I wouldn't have called them Muslims if I didn't think that their behavior stems from Islamic teachings. There have been many cases where Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq have been subjected to the so-called triple choice: conversion to Islam, paying protection money to the Muslims or death/exile.
racially-motivated lie
I didn't know Christians and Muslims are races, but thanks for letting me know.
As if those are the only two foreign policy matters you can possibly get upset about?
Ramming two 747s into the WTC is more than just someone getting "upset," and the perpetrators knew damn well that such an attack would do nothing but cause more of that US foreign policy they hate.
Ignoring your stance on the issues, that last parenthetical remark is something that ranges from intellectually lazy to downright offensive to some people. Most egregious is your mention of Iraq of all places. Iraq did nothing to the United States. We even supported their guy in the 80s. You're basically saying that Iraq was a power that attacked us, and that is downright wrong, has been shown to be wrong, and is pure nonsense.
What are you talking about? I simply pointed out the fact that prior to 9/11 the US wasn't occupying Iraq, and suddenly I'm claiming that Iraq attacked the US?
And associating jihad with pre-war Iraq? PLEASE! They were a secular government.
I didn't say Jihad has anything to do with the pre-war Iraqi government.
Jihad, by the way, doesn't even necessarily have to do with war.
No, of course not. Someone blowing himself up in a crowd of civilians is just having a heated inner spiritual struggle.
You're still pretending like it's actually possible to know anything. No, it's not the dreaded Zionists who are spreading bullshit, it's everyone. Both sides claim to have hard evidence and objective facts on their side. As far as I'm concerned Israel fell from the sky and the Palestinians emerged from the ocean.
Trying to sort through the information, disinformation, propaganda, half-truths and bullshit is a fool's errand. You think you know what's going on, but you don't.
I'm not touching anything that's related to the history of Israel and Palestine. It's absolutely impossible to know anything about the subject with an acceptable level of certainty.
When the Crusaders retook Jerusalem from Saladin's forces the firt thing they did was massacre the Jewish population who had been living there under the protection of the Moslem forces for generations.
Dhimmitude (or "protection") does not give you equal rights.
Iraq had a sizeable Jewish population until fairly recently.. coincidentally their murders began just after the invasion/liberation (depending on your political PoV) of Iraq.
And that's due to the disappearance of law and order, not because US troops are hunting down Jews. Christians and other religious minorities are also threatened in Iraq. And who's threatening them? The Muslims are.
So because you cite two examples of a white non-Muslim terrorist, it suddenly means that everyone is equally likely to be a terrorist and profiling is useless? And why do you assume that just because profiling is used anyone who doesn't fit the profile is completely ignored by security?
But hey, let's not let the truth get in the way of indulging our xenophobia, shall we?
It's not xenophobia, it's security. The fact is that Muslims constitute the biggest terrorist threat against the US, so therefore profiling Muslims (or people who appear to be Muslims) is the smart thing to do. The Muslims have no one to blame but themselves. If they didn't practise so much terrorism, they would not be viewed with so much suspicion.
Perhaps, if they were they would have peace and security.
No they wouldn't. Israel won't see "peace" until it's been wiped from existence. Israel is much more equal and gives more rights to its Muslim citizens than most Muslim countries, so equality and rights are not the issue.
We Americans aspire to be something better.
Realistically speaking Muslims pose the biggest and almost only terrorist threat against the US, so profiling Muslims would be the smart thing to do. Ignoring security threats or pretending like everyone is equally likely to be a terrorist doesn't make you better, it just makes you stupid.
Well, the documentary is just half of the story. Why do the Israelis perform strip and cavity searches on children? The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that Islamic terrorists have created conditions where such actions are necessary. Also, the insane hatred of Israel and Jews exhibited by Muslims does not exactly create an atmosphere of friendliness.
To be fair, Israel's security practises, as depicted in the documentary, seem to be unreasonable and beyond pragmatic concerns. On the other hand, the documentary seems like a fairly typical leftist moonbat presentation. They even managed to conjure up the imaginary "ethnic cleansing" that's supposedly occuring in Palestine. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the people behind the documentary probably never have and never will do a similiar story about the way Palestinians and Muslims treat women and children. Suddenly strip searches don't seem so bad when you're comparing them to suicide bombings, gang rapes, honor killings and mutilations.
If we really want to stop terrorism, then perhaps we should start by not dropping bombs on foreign countries and killing hundreds of civilians each week.
Jihad is as old as Islam, and it is practised all over the world against infidels, not just against Americans. It has nothing to do with US foreign policy (the US wasn't even occupying Afghanistan or Iraq prior to 9/11).
A DMA game published by Psygnosis. Now DMA is Rockstar North and Psygnosis is somewhere in the bowels of Sony, called SCE Studio Liverpool. Now Irrational is just 2K Boston/2K Australia which doesn't even make any fucking sense.
I don't like this development. Soon we'll just have games developed and published by EA, 2K, Sony or Ubisoft. Kind of like if movies were primarily identified with the studio that released them, as opposed to the director, writer, producers and actors.
Is this really useful for publishers? Why do they want to make everything anonymous? If Irrational Games is making a name for itself, what's the benefit in getting rid of the name?
I actually just tried out CS:S again and the difference was only noticeable when I compared screenshots. I can see a difference but it's not quite as dramatic as people claim.
I've had people tell me they can't tell the difference between antialiasing and no antialiasing in games, they have no idea what it does. To me it's a horrible jaggy mess without AA, because I know what good quality video looks like.
I haven't noticed a difference either. I once put AA and AF to the maximum in CS:S and it didn't seem much different. Maybe if I compared screenshots I would see a difference, but that would be rather pointless. AA/AF are a waste of performance.
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I didn't know Christians and Muslims are races, but thanks for letting me know.
Ramming two 747s into the WTC is more than just someone getting "upset," and the perpetrators knew damn well that such an attack would do nothing but cause more of that US foreign policy they hate.
What are you talking about? I simply pointed out the fact that prior to 9/11 the US wasn't occupying Iraq, and suddenly I'm claiming that Iraq attacked the US?
I didn't say Jihad has anything to do with the pre-war Iraqi government.
No, of course not. Someone blowing himself up in a crowd of civilians is just having a heated inner spiritual struggle.
You're still pretending like it's actually possible to know anything. No, it's not the dreaded Zionists who are spreading bullshit, it's everyone. Both sides claim to have hard evidence and objective facts on their side. As far as I'm concerned Israel fell from the sky and the Palestinians emerged from the ocean.
Trying to sort through the information, disinformation, propaganda, half-truths and bullshit is a fool's errand. You think you know what's going on, but you don't.
I'm not touching anything that's related to the history of Israel and Palestine. It's absolutely impossible to know anything about the subject with an acceptable level of certainty.
Dhimmitude (or "protection") does not give you equal rights.
And that's due to the disappearance of law and order, not because US troops are hunting down Jews. Christians and other religious minorities are also threatened in Iraq. And who's threatening them? The Muslims are.
It's not xenophobia, it's security. The fact is that Muslims constitute the biggest terrorist threat against the US, so therefore profiling Muslims (or people who appear to be Muslims) is the smart thing to do. The Muslims have no one to blame but themselves. If they didn't practise so much terrorism, they would not be viewed with so much suspicion.
No they wouldn't. Israel won't see "peace" until it's been wiped from existence. Israel is much more equal and gives more rights to its Muslim citizens than most Muslim countries, so equality and rights are not the issue.
Realistically speaking Muslims pose the biggest and almost only terrorist threat against the US, so profiling Muslims would be the smart thing to do. Ignoring security threats or pretending like everyone is equally likely to be a terrorist doesn't make you better, it just makes you stupid.
To be fair, Israel's security practises, as depicted in the documentary, seem to be unreasonable and beyond pragmatic concerns. On the other hand, the documentary seems like a fairly typical leftist moonbat presentation. They even managed to conjure up the imaginary "ethnic cleansing" that's supposedly occuring in Palestine. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the people behind the documentary probably never have and never will do a similiar story about the way Palestinians and Muslims treat women and children. Suddenly strip searches don't seem so bad when you're comparing them to suicide bombings, gang rapes, honor killings and mutilations.
Jihad is as old as Islam, and it is practised all over the world against infidels, not just against Americans. It has nothing to do with US foreign policy (the US wasn't even occupying Afghanistan or Iraq prior to 9/11).
Well that's true, but nobody cares about the studio. After a movie is over I don't remember what studio made it.
A DMA game published by Psygnosis. Now DMA is Rockstar North and Psygnosis is somewhere in the bowels of Sony, called SCE Studio Liverpool. Now Irrational is just 2K Boston/2K Australia which doesn't even make any fucking sense.
I don't like this development. Soon we'll just have games developed and published by EA, 2K, Sony or Ubisoft. Kind of like if movies were primarily identified with the studio that released them, as opposed to the director, writer, producers and actors.
Is this really useful for publishers? Why do they want to make everything anonymous? If Irrational Games is making a name for itself, what's the benefit in getting rid of the name?
If you're buying a 360 then why shouldn't you play the older games?
The fact that I had to compare screenshots means that the differences are not quite so dramatic when you're actually playing a game.
I actually just tried out CS:S again and the difference was only noticeable when I compared screenshots. I can see a difference but it's not quite as dramatic as people claim.
I haven't noticed a difference either. I once put AA and AF to the maximum in CS:S and it didn't seem much different. Maybe if I compared screenshots I would see a difference, but that would be rather pointless. AA/AF are a waste of performance.
Nothing else? Really? No Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, GTA IV or all the older 360 games?
AKA talking about the subject.
So you're suggesting an armed uprising? I don't really see what else you can do besides talk (or "whine" as you put it) or overthrow the government.
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
Take off every 'Zig' !!
For great justice.
What precisely should they do? If you're referring to an armed insurrection then you're living in a dream world.
There's no swear filtering on Slashdot. You can just go ahead and say "asshat."
Or maybe you're being hysterical. I said nothing about DVD burners.
Your argument doesn't make any sense. You may as well argue that we should ban electricity because someone could get electrocuted. Idiotic.
A sling shot requires a lot of skill, you have to be closer and your odds of getting away are smaller.
Nobody has ever tried to hit me with a sling shot or a blow torch, but people have pointed lasers at my eyes, and I'm not the only one.