There's another thread going on now where it was just pointed out that only at most 100 out of millions of Muslims have tried to attack us here. I like to debate solutions but I don't like mindless "nuke them all" statements being liberally tossed into threads.
Sorry, but that is a mindless statement.
There were many more than 100 that were involved in training and funding of just the 19 that went down with their flying bombs. If you think Al Qaeda has only 100 members that planned this then your living in another world.
When Muslim countries scream over and over "Death to America" you think they are just crying wolf?
bin Ladin declared war on America back in the mid 90's and nobody listened. Not listening is the mistake.
You would have been distressed and wringing your hands during the First and Second World Wars too, then. When a nation is under attack or at war, the popular sentiment of the people tends to become very aggressive. The enemy is demonized, e.g., "Huns," "Japs," etc, and many voices are heard demanding the annihilation of the enemy and everything associated with the enemy.
It just so happens that this particular enemy defines itself first and foremost in terms of its religious core. Therefore, it is understandable and natural that the popular sentiment of the people who have been targeted would also engage the struggle at the level of religion.
What you see as prejudice and bigotry I see as a rational survival mechanism and response of a people under violent attack.
Will Mecca be nuked? Of course not. But the enemy must be engaged and destroyed. In the heat of that effort, hyperbolic comments such as "nuke Mecca" from ordinary citizens are to be expected.
But that isn't what this thread is about. This thread is about the whiny, snivelling anti-FReepers who pout like three year-old children because Jim Robinson won't alow them free access to vandalize his home. Invariably, when they run away to form their own "completely uncensored" political debate site, it ends up a disaster as they begin to turn on and devour each other. The amusing thing is, they are wholly unable to see that they are the problem, and that's why there are no longer at FR.
I've said before that these dipwads would be incapable of setting up a workable government that allows liberty while maintining essential order. Their anti-FReeper sites prove it, albeit at the level of words. May their failure rest at that level forever. Chaos and cannibalism in the realm of words is of no great consequence; chaos and cannibalism in the realm of life is something else entirely--and not to be desired by any rational person.
I don't like "nuke em all" comments either but get real. We have 6 times that many at Gitmo and many hundred times that many killed in Afgan. So don't give us that "only a 100 are against us" .
Klintoon was good at parsing too.