I'm scared of these people O.O
I recently saw a program on Fox News about radical Islamics talking about taking over the world and taking all rights away from women and minorities like blacks and hispanics, and punishing people who are not Islamic. o_O
I personally think they are full of shit and hot air. The US and UK are much more powerful than these terrorist organizations.
But because of 9/11 and Heathrow Airport, it still scares me. :/
What do fellow queenzoners think about this?
I was just wondering...
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It's not up to us to defeat them. Terrorism and Radical Islam are ideas, and you can't kill an idea. You can kill all of the people that have that idea, but that makes you a murder and you never get anything done, because the idea spreads. This is a mirror image with what happend in Catholocism at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. All we can do is hope that cooler heads within Islam will prevail. We (outsiders) can't stop this...Islam has to stop this within itself.
Ignore this "Cookies" girl. She's a 12 year old who just likes to think the exact opposite of what others say. She's a waste of time.
By the way, she's getting more ignorant as time passes. Hopefully she'll one day disappear.
By the way, she's getting more ignorant as time passes. Hopefully she'll one day disappear.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]¼Microwave wrote: [/QUOTENAME]We need more guns. I think guns are good.[/QUOTE]
Off topic, but, are you getting smaller?
Off topic, but, are you getting smaller?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]CMU HistoryGirl wrote: [/QUOTENAME]It's not up to us to defeat them. Terrorism and Radical Islam are ideas, and you can't kill an idea. You can kill all of the people that have that idea, but that makes you a murder and you never get anything done, because the idea spreads. This is a mirror image with what happend in Catholocism at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. All we can do is hope that cooler heads within Islam will prevail. We (outsiders) can't stop this...Islam has to stop this within itself. [/QUOTE]
That's a nice theory and all (wise and quite true), but I don't feel like dying while they figure it out. It just seems like there is no place in a civilized world for the radical element.
,Mike "I'd love to save the world, but I don't know what to do" Bruce
That's a nice theory and all (wise and quite true), but I don't feel like dying while they figure it out. It just seems like there is no place in a civilized world for the radical element.
,Mike "I'd love to save the world, but I don't know what to do" Bruce
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]yamaha wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]CMU HistoryGirl wrote: [/QUOTENAME]It's not up to us to defeat them. Terrorism and Radical Islam are ideas, and you can't kill an idea. You can kill all of the people that have that idea, but that makes you a murder and you never get anything done, because the idea spreads. This is a mirror image with what happend in Catholocism at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. All we can do is hope that cooler heads within Islam will prevail. We (outsiders) can't stop this...Islam has to stop this within itself. [/QUOTE]
That's a nice theory and all (wise and quite true), but I don't feel like dying while they figure it out. It just seems like there is no place in a civilized world for the radical element.
,Mike "I'd love to save the world, but I don't know what to do" Bruce[/QUOTE]
But what can we do otherwise? Fact is that the way of violence (which "we" do now) only creates more terrorism.
That's a nice theory and all (wise and quite true), but I don't feel like dying while they figure it out. It just seems like there is no place in a civilized world for the radical element.
,Mike "I'd love to save the world, but I don't know what to do" Bruce[/QUOTE]
But what can we do otherwise? Fact is that the way of violence (which "we" do now) only creates more terrorism.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]1/4Microwave wrote: [/QUOTENAME]We need more guns. I think guns are good.[/QUOTE]
To use guns we'd first have to be able to get into the areas without getting killed :/
To use guns we'd first have to be able to get into the areas without getting killed :/
First of all, you should not watch Fox News, it's just a propaganda station. You are much more likely to be shot by students in your own school than you are likely to be killed by terrorists.
Secondly, you cannot fight terrorism with war and guns - just look at Afghanistan and Iraq. In Iraq we have more terrorism now than ever before the war. In Afghanistan the so called "war on terror" is far from being won.
To fight terrorism we need to fight the roots of terrorism, i.e. poverty, injustice, illiteracy. People who have a prospect in life and a future won't fall for terrorism so easily. People who are not outraged about the injustice and the vilolence against their own people (Iraq, Palestine) won't go to a "holy war".
Use your own brain and think for yourself. Why was Iraq attacked although they had nothing to do with 9/11 and they did not have weapons of mass destruction? Why was Iraq attacked - one of the few Arab countries where the terrorists did not stand a chance?
Do not believe everything your political leaders tell you. For example: why can people not take any fluids in their hand baggage although it was proven that it is IMPOSSIBLE to mix a bomb from fluids on a plane? It is done to keep us afraid. We are supposed to be so scared that we don't think any further. People who are scared do not question their country, they don't ask for social justice and they don't ask what happens with their tax money and what happens with their human rights. Just get your information from various sources and always ask yourself who profits from what your government does.
Secondly, you cannot fight terrorism with war and guns - just look at Afghanistan and Iraq. In Iraq we have more terrorism now than ever before the war. In Afghanistan the so called "war on terror" is far from being won.
To fight terrorism we need to fight the roots of terrorism, i.e. poverty, injustice, illiteracy. People who have a prospect in life and a future won't fall for terrorism so easily. People who are not outraged about the injustice and the vilolence against their own people (Iraq, Palestine) won't go to a "holy war".
Use your own brain and think for yourself. Why was Iraq attacked although they had nothing to do with 9/11 and they did not have weapons of mass destruction? Why was Iraq attacked - one of the few Arab countries where the terrorists did not stand a chance?
Do not believe everything your political leaders tell you. For example: why can people not take any fluids in their hand baggage although it was proven that it is IMPOSSIBLE to mix a bomb from fluids on a plane? It is done to keep us afraid. We are supposed to be so scared that we don't think any further. People who are scared do not question their country, they don't ask for social justice and they don't ask what happens with their tax money and what happens with their human rights. Just get your information from various sources and always ask yourself who profits from what your government does.
You're on a roll Barb! :D
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]YourValentine wrote: [/QUOTENAME]First of all, you should not watch Fox News, it's just a propaganda station. You are much more likely to be shot by students in your own school than you are likely to be killed by terrorists.
Secondly, you cannot fight terrorism with war and guns - just look at Afghanistan and Iraq. In Iraq we have more terrorism now than ever before the war. In Afghanistan the so called "war on terror" is far from being won.
To fight terrorism we need to fight the roots of terrorism, i.e. poverty, injustice, illiteracy. People who have a prospect in life and a future won't fall for terrorism so easily. People who are not outraged about the injustice and the vilolence against their own people (Iraq, Palestine) won't go to a "holy war".
Use your own brain and think for yourself. Why was Iraq attacked although they had nothing to do with 9/11 and they did not have weapons of mass destruction? Why was Iraq attacked - one of the few Arab countries where the terrorists did not stand a chance?
Do not believe everything your political leaders tell you. For example: why can people not take any fluids in their hand baggage although it was proven that it is IMPOSSIBLE to mix a bomb from fluids on a plane? It is done to keep us afraid. We are supposed to be so scared that we don't think any further. People who are scared do not question their country, they don't ask for social justice and they don't ask what happens with their tax money and what happens with their human rights. Just get your information from various sources and always ask yourself who profits from what your government does. [/QUOTE]
Sadly, about half the US population voting today does not/will not/refuses to see the truth and logic of this entire statement.
Secondly, you cannot fight terrorism with war and guns - just look at Afghanistan and Iraq. In Iraq we have more terrorism now than ever before the war. In Afghanistan the so called "war on terror" is far from being won.
To fight terrorism we need to fight the roots of terrorism, i.e. poverty, injustice, illiteracy. People who have a prospect in life and a future won't fall for terrorism so easily. People who are not outraged about the injustice and the vilolence against their own people (Iraq, Palestine) won't go to a "holy war".
Use your own brain and think for yourself. Why was Iraq attacked although they had nothing to do with 9/11 and they did not have weapons of mass destruction? Why was Iraq attacked - one of the few Arab countries where the terrorists did not stand a chance?
Do not believe everything your political leaders tell you. For example: why can people not take any fluids in their hand baggage although it was proven that it is IMPOSSIBLE to mix a bomb from fluids on a plane? It is done to keep us afraid. We are supposed to be so scared that we don't think any further. People who are scared do not question their country, they don't ask for social justice and they don't ask what happens with their tax money and what happens with their human rights. Just get your information from various sources and always ask yourself who profits from what your government does. [/QUOTE]
Sadly, about half the US population voting today does not/will not/refuses to see the truth and logic of this entire statement.
Radical Islamics, Radical Leftists, Radical Christians, Radical Conservatives... and so and so,
Any fuckin' radical extremist wants to take over the world and force their own rules and thoughts on others. Why only pin point one single group as the threat when all of them are just about as guilty.
Any fuckin' radical extremist wants to take over the world and force their own rules and thoughts on others. Why only pin point one single group as the threat when all of them are just about as guilty.
Good points brought up here....let me re-interate two of them.
1) Since 9-11, a grand total of about 3000 people died from terrorist attacks. Now that's not a good thing, but that's in a 4 year period (9-11-01 to 9-11-05). But consider this:
2) 38,444 people died in auto accidents in JUST the year of 2004 according to national data (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/)
What's the point in all this? Your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are next to nil. In the grand scheme of humanity, terrorism is just a blip on the radar screen.
My other point is this (and I'll probably get flamed for this, but oh well): This is what religion can do to people. Radical Jews, Radical Christians, Radical Muslims...they all cause problems. But you can't have Radical religions if you don't have religions. Religion was a good thing when people were poor, ignorant, and had no hope of any kind of upward mobility on any kind of scale...it gave them something to believe in, which probably saved history from an awful lot of bloodshed. But, religion, particularly the big three of Judaisim, Chrisitanity and Islam, all have one fundamental problem which makes it easier for radicalism to take hold: They place too much emphasis on the afterlife, instead of on this one. Instead of caring for humanity and your fellow people for the sake of the betterment of all, they are too focused on winning points in the afterlife. If you deem life of little value here, then of course you will do anything to make the next one better, and thus radicalism. If religion didn't exist anymore, it's more likely (though not certain by any means) that people would start to value the life we are living now, and that would mean thinking twice about doing stuff like this because you aren't gauranteed forgiveness or a better life after this one.
I'm ready for the onslaught of hate mail now.
1) Since 9-11, a grand total of about 3000 people died from terrorist attacks. Now that's not a good thing, but that's in a 4 year period (9-11-01 to 9-11-05). But consider this:
2) 38,444 people died in auto accidents in JUST the year of 2004 according to national data (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/)
What's the point in all this? Your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are next to nil. In the grand scheme of humanity, terrorism is just a blip on the radar screen.
My other point is this (and I'll probably get flamed for this, but oh well): This is what religion can do to people. Radical Jews, Radical Christians, Radical Muslims...they all cause problems. But you can't have Radical religions if you don't have religions. Religion was a good thing when people were poor, ignorant, and had no hope of any kind of upward mobility on any kind of scale...it gave them something to believe in, which probably saved history from an awful lot of bloodshed. But, religion, particularly the big three of Judaisim, Chrisitanity and Islam, all have one fundamental problem which makes it easier for radicalism to take hold: They place too much emphasis on the afterlife, instead of on this one. Instead of caring for humanity and your fellow people for the sake of the betterment of all, they are too focused on winning points in the afterlife. If you deem life of little value here, then of course you will do anything to make the next one better, and thus radicalism. If religion didn't exist anymore, it's more likely (though not certain by any means) that people would start to value the life we are living now, and that would mean thinking twice about doing stuff like this because you aren't gauranteed forgiveness or a better life after this one.
I'm ready for the onslaught of hate mail now.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color="#FF1493">The Fairy King wrote: [/QUOTENAME]You're on a roll Barb! :D[/QUOTE]
Say, this is a topic that i started... does it make you happy, O great one?
Say, this is a topic that i started... does it make you happy, O great one?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Mr.Jingles wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Radical Islamics, Radical Leftists, Radical Christians, Radical Conservatives... and so and so,
Any fuckin' radical extremist wants to take over the world and force their own rules and thoughts on others. Why only pin point one single group as the threat when all of them are just about as guilty.[/QUOTE]
Because I didn't see a show about radical Conservatives.... I saw one about Radical Islamics.
Any fuckin' radical extremist wants to take over the world and force their own rules and thoughts on others. Why only pin point one single group as the threat when all of them are just about as guilty.[/QUOTE]
Because I didn't see a show about radical Conservatives.... I saw one about Radical Islamics.