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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Hamas are jihadists. Religious fanatics. Their founding documents and ongoing propaganda are full of religious text and imagery. Their aims are religious. Their motivations are religious. The Oct 7 attackers filmed themselves shouting “God is Great!” as they carried out their atrocities. The Palestinians who passed around the bloody corpses of women slain in the attacks were shouting “God is Great!” as they rejoiced.
I suppose it’s difficult for people who aren’t religious fanatics to imagine the thought process of people who are. This seems to be especially true of foreign movements. If a group of Christian fundamentalists in Alberta wrote a founding charter full of litany from the Book of Revelations, promised to bring on the End Times in a bloodbath, and shouted “Judgement day is upon you!“ as they gunned people down in the street, would Canadians be attributing subtle (and often sympathetic) political agendas to them?
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I think all religious people - whether fanatics or not - are completely off their rocker. I don't understand how they get a pass to believe abject nonsense and are - in many cases - praised for their faith in the impossible instead of ridiculed like they should be. It's absurd and frustrating to watch.
But, again, I think most of us are consistent. Whether you are a violent Muslim extremist or a violent Christian extremist I view you the same way: you're a fkn blight on the world.
Would I attribute sympathetic political agendas to them if they were white/Christian/Canadian? Of course not, that's ridiculous. If, however, you wanted to bomb the three or so churches in Bonavista because they were taking part in violent Christian extremism, but you decided to carpet bomb my street, the Safeway, Avenida and the daycare, then yeah, I'd have a little fkn sympathy because I'm not a moron, I can think, I'm not blinded by stupidity and indoctrination and I have a degree of empathy. My sympathy would be with the innocent Bonavistians in the same way my sympathy is with the innocent Palestinians who are victims of a murderous Israeli war machine.