Qaeda-supporting Islamist populations don’t like them, but don’t particularly want to lose their lives engaging in the waves of suicide attacks that would actually topple those regimes. Their attitude to self-sacrifice can be boiled down to “you first”. Don’t get me wrong - if they could kill all non-Muslims with little risk, they would. But sacrifice their lives to do this? “You first”.
12 posted on
07/15/2019 3:28:30 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Zhang Fei
[Which explains why theyll go around the world to murder Christians in the name of islam.]
And even among that tiny number (thousands, at most, if you lump every reported instance of sudden jihad syndrome in with 9/11) they’re not obeying what their leaders say - they’re responding to ancient religious edicts. The Crusaders, venturing into the literal wastelands (i.e. arid deserts) of the Middle East in significant numbers against overwhelming odds, at a time when the mere journey there was dangerous even without human enemies getting in the way, had a lot more of this self-sacrificial, kill-the-Muslim-infidel impulse than our current batch of all-talk, no-action Muslims. The Muslims here aren’t particularly moderate. But the vast majority are also personally not into long prison terms or the needle for mounting terror attacks, let alone suicide attacks. As I’ve written before - with regard to self-sacrifice for the cause, the attitude of most Muslims is “you first”.
16 posted on
07/15/2019 3:40:00 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Zhang Fei
Perhaps, most polls I’ve seen show that some 10% of muslims worldwide support jihad/murder of non muslims. The Saudi’s are particular scum for funding Wahhabist mosques in other countries, no doubt to keep the murderers away from them.
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