I'm probably expressing myself badly. I agree wholeheartedly that the TERRORISTS should be dealt with as harshly as possible. My agreement with Artillery's comment that you can't fight extremism with extremism was merely intended to express that to shout "kill all Muslims" is as extreme as the terrorists screaming "kill all non-Muslims".
I'm probably expressing myself badly. I agree wholeheartedly that the TERRORISTS should be dealt with as harshly as possible. My agreement with Artillery's comment that you can't fight extremism with extremism was merely intended to express that to shout "kill all Muslims" is as extreme as the terrorists screaming "kill all non-Muslims".No one who posts here doesn't think that terrorists should be dealt with as harshly as possible. Unfortunately, we have a contingent insistent on firmly tying the terrorist fringe to mainstream Islam. If Muslims are silent about attacks they are complicit, if they denounce them they are duplicitous liars.
The ironic thing is the likes of Al Qaeda wish they were right. Indeed, bin Laden would be overjoyed if Mecca got nuked. It would be infinitely more valuable to him as a martyr-city, and of course the Saudi government would immediately fall to...quess who?
-Eric
But Im all for carefully meted out retribution (torture) and forced sterilization of militants and their families.