(May 23, 2017 at 4:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:Look, I absolutely ABHOR radical islam. And I also admit that mainstream islam has become more conservative over the last 20 or so years (and probably even slightly more radical).(May 23, 2017 at 3:35 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: I my defense (thou I was wrong)
Would I believe uber nationalists would copy Islamic states tactics to
1. Sow anti immigrant hatred
2. Because Islamic state has stolen there tactics from other groups
3. Because they have lost by legitimate means and now seek to win by violence
Well, they didn't.
There is a reason why when something like this happens, everyone automatically knows it's radical islam. Because the vast majority of the time, it is. Political correctness be damned in my opinion. No one here is saying Muslims are at fault. We are specifically talking about radical, extremist Muslims who think Allah wants them to kill everyone who is not them.
But your statement here (my bold) is just flat out false.
Non muslims carry out 90% of terrorist attacks (2013 - USA)
And 98% in Europe (2015)
The media and certain groups of people just don't focus on them nearly as much.
Even if these are slightly out of date, and the statistics have risen for muslims, That is not anywhere near "the majority of the time".
It makes me feel icky to point this out in a thread about a group of murdered young people, so I'm not going to comment further except to say regardless of who did it or why it happened, my heart truly grieves with the families and loved ones of those lost, and injured.
It honestly scares the fuck out of me, and being the paranoid person I am, I will likely avoid large crowd while I'm in Germany (I already do that in America), not because of radical Islam specifically, but because of the monsters we find in every group of people.
Peace.
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