Quote:you don't compare US terrorism with European terorism, you compare European terorrism with European terrorism
Actually, if what you are interested in is the threat posed to Australia and the west in general, this is perfectly reasonable. The ETA, IRA and other local terrorist groups in Europe may not be particularly interested in broadening their attacks to the west in general, but Islamic groups certainly are, as demonstrated by 9/11, London, Madrid and Bali. 9/11 is reflective of the Islamic terrorism threat to the west in general. If you are going to start breaking it down and looking only at those few regions where other terrorist groups manage to compete with Muslims on body count, then you are completely missing the point again. You are deliberately ignoring the elephant in the room so you can mislead people to argue that the threat posed by Islamic terrorism is over-rated. It is more than relevant that in a single attack Muslims outdid the entire historical body count of the terrorist groups that you think we should be more concerned about. It is also relevant that those other terrorist groups you think are a bigger problem are not actually targetting us, whereas the Islamists are. All of these things are relevant if your goal is an honest assessment of the threat rather than Islamic apologetics.
Either that or you are confused about where we all are. We are in Australia, not Northern Ireland, and the year is 2012, and Islamic terrorism is the most significant terrorist threat we face and is not blown out of proportion at all.
Quote:Right, so you've gone from "these are imaginary people saying this" to "well yeah - people say it because its true".
No gandalf. If you want to talk about truth, how about you start with what I actually say. What the Muslim guy said is most likely true, but it is not what you were complaining about, and is certainly a more balanced analysis than yours.
Quote:In any case, if he was talking about his specific region, why do you think his article had the title: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!"?
To get people's attention, or as a joke. He obviously doesn't actually believe that - hence his careful explanation that he does not actually believe it. I think people have actually said the same thing here plenty of times, in jest. A lot of truth is said in jest.
Quote:You just tried to argue above that at least one person said it seriously - and that it was correct.
No gandalf. Read it again. I said he did not say it - because he did not actually say it, he contradicted it.