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And what are mafias and gangs?
Personally, I feel that anyone who has felt the need to avoid a neighborhood or anyone who has felt the clinch of fear when hearing something on drive-by shootings has felt the effects of terrorism. Gangs and Mafias are simply in a smaller macrocosm. They spread their will by fear. They teach their inductees how to make a person afraid. They encourage a person to tread on another's inborn rights.
In LA, the Bloods and the Crypts take a 'jihad' on the neighborhood surrounding them. The extremists that commit such horrific crimes are not Muslims, that's just a small percentage of a greater group: Humanity.
But, of course, we're deluded. We like to believe that things like this are 'someone else's problems' and that they're 'easily solvable' or just plain 'solvable'. We like to think that pinning down terrorism to a religious group is going to help us mop it up. But it soooo isn't.
You ask the best questions! You really got me thinkin' here!
posted by
Tumbus
on June 24, 2006 at 1:54 PM
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AIDS is a disease
spread by sexual contact. Many people are so puritannical in their views about human sexuality they cannot think logically about AIDS or HIV as an illness. They will not even try to understand how it is passed from one person to another -- through unprotected casual contact. It happens between hetero- and homosexual people, between willing partners and between rapists and victims.
AIDS is not a curse by god sent to punish sin. This primitive notion has caused many unnecessary deaths and much distress among people who don't deserve to be judged by such hypocrites.
Muslims are people who love Allah and practice a religion of kindness and devotion.
Terrorists are deviants, so afraid of life they must instill fear in others to hide from their own insanity.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 30, 2006 at 10:13 AM
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Hmm
I'd always known the stereotype that all or most AIDS sufferers are homosexual. As for terrorists, there used to be the stereotype that all Northern Irish were terrorists. Up until people realised that not everyone can be tarred with the same brush, that was the case. But
my view that all terrorists have been inflouenced by religion: the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were Muslim extremists, and the Irish Republican Army are Catholics who hate Protestants.
posted by
Ichi
on May 28, 2006 at 2:08 PM
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too much generalization... media and government propoganda!
..anyone can get aids.. not all Muslims are terrorists...
posted by
MasonGarrett
on May 11, 2006 at 1:46 AM
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Worldwide, I'm unsure if most AIDS victims are "sex workers".
Just as most members of the early Ku Klux Klan in the American South were Baptists or other southern charismatic or evangelical members, the majority of the these faiths weren't members...but many, many were in sympathy if not outright support.
I do not promote, support or approve of terrorism or of the internecine or the anti-U.S./European attacks; however, I think that if I were a Muslim overseas in a homeland exploited (and perhaps created by) western European powers, I might be in sympathy if not support if I was personally unaffected.
I think those who would benefit from a power vacuum (as they did in Iran) positively welcome any means to topple whatever power there is in the region, be it Saddam Hussein, any regime elected under U.S. protection or freely elected, or even if Syria or (gasp) Jordan were to come in as caretakers. If there is structure and stability, those who would seize power for themselves lose.
posted by
majroj
on May 7, 2006 at 9:02 PM
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Straightforward
I do hear it, and I respond with anger. It's like that stupid person who cannot understand that while all poodles are dogs, not all dogs are poodles. I like your poems. Best wishes
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bilbilis
on April 25, 2006 at 11:52 AM
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