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Reader comment on item: I Give Up: There Is No Terrorism, There Are No Terrorists
Submitted by y Brandstetter MD (Israel), Jun 4, 2015 at 04:28
Nazi death camps and Hamas rockets are the same: manifestation of judeo-cidal ideaology
Calling the latter terror actually lends respectability of partizan-like freedom-fighters.
The war to annihilate the Jew is nothing new, calling it terror, or BDS, or iranian threshold nuclear status makes no difference
Jihadism makes sense. Its a specific ideology with clear methodology aims and means
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| Synonym of Terror = Abject Fear [199 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | DrRJP | Mar 27, 2017 13:58 | 237961 | ||
| The American Approach Should Be To Keep Fighting For The Accurate Use Of Terrorism As A Word [302 words] | Mike Conlon | Apr 13, 2016 20:03 | 228947 | ||
| Drop Racism As Well, But Call Out Hatred [133 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Dave | Mar 23, 2016 22:08 | 228538 | ||
 "hate crime" is a ridicuous category [148 words] | Anon. | Nov 1, 2019 08:47 | 228538 | ||
| 1 | Definition of Terrorism - no less difficult than Rape or Robbery [431 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Robert | Oct 12, 2015 16:30 | 225595 | |
| 1 | The Insurance Companies Know [93 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Malcolm | Jul 15, 2015 18:21 | 224229 | |
| More to do with Erdogan's stubborness [49 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | David W. Lincoln | Jul 14, 2015 16:22 | 224210 | ||
| Propaganda at Its Finest Hour of Delusion - Terrorism by Any Other Name Still Terrorises [231 words] | M. Tovey | Jul 9, 2015 10:28 | 224120 | ||
| Peace in Our Time [381 words] | Michael S | Jul 15, 2015 02:19 | 224120 | ||
| No Bet Here For 2017. [163 words] | M Tovey | Jul 16, 2015 11:15 | 224120 | ||
| Turkey-NATO-US-KRG-ISIL Alliance [511 words] | Michael S | Aug 1, 2015 08:38 | 224120 | ||
| Obama's vision of the future? [448 words] | Michael S | Aug 3, 2015 17:56 | 224120 | ||
| Alliances Made; Broken; All Without Honor [201 words] | M Tovey | Aug 3, 2015 18:45 | 224120 | ||
| Timing of Armageddon: Will Hillary be the one? Donald Trump? Jeb Bush? God knows. [738 words] | Michael S | Aug 7, 2015 16:22 | 224120 | ||
| Definitely; The Father Knows; But Are HIS Children Listening? [48 words] | M Tovey | Aug 11, 2015 19:30 | 224120 | ||
| 4 | Terrorism in the Qur'an in Q8:60 and many Islamists are proud to be called terrorists [362 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | dhimmi no more | Jun 23, 2015 07:43 | 223918 | |
| terror definition. [54 words] | PermReader | Jun 21, 2015 13:08 | 223889 | ||
| 1 | Absolutely correct, and I propose another harmful semantic controversy that should be ended. [478 words] | Stu Fagin | Jun 13, 2015 10:05 | 223802 | |
| "Enhanced Interrogation" - great way to get false confessions [149 words] | BG Davis | Jun 29, 2015 11:47 | 223802 | ||
| Absolutely correct, and I propose another harmful semantic controversy that should be ended. [478 words] | Stuart Fagin | Jun 12, 2015 22:21 | 223787 | ||
| 1 | a message from the Council on Rattlesnake Acceptance by People (CRAP) [238 words] | Charles Martel | Jun 9, 2015 14:25 | 223747 | |
| Of Concord and Discord [310 words] | Genghis Cohen | Jun 8, 2015 19:52 | 223736 | ||
| Cut the Cr_p, senators! "Antisemitism" is Antizionism. Condemn Antizionism, or keep your mouths shut [64 words] | Michael S | Jun 12, 2015 13:29 | 223736 | ||
| 1 | Arabs are not "anti-Semitic" [42 words] | BG Davis | Jun 29, 2015 11:57 | 223736 | |
| Definition of Anti-Semitism [45 words] | Michael S | Jul 3, 2015 17:52 | 223736 | ||
| Other Semitic peoples will be surprised [99 words] | BG Davis | Jul 9, 2015 07:29 | 223736 | ||
| Surprize, surprize, surprize! [18 words] | Michael S | Jul 13, 2015 03:39 | 223736 | ||
| 1 | Fraudulent claims [347 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 28, 2015 06:58 | 223736 | |
| Untruth will get you nowhere [36 words] | BG Davis | Jul 30, 2015 18:33 | 223736 | ||
| Our dear BG is saying that the Sunni Arabs should cannot hate Shia Arabs because they are both Semites! Mash'allah [426 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 3, 2015 13:46 | 223736 | ||
| 1 | Ignorance is bliss and the meaning of the word anti-Semitism and what is a Semite in Arabic dictionaries [437 words] | dhimmi no more | Aug 3, 2015 14:31 | 223736 | |
| Samiyya [44 words] | Sam | Oct 22, 2017 10:07 | 223736 | ||
| 36 | Self-terror-phobics will never succeed! [339 words] | MdShafiqM | Jun 7, 2015 03:18 | 223717 | |
| 2 | Terror in the Qur'an in Surat al-Anfal 12 [353 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 24, 2015 06:55 | 223717 | |
| 1 | Allah as depicted here is not a true muslim [25 words] | Prashant | Jun 25, 2015 03:14 | 223717 | |
| 2 | Our dear M is providing us with bogus translations of the Qur'an [268 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2015 08:32 | 223717 | |
| 2 | Who is really the author of the Qur'an? [106 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 28, 2015 11:36 | 223717 | |
| 2 | The latest disaster in Bangladesh where the government "Uses Arabic to stop public urination." [95 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 29, 2015 08:30 | 223717 | |
| 1 | A brief history of terror. [413 words] | Genghis Cohen | Jun 5, 2015 20:19 | 223699 | |
| Comparing the Balkans with the Middle East [337 words] | Michael S | Jun 7, 2015 12:55 | 223699 | ||
| 2 | Stephen Coughlin is warning us..are YOU listening? [165 words] | Frank Livingston | Jun 4, 2015 15:28 | 223681 | |
| "Losing to Jihadists???" [252 words] | Michael S. | Jun 6, 2015 11:17 | 223681 | ||
| An accurate, brief, and concise definition of the word, terrorism [217 words] | Michael Houst | Jun 4, 2015 14:25 | 223680 | ||
 completely agree [59 words] | y Brandstetter MD | Jun 4, 2015 04:28 | 223672 | ||
| "Values" of no value [173 words] | Michael S | Jun 4, 2015 02:14 | 223670 | ||
| Tell That to the Insurance Companies [70 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Malcolm | Jun 4, 2015 02:00 | 223669 | ||
| I Give Up: There is No Terrorism There are No Terrorists [50 words] | Lois | Jun 3, 2015 20:13 | 223664 | ||
| Nouns are better than adjectives [387 words] | Brenton Kitterman | Jun 3, 2015 15:04 | 223663 | ||
| Dr. Pipes is right...as usual. [133 words] | Larry Stirlilng | Jun 3, 2015 11:27 | 223657 | ||
| 1 | The UN had no problem defining "war crimes" [1614 words] | DrRJP | Jun 3, 2015 11:17 | 223655 | |
| The BBC are just being true to form [73 words] | Tony | Jun 3, 2015 08:39 | 223651 | ||
| Terrorism [29 words] | Steve Wenick | Jun 3, 2015 07:12 | 223650 | ||
| 1 | Let us parse the phrase 'islamic terrorism' [269 words] | Prashant | Jun 3, 2015 02:27 | 223644 | |
| 1 | He's a Terror [323 words] | Pied Piper | Jun 3, 2015 00:06 | 223642 | |
| 3 | The Correct Word [251 words] | Dajjal | Jun 2, 2015 23:39 | 223640 | |
| Apathy [38 words] | infosifter | Jun 2, 2015 23:09 | 223639 | ||
| I'm sorry to hear this decision Mr. Pipes [310 words] | Martin Kessler | Jun 2, 2015 23:08 | 223638 | ||
| 2 | "Terrorism" is simply the crime of EXTORTION writ large! [960 words] | Uncle Vladdi | Jun 2, 2015 22:31 | 223637 | |
| RELIGIOUS ZEAL [52 words] | Sunshine | Jun 2, 2015 22:22 | 223636 | ||
| 2 | Don't Go Down The Islamic Rabbit Hole [123 words] | Dave | Jun 2, 2015 21:41 | 223635 | |
| 1 | There is no terrorism......... [189 words] | FatherJon | Jun 2, 2015 21:08 | 223634 | |
| 1 | Euphemism as a refiuge [29 words] | Mahamuni | Jun 2, 2015 20:30 | 223632 | |
| 4 | Don't Give Up? [227 words] | John in Michigan, USA | Jun 2, 2015 20:09 | 223631 | |
| 2 | but using 'counterterrorism' w/o terrorism is as illogical as US gov't linguistic contortions; also: [25 words] | Mark | Jun 2, 2015 19:56 | 223629 | |
| 1 | SILENCING CRITICISM OF MILITANT ISLAM [42 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Kelly Clover | Jun 2, 2015 19:45 | 223628 | |
| 1 | Discussion of Islamic Terrorism, Islamism or just Islam [191 words] | Prashant | Jun 5, 2015 02:50 | 223628 | |
| 4 | Islamism [69 words] | Dajjal | Jun 6, 2015 01:35 | 223628 | |
| 1 | Islam and not Islamism!! [94 words] | Jaladhi | Jun 18, 2015 15:07 | 223628 | |
| 3 | Response to Mr. Pipes on avoiding the term "terrorist" [279 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Ronald Dolgin | Jun 2, 2015 18:10 | 223627 | |
| Actions that we call "terrorism" happened before are happening now and unfortunately will happen in future. [71 words] | Roman | Jun 4, 2015 12:04 | 223627 | ||
| don't give up on the term [78 words] | daniel kennedy | Jun 2, 2015 17:19 | 223626 | ||
| 3 | No Terror, No Problem? [84 words] | Dajjal | Jun 3, 2015 00:00 | 223626 | |
| An accurate, brief, and concise definition of the word, terrorism. [89 words] | Michael Houst | Jun 4, 2015 14:11 | 223626 | ||
| 3 | Why is it OK to attack foreign armies who aren't at war with you?! [101 words] | Uncle Vladdi | Jun 7, 2015 17:47 | 223626 | |
| 3 | Its OK 'Cuz: [144 words] | Dajjal | Jun 12, 2015 04:22 | 223626 | |
| 5 | Crime-gangs have no "rights" to attack anyone, ever! [182 words] | Uncle Vladdi | Jun 12, 2015 17:27 | 223626 | |
| Actually, there is a point at which they do. [122 words] | Michael D. Houst | Jun 19, 2015 19:10 | 223626 | ||
| 1 | Islam is only an old, large crime-gang; no more; no less! [65 words] | Uncle Vladdi | Jun 22, 2015 01:33 | 223626 | |
| 2 | Islam is the Arab Mafia [116 words] | Dajjal | Jun 22, 2015 03:40 | 223626 |
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