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PhiGam 06-01-2008 12:40 PM

Did anyone forget that we are in a WAR with islamofascism? Someone who has had thousands of islamic extremists trying to kill him has the right to shoot whatever book he wants.
Having a military official kiss a quran and give it to the villagers is absurd, unless that soldier was a muslim.

PhiGam 06-01-2008 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by shinerbock (Post 1656153)
I think the difference is in the response. Obviously Americans are groveling with regard to this incident. You rarely see the same thing from our opponents.

They don't even get upset when someone kills 2000 innocent civilians in the name of their god.

Leslie Anne 06-01-2008 03:22 PM

We're not at war with Islam. Using a quran as target practice is completely moronic. That soldier did not have "the right" to shoot at it. As a U.S. soldier he is representing our government and our country. What he did only added fuel to the fire of radical Islamic extremist hatred and pushed the Iraqis we are trying to work with further away from co-operation.

shinerbock 06-01-2008 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Leslie Anne (Post 1661278)
We're not at war with Islam. Using a quran as target practice is completely moronic. That soldier did not have "the right" to shoot at it. As a U.S. soldier he is representing our government and our country. What he did only added fuel to the fire of radical Islamic extremist hatred and pushed the Iraqis we are trying to work with further away from co-operation.

I agree with everything here, although I think it is very important to note that the entity we ARE at war with is Islamic.

DeltAlum 06-01-2008 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Pewbuck (Post 1661323)
Yes, we are at war with them, it may not seem like it but we are, it was a war on 'terror' and 'oil', we still have yet to fail or succeed in our duties. But I do think the soldier wasn't trying to harm anyones feelings or beliefs, he might have done it out of hatred to the fact he was pushed into the Iraqi war.

So does it follow logically that the British were at war with the Irish over terror and Guinness because of the IRA?

Most Irish people aren't/weren't terrorists.

Most Islamic people aren't either.

Desecrating their holy book because a part of their fellow belivers is narrow minded and, worse than that, dumb.

Oh, and how do you "make war" on oil? I'm a little confused on that. My guess is that you mean because of oil.


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