What has the Nice attack told us now!

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As if on que the tone deaf comments start being trotted out again blaming a large group of people for the actions of a minority of said group.
 
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Does it matter if it is only a small group? They are all affiliated to the Muslims/Far East! Slam the US open door! The ugly Wife on Scene in the Company Party! She just walked in to the US of A!

Neighbors saw them packing their garage with lots of illegal stuff, but.. PC came up, will people think we are biased, big time! How far have we slipped.

Not seen a Scotsman, or nice fellow from Iceland have we! Blowing up in America have we? So nuff said!
 
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Does it matter if it is only a small group? They are all affiliated to the Muslims/Far East! Slam the US open door! The ugly Wife on Scene in the Company Party! She just walked in to the US of A!

Neighbors saw them packing their garage with lots of illegal stuff, but.. PC came up, will people think we are biased, big time! How far have we slipped.

Not seen a Scotsman, or nice fellow from Iceland have we! Blowing up in America have we? So nuff said!

Sorry, Old Guy. Incoherent rants about the affiliations of terrorists are just as unlikely to convince me to demonize a massive swatch of the global population as anti-gun rants are going to convince me to demonize approximately 100 million+ gun owners in the US.

Maybe if anyone brought up even the most simple differences between Wahhabism or even more simply Sunni Islam vs the other predominant sects of Islam I'd be more inclined to listen to their opinions, but it's blatantly obvious to me that the majority of people who bash Islam do so as if it's a homogenous religion because it's far simpler than taking the effort to understand the intricacies of the religion you hate.

Most here are aware enough to point out when the media takes advantage of a tragedy to push their anti gun agenda, but it's highly disheartening to see how many fail to apply the same critical thought to the narratives concerning Islam because of their own internal biases.
 
As if on que the tone deaf comments start being trotted out again blaming a large group of people for the actions of a minority of said group.


Sorry, Old Guy. Incoherent rants about the affiliations of terrorists are just as unlikely to convince me to demonize a massive swatch of the global population...


If a "massive swatch" of the "religion of pieces" would stand up and do some "demonizing' of their own...maybe we might not feel the need to.


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If a "massive swatch" of the "religion of pieces" would stand up and do some "demonizing' of their own...maybe we might not feel the need to.


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They do, but I'd hardly expect you to be able to realize that when you're constantly standing in a bubble insulated from opinions outside of your own. Innocent Muslims suffer from the actions of radicalized Muslims both directly from attacks committed in majority Muslim countries and indirectly from the actions of people like yourself who insist on, once again, treating a global religion with billions of followers as if they all believe the exact same thing. However, instead of trying to find common ground in order to effectively combat radicalization by creating open channels of dialogue, people insist on trying to marginalize peaceable Muslims and isolate them from the larger communities. If you don't see how this creates an environment that directly benefits those who do wish to radicalize members of that community, I'm afraid that there isn't enough nuance in your worldviews to do much else besides exacerbate the problem
 
This is turning into a discussion of religion and global policy instead of anything about guns and our RKBA. So, let's stop, as that's beyond our scope here.




I will leave you with a few comments from the US Department of State:
NCTC [i.e. the National Counterterrorism Center] maintains its statistical information on the U.S. government’s authoritative and unclassified database on terrorist acts, the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS).
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In cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between 82 and 97 percent of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years.

Muslim majority countries bore the greatest number of attacks involving 10 or more deaths ….

According to a 2009 report published by the Counter Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Al-Qaeda kills over seven times more Muslims than non-Muslims.

Just food for thought.
 
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