"Radical Islam" and Terrorism

[Filuwaúrdjan]

'Radical' is, you know, the wrong word to use. There aren't really words to properly point out quite how wrong, actually. It's also a major mistake to look at the phenomenon as something that is purely religious in motivation and practice; in this case there is no division between the political, the cultural and the religious. In Afghanistan there was (and is) also an extremely strong ethnic element.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yea the terrorists are going to find ways into our country or could coordinate through the internet. Look we can't secure our borders entirely unless you are suggesting we put up a shield and get the Jedi Knights to protect us.

The best we can do is stop giving them a reason to fly planes into our buildings.

There is never a reason to fly a plane (full of people) into a large building (full of people).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

9/11 didn't just happen for no reason at all.

Well, if by that you mean it wasn't a random attack... yeah. That's true and obviously so. But there was nothing reasonable about it. It was not the action of sane men. You can look at the ideology (both writ large and strictly applied) of the people responsible and try to work out certain things from that, but you can't look for reasons, as such. Because the very word implies, well, reason.

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You make the mistake of assuming that everyone is as sociopathic as you.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Liberation of France?

Yeah, I'll let that pass without comment, allowing you to fully understand the full glory of your moral superiority over the rest of us.