Just to be clear (because when I read my statement again it didn't make sense)... I'm not saying because a lot of people hold a stereotype, the stereotype is valid... I'm saying if a lot (not even a majority - just a lot) of Muslims want to wage a Jihad against us, then the stereotype is valid. Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam agreed with this! He agreed it is wise to vet Muslims coming from the nations that we have wrecked because a lot of them do want to attack us.
the Q'ran has peaceful parts and violent parts, just like the Bible.
I can come up with some very serious criticisms of the Bible too and it has been used to justify atrocities as well. Christianity was to a certain extent a very positive reformation of Judaism. And it has been reformed again and again over the centuries. It still needs reform. I've considered going back into Christian circles to be a reformer... just not sure that is my place right now.
But we're talking about Islam and Islam does have a lot more statements in the text of the Koran relative to the Bible that can be used by fundamentalists to justify atrocious behavior. The New Testament has a lot of pacifist statements and so Christianity was mobilized for war not by fundamentalists citing scripture but by the Catholic church which kept the scriptures hidden from the masses.
Again it's unfair to single out Islam,
Islam and its middle Eastern adherents, as I said in another post has been used by the West as a weapon and method of control. Radical Islam is to a certain extent manufactured by the West. We created the Taliban. We support the House of Saud. We wrote Jihadist text books and gave them weapons and training to fight the soviets and later us.
There are certain scriptures in Islam which make its adherents more easily manipulated by fundamentalists and which justify horrible treatment of women.
Western media has waged a campaign to make Islam seem cool and trendy and equal to any other world religion, but it is not cool to abuse women or kill people who decide they no longer want to be Muslims.
West have again, killed far more people and have often been lead by Christian Fundamentalists such as Bush.
Hey I'm with you there. But Slick Willy and Hitlery are just as guilty as Bush and Obama. Libya? Syria? Serbia? Kosovo? Sudan? They are front men for a globalist crime syndicate.
I have no idea, I don't know you.
I had a house mate and best friend for several years who was black. :)
Oh also had two Hispanic housemates.
For about 8 months I attended a small black-only church on the South Side (impoverished side) of town because I felt like they were the only ones around preachin' the truth. They were sweet people. They loved me and I loved them.
Believe me, I'm not racist. :)
But I am seeing a recurring theme where people hold prejudiced views but don't like to think that they're prejudiced.
Or maybe you misunderstand their views? Or maybe you don't think any sort of stereotype is justifiable? Holding some stereotypes is fine (in fact it is inevitable - we are designed to recognize patterns) as long as we are able to lay them aside for individuals.
He's seen over here in the UK as a laughing stock but we're also partly horrified that he can say such horrible things and nice people like yourself will not only support him, but will go out of their way to defend him.
Humor is a powerful weapon and ridicule is very effective at swaying popular opinion, but it just shows that's all they've got... they have no substantive arguments against him so all they can do is mock his hair race bait.
I still haven't heard a substantive argument against him here. We seem to actually agree on the substantive issue of foreign policy. I have mostly had to try and deprogram you all from the race baiting programming you received through the media.
Yes it does, the minimum wage has worked our well here and countries with higher minimum wages tend to have higher standards of living. That's a point of view, reducing taxes and 'freeing up the markets' doesn't seem to work wherever it's been done. I agree in our countries that things work in favour of the rich, the power and large corporations. I think Capitalism and Materialism is the main underlying problem personally and that's what really needs to change.
I disagree. Higher relative to what? And the higher standards of living in some of these countries may be due to other policies which I would support (like decriminalizing drugs - no victim no crime). I think centralized power is the main issue and socialism and globalism is just another system full of empty promises that get well-meaning gullible people to go along with more centralization of power. We haven't had truly free markets for a very long time and that is why we are riding the biggest economic bubble in world history that is popping and taking down the whole world system with it. This is by design to get the world on one centrally controlled digital currency. To mask the collapse they need to take us to war and they have been doing everything imaginable to try and start a war.
Do the decent thing and just acknowledge he's said some bad stuff instead of trying to explain it all away.
When I see a quote I'll disavow it. I really dislike what he has said about torture and completely disagree with it. But he did somewhat backtrack on that the next day.
Nah, he wants to 'build a wall and make Mexico pay for it' - it's nonsense.
I'm hoping it is symbolic of other policies that will effectively put up a wall by enforcing existing immigration law. I don't think he is that dumb.
We need to stop finding ways to divide and separate from each other and stop defining ourselves by the bit of land we were born on with artificial borders.
But we have to have borders or we are not a nation. If we are not a nation and merely a fuzzy amalgamation of watered down cultures in the globalist soup, we have a much smaller voice and no say over our future. We need smaller and smaller governments and the bigger the government (as in more people and resources) the more checks there needs to be on its power.
I don't think that because immigration has been halted before means it should be done again. Why is immigration such a big issue to you anyway? You commented about without doors your house won't be a house for long - it seems like fear seems to be behind many of your political views. Fear is a bad emotion and it clouds our mind and judgement. It at times has completely ruined my life and continues to in some ways.
It's not fear mongering to lock your door or be selective about who you allow inside your house around your loved ones.
Immigration is a matter of law. Congress has the authority under the constitution to develop the laws of the land particularly concerning national borders. The president does not have the authority to do as he has done and nullify the law by ordering enforcers of the law (border patrol and ICE) to stop enforcing the law. If we want to have open borders and let anyone in, then it has to be put to a vote and go through the normal legislative process.
The borders are wide open letting thousands of people in. Of those thousands some are criminals and some are terrorists some are merely adding to the competition for labor for jobs (because they don't pay taxes they can work for less) that are disappearing while demanding free healthcare and welfare leeching off of what remains of the middle class.
We are literally witnessing the purposeful destruction and dissolution of the U.S. right now.
I don't feel like entertaining conspiracy/Zionism type views. If you hold them whatever but I'm not interested in debating them with you sorry.
Well you should really look into it because the world is run by elite secret societies and they hate Donald Trump because he is not part of the brotherhood and is not controlled by them. Zionism is only one aspect of this but a very prominent part of it.
By the way "Conspiracy Theorist" was a term promoted by the CIA as a pejorative to mock and shame people away from looking into legitimate corruption.