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Showing Original Post only (View all)It isn't so much they hate us for our freedoms. They just hate freedom. [View all]
Religious fanatics that is. I include in that assessment many fundamentalist Christians who 'want their country back' from we commies and queers and whatnots.
The barbarians on the loose in Paris right now killed cartoonists for exercising their freedom to draw cartoons. They shoot girls in the head for exercising the freedom to go to schools.
Breaking our dependence on fossil fuels and no longer letting the Israel tail wag the US dog is a must. But the fanatical hatred of modernity and freedom we saw in Paris today is the fault of nobody but the violent haters. May their end come soon.
Yo Soy Charlie.
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It isn't so much they hate us for our freedoms. They just hate freedom. [View all]
arely staircase
Jan 2015
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the American fundies really don't get that ISIS and other crazy jihadis are fellow conservatives
arely staircase
Jan 2015
#6
and when you say modernity it's things like equal rights, civil rights, women's rights
JI7
Jan 2015
#2
I wonder if the poster yr replying to will try to claim the Muslims made those Christians do it? n/t
Violet_Crumble
Jan 2015
#15
"were not done as an attempt by a religion to impose their will on everyone."
NewDeal_Dem
Jan 2015
#23
So Christian fundies are better than Muslim fundies? good grief. Grow up.
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#14
A whole lot of them went to Iraq. That 'crusade' led by our very own fundie leader who was
sabrina 1
Jan 2015
#16
It doesn't matter what you think. It is what the Iraqis think. What does the word 'crusade'
sabrina 1
Jan 2015
#28
They may not do that, but they still want the rest of us to follow their rules
treestar
Jan 2015
#31