Comments on: I’m Shocked…

By: Bithead

Bithead — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:47:33 +0000

I suppose an argument can be made that a terrorist is over the edge mentally, by definition.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:52:58 +0000

Andrea Yates anyone?

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:38:50 +0000

Hm, it would be interesting to do a study of Christians vs. Muslims in faith-based killing rampages in the U.S. I remember seeing a lot of reports over the years where people thought that God (you know, the Caucasian one named Jesus) told them to kill someone and they obeyed.

By: Awakened Warrior

Awakened Warrior — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:10:26 +0000

I think it's just a matter of time before they all start coming out of the woodwork.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:46:20 +0000

LJD,

Here is the problem:

1. Psycho babbles religious gobbldygook when apprehended/in custody.

2. Terrorist spews religious gobbldygook when apprehended/in custody.

Looking at the "religious gobbldygook" and concluding terrorist in both cases strikes me as piss-poor thinking (or something worse). If you can't see this difference then I can't help you.

By: LJD

LJD — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:13:51 +0000

Continue to feel afraid of muslims in general if you wish, but I think you are being unnecessarily afraid.

Don't know where you got that, but, I'm more afraid of morons that vote (of any race, color or creed) than I am of 'Muslims in general'.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:01:35 +0000

True, LJD, but if somebody--black, white, asian, hispanic or even...gasp...muslim--were to run up to you, shove a gun in your face and demand your money...I bet you'd be terrified. Is that criminal a terrorist? Of course not. Despite the "rash" of postal workers going postal are you terrified when you go into the post office? Continue to feel afraid of muslims in general if you wish, but I think you are being unnecessarily afraid.

By: LJD

LJD — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:19:42 +0000

No, but be careful, change the definition of terrorist to too broad a definition and soon garden variety criminals will be terrorists and the word will lose all meaning.

Ah yes, the old slippery slope... I don't think we'll be seeing litterbugs join the ranks of 'terrorist' any time soon.

By: Jeremayakovka

Jeremayakovka — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:27:37 +0000

If a Muslim-American Tries to Kill Over A Dozen Americans in a Significantly Jewish Neighborhood and No One Calls Him a Jihadi, is He Still a Jihadi?...

When Omeed Aziz Popal set out on his killing rampage what died was the possibility of Muslim-American assimilation.... To grasp this tragedy we must confront two contending realities of our own: the threat of jihad and the promise of Muslim-American as...

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:57:33 +0000

I’m unaware she ever claimed he was more.

She didn't nor did I say or imply that she did. She has jumped to this conclusion in the past, but this time she went slow. Why beats me, but maybe she decided to play this one responsibly for a change vs. simply throwing out red meat to her hangers-on.

Does one really need to be an official member of a terrorist organization to qualify as a terrorist?

No, but be careful, change the definition of terrorist to too broad a definition and soon garden variety criminals will be terrorists and the word will lose all meaning.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:08:34 +0000

Michelle Malkin has decided that the loon, Omeed Aziz Popal, is in fact, just your garden variety loon and not some sinister Jihadi that is carrying out a cunning plan of slowly killing Americans over the course of several millenia.

I'm unaware she ever claimed he was more. Nor have I, in spite of the fact that I... correctly, I think... suggested he was an islamic terrorist. Does one really need to be an official member of a terrorist organization to qualify as a terrorist? Isn't that like saying you have to be working for a TV station a radio station or a newspaper before somebody can call you a "journalist" ? or, isn't that like saying that just because Dan rather was an unofficial part of the Democratic National Committee, that he hadn't become a cheerleader for them? I suggest the linkage in the case of Omeed Aziz Popal, is a religious and cultural one, not so much in the membership of ...(insert your favorite terrorist organization here )...

By: The Heretik » Blog Archive » MM

The Heretik » Blog Archive » MM — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:22:55 +0000

[...] The method and the madness: Yes, we should all be careful (even if we weren’t), we should be fed up with MSM whitewashing (even as we tar with a heavy brush). Also it’s not alarmist (even when you are alarmist). Make an admission (4), then start up all over again not on the terrorist/jihadi, but on his beliefs and culture that definitely played a role, even as you were definitely wrong about everything before. [...]

By: » Gone Hollywood

» Gone Hollywood — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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