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All Of You ...!Reader comment on item: What is Jihad? Submitted by JihadOnYou (United States), Jan 22, 2006 at 03:52 It is really funny that so many people argue so fervently over the meaning of a practice implemented in so many places around the world "Jihad". These religious pretenses are absurd from all sides. True evil invades all societies, moderate or not no matter what you practice. All religions are slaves to words written many many years ago by those who sought to dominate their brothers through guilt, pride, and the fear that when you die you go to some type of hell. And if you can't convince them, kill them! The only religion still practicing this today is Muslim under the guise of Jihad. All have done evil vile things like this in the past, well except maybe the Jews who have been conquered by darn near every empire conquering the Mid East over the last 2000 years.So where are we today? Fighting like a bunch of spoiled children ...for a bunch of silver tongued clerics, priests, and whatever they call the Jewish holy man. History recorded is prejudice preserved by the victor, there are rarely any absolute truths unless you were there. The world wars were fought over stupid political ideologies, in the case the WWII the Germans were starting their own religion and were persecuting Jews. While today the US is criticized for it's policies in the Mid East. Those policies lead into why the extremists want to kill Americans. ... Let's go into the Mid East. Why does any American even care ? Well, to be honest a great majority would rather forget about that part of the world. I don't care less that Muslims are oppressive. I don't care that the Saudi Family is inherently corrupt and gives some face to cooperating with US policies while secretly funding terror. Nor did I give a hoot about Iraq when I was there helping to free Kuwait, nor do I now. Americans in general would be happy never hearing of such a barbaric, intolerant, racist, and religious intolerant place. However, politically our politicians want to secure safe reliable oil. So we kiss..where we can and allow the oil thugs of the world "Arab and international oil alike" solve their differences by using us as their pawns. If any of you noticed, Bush is an oil guy, and damn near all Arab Countries in the Mid East have decent reserves of oil to sell to the world. I would consider the Arab "Muslim" issue resolved once the oil runs out and they kill each other when they again have to work for themselves because they can't hire out labor to 3rd world laborers. Saudi Arabia couldn't even fight Iraq, they had to have the UN get involved. They even tried to pay us, but Bush Sr "damn idiot" didn't allow it. Now before any of you try to convert me to some stupid religion, keep this in mind; Your absurd with those beliefs in the first place. Don't quote the Bible or Koran. What is impressively stupid is that Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have the Old Testament, they all debate Jesus, and they all believe they are the right religion. Youre all fools just as each of us in their own countries are the pawns of their respective country. I am not an atheist, I believe there is a creator, and I also believe that no man is a prophet of that creator. No book written by a man can claim it is written or influenced by god. They are all representations of primitive minds in their attempt to oppress and gain control over others. Don't believe that a religion based on a belief that if you create something just for the hell of it? Ever hear of Scientology? For those who haven't heard, Scientology was created as a sick joke to get people to believe in it for the sake of proving a point. Even with this sick joke, very prominent idiots believe it. Try Tom Cruise for instance. As for Americans either being intolerant of religions. In Europe when the Serbs were persecuting Muslims, who helped to stop it? The UN with heavy aid from the US did. This is recent history, don't forget so soon that America actually protects Muslims. It isn't because it was political but because it was the right thing to do. It was right because you can't have Europe erupting the world into WWIII. As for kicking Iraq... 2 times. First time it was because no power in the Mid East is significant enough to stop a mediocre Army. Second time, well Hussein had it coming since that joker never did fully cooperate with the cease fire agreement. Why did Bush lie about it? Didn't I mention he is an oil guy? Well, we went there the second time for the wrong reasons but it was the correct thing to do. Now we have this Jihad... Jihad is to kill non-Muslims and don't say it isn't. This is because this is a practice perpetrated by extremists, you must apply the meaning which is most prevalent. I give a hoot if Jihad is to mean some type of struggle, why are so many of you so damn philosophical about it anyway. On the issue of not talking of things you don't know, I am not. I am well read on world events and judge not on some ...religious opinion. I also have personal experiences which back up my views. While in Europe, I was constantly singled out by Muslims... when they understood I was American. They said mean things to me and they didn't know me. What is really annoying about these experiences is they would make a quick exit after insulting me since they were cowardly little punks. Face it, it is fashionable in Muslim circles around the world to hate Americans. This is why I cannot understand why Americans would even consider converting to such a religion. Especially since the extremists want to kill us. As for those masses needing something to believe in, believe this. There will be no Armageddon unless we are hit by a meteor or the sun expands into a red sun and burns our atmosphere off, which by the way would suck. The only way there will be Armageddon is if Iran develops nuclear weapons and starts handing these things out to some silly extremist group. Then it will be a man made event. Just admit it, nuclear power is a bad thing no matter who has it. N Korea and Iran are led by extreme views and both represent a threat to all in the world. I stop short of saying make the middle east into a big glass pit. The only thing holding me back from that opinion is the fact that despite how much I would like to see Bin Laden dead and all who are like him, no one can justify the slaughter of innocents, no matter how vile, corrupt, and insane their country is. The fact of the matter is, there are people in the Mid East who don't subscribe to the stuff spewed by evil men who operate these terror operations. The very nature of Evil is deceit, those of you who so quickly jump to conclusions that someone can't challenge your point of view because they are not your religion is an evil thought. Written... in the Bible or Koran is always up to debate, just because you put your blinders on doesn't make you right, nor does it make you in any sense a logical thinker since both books are written by primitive thinkers who sought to control others. So you deceive yourselves into thinking that your religion isn't bad, your blind. When I see TV like AlJazeera "however it is spelled" where thousands of ...are saying "Death to America", I believe I have a right to be defensive when saying that the Muslim community in the Mid East is not peaceful. When I have seen with my own eyes Kuwaiti soldiers burning Iraqis to death, the destruction I witnessed in Kuwait, to know the daily practice of Iranians is to burn our flag and exclaim "Death to America", that the Mid East is very much the closest thing to hell this world has seen since Hitler's 3rd Reich. Evil pervades the Mid East, it seeps though the oil pipelines, and is funded by the worlds economy and hunger for oil. The only reason why that part of the world has any significance isn't because of the religious debate, it is the oil. The last thing this world needs is a crusade, inquisition, or any more empire building. But if push comes to shove the whole of the Mid East should be laid to waste and the perpetrators of the vile behavior witnessed now against any target to include women, children, civilians, and an occasional military target. The only thing stopping the Mid East from preventing WWIII is the leaders "who are generally clerics" silently support hate groups since the hate groups support their religious point of view. Hell Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and many more countries over there fund these ... Hey these are silly statements, I know it and so do you. I challenge each and every one of you to think outside your boundaries to come to your own logical conclusions as to what is really going on and why. In my opinion, the extremists are in fact delusional but resourceful and should be shot on sight. How is this for a solution for you, take those white supremacy jerks in America and put them in the Mid East. Basically the white supremacist are extremists Christians "in some cases they hate just because someone is different" who hate Jews and anyone basically not white. Take this group and give them weapons, bombs, and training. Conquer and area for them to operate from and set them up with some oil wells so they can have an economy. Basically what you have is a racists, religious, extremist, hateful, and ignorant set of idiots who would be just like their Muslim counterparts. The only difference is Muslims would see the KKK for what it is and try to criticize the religion. Not thinking logically, Muslims would see it as an attempt to strip them of their religion and ignore the fact that it is a group of intolerant hate mongers who don't deserve to live. I feel that way about all extremist, religious or not, Muslim or not. The Mid East in the Middle Ages was the jewel of all civilized areas of the world as it was known at the time. For science, knowledge, and even military might the Mid East was the place to be, even though they were conquering an empire to spread a religion. What happened? The only thing the Mid East has now is oil. Yes some of these counties are quite rich at this point, but socially they are stagnant, corrupt, and oppressive. Face it, the Afghanistan experiment failed. Yes the Muslim religion spread fast, I would be Muslim then if it were to save my life though the oppressive rule of the Persians "Iraq". You see this isn't the only empire building effort, it wasn't the first, and wasn't the last. As all empires go, it falls and it did a long time ago and the remnants are a bunch of ...humanity oppressing all they can to keep some ridiculous faith. This isn't very different from Christianity except that the West tolerates Muslims while Muslims hate someone or anyone in most cases because they aren't Arab, and/or they aren't Muslim. So with the battle to stay human and open minded with logical thinking I cannot without reserve befriend a Muslim "moderate or not" just because they or their descendants will try to kill me or my descendants based on some silly belief system which was rooted in a Jewish religion and molded into the Koran. Basically, I experienced this many times in my travel around the world. Too many times I was discriminated on because I am American, and why? Well my belief and experience points to the basic hate the permutated with a corrupt religion where not only religion rules but also racism. There are enough problems with race relations in America without including some insignificant "baby killer" half way across the world. Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. 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