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  1. Shusha

    The Arabs And Muslims Must Acknowledge Their Direct Responsibility For The Terror Sweeping The World

    It seems to me that nearly everyone on this thread has colossally missed the point of the OP and the article in it, which is NOT about blaming all Muslims for the acts of a few, but is asking: what are we teaching our children about Islam? and why are the peaceful, tolerant voices of Islam so...
  2. Shusha

    Abbas Admits For the First Time That He Turned Down Peace Offer in 2008

    Is your comment intended to mean that the Jewish people do, in fact, have rights to national self-determination but that those rights should be exercised with sovereignty over portions of Germany, Russia, Britain, France, Morocco, Yemen, etc? Or do you intend to say that the Jewish people have...
  3. Shusha

    Abbas Admits For the First Time That He Turned Down Peace Offer in 2008

    Lyndon, It seems to me that even though you have failed to address my questions about why Abbas did not accept a peace treaty, which is also the implied question in the OP, you and Feargod have adequately demonstrated the answer. There is no such thing as a peace treaty which will be...
  4. Shusha

    Abbas Admits For the First Time That He Turned Down Peace Offer in 2008

    Does that mean you agree that the Jewish people have no right to any sort of national sovereignty on their ancestral lands?
  5. Shusha

    Abbas Admits For the First Time That He Turned Down Peace Offer in 2008

    Not at the moment but easy enough to check. What are your thoughts on why it wasn't "good enough"? What would be good enough? A small amount of land seems to me to be a very good trade off in light of shared sovereignty of Jerusalem and the Mount. So why wasn't it?
  6. Shusha

    Abbas Admits For the First Time That He Turned Down Peace Offer in 2008

    Your article also says that the Barak offer included a divided Jerusalem, including the Old City, shared sovereignty over the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif and 91% of the disputed territory and he wouldn't take it because 91% was not good enough. Why do you think that offer was rejected?
  7. Shusha

    Abbas Admits For the First Time That He Turned Down Peace Offer in 2008

    He is just demonstrating why there is no peace and why there can never be peace: the Jewish people are rapists and thieves who have no legitimacy with respect to national self-determination. That is the ideology of the Palestinian government, the Palestinians, the Arabs and many others...
  8. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    Wait, wait. Just who, exactly, is advocating for the murder of millions of innocents simply because they are Muslim? Who is advocating for an intentional genocide of all men, women and children who are Muslim? That kind of rhetoric only serves to paint the targets of terrorism as the true...
  9. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    I am sorry for the oppression your people have suffered and the indignities your people continue to have to face. I have considerable empathy. But I'm not sure what you are arguing for here? That military action is never permissible? That peaceful protests are the only morally acceptable...
  10. Shusha

    The Paris attacks

    The "them" is ISIS. Not Islam. Not Muslims.
  11. Shusha

    The Paris attacks

    It is important to differentiate between us seeing this as a war against Islam and them seeing it as a war against infidels. I completely agree that we must not view this as a war against Islam, for the reasons you claim and more. But I think it is foolish for us to fail to understand that for...
  12. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    Ideology of ownership of land based on the "rights" of belonging to the "correct" faith. ISIS thinks the whole earth belongs to Muslims. Do you? Why or why not?
  13. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    Why did you choose to include the word "innocent"? See? THIS is same the ideology that ISIS uses. Of course, it doesn't say in the Qu'ran that it is permissible to kill innocent humans. It does, however, say it is not only permissible to kill complicit humans but requires the faithful to do...
  14. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    You don't see the difference between "kill or enslave all the unbelievers" and "could we have a small slice of our homeland back"?
  15. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    Of course not. But divorcing Islam from ISIS is ridiculous.
  16. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    Its warfare driven by a religious Islamic ideology.
  17. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    Where did I say I expected ISIS to do nothing in return? I only countered your argument that Islamic ideology (a certain brand of it) had nothing to do with the actions of ISIS.
  18. Shusha

    If you Knew Here was Hell Would you Act Differently?

    Your understanding of Judaism's concept of yetzer hara is incorrect. And my original answer stands: If I knew that there was a god who set us all up in hell, I would rebel against him for being cruel and pointlessly demanding.
  19. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    The attacks by ISIS have everything to do with Islam. They are attempting to bring about religious prophecies by drawing the West into a war which they believe with religious fervor that they are going to win. The goal is to assert Sharia law over the world.
  20. Shusha

    "Love thy enemy": Some thoughts on Paris

    You are trying to make an argument that morality is based on the TARGETS intentions or the TARGETS actions. That is wrong. Morality is based on the intentions and actions of the ACTOR -- not the target. Whether or not the targets can change who they are or what they do is irrelevant to the...
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