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to have a practical use in defense. I used to view it as something I use to stay limber and keep toned.
Now, going to Europe twice a year....
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looking for a fight 
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in which to train, then have made a habit of going to Iaido training camps:
Here:
This is a great resource/organization to get involved with. I belong to it, as I practice Kendo too.
http://auskf.info/index.htm
One thing to keep in mind, is your participating in history. Kendo and Iaido are around 850 years old. Its both deadly and has artistry at the same time.
I hadn't realized England was having a cannibal problem...
The key word here:
Fundamentalism.
Warren Jeffs and his cult, Fred Phelps' "God hates fags" cult, Pat Robertson, and so on.
Fundamentalist religion.
I used to be in a Fidonet (pre-Internet) group called "Holysmoke," which was described as a "religious food fight."
But just look at the posters in that group, the ones who are/were obviously fundies.
http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/quotes.htm
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/quotes.htm
Obviously, the 1rst Amendment lets fundies be fundies.
But it also lets me say they are divisive troublemakers.
Couple that with the fact that Scott looks like "regular people" and you can see how there's no comparison...
Even if true, "wants" don't count -- Actions do.
Keep trying, though. 
I wasn't trying to start an argument, I just wanted to see for myself. UAE must not be included on the same lists as the USA and other OECD countries...?
Murders under cover of darkness, sure...Beheadings in broad daylight in the street?
Not so much. 
You've heard the term "false equivalence"? 
The fact is, you really can't. Sure, there are a few murdering, off the wall Christians in this
and other countries, but the numbers and the brutal "means" just don't equate.
Saying that one is attempting to "dehumanize" one side or another" for pointing that out
just seems silly. Facts are facts.
and the answers to your questions, while easy, don't support your claim.
To believe that the "majority" of GWB's supporters were "fundie christians" you must be under the delusion
that a little more than HALF of the US population (the number that re-elected him in '04) were "fundie christians".
Sorry, bro, but that's delusional. The number of "fundamentalist christians" in this country is nowhere NEAR that high.
Yes, I know idiot Bush called the Iraq War a "crusade", but no one besides bin Laden and a few crazed fundies
here ever believed that. Most of us believed it to be about either oil, terrorism, or both.
The fact that 85 percent of troops in Iraq believed Iraq was behind 9/11, speaks to ignorance of facts,
not religious indoctrination, your infinitesimal number who believed it was a "war against Islam", not withstanding.
I hardly need a "warning" regarding propaganda as I'm a senior citizen who has seen, heard, and
lived more history, American and otherwise, than you can probably imagine.
I don't dispute your point that there's blame on all sides. That wasn't what I was quibbling about. My post was about the motives you were assigning to the roots of the violence.
I was disagreeing with your point that Islamic terrorism is/has been primarily Marxist or nationalistic. Or that western terrorism has been motivated primarily by fascism or marxism.
I have no idea if its true that fundies believe the war on terror is a religious war (do you have a link for that?), or that people who supported the Iraq War were motivated primarily by vengeance for 9/11, but those two examples disprove your very own position from post #70.
"American fundies cause just as much misery as Islamic fundies, they just don't set off bombs, at least not usually".
No, and you're unlikely to catch them cutting off heads in the middle of the street, either.
Try again. 
You really think that the "mental abuse" of some fundies is on par with getting your HEAD CUT OFF?
Sorry, but when you have to go all the way to Africa to find a traditionally Christian country whose practice
of mysogyny and homophobia could even COMPARE, let alone surpass, that of Muslim countries, you know you're
in trouble.
and that, in itself, is kind of funny.
Sorry, bro, it will probably take a few years, but you'll need to learn how to to quit while you're ahead.
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A. I answered twice.
B. I never said it was "unimportant".
C. If YOU really gave "a damn about 'dead gays', not to mention 'dead women',
You'd do some research on the the number of executions
of members of both of these groups in Muslim countries. .
post # 105, you'll see that I said this:
"Sure, there are a few murdering, off the wall Christians in this
and other countries, but the numbers and the brutal "means" just don't equate".
Please come back when you learn to think critically and argue intelligently.
A battle of wits with an unarmed opponent is kind of boring. See ya. 
I'm sure the families of their victims will be relieved to learn that. 
Terror begets terror. The West commits massive terrorism against the Muslim world year after year, then acts surprised when this inspires retaliatory terrorist acts. Your conclusion: it must be the fault of Islam. 
That actually makes sense to you?
is indeed terrorism.
The fruit of U.S.-committed terrorism looks like this:
Ever ALL stop? 
Just a little too general. .
one dumb president's use of the word ONCE.
have died in Iraq. Dubya's a fundy, too.
They're dead, but not due to religion, as I've shown.
Sorry, dear..I think we can all see that you've been badly affected by your Fundy upbringing,
and that you're frustrated and angry that you can't convince me that every evil can be attributed to it,
but I can't do psychotherapy or remedial education, so, I'll have to welcome you to the big I list and one more smilie.
Have a nice day.
