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In reply to the discussion: No one calls these attacks "blowback" [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)34. You seem to believe Muslims are a monolith. They've been divided among themselves
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for centuries, and in the last few decades those divisions have been encouraged by the west and by Israel resulting in the deaths of many millions. The responsibility is on all of us as will be the lasting consequences.
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If a Christians kills an abortionist, it is attributed to the killer's "radical Christianity?"
merrily
Jun 2016
#1
The point is whether a violent act is labeled with the religion of the violent actor.
merrily
Jul 2016
#36
I would be totally sympathetic to Iraqis calling us terrorists. I would even say they'd be
Coventina
Jun 2016
#16
My understanding is that the good folks in Islamic State that we're arming so efficiently
gratuitous
Jun 2016
#17
guess you're right. we're saints and nothing we ever did could possibly have anything to do with it
unblock
Jun 2016
#35
Screw that. If all they did was attack Western powers, I'd buy it. But a doctrine that represses
Coventina
Jun 2016
#14
Yep, because after we "shocked & awed" Japan, they started killing their LGBTQ too!
Coventina
Jul 2016
#42
Vietnam was also a failed intervention. But they don't have public stoning or beheading.
Coventina
Jul 2016
#63
Any excuse to attack the Left. Calling ISIS terror blowback isn't an effort to excuse it.
leveymg
Jun 2016
#28
You seem to believe Muslims are a monolith. They've been divided among themselves
leveymg
Jun 2016
#34
No, I believe they, like us, have some whose power, prestige, wealth are based on war & destruction
leveymg
Jul 2016
#46
I never called for a 'clash of civilizations'-- just an honest appraisal of why the killers kill.
Marr
Jul 2016
#50
They are like us. No better or worse. Just at a different step along the same path
leveymg
Jul 2016
#52
Some of the things we've done in the ME have allowed ISIS and kindred groups to fester
Ex Lurker
Jul 2016
#61