The palestinians that support Hamas do so because they think Hamas will best achieve their political aims. Hamas is a political party there.
I get that. Problem being they support Hamas killing women and children to achieve their political aims. There may be a distinction between religion and political party there, but the separation of church and state is miniscule.
The issues aren't black and white as you seem to want them to be.
I didn’t say what I want them to be. All I wanted to point out is that it is ridiculous to say there are only a few thousand Muslims that support terrorism. There are millions. 51% of Indonesians support a terrorist (OBL) that kills non-combatants. While I’ll concede there is room for some grey area in there, I have a hard time doubting that a minimum of millions of Indonesians support terrorism.
Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 and injuring 680. McVeigh was a Roman Catholic. Using your logic, Roman Catholics are violent terrorists.
Using my logic, it's not black and white. The grey bits tell us he had become radicalized to his cause and went nuts.
So, you want to compare a one-time event done by a single nut-job to a recurring religious/political strategy to kill women and children to further their agenda? Really?
I explicitly stated that I don’t believe that all Muslims support terrorism. Now you imply that my logic concludes that, because of what TV did, all Catholics not only support violence, but actually ARE terrorists. GTFO. Your arguments are every bit as divisive as Blazer Fanatic’s were, and you banned her for that shit.
Perhaps you could provide a link that shows that 50% of Catholics support what McVeigh did? Or, how about a link where even 1 Catholic supports what McVeigh did?
And that's what I think about the few muslims who do commit violent acts - they become radicalized to a cause (not Islam) and go nuts.
And their nuttiness is supported, to varying degrees, by half their brother and sister Muslims in Indonesia.
You are entitled to your opinion, but don't see how you are going to back up that position.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_...m#Recent_polls
John Esposito, using poll data from Gallup, wrote that Muslims and Americans were equally likely to reject violence against civilians. He also found that those Muslims who support violence against civilians are no more religious than Muslims who do not.[18]
You said, yourself, that 19% of Palestinians support Hamas, which is an organization that targets women and children to make a political statement. Do you really think that those 19% reject violence against civilians? Can you cite any 19% segment of America that would support violence against civilians? Tell me, have you ever seen a rally to support terrorist groups in the USA? How many times have you seen that done by the Palestinians?
So, you are going to stick with the notion that there only a few thousand Muslims that support terrorism? I think that's out there where the buses don't run.
Go Blazers