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Originally Posted by bjrnfrdnnd
Well,
I do think that actually what the guy did is far off from a muslim terrorist attack. And I do think that there are many muslim terrorist attacks. Just to show you that I will agree on _some_ of the things that you call muslim terrorist attacks (take 9/11), but not on others. It therefore doesn't mean that we have fundamentally different opinions. We do meet somewhere.
Just for the sake of argument, let us assume that we agree on classifying his action as "a terrorist attack on our soil by a muslim. By a muslim that betrayed his country for his faith."
Good. We have addressed it. What now? How do we stop the next thing like that? Certainly not by just repeating what you said. But we do have a little chance if we try to understand what happened, why it happened, and how we might stop it next time.
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What exactly do you not understand about his attack?
That his particular brand of faith preaches this is what a good follower will do?
He COULD have walked away. Faced court-marshal. I guess that was too easy a solution.
I will agree with you on one point. The signs were there. Action should have been taken to remove this person from the service before it came to this.
Now I'll tell you why he wasn't. We have turned into a society so fearful of being called racist, we don't dare accuse a anyone of anything for fear of being sued.....and the sue-er winning.
Imagine the furor of his being released because of his opinion on the war. "Muslim kicked out of service for religious beliefs" Thats exactly what the headlines would have said.
So.......how do you combat that?
Now, this man's neighbors had nothing bad to say about him. Always friendly, generous and nice.
How do you balance that with what he did? You can't. Anymore than you can prevent something like this with happening again.
Thats why their called terrorists.