Where's the "Nuke Mecca" crowd today??

Me ^ | April 9th, 2003 | Me

[CIB-173RDABN]

But let's assume I'm only half right. 800,000 is still a lot of people to condemn, isn't it?

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Half of 1.6 Billion is not eight hundred thousand.

[EternalVigilance]

LOL...

[11B3]

We are still here - and we hope you are right - because we still have countless enemies in the middle east. Just in case you forgot, the jihadists have still been trying to flood into Iraq to harm our forces. Granted, these fools have only been listening to Al Jezeera and the rest of the Arab media. Until their media cleans up its' act, we're still on guard. And we still believe that the only thing that the jihadists understand is overwhelming force.

The BEST allies we are going to have here in the future are Iraqis - they owe us a debt of honor, and they will support us against the rest of Islam. Even the Shias will stand for us. Having said that, we have made great inroads towards peace. This victory has the opportunity to take the wind out of the sails of OBL as well as the mullahs of Iran. Syria, however, is another nation run by the Ba'ath party - they will have to go. It ain't over yet.

[spodefly]

I have never been one of the 'Nuke Mecca' crowd, but I do believe that Islam is a fundamentally flawed ideology, and the logical (illogical) conclusion of strict adherance to Islam is more represented by Bin Laden and Al Queda than by the Iraqi people. The fact that Iraqis have been mostly a secular people give hope that they are not as 'eat up' with the jihad mentality as many of the other adherants.

To wit:

"This is a sad day for all the Arabs and Muslims, particularly the Palestinians," Nael al-Am, a Ramallah grocer who keeps a poster of Saddam Hussein in his shop, told the Jerusalem Post.

"I invested a lot of money in buying a satellite dish and a new TV set because I wanted to watch the day the battle for Baghdad begins. I was sure this was going to be one of the great battles of the century, where an Arab army would inflict heavy losses on the invading crusaders. I feel as if a dagger has been stuck in my heart when I see American soldiers strolling in the heart of Baghdad."

Since the war started, Palestinians have held almost daily demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza. They burned the U.S. and British flags, waved the Iraqi flag and carried portraits of Saddam, whom they urged to bomb Tel Aviv.

The terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad vowed to conduct suicide bombings against Israel in support of Saddam and claimed to have sent members to Iraq to kill coalition troops. Islamic Jihad carried out one suicide bombing in Netanya on March 30.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889445/posts

[neutrino]

Is this just an act? Are they trying to lull us into a false sense of security while they are plotting to kill every last one of us in the name of their "Moon God"?

Well said and true!

[The Lake City Gar]

(you have noticed that that is a running joke around here and that none of them really mean it, right?)

Yes, of course. Free Republic has the wittiest posters on the internet...Hands down.

But!

I've got the original chilling (And serious) "Nuke Mecca" post from 9-11 saved somewhere. And I've seen numerous non running joke kind of comments along the same lines. "None" is not true. Not at all. Many of them mean it.

[EaglesUpForever]

I've never supported nuking Mecca (other than as a very last resort, if for example we're faced with more Saudi terrorists a la 9/11), but I have since 9/11 maintained that islam doesn't qualify as a religion in the sense of the world's major religions, and I stand by this.

Sure, plenty of decent people follow islam, and I'm sure some interpret in a way that can be described as devout and religious, and some would never fall for the Jihad mania of Osama and others. BUT, that "silent majority" if it exists, is TOO SILENT. I think we have to look at islam as a whole, and as long as the loud, active ones are terrorists, with no dissent or censure from the supposed "silent majority", then it is better described as a death cult than as a religion.

By their fruits shall you know them.

[The Lake City Gar]

LOL!

Damn, three little zeros sure do add-up to a LOT in the end!!

[Monty22]

The threat and then doing it is all that will be there is to deter these bastards from attacking us again.

My how 9/11 fades into the distant past.. so soon people forget.

[Stew Padasso]

I'm glad you posted this, I was thinking the same thing. All the big talk about turning Iraq into a glass parking lot was dispicable.

[cynicom]

This is just the opening phase of a long struggle with Islam. Your eggs are not hatched, counting the chickens is premature.

[TopQuark]

I share your point of view. But many people who epxressed harsh views were not so much bigots but wounded. They attacked 3,000 of ours on Sep 11 --- they attacked all of us.

And I am still waiting for the U.S. Muslim organizations to denounxe terrorism and that atrocity without qualifiers (one but notable exception --- an ethnic, not Muslim, organization has done that --- the Association of Turkish Americans, the president of which wrote to Bush a wonderful letter on Sep 12).

What you see is the generosity of American heart. Let's hope that this generosity will not cost us many more lives.

Hang around a little longer on FR. Like all human associations, it has its undulations. Don't rush to judgement thus.

[eleni121]

I'm here and I'm proud. The hateful ones are the Muslims. The deluded ones are those who think that Islam is a religion - it is rather a cult/ideology!

As far as I'm concerned the liberated Iraqis have one more liberation to experience - the mighty Lord Jesus! That will be real liberation.

[ctdonath2]

Give us a few days to come down from the rush over Iraq. Remember: in 2002 we cleaned out Afghanistan, in 2003 we cleaned out Iraq, in 2004 we'll clean out another cauldron of evil.

9/11 is not forgotten. It is Bush's primary motivation. We will not soon forget.

These things take time.

[Stentor]

I've got the original chilling (And serious) "Nuke Mecca" post from 9-11 saved somewhere. And I've seen numerous non running joke kind of comments along the same lines. "None" is not true. Not at all. Many of them mean it.

The sound of you grinding your axe is really irritating. I'll take the nuke Mecca crowd over the maybe they'll go away and leave us alone crowd any day.

[Jhoffa_]

Someone needed to say this..

[EternalVigilance]

There may be one or two that really would like us to do that, but I don't think you should worry too much; no one is going to let them close to the trigger.

However, if radical Islamists carry out a WMD attack on the U.S., all bets are off.

[Jorge]

Where is the "Nuke Mecca" crowd? The "The only good muslim is a dead muslim" crowd? The "Islam is a death cult" crowd? The "Intern all Arabs" crowd? The "Islam is a religion of peace" crowd?

Seems like they are almost as speechless as the anti-Bush anti-war crowd today.

Powerful events such as those we've seen today silence a lot of divisive voices. It's delightful.

[Asclepius]

And I've been called everything from a muslim to a communist to a democrat to a traitor.

You sound bitter. Perhaps a nap would help. Meanwhile, we can still love our Muslim brothers and sisters even as we nuke Mecca.

[witnesstothefall]

We are still here - and we hope you are right - because we still have countless enemies in the middle east.

Well that's the point of this thread isn't it, counting our enemy? So far, we've got three competing theories:

1.6 billion deadly evil Muslims

half of 1.6 billion not so bad pilgrims

800,000 great guys who run about in flowing robes