Religious extremism main cause of terrorism, according to report

petros

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Too bad the topic is religious terrorism rather than racial or there wouldn't be room on here to post Canadian incidents in just one week.
 

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money is the root of terrorism, that axiom was discovered a long time ago.

When and where? It has never been established anywhere that money is the "root" of terrorism and not even hinted at so your assertion is simply an outright lie you made up on the spot.

Money may expand and improve the operations of terrorist groups and money may provide for more frequent or sophisticated attacks but under absolutely no circumstances is it the "root" of terrorism. Neither is poverty, lack of education or democracy. The root cause of terrorism is any ideology where some adherents believe strongly enough in promoting their cause they use violence and intimidation in order to further it.
 

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When and where? It has never been established anywhere that money is the "root" of terrorism and not even hinted at so your assertion is simply an outright lie you made up on the spot.

Money may expand and improve the operations of terrorist groups and money may provide for more frequent or sophisticated attacks but under absolutely no circumstances is it the "root" of terrorism. Neither is poverty, lack of education or democracy. The root cause of terrorism is any ideology where some adherents believe strongly enough in promoting their cause they use violence and intimidation in order to further it.
To add , and recruit the poor , the uneducated the easily manipulated to do their work for them also.
 

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How does this prove only Islamic terrorism exists?

No answer then.
Did I state that? Nope, but I am a realist. I also do not condemn all Muslims either. But your refusal to see where the majority of attacks arise does not address the situation aside from looking away.
ID the source, ID the issues, and look for solutions.
 

mentalfloss

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Where did I say I refuse the majority?

Looks like the proverbial assumptive egg is on your face my friend.
 

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Thank you captain obvious.

I'm sure Colpy will chime in soon to say I disagree with you.
 

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Don't twist my words.

You're starting to piss me off.

What I said, and what you know I said, is that religious extremism as inspiration for terror, other than Islamic religious murder, is relatively rare. In fact, it is almost non-existent.

BTW, the KKK is not a religious organization.

You and every other Liberal drooling idiot can run around pretending that all religions are equal, that Islam is harmless, and you may do so in absolute defiance of the facts.

You and Justin.

Living in My Little Pony World

 

mentalfloss

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Yea, the KKK has no religious extremists lol

Though most members of the KKK saw themselves as holding to American values and Christian morality, virtually every Christian denomination officially denounced the Ku Klux Klan.

Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gee, I wonder who that sounds like hmmmmmmm.

Let me think.


Oh, right...

 

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Yea, the KKK has no religious extremists lol

Though most members of the KKK saw themselves as holding to American values and Christian morality, virtually every Christian denomination officially denounced the Ku Klux Klan.

Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gee, I wonder who that sounds like hmmmmmmm.

Let me think.


Oh, right...


The article uses info from 2001 forwards- How many KKK killings since 2001?
 

mentalfloss

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This is funny.

I continue to get accused of not accepting that the majority of religious extremists are Islamic when I've already clearly said they are the majority.

Meanwhile, after showing the parallels of religious extremists as legitimate proof that it is not limited to Islamic extremists, the fallback response is about proportion as if that excuses the fact that they do exist.

Are you guys saying the KKK doesn't exist?
 

Goober

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This is funny.

I continue to get accused of not accepting that the majority of religious extremists are Islamic when I've already clearly said they are the majority.

Meanwhile, after showing the parallels of religious extremists as legitimate proof, the fallback response is about proportion as if that excuses the fact that they do exist.

Are you guys saying the KKK doesn't exist?

I missed where you agreed with that.
Of course the KKK and NutjobsRus groups exist in every country.
 

grainfedpraiboy

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A person with access to the internet who believes Islam is a religion of peace or experiences terrorism amongst its adherents in roughly equal proportion to other religions can only do so if they are deliberately ignorant akin to those who believe the world is flat or the Sun revolves around the Earth and there is simply no other reasonable explanation for their belief.

Today Al Shabab murdered several dozen Kenyans when they ordered the Muslims off a public bus and killed everyone else. Today Sharia Courts or villagers/families will take the law of Allah into their own hands and around the globe will execute a hundred or so people for insulting the prophet, shaming the Koran or violating Sharia.

There is an incident of Muslims murdering and bombing solely on behalf of their God like this every hour of every day somewhere in the world and rarely does it make headlines and we are so used to it now we *** a global community are at the point that when a Muslim either murders a group of civilians or is caught planning to do so he/she isn't even given a psychological examination prior to trail....it is just accepted that this behaviour is a part of Islam.

Anyone else for any other reason would be and I can't think of any better example more indicative of society's acceptance that terrorism and Islam are a natural fit.

All the other religions combined probably murder less people in a decade to promote their faith than the average daily death toll of Islam and while there is a fair argument to be made that Christians and Buddhists once had their day at extremism, islam has had a near constant 1500 year run and given that it can raise a possible army of 200,000 men just for one campaign of brutal terror.....again, you have to really be ignoring reality to believe Islam is on par with any other religion when it comes to violence.
 

mentalfloss

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I missed where you agreed with that.

It's on the first page Goober.

The core of this problem is that Colpers completely detests the fact that the word 'religious' was used instead of 'Islamic'.

I'm sure you can find religious extremists of every stripe, and yes I agree that most of them would be Islamic.

That doesn't mean we get to pretend they are the only ones though, just because they are the majority.