Electoral Reform

[Jester]

ETA, Columbia, and the IRA *are* red herrings though. Their objectives are in order, self rule, a weak government and control of the drug trade (greed), and self rule. An example of Christian extremists would be those those who target abortion clinics and staff. The percentage of Christians in that extreme are soooo very low compared to Islamic extremists.

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.

This is ludicrious. The IRA and ETA do not practise terrorism because its goals are self rule? Colombians kidnapping and bombing in the name of FARC or the Paramilitaries are not terrorists because they are looking to weaken the government? Practically every government in the world acknowledges that these are terrorist groups. On what possible basis could you exclude them? And, if you're not excluding them, what then of Ashock's ridiculous statements?

If you're going to just whittle down the definition of terrorism until what you're essentially saying is that all muslim terrorists are muslims, that would be vapid. I'm having a hard time seeing how that's not what you're doing.

-Jester