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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
hell i can tell a few tales of aggressive zionists (I walked into a few of them in oxford once saying that the palestinians where animals and should be wiped out).
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I have met one like that who had been my sister's boyfriend and the head of an anti-racist organization. I threaten to throw him out of the window after he told me that "a good muslim is a dead muslim"
Then, I agree with you riflle. Altough i don't believe in any god, fundamentalism of all sorts are in no ways a question of religion. Simply a question of Mankind and mankind is capable of the best but also of the worse.
The surprising thing is how much we fear muslim terrorism while this doesn't reflect reality. After 9/11, in US, over 22 terrorist attacks I could list on wiki only one can be linked to Islamic fundamentalism, 5 more to isolated muslim madness, 5 to various activists (annimal rights, anti-abortions...), most were the fact of Catholic and almost all resulted from the action of isolated madmen.
When you get to France, since january 2009, 120 terrorist attacks have hit the country (the public has been aware of one or two at most) with 4 by a shadowy wine defense group (no kidding), 10 by the basques and 106 by the corsicans (In corsica and corsica alone). Still if you ask a french who is a terrorist these days, he will answer the Muslims, Corsicans being part of our tourist attraction anyway.
I'm not saying that there is no real Islamic fundalism threat (which is indeed very real), simply that regular people are overwhelmed by their imagination.