tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4641119426292405136..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.797-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Islamic internal dissent and the resurgence of fundamentalist terrorismPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-52976237423337928042015-11-16T10:09:02.006-06:002015-11-16T10:09:02.006-06:00Another anon
Hypocrisy alert!
Pakistan supported...Another anon<br /><br />Hypocrisy alert!<br /><br />Pakistan supported conservative Islam and terrorism while he was ambassador. Still do... <br /><br />Thanks to Zia for this (former pk president). If he had included a mention of Pakistanis reaction to the losses in every war with India. The article would be much better if he discussed how pk government grew grew the Taliban and Islamic terrorism, as a counter balance to Indian conventional arm sepremacy. Of course then he could probably never safely visit Pakistan again...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-11787117152546065342015-11-16T07:39:31.674-06:002015-11-16T07:39:31.674-06:00Like they say, a radical muslim wants to kill you,...Like they say, a radical muslim wants to kill you, while a 'moderate' muslim wants the radical muslim to kill you!<br /><br />I guess you don't live near Dearborn, Michigan, where the huge muslim population cheers every time some muzzie completes a deadly attack against the West.<br /><br />RustyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-8556624724095057892015-11-16T07:31:27.966-06:002015-11-16T07:31:27.966-06:00Pass. After that 'recommended reading' ove...Pass. After that 'recommended reading' over at Jim Wright's - I've had a bellyful of sanctimonious elderly hippies and greasy appeaseniks.<br /><br />Where is all the outrage from your supposedly 'good' moslems, Peter? Why aren't they rising up to confront these nutters themselves? I will tell you why - it's because those that aren't animals themselves, are craven cowards.<br /><br />Maybe you guys need to do some thinking? Like how did you lose a war in Iraq when you won every battle you fought and Saddam Hussein ended up dancing on the end of a rope and bin Laden was fish food?<br /><br />Moslems know idiots when they see them and how to use them to their advantage. Where is the sense in appealing to the moderates when they cover for and allow the nutters to hide within their ranks?<br /><br />Treating your enemies well does not make them your friends.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-2820201463052487892015-11-15T21:53:19.829-06:002015-11-15T21:53:19.829-06:00Odd how this excellent article by Pakistan's f...Odd how this excellent article by Pakistan's former ambassador to the U.S. only gets a "Recommended" while the (IMHO) worthless article by Jim Wright got a "Highly Recommended".<br /><br />Mr. Haqqani has it exactly right, the problem is not any (real or putative) misdeeds perpetrated by the West against Muslim nations. The problem is the resistance by Muslims to let go of their DOMINANCE model and switch to a COEXIST stance.<br /><br />Allow me to refer to a point of view held by some historians of the Jewish people. These historians claim that the cruel and draconian punishments mandated by a literal reading of Torah (stoning for adultery, homosexuality, etc.) and the constant internecine warfare amongst different variants of Judaism were overcome by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism, but only after the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans nearly two thousand years ago. It was only after this total and utterly devastating defeat that humane and sane readings of holy scripture took precedence, even if it meant turning black into white by means of clever argument, even sophistry.<br /><br />According to this viewpoint, Judaism did not have the strength to grow from a bronze-age religion with a cruel and vengeful deity into a life-affirming faith, capable of compromise and pragmatism, of its own accord. Perhaps, then, the greatest gift the West could make the world's Muslims would be to nuke Mecca. Expecting them to reform and become more reasonable during a time in which the Islamists, as Mr. Haqqani writes, are dominating the discourse seems doomed to fail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-84634407497928860482015-11-15T19:50:47.976-06:002015-11-15T19:50:47.976-06:00I don't think anybody has argued that every si...I don't think anybody has argued that every single Muslim is evil.<br />But Islam remains evil.<br />And a large percentage of Muslims forthrightly state that their religion requires them to conquer and subjugate the world, with many, many more mouthing platitudes to deflect the question but ultimately agreeing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com