[TalBlack]

and who are not into the “Death to the infidel” business.”

If they permit the crazies to live among them they are in fact in the death to infidels business. And that is exactly what they do.

[hanamizu]

If they permit the crazies to live among them they are in fact in the death to infidels business. And that is exactly what they do.

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They do permit the crazies to live amongst them, I’ll agree. But if the crazies are I’ll-cut-your-family’s heads-off crazy, I think I understand their being quiet. Not unlike living in a mob-controlled town or gang-controlled neighborhood. You may not like it, you may in fact disapprove, but you’re not going to look for trouble. If the crazies were 1/2 of 1% maybe you speak out, but at 10% there are just too many crazies.

I was supposed to go to Afghanistan with the Peace Corps in 1969. We were trained back then, that the one guy that would do anything to thwart our efforts was the local mullah. Whether it was vaccinating against small pox, teaching English in the schools, or digging a well for clean water, he’d fight us tooth and nail. He was the leader of the local crazies. Most Afghans pretty much welcomed our efforts, but they knew not to cross him. Bad things happened to people who crossed him. It is still the same today in Afghanistan and for that matter the banlieues of Paris.