Comments on: McCain: Islamic Extremism “Greatest Evil” In The History Of Evil http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:08:11 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: cognitorex http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1284904 cognitorex Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:46:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1284904 <p>I read recently an educational treatise that made the point that there is nothing in existence that can rightly be called Islamic terrorism or the like.<br /> Muslims, adherents of Islam, may collect in movements to promote terrorism but Islam exists as a religion and is not capable on its face tenants of specifically advocating armed aggression movements or techniques against other specific bodies.<br /> Nothing exists that can rightly be called Islamo Facism or Islamic Terrorism. Once you get your noodle around this point the vacuousness of the “be afraid” Republicans various clamorings about (in this case) non-existent foreign movements is quite frightening in its stupidity and blatant use as “I-want-power” political sloganeering.<br /> (my apologies to the author who instructed me to this conclusion)</p> I read recently an educational treatise that made the point that there is nothing in existence that can rightly be called Islamic terrorism or the like.
Muslims, adherents of Islam, may collect in movements to promote terrorism but Islam exists as a religion and is not capable on its face tenants of specifically advocating armed aggression movements or techniques against other specific bodies.
Nothing exists that can rightly be called Islamo Facism or Islamic Terrorism. Once you get your noodle around this point the vacuousness of the “be afraid” Republicans various clamorings about (in this case) non-existent foreign movements is quite frightening in its stupidity and blatant use as “I-want-power” political sloganeering.
(my apologies to the author who instructed me to this conclusion)

]]> By: montana http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1283828 montana Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:59:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1283828 <p>McCain sincere? Unbelievable. How sincere was the old man on torture? On immigration? Remember the Keating five?</p> McCain sincere? Unbelievable. How sincere was the old man on torture? On immigration? Remember the Keating five?

]]> By: priscianusjr http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1283051 priscianusjr Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:30:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1283051 <p>Unlike Bush, McCain is sincere, but I don’t think he’s any more intelligent.</p> Unlike Bush, McCain is sincere, but I don’t think he’s any more intelligent.

]]> By: Synoia http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282919 Synoia Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:21:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282919 <p>Hmm…I wonder what role the Israel/Palestinian conflict has played in encouraging people to become “Muslim Extremists”?</p> <p>How radical would you be if you had lived four generations in a refugee camp, with no prospects for the future?</p> Hmm…I wonder what role the Israel/Palestinian conflict has played in encouraging people to become “Muslim Extremists”?

How radical would you be if you had lived four generations in a refugee camp, with no prospects for the future?

]]> By: Kitt http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282725 Kitt Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:43:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282725 <p>Just too funny. I rarely ever give a poster that much credit for a good joke, but that one has me really in stitches.</p> Just too funny. I rarely ever give a poster that much credit for a good joke, but that one has me really in stitches.

]]> By: Blue Texan http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282697 Blue Texan Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:25:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282697 <p>Auschwitz wasn’t created out of nihilism. Quite the contrary.</p> Auschwitz wasn’t created out of nihilism. Quite the contrary.

]]> By: 4jkb4ia http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282692 4jkb4ia Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:18:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282692 <p>I will get vilified, but it had to be said:<br /> The evil we are facing INCLUDES the evil which created Auschwitz. Anti-Semitism in the Muslim world is directly borrowed from Nazi anti-Semitism although it has the Palestine question to inflame it. If people go deeply enough into jihadism to be evil, they are taught that Israel is only one manifestation of the force which is arrayed against them. They are also taught to embrace a kind of nihilism in the name of Islam.</p> I will get vilified, but it had to be said:
The evil we are facing INCLUDES the evil which created Auschwitz. Anti-Semitism in the Muslim world is directly borrowed from Nazi anti-Semitism although it has the Palestine question to inflame it. If people go deeply enough into jihadism to be evil, they are taught that Israel is only one manifestation of the force which is arrayed against them. They are also taught to embrace a kind of nihilism in the name of Islam.

]]> By: montana http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282641 montana Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:48:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282641 <p>Confused, an old man on sinking ship grabs the anchor, misses life vest.</p> Confused, an old man on sinking ship grabs the anchor, misses life vest.

]]> By: greenwarrior http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282633 greenwarrior Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:43:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282633 <p>it IS his meme. planned with malice aforethought. imho. </p> <p>greatest evil to this nation (and the world) - bush - pick one, any one, the whole deck is rotten to the core.</p> it IS his meme. planned with malice aforethought. imho.

greatest evil to this nation (and the world) – bush – pick one, any one, the whole deck is rotten to the core.

]]> By: Twain http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282585 Twain Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:19:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/mccain-islamic-extremism-greatest-evil-in-the-history-of-evil/#comment-1282585 <p>Raven<br /> Thanks for a laugh. I have not thought of the junior birdmen song since I was in high school. Really enjoyed that.</p> Raven
Thanks for a laugh. I have not thought of the junior birdmen song since I was in high school. Really enjoyed that.

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