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thunderlips11 says

Shi'ites....

including Iran, comprise only around 10% of all Muslims, so it doesn't say very much to say that most suicide attacks are perpetrated by members of the 90% of Muslims who are Sunni. Besides, consider the cruise ship hijackers, etc.

I don't mean to overstate matters: the vast majority of religious people including Muslims don't become suicide terrorists, but our existing strategies for containing violence depend on assumptions about deterrence, and those assumptions do not apply in some cases. JFK said, "we are all mortal." Some don't agree, and so the rules that govern everyone else don't really apply to them.

CaptainShuddup says

turtledove says

Can we just outlaw religion?

When you outlaw religion then only the outlaws will go to heaven.

There has to be a win-win solution here. If these ppl believe they are going to eternal paradise when they die, surely we should not delay them.

I have noticed though that many people who swear up and down that they are certain of going to heaven, are also terrified of death and insist that we must also pay any price ("no lifetime caps!") to postpone the inevitable. There seems a strong correlation in fact. In contrast, atheist Mark Twain had the opposite view: �I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.� In other words, religion stunts people in the early stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining), preventing them from ever reaching acceptance. Certain clerics have learned to exploit the anger and bargaining stages, indulging denial by offering eternal rewards in exchange for suicidal violence.

CaptainShuddup says

turtledove says

Can we just outlaw religion?

When you outlaw religion then only the outlaws will go to heaven.

Dammit Captain, you are right. We will now need to send out the drones and bomb heaven all the way to hell.

BTW, for anyone who forgot, the Islamic violence about cartoons in Charlie Hebdo followed similar violence about cartoons in a Danish newspaper, as told in this little story about a teacher who had been arrested for naming a Teddy bear "Mohamed"

"The Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her 7-year-old pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials said Monday.
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A few weeks ago, the Sudanese authorities said that no troops from Scandinavia could serve as peacekeepers in Darfur, where the United Nations is trying to send an expanded peacekeeping force, because Danish newspapers published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad two years ago.

His rejection of the Scandinavians complicates efforts to bolster the peacekeeping force with appropriate technical expertise."

"A Jordanian writer has been shot dead outside a court room where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon which was deemed offensive to Islam and mocked Jihadis.

The publication sparked deadly protests in some Muslim countries."

I went trap shooting the other day for the first time in 20+ years.

It was fun. I need some more practice after my shoulder heals up.

People that kill because someone posted an image are quite deserving of death.

Browning makes a really nice 12 gauge. I'm glad I live in the US and not Europe.

curious2 says

This one......

How come this never happens?

We have bigger problems.

More at http://www.jesusandmo.net/

(Piss Be Upon Him)

This is the only way to portray Mohamed w/o getting a Fatwah ...

Now that more than two years have passed since the Islamic attack on Charlie Hebdo, I thought it might be worthwhile to update PatNet about what Charlie Hebdo is publishing. In particular, I wondered whether the survivors retained the courage to blaspheme, or whether they had been successfully cowed into submission ("Islam" is an Arabic word that means, literally, "submission"). Charlie Hebdo's website has a whole section called "blasphemy," so you might expect to find some blasphemy there, including cartoons making fun of Mohamed. Sadly, I found instead denunciations of "Islamophobia" and "identitarian scammers", strawman arguments against people who speak honestly about Islam, and celebrations of 'moderate' Muslims, e.g. praising the mosque in Germany where men and women pray together to the dead charlatan Mohamadman, and claiming (against all evidence) that Muslim women are the heart of the resistance to Islamism (despite the fact that Muslim women participate in murdering their own adult children for Islamic "honor", and the growing number of women suicide bombers). IOW, the murder of Charlie Hebdo blasphemers appears to have produced the intended effect, enforcing submission to the doctrine that the charlatan Mohamadman and his Arab nationalist followers designed, fabricated, and optimized Islam to do. Even Charlie Hebdo seems, now, to submit to hijrah.

curious2 says

Now that more than two years have passed since the Islamic attack on Charlie Hebdo, I thought it might be worthwhile to update PatNet about what Charlie Hebdo is publishing. In particular, I wondered whether the survivors retained the courage to blaspheme, or whether they had been successfully cowed into submission ("Islam" is an Arabic word that means, literally, "submission"). Charlie Hebdo's website has a whole section called "blasphemy," so you might expect to find some blasphemy there, including cartoons making fun of Mohamed. Sadly, I found instead denunciations of "Islamophobia" and "identitarian scammers", strawman arguments against people who speak honestly about Islam, and celebrations of 'moderate' Muslims, e.g. praising the mosque in Germany where men and women pray together to the dead charlatan Mohamadman, and claiming (against all evidence) that Muslim women a...

Islam has taken away our constitutional rights. No one dares to insult Islam in public, write books or make movies about Islamic terrorists.
I blame the FUCKING LIBERALS who support these animals 24/7.