Trying to understand Piggy
Actually, I don't know if that theory does exist (that fundamentalists are few and far between).
Now hang on Piggy, you can't have it both ways!!
Which is it going to be? On one thread you tell us the majority of muslims are peaceniks, and on the next you say the fundamentalists may not be all that 'few and far between'.
Make your bleedin' mind up willya?
There are over a billion Muslims on this planet. The vast majority are NOT terrorists.
No, but the vast majority of terorists are muslims!
Where are the peaceniks Piggy? Why aren't they out marching against militant Islam?
I don't think anyone doubts that Al Queda have a following in the Middle East (and abroad). The question is what is the rest of the world doing about it.
Finding and killing them.
Do we help matters when we call this war a "crusade"? George Bushes word, not mine.
Several points here.
I (as an average private western secularised citizen) do not see this as a CRUSADE. Nor do any of my friends or family. I don't think GWB sees it as a CRUSADE either, even though he trips over his tongue on a daily basis.
The word CRUSADE is a highly abused one. It can mean anything from going hard after drug dealers (a Crusade against drugs) to invading Jerusalem and killing all non-Christians (a Medieval Crusade).
Which do you think is the most common intent in the term nowadays? If you really think its the latter....you need your head examined.
As to how muslims interpret the word...I myself have big problems with the term JIHAD, which in reality canb be used in exactly the same ways as the word Crusade. It can have highly offensive Global meaning as well as a totally innocuous Personal meaning.
Since many muslims insist that the Personal form of the word is the one I should accept, then I expect them to accept the peaceful meaning of the word Crusade on equal terms.
Carpeting bombing Iraq & Afghanistan- that's gotta help matters right? That'll shut those terrorists up for sure!
My God! Thats so weird! The hardline muslim on Today FM used the exact same phrase...CARPET BOMBING.
Even Matt Cooper pulled him up on that piggy. What a lie, and what a cunning and weasel way to attempt to poison the debate.
Absolute Rubbish!
The remainder of your comments just went downhill from there, so I won't bother even addressing them.
Suffice to say, rather like Sinn Fein being voted IN, and like the Nice Treaty being voted OUT (1st time), the election of GWB goes to show that your liberal left lie is not being swallowed by the majority of people round the West and that (wheteher you like it or not) the majority sees the world differently to you.
There are some interesting times ahead for the mainstream Left and Centre parties in the Western world.