All Alike
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
When someone says “Not All Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims,” Liberals respond “What about Oklahoma City bombing?”
The Oklahoma City bombing occurred in 1995 – twenty years ago. Since that time, Wikipedia lists nearly 100 terror attacks by Muslims.
The blast in Oklahoma City killed or injured about 800 people. Muslim terrorists killed and injured more than that in following 5 years alone.
McVeigh and Nichols were Lone Wolves, unaffiliated with any larger movement seeking to change American policy. Tim McVeigh was executed and Terry Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life sentences in federal prison. They pose no future risk.
Muslims, on the other hand, commit fresh atrocities with disturbing frequency. They are expressly following a long-range plan to convert America into a Muslim nation under sharia law. Their on-going risk is palpable.
“All Muslims are terrorists” is exaggeration for conversational effect . . . but not much
Joe Doakes
i’m going to disagree with Joe, but only in the last paragraph. It is a big exaggeration.
The worlds two largest Muslim states – India and Indonesia – have very little in the way of secular terror. Or at least not in the sense that you see it in the Middle East. Oh, yes, Hindus and Muslims go added hammer and tongs in India – but that’s less a religious than ethnic dispute. As, indeed, are most “religious wars”.
And while we in the Twin Cities have seen some concerning signs among some Somali immigrants, the vast majority of Muslim immigrants to the United States came here for the same reasons many of our forefathers did; to scape the internal, debilitating, petty squabbling in our ancestral homelands.
January 14th, 2015 at 7:33 am
Crap, that’s what I wrote but not what I meant. I typed it wrongly.
I wrote in the last line: “All Muslims are terrorists . . .” which Mitch correctly noted is a preposterous claim, unrelated to the statistical data in the rest of my post.
I meant to write:“All terrorists are Muslims is exaggeration for conversational effect . . . but not much.”
Good catch, Mitch.
January 14th, 2015 at 7:56 am
That’s what us layers of gatekeepers are for!
January 14th, 2015 at 12:35 pm
Hate to say it, but India and Indonesia (and probably Malaysia soon as well) are not spared. Bali, Mumbai–both attacks that are nigh unto as significant as 9/11, no? And it seems that we’re losing the will to tell the radicals what has kept them in check for decades; attack our people, lose our business.
January 15th, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Forgot about this yesterday. Wiki may list 100 terror attacks since 1995, but http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ lists 24582 worldwide as of today since 9/11.