It’s not the cartoons– a contrarian perspective from a Muslim cartoonist

Discussion in 'Politics' started by dbphoenix, Jan 15, 2015.

  1. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Don't be absurd. If we were so concerned about Hussein's "people", why wait ten years? 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to Bush Jr. Gave him the perfect excuse.

    Read your history.
     
    #71     Jan 19, 2015

  2. If we invaded Iraq to avenge Saddam's attempt to kill Bush Sr, how is that an example of Christians persecuting muslims?

    I am not saying that payback wasn't a large part of the motivation, but it doesn't have an obvious religious motivation. If anything, Saddam himself persecuted muslims. He also protected the Christian minority, something Bush failed spectacularly in doing.
     
    #72     Jan 19, 2015
  3. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    We're still there, aren't we? And how many Muslims have we killed in the last dozen years?
     
    #73     Jan 19, 2015
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #74     Jan 19, 2015
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    These are the people beloved by liberals...

    ISIS Executes Pigeon and Bird Breeders in Diyala, Iraq
    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-executes-pigeon-bird-breeders-diyala-iraq-n287421

    Raising doves and pigeons is a deadly pursuit in ISIS-controlled Iraq.
    The popular hobby is in the sights of extremist Islamist fighters, who this week rounded up 15 boys and young men in the eastern province of Diyala for pursuing a pastime now deemed un-Islamic. Three have already been executed, according to a security official in the area who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity.

    Abu Abdullah, a 52-year-old farmer, told NBC News about the moment earlier this week that six gunmen barged into his home and dragged away his oldest son, who is 21.

    "My son was standing beside me. I asked them why, and they said, 'He is not following the real Islam, he must be punished for being a pigeon breeder. This habit is taking him away from worshiping Allah," Abdullah said on the telephone.


    (More at above url)
     
    #75     Jan 19, 2015
  6. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Our ally Saudi Arabia beheaded 10 people this month, 90 over the past year. Where has your outrage been?

    Fact is, until they beheaded somebody white, you couldn't have cared less. So spare us the moral how-do-you-do.
     
    #76     Jan 19, 2015
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  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    So what crimes were these people in Saudi Arabia convicted of. Were they convicted of having pet pigeons before their heads were chopped off?
     
    #77     Jan 19, 2015
  8. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Perhaps you'd like to investigate that. Although it's unlikely to be in graphic art form.
     
    #78     Jan 19, 2015
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    This is the Islamists so beloved by DB and his ilk...

    'Punk Jihad'
    For ISIS and its ilk, children are now fair game. What hideous innovation will come next?
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/0...-game-what-hideous-innovation-will-come-next/

    So this is the new face of jihadist terror: an angelic-looking boy, with a tiny frame and delicate features, no more than 10 years old. In the video, in some ways arguably ISIS’s most shocking yet, we see him, shadowed by a bearded jihadist, walk toward two men — and shoot them in the back of the head. The men, who identify themselves in the video as Jambulat Mamayev and Sergey Ashimov and whom ISIS accuses of spying for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), are at least three times the age of their assassin. The video, which is entitled “Uncovering an enemy within” and has yet to be independently verified, ends with the young executioner raising his hand up in triumph before trampling over the corpses and walking away.

    (More at above url)
     
    #79     Jan 20, 2015
  10. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Never said I loved them any more than I love American torturers. But I at least understand what's going on and why they're doing what they're doing.
     
    #80     Jan 20, 2015