Terrorism in Europe and the United States

[shavenferret]

SvennoJ said:

shavenferret said:

The french are very welcoming to other people, except that they are almost radically liberal in that they prefer a secular society.  Muslims tend to take their religion much more seriously than do western people and so it becomes a bigger part of their lives/society than their western counterparts (or christians).  

When somebody insults that, they ended up getting so angry that killing people was the only solution, and i hope that they got the death penalty for that.  For you to say that this was either justified or only understandable on their part is a horrible mentality and i can't respect that.  Similar opinions and statements are enabling terrorism.  And you sir, are a part of the problem.  

Finally, I feel that both christians and muslims should receive some amount of satire thrown their way, so that this criticism will liberalize these two beliefs.  

So, i feel that CH did a good thing, and that it was evil that the terrorists should do this.  

It's never justified, but understanding the reasons helps prevent future attacks. That's not enabling terrorism, getting freaked out over terrorism is enabling terrorism. Letting terrorism achieve its purpose.

There was another situation just like this.  In dallas some years ago, they had a contest in which the contestants would draw the Muhammad.  You don't do that to muslims.  And so a muslim showed up with a gun, and he was promptly arrested without further incident.  

I beleive that more criticism needs to be sent to both Muslims and Christians.  They need to understand that there are other viewpoints around, that are just as worthy as theirs.  If islam gets more people criticizing it, the religion will eventually liberalize to the point that we'll stop seeing the misogyny and evil that the religion perpetuates.  Christianity as well, would reform in a positive direction.  You wouldn't see further attacks on gay people for instance.  But these voices need to keep doing this until it can be tolerated, to flex that muscle of free speech so that it grows larger and more powerful.