04-26-2007, 05:35 AM
Quote:Also, regarding your Catholic examples... Just because the predominant faith in those countries is Catholic doesn't mean the extremists are practicing, or devout. Is religion the reason for the conflict? Not really.
You and Ashok are making a bit of a mess of it now. So all terrorism we care about is done by muslims and if it is done by Catholics they will not be practicing Catholics?
To use statistics it bit more correct you might also put poverty in the equation. An armed conflict in which one of the parties has the best and biggest army in the world, and the other party hasn't. What do you do if you want to battle than? Terrorism (mind that I don't try to approve of this, I just give you reasons).
An exception is here Northern Ireland, where Catholics and Protestants thought they were so different that they had to fight amongst eachother.......and this was in a civilized country.....
About the numbers you are claiming.....I don't know the number of muslim ectremists.....I don't think it is fait to count those in Iraq at the moment. If you do you should also count all the Americans that know Saddam had nothing to do with the WTC bombing but still find it rather a good idea that there is a war now.
My main point is, if you and Ashok want to discuss this thing (with Jester) but don't make your own rules about what you think is real terrorism or extremism.