its just nature

Submitted by BR (United States), Apr 12, 2008 at 23:11

Very true.
Get yourself a group of dissatisfied nuts, with a common identity of any sort to distinguish them from the majority, and you will have jihad.
Thats Tamil jihad in Sri Lanka you read about.

Its just that islamic jihad gets *religious* sanction by its mullahs, whereas Tamil jihad gets *political* sanction by its leaders.
So, while the world will take a stance against the entity that sanctions islamic jihad, which is islam, a religion of 2 billion people world wide, it will take a stance against the political entity that sanctions tamil terrorism, which is a tiny insignificant entity with no bite outside sri lanka.

Human propensity to generalize is immense. If a muslim mullah in Europe "supports" a muslim terrorist in the Palestine, people with instantly generalize that to negative feelings against all muslims in the swath between Europe and the Palestine..

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