Burnt Orange Report

blamed terrorism on Islam

You're right - only 99% or so of terrorists themselves proclaim that they kill the name of Allah. There's always good ol' McVeigh to pull out to prove the exception to the rule.

So because of the actions of those few, the entire faith should be blamed? No.

99%? You sure about that? Seems to me that statistic might be...oh, what's the word I'm looking for...bullshit?

How about Japan's Supreme Truth? The Basque Fatherland and Liberty terror group? Japanese Red Army? Israel's Kahane Chai? The Kurdistan Worker's Party (which, like many of the middle-eastern terror groups is not an Islamic terrorist group, but a marxist-leninist terror group)? Tigers of Tamil? Colombia's National Liberation Army? Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)? Greece's Revolutionary Organization 17 November and Revolutionary People's Struggle? Turkey's Devrimci Sol (again, not Islamic but Marxist)? Peru's Shining Path? Tupac Amaru? Army for the Liberation of Rwanda? Irish Republican Army, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, the Orange Volunteers, or the Red Hand Defenders? Spain's First of October Antifascist Resistance Group? The Maoist New People's Army of the Phillipines? The Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone? The United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia?

And that's not even getting into our own back-yard militias, white supremacist groups, and fundie Christian "martyrs".

All guilty of assassination, murder, massacre, hijacking, bombing, torture, mutilation, arson, extortion, robbery, and kidnapping.

But hey, Fox News doesn't report on them, so they're not "real" terror groups, right?

Mark Harden blows it again. Take any Spanish lessons, lately?

Historically, by far and away, the most suicide bombings have been committed by radical Hindus in Sri Lanka. But, until recently, people from that part of the world weren't a significant part of our population.

Since the American population of people from the subcontinent doubled in the 1990s, we started getting the occasional coverage.

99%? Conservatives play the bigot card again. Watch them whine when we point it out. It's not that they're dishonest, in all likelihood. Just ignorant, like our resident troll, Harden. Which might explain a few other things about their platform, as well. Continuing support for the discredited cold-fusion of supply-side economics, for one thing!

The development of radical Islam is actually an entirely modern movement, like the Christian anti-abortion movement, which portrays itself as ancient and fundamental. But Islamism's roots are actually in good, old-fashioned European fascism and its organization efforts in Egypt. But I digress...

Historically, by far and away, the most suicide bombings have been committed by radical Hindus in Sri Lanka.

A simple, if crass, tabulation of deaths from terrorism, categorized by the religion professed by the perpetrators, would easily reveal the sophistry of your argument.

Then go for it - you're making the (already disproven) assertion, you provide the evidence.

Here, lemme give you a hand: from the State Department's "Patterns of Global Terrorism" site, one single country:

"An increased international awareness of terrorism did nothing to stop or even slow the pace of terrorist actions by Colombia’s three terrorist organizations—the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), National Liberation Army (ELN), and United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)—in 2001. Some 3,500 murders were attributed to these groups."

Or maybe this chart will illuminate better if you're a visual person: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2001/html/10267.htm

So if I go sell these same tshirts at a Young Democrats convention, all Young Democrats (including the 99 percent who don't buy or wear my tshirts) endorse all of these slogans?

Is this supposed to actually mean anything?

whatever.....