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Reza Aslan: God, Globalization & Ending the War on Terror

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TreeLuvBurdpu Avatar
TreeLuvBurdpu
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Posted: 05.24.09, 12:13 AM
Insightful. I think he should have also mentioned that the Jihadists are at war with free trade and personal freedom.

He touches on some of the ways the US has miscalculated the true intentions of the Jihadists.
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MTGRAY Avatar
MTGRAY
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Posted: 05.30.09, 05:05 PM
Why do the israel front continue on using the United States for it's agenda
and not the peoples of America.
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Farid Machfudz
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Posted: 06.22.09, 09:31 PM
I just make a speculation. America will become more soft in Obama regime, and it will weaken Israel lobby and we can see what is really what they want to do to this world.
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Calorus
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Posted: 11.03.09, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by TreeLuvBurdpu
Insightful. I think he should have also mentioned that the Jihadists are at war with free trade and personal freedom.

He touches on some of the ways the US has miscalculated the true intentions of the Jihadists.
I think that only an American could make that statement. Jihadists are completely accepting of personal freedom within their view of it - i.e. Patricentrically.

The Jihadist movement frequently points accusing fingers and the American supported dictators throughout the Middle East with respect to their repression of personal freedoms of their citizenry.

Forget the GWB speech ("They hate us for our freedom") it's a duplicitous lie. They no more hate you/us for your freedom than you'd hate the man who stole your car for his.

They may very well hate us for what we choose to do with our freedom, however. But that's very different - and the key to this is authoritianism and libertarianism.

A Libertarian may disagree vehemently with what you do, but as long as it does not affect anyone but you, it's your own business. An authoritarian opposes the action regardless of its sphere of influence, and will aim to prevent it whether it only affects willing parties or not.

The Jihadists, like the American Christian right, are firmly Authoritarian, whether the issue is homosexuality, abortion, drug usage or anything else, both sects firmly instist that they have the right proscribe your actions based on their religion and beliefs, in spite of the effects of the actions being extremely limited.
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heygbradio
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Posted: 11.12.09, 09:56 PM
"Islam-ists" do not prescribe to the true Islam and that is that everyone who is not a Muslim is 'the infidel' and must die. Plain and simple. That is the teaching of the Quran and it is very blunt. I would like to have heard more on the differences in Islamic belief systems that exist. The Al-Qaeda regime seems to be holding the true teaching of the Quaran, yet few people address this fact.
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Mark Sullivan
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Posted: 12.11.09, 10:05 PM
The Arab world does not give a whit about the Palestinians. The Palestinians are mascots for the very regimes that use "the West" as the bogeyman for all of the poverty, backwardness and failure of their states while they count all of their oil riches and do nothing to propel their societies forward. There IS a Palestinian state - Jordan. The Jordanians, however, do not want their downtrodden brothers and sisters in their country. They will trot their representatives out to speak, inconsolable about the evil Israelis, but they have perpetuated this Arab-created and maintained Palestinian refugee problem going for 60 years.

The Arab world is not the largest population of Muslims. Most Muslims are not Arab.

Europe has abondoned the war on terror because their exploding Muslim immigrant populations burn cars, slaughter film makers and blow up buses and trains to make their point. This is not a "War on Terror" for Europe as it is for us - with a distant enemy. It has become a civil war for many European nations. This is why they do not fight back.
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