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Thread #154376   Message #3626705
Posted By: MGM·Lion
18-May-14 - 03:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Yes, indeed, "you can be radicalised in the name of any religion." Who would differ from that assertion?

But can anyone name the radicalisation of any other religion than the one named in this thread title whose radicalisation has led to anywhere near such extreme outcomes? I know all about the Jewish terrorists in pre-Israeli British-mandated Palestine; the lunatic Mr Jones, & that peculiar Westboro sect in Kansas [is it?] who claim to be Christian; the Hindu persecution of Muslims in just post-Raj India. But do/did any of these result in anything quite as spectacular as 9/11; let alone as extreme as the establishment of recognised sovereign regimes (N Nigeria, Yemen, Sudan, Malaysia cont p 94) in the international community where young women are regularly publicly beaten on the bare buttocks with canes for letting too much of their faces show, or stoned to death for having legally married a member of another faith?

Anyone?

~M~