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Submitted by sara (United States), Apr 1, 2013 at 19:28

Miri, your points illustrate clearly the denial, that you refuse to acknowledge the realities, and as long as these realities are not dealt with, nothing will ever be solved.

You say: Again, I do not say there are not people who do kill in the name of religion. It is evil and should be stopped .But I am not convinced every petty criminal or even violent lowlife criminal with a muslim sounding name is doing the crime for Jihad. my guess they dont care too much about their religion...

OK, at least we agree that there are 'people' who kill in the name of religion. How should it be stopped? No one is saying that any Muslim (or a person with a Muslim name) who kills must be killing in the name of religion or Allah. That is simply not a fact. But there are enough who do, and who publicly claim that they do and they did. Those are the ones I am talking about.

"and No maybe the latino gangbangers arent doing it in the name of their religion either but they are involved with identical criminal activity .I wouldnt doubt if these guys ran together and did crimes together..."

This just seems naive to me. I first of all hesitate to call killing in the name of Islam a criminal act since it is done basically as an act of war. It's not the same as a gang shooting or robbing a liquor store. It is a phenomenon that exists ALL OVER THE WORLD, there are people doing the same things for the same reasons. it is not from poverty or lack of education (see Daniel Pipes piece: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2002/06/the-causes-of-terrorism-its-not-about-money )

I am afraid the Jihadists would not agree with your reasoning. They are very clear about their intentions and they are not just random criminals. They are a collective worldwide ideological group that go around murdering and maiming innocent people in the name of their God.

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