RE: I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?
July 22, 2016 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2016 at 3:31 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(July 22, 2016 at 3:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:I'm actually in agreement with you on most of that, especially the Danish cartoons - the actions of the US State Department were shameful in regards to this. But do you have examples of parallel legal systems actually being established? I've heard that some Muslims in western countries have asked for it, but I hadn't heard anything about a state actually acknowledging sharia courts.(July 22, 2016 at 2:19 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: If you look at the number of deaths, there are just so many larger problems that we could proportionally be using our resources to fight.
You are right to point out the economic cost and diverted resources of a "War on Terror." At the same time, death by terrorism is not the only metric. There are serious problems with making accommodations to Islamic cultures in the name of religious tolerance like recognizing parallel legal systems (sharia courts), prosecuting critics of Islam as hate-speech (Mark Steyn), the self-censorship by politically correct media (Danish cartoons). To my mind, its all part of the same problem.
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