republicans want to pick on blameless children now.

abandonconflict said:

Collecting a disability check is inconsistent with your philosophy, not mine. I don't compare everything I don't like to rape and decry the civil rights movement like you.

inb4 this post gets compared to rape.

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Choo said:

◙June 1, 2009 : Arkansas recruiting office shooting: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and killed one military recruiter and seriously wounded another at a Little Rock. An act of Jihad. In January 2010, Muhammad wrote to the judge in his case. He claimed that he was sent on the attacks by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and pleaded guilty to the charges of capital murder
◙November 5 2009: 2009 Fort Hood shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army Major serving as a Psychiatrist, opens fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29. The president and his administration are the only ones who refused to call this an act of terrorism.
Days after the shooting, reports in the media revealed that a Joint Terrorism Task Force had been aware of a series of e-mails between Hasan and the Yemen-based imamAnwar al-Awlaki, who had been monitored by the NSA as a security threat, and that Hasan's colleagues had been aware of his increasing radicalization for several years.
◙October 23, 2014: Zale Thompson injured two New York City police officers, once critically at a Queens, New York shopping district by striking them with a hatchet. 4 officers were posing for a photograph when Thompson charged them. The police opened fire killing Thompson and injuring a bystander. Thompson who converted to Islam 2 years before the attack posted "anti-government, anti-Western, anti-white" messages online. His attack was classified as an act of terrorism.
These are the acts of terrorism related to Islam, there are many more, but they have been attributed to other factions than Islam. Islam isn't the only source of crazy idealism out there.

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UncleBuck said:

well shit.

if that type of shit counts as terrorism, let me list a few more done by right wing white guys from america.

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On August 5, 2012 Wade Michael Page killed six people in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Wade Michael Page was ensconced within neo-Nazi and white supremacist circles. He had also founded a white supremacist band. Page committed suicide during the attack.


* In 2011 David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby killed four people in a multi-state killing spree. The indictment alleged that the two along with others were members of a criminal enterprise whose purposes included “promoting and advancing a white supremacist movement to ‘purify’ and ‘preserve’ the white race and ‘reclaim our country’ and culture through acts of murder on the basis of race, color, religion, and perceived ‘degenerate’ conduct.” Pedersen pleaded guilty to a murder charge and Grigsby pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge encompassing all the crimes alleged.


* In 2009, Robert Poplawski killed three police officers who responded to a domestic dispute call at his mother’s house where he was living. Poplawski frequented white supremacist websites and expressed anti-government and racist views. Poplawski was reportedly lying in wait and ambushed the responding officers. He was sentenced to death in 2011.

i have about two dozen more of those if you want them.

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Choo said:

What's your point? I think you went off the deep end.
I did say these are the only ones related to Islam and that there are many more out there but I guess you either failed to read that or just assumed. Oh, and just for your information, radical Islamists are considered "Ultra Conservative". There was no mention of leftists as I recall so your point is? Are you just plain ultra sensitive or what?

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UncleBuck said:

my point is that shooting two people is not what anyone considers 'terrorism' in the sense it was being used.

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Choo said:

Oh I see! I didn't realize there was a required number of deaths to be classified as an act of terrorism. I'll have to read the terrorism classification rules more closely next time. Thanks for that clarification. Just exactly how many have to die in order to be classified as an act of terrorism?

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Choo said:

Oh I see! I didn't realize there was a required number of deaths to be classified as an act of terrorism. I'll have to read the terrorism classification rules more closely next time. Thanks for that clarification. Just exactly how many have to die in order to be classified as an act of terrorism?

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UncleBuck said:

apparently zero if the perpetrator is muslim by your standard.

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