Warp wrote:
> Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My wife had a very long argument with someone who considered all Muslims 
>> terrorists. It does happen, unfortunately.
> 
>   The opposite happens too (although this claim is often considered
> politically incorrect, islamophobic, if not even "racist"). In other
> words, details of Islam and islamic cultures are often greatly downplayed
> and wrongly attributed to only "very small extremist minorities". And this
> regardless of all the widely published news about inhuman treatment of
> people by islamic governments and officials in many countries.
> 
>   IMO downplaying these things is an insult to the victims of this inhuman
> treatment.
> 
We still have some states that consider rape inside a marriage to be a 
"lesser" crime than rape of someone outside it, and there where still 
states that didn't even *class* it as rape, until 1993. Britain is 
slightly more progressive, they outlawed it in 1991. There is now a case 
in the Bahamas where they are trying to make it illegal, and the same 
objections come up, "But the Bible says we are now of one flesh. How can 
you rape yourself!", and variations there of.

Yes, its a small minority in the ME that are mad enough to promote 
terrorism. There are many more willing to follow them, but who wouldn't, 
if those people had less power, and a much larger number that, like in 
the US when it comes to so called "domestic disputes", are willing to 
allow that there is some "special case" in place, when it comes to 
certain actions, and they therefor won't actively 
appose/challenge/prevent them.

So, no, its not as small a minority doing the terror acts as some claim, 
but it is still a small number pushing it as a solution, and, much like 
in most social problems, like the similar "war on drugs", its not the 
people buying it, or the ones selling it on the street, but the ones 
shipping and manufacturing it that are the *key* problem. Without them, 
terrorism would be reduced to a few groups of kooks, that are more 
likely to get themselves arrested, than successfully pull anything off, 
or a scattering of Timothy McVay style "lone gunman" types, that can't 
give up the idea.

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