Returning to sobriety
More on signs of US-Europe reconciliation.
posted by Infidel753 at 6:13 AM
23 May 2007
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- Name: Infidel753
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
Previous Posts
- Fundamentalist horror
- The amnesty bill
- Depths of corruption
- An atheist-bashing hoax in Alaska
- Just trying to help
- Signs of reconciliation?
- And our politicians won't even eat their words!
- They know what they're doing
- Sites for thinking
- The fountains of St. Petersburg
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
US out of UN, UN out of US
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
3 Comments:
"...they are starting to see that the United States did not fabricate Islamic radicalism..."
Yeah but who stirred that hornets nest.
Wrong metaphor. Violent Islamic imperialism has been an integral part of Islam going back to the time of Muhammad, and does not need to be "stirred up" by its victims. It targets pretty much all non-Muslim cultures with which it comes into contact -- India, Russia, Thailand, non-Muslim black Africa, non-Muslim groups in the Caucasus and Indonesia -- not just the West.
The period of Western colonial domination over the Muslim world, and the following few decades during which the West was perceived as too strong to be attacked, bought a temporary respite from the wave of Islamic aggression which had previously been raging since the seventh century. Due to the perception of Western weakness which arose during the 80s and 90s, Islam's normal aggressive tendency has simply re-awakened.
agreed. U.S. involvement in Somalia (just an example) did more to re-energize Islamic militancy than did Afghanistan. Oh, and what was Afghanistan a reaction to? I can't remember.
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