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Originally Posted by Keltoi  Downplaying terrorism, while it might make sense as a global perspective, doesn't work at the community level. Terrorism is a very disruptive force, both socially and economically. It wasn't all that long ago that British citizens had to worry about the IRA. The terrorists we are talking about today go out of their way to create the most civilian deaths as they possibly can. Usually dealing with mass transportation. It is no wonder that people are a little suspicious.
The British authorities should continue to keep people vigilant about suspicious activity, while emphasizing the fact that the Muslim community is not the enemy. These people have no qualms about killing any innocent Muslim who happens to get in the way either.
Quite a few Muslims died on 9-11 too. |
In case you may have intended to refer to me - I never at any point downplayed terrorism. I mentioned murders and rapes (which are also forms of terror) but my point was specifically around bombings as contemporay events show and wars as terror campaigns as I go on to explain below.
I am just putting things in their correct perspective and that for example
IF a group of 19 people killed 3000 people in the Twin Towers then thousands of innocent people - men, women and babies - should not have been terrorised to death to avenge the matter or to make a point hit home that "we the West will stop terrorism so here we are bombing you people to teach you a lesson that you will benefit from". That will not reduce terrorists it will only breed more hatred which the terrorists thrive upon and hence more terrorism. The world seeks Peace.
Quantitavely the West has, in recent times, terrorised more people than any of the other nations. In the last 200 years the West has killed approximately 0.5 billion people from wars alone - starting from the destruction of the Red Indians in millions and spreading globally.
In fact the man known (in recent times) to have killed
the most people was Hitler - a Westerner who murdered around 6 million innocent Jews. Bush/Blair and their aides are of course the new Hitlers.
I don't want to get into a 'my survey is better than yours' arguement but John Pilger in a clip on this forum posted by myself said the most accurate survey put the death toll at 1 million Iraqis!.
Muslim terrorism is painted out to be
the biggest current threat to the world. Its in all the headlines across media outlets - its too obvious - I don't have to mention it. Jewish, Christain or other religious terrorists are rarely mentioned and if so sidelined. What kind of word peace will vindicating one religious group achieve?.