A Unique Threat

[AthenaAwakened]

There is a danger in labeling a group of people a unique threat. Native people in the Americas were a unique threat to the Europeans which led the Europeans to practice wholesale slaughter against these indigenous peoples. Black folk, whenever not in slavery, are sold as a unique threat to white people. This is why the United States had to institute slavery, and then Jim Crow, and now James Crow, Esq. The Christians in ancient Rome were a unique threat so they were thrown to the lions for sport. The Jews of Europe constituted a unique threat to Germany and so ghettos and concentration camps and the "final solution" had to be instituted. All over the world and throughout history, people identified as unique threats have been persecuted, prosecuted, and obliterated.

Today throughout the Western World, voices cry out that Muslims are a unique threat. I do not deny that ISIS is a threat to the stability and security of a great many people, as are other Muslim organizations, sects, and holy warriors. But that does not mean that Muslims are a unique threat. There are all kinds of organizations based on all kinds of beliefs doing evil all over the globe. Muslims don't have a monopoly on having a tiny group or groups within their larger group who are murderers, rapists and thieves. And keep in mind these small groups are doing most of their harm TO OTHER MUSLIMS.

Believing in unique threats not only leads to the murder of innocents, but it turns otherwise decent people into the evil they fear in their believed "unique threat." If Muslims are uniquely evil, why shouldn't we lock them out? Why shouldn't we lock them up? Why should we respect their rights? Are they even worthy of rights? Are they deserving of protection? Perhaps they are worthy of persecution, incarceration, and even annihilation. They are a unique threat after all, beyond redemption, beyond salvation, and if they are allowed to live, they will kill and rape and steal. Whatever evil befalls them, they will have it coming to them.

I do not fear ISIS as much as what a fear of ISIS can make us become.

 

[TSwizzle]

Do you think muslims should be allowed to impose sharia unopposed?

 

[Derec]

There are periods of time when there is a unique threat. In Europe in the 40s Nazi Germany was that and the same was true for Japan in the Pacific. Later USSR became that. Nothing particularly wrong with identifying threats as long as you are accurate about them and do not generalize too much.

 

[Arctish]

Do you think muslims should be allowed to impose sharia unopposed?

I don't.

But that's not unique. I don't think Fundamentalist Christians, or Mormons, or Sikhs, or Neo-pagans, or Jews, or Catholics, or Scientologists, any religious group should be allowed to impose their religious dictates on the rest of us, and I certainly don't think they should be allowed to do it unopposed!

 

[AthenaAwakened]

Do you think muslims should be allowed to impose sharia unopposed?

You don't read well, do you

 

[TSwizzle]

Not when it's drivel.

 

[repoman]

Yep, the Nazi regime was not a unique threat because no such thing exists.

 

[repoman]

But seriously, the people who want to diminish the threats or characteristics of threats that aren't christian white males now have it easy now. In the past the opposite was the case, no doubt about it.


This is a video where David Pakman (who is Jewish - and this may be important) totally skewers the Muslim apologist Reza Aslan for his LIES in defense of Islam. This shellacking is well deserved and the progressive press has dropped the ball:

 

[AthenaAwakened]

How far are you guys to protect us from the unique threat of Islam?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

How far are you guys to protect us from the unique threat of Islam?

I don't see Islam as a threat.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

Yep, the Nazi regime was not a unique threat because no such thing exists.

The Nazi's claimed that the Jews were a unique threat, deserving of "special treatment". In their pursuit of that special treatment, they became or showed themselves to be a unique threat.

That is the point.

 

[laughing dog]

At this point in time, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump pose a bigger or more unique threat to the US and the American way of life than fundamentalist Islamists.

 

[barbos]

How far are you guys to protect us from the unique threat of Islam?

I don't see Islam as a threat.

Yeah, it's more of a pain in the ass - unique pain in the ass.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

I don't see Islam as a threat.

Yeah, it's more of a pain in the ass - unique pain in the ass.

Well since your already on the uniqueness of Islam bandwagon, how far are you willing to go to get rid of that pain in the ass? How far should the US go?

 

[barbos]

Yeah, it's more of a pain in the ass - unique pain in the ass.

Well since your already on the uniqueness of Islam bandwagon, how far are you willing to go to get rid of that pain in the ass? How far should the US go?

I am not a proctologist.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

Well since your already on the uniqueness of Islam bandwagon, how far are you willing to go to get rid of that pain in the ass? How far should the US go?

I am not a proctologist.

Doesn't answer the questions. Well since your already on the uniqueness of Islam bandwagon, how far are you willing to go to get rid of that "pain in the ass?" How far should the US go?

 

[barbos]

I am not a proctologist.

Doesn't answer the questions.

No, it does not.

 

[funinspace]

I do not fear ISIS as much as what a fear of ISIS can make us become.

To late, it has already been working (not that it can't get worse). In some way, as I have said to others, I think Bin Laden has won at some levels. And it isn't just the label ISIS, this is just the latest group label of ME terror groups that is 'coming to get us'. Before it was al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Is Jabhat Al-Nusra part of the "bad guys" or one of the moderate proxies we and our allies aid? Maybe next year we will support the Taliban in Afghanistan against ISIS...the Islamic boogie man evolves, while we seem to become ever more paranoid.

 

[Malintent]

Yeah, it's more of a pain in the ass - unique pain in the ass.

Well since your already on the uniqueness of Islam bandwagon, how far are you willing to go to get rid of that pain in the ass? How far should the US go?

Not that you are asking me, personally, but I have an unpopular opinion I am willing to share.

I am of the opinion that the US (and anyone else that wishes to join) invade the territories of any threat ('unique' or otherwise) not for the purpose of helping the local authorities take control (and then pose a new threat to us), but for the purpose of taking possession. Welcome to the Middle Eastern States of America. I hope you enjoy your stay. We'll give you free internet access and basic infrastructure, and we'll take all of your resources, thank you very much.

Imagine how beautiful the desert would look, if made of glass.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

How far are you guys to protect us from the unique threat of Islam?

I don't see Islam as a threat.

Nor even a UNIQUE threat. Strictly speaking, the Daesh isn't even a threat to the U.S. and Europe; they're a threat to Syria, to Iraq, to Turkey and Iran, and to the extent they have the ability to inspire criminals abroad to commit violence in their name they are a bunch of agitators and malcontents who should be marginalized and isolated like the backward trolls they are.

But they're no more a "threat" to any of us than the bratty four-year-old down the street is a threat to your family. And taking extraordinary measures to "protect" yourself from this imaginary threat will only make things worse for everyone in the long run.

Well since your already on the uniqueness of Islam bandwagon, how far are you willing to go to get rid of that pain in the ass? How far should the US go?

Not that you are asking me, personally, but I have an unpopular opinion I am willing to share.

I am of the opinion that the US (and anyone else that wishes to join) invade the territories of any threat ('unique' or otherwise) not for the purpose of helping the local authorities take control (and then pose a new threat to us), but for the purpose of taking possession. Welcome to the Middle Eastern States of America. I hope you enjoy your stay. We'll give you free internet access and basic infrastructure, and we'll take all of your resources, thank you very much.

Imagine how beautiful the desert would look, if made of glass.

That's so cynical it just might work.