{"id":50396,"date":"2015-01-14T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50396"},"modified":"2015-01-14T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T13:53:24","slug":"50396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50396","title":{"rendered":"All Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When someone says \u201cNot All Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims,\u201d Liberals respond \u201cWhat about Oklahoma City bombing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma City bombing occurred in 1995 \u2013 twenty years ago. Since that time, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Islamic_terrorist_attacks#1990.E2.80.931999\">Wikipedia lists nearly 100 terror attacks<\/a> by Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The blast in Oklahoma City killed or injured about 800 people. Muslim terrorists killed and injured more than that in following 5 years alone.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Muslims are terrorists\u201d is exaggeration for conversational effect . . . but not much<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i&#8217;m going to disagree with Joe, but only in the last paragraph. It is a big exaggeration.<\/p>\n<p>The worlds two largest Muslim states \u2013 India and Indonesia \u2013 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 \u2013 but that&#8217;s less a religious than ethnic dispute. As, indeed, are most &#8220;religious wars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When someone says \u201cNot All Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims,\u201d Liberals respond \u201cWhat about Oklahoma City bombing?\u201d The Oklahoma City bombing occurred in 1995 \u2013 twenty years ago. Since that time, Wikipedia lists nearly 100 terror attacks by Muslims. The blast in Oklahoma City killed or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50403,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50396\/revisions\/50403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}