Terrorism in Europe and the United States

[Eagle367]

shavenferret said:

SvennoJ said:

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.   

Im sorry but your view of islam and muslims is very ignorant and is based on a weird kind of islamophobic orientalism. You don't even know shit about the community. And if your statement that islam is special somehow was true, or that mocking works, it would bare fruit. Christians and jews are mocked a lot. We know the crazy evangelicals exist. And the zionists and kahanists doing genocide. Hindutva exists in india. Look at the genocides done by sinhalese buddhists in sri lanka or the buddhists in burma.  Atheists aren't exempt from any of that either. 

State oppression and violence are a far bigger danger to humanity than whatever is called terrorism.  Cause they call freedom fighters from oppressed groups terrorists too. Saudi arabian, Israeli, sri lankan, US, Chinese, russian, Burmese governments etc are all way bigger threats to humanity. Israel has killed a confirmed 60k plus people and actually realistic estimates put them in the 400k range. They are starving millions in Gaza plus all the shit in west bank. They are doing all this with the support of western governments especially US and German. Russia is doing a genocide of ukranians. One of these alone is a far bigger issue than years and years of terrorism.