Posted on 11/18/2001 2:37:35 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
My Fellow Freeper's,
I can usually stand on my own in an argument based on FACT and not FICTION. If someone wants to poke about stories that are " media made" or " urban legend" , then that is their own deal. I for one like to deal with facts. Common sense. So you would think basing an argument on fact's and not opinion or any of the above things stated above would win the argument hand's down right? Wrong.
This goes beyond ignorance. This is a new breed of ignorance in my "opinion" and I feel that as a Free Republic we should once and for all address this issue that faces our country this very day. Bottom line: Does the majority of the Muslim/ Islamic world want the United States dead? Does the majority hate the United States?
Remember facts are the key here. We can go from the Taliban to Iraq to Syria to the PLO. All have described their hate with no shame or hiding it. They burn our flag and spit on it. They burn dummies of President George W Bush. They declare a Jihad against us. We have students and even everyday citizens doing the same thing here on our own soil. Hating America for every reason on why they are allowed here in the end of it all. Allowed to attend our schools, attend the same stores we shop at, pump the same gas they need to drive the cars or busses made sometimes by the very countries they despise. The same can be said for airplanes, trains, and boats as well.
What is one to do when one is faced with someone saying that you are wrong for thinking that "the majority of Muslims/Arabs hate the U.S. . When you are told that it is more like 1% of them hate us. Well, as you can imagine I disagree and use the FACTS to lay it out. It never seems to get through their skulls though unless they have lost a chunk of their own family and then want to issue a fatwah against us or them or whoever. Who can keep score for who is pissed at who?
So my question is this to all of you reading this. Based on the facts and numbers...do the majority of Muslims/Arabs in this world hate this country? Should we now at this time really take the step towards filtering out this country and pointing out the traitor's and making their lives so miserable on a daily basis that they move to another country?
I say yes.
America...Love It Right Now. Or Get The Hell Out.
MFH
And this is not ABC...
Maybe there are millions of honked-off blacks who became muslim to get back at whitey, or maybe there is the occasional misguided white girl who married one of these muslimes, to piss off her parents.
The closest I can come to is maybe Cat Stevens (that bastard--nice albums, though).
That is the basis for so-called profiling --- the screeners at the airport and elsewhere are totally wasting their time strip-searching whitey, or blacks, or asians.
They are not the problem. arab-looking-dudes are the problem.
If that sounds racist, well, tough toenails.
What they ought to do is cursory searches of non-middleeastern-looking dudes, and then, full court presses on all the arab looking dudes.
Works for me.
The face of Islam is September 11, 2001, New York, New York, United States of America.
I don't know. Do you? I repeat, how are you going to come up with any reliable numbers, instead of the transparently illogical conjecture you're using.
I don't mean to imply that American Muslims do or do NOT support the 9/11 attacks. I believe the poster asked for objective statistics, however. To make an effective argument, you have to remove the hostility from it.
Exactly. Not an easy thing to do without emotions and feelings running high. But an overall look at the stats is what I was aiming for.
Or maybe the Sudan!
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