Riley24

What point are you even trying to make, that people blow themselves up because they're Muslim? Care to list any other factors that you think contribute to why people blow themselves up, or is that all you've got? You don't think that generations of poverty, military intervention, theocracy, and mental illness play into it? Let me ask you again, is Christianity at fault for Christian terrorism? And the statistics are actually incredibly relevant. The threat of Islamic terrorism is massively over-blown by the media. If Islamic terrorism makes up a tiny percentage of overall terrorism, why are we so caught up on it? Could it be that we fear them more than other terrorists? And no one is asking you to hold Islam in a high regard. I don't hold any religions in a high regard, including Islam or Christianity. I'm a secular agnostic. And 16 to 32 is not a very great ratio, especially since 19 of them were the 9/11 hijackers. So that's 16 to 17, if you don't count 9/11 (which is fair, since it was a massive one-time occurrence). Even if you keep that original ratio, its still rather disturbing. Compare our medias obsession with Muslim terrorists to the apparently high number of Christian terrorists. Compare the coverage of the Boston Bombings to the coverage of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attack. Same number of people killed, and only a fraction of the coverage. The real weapon is fear, and we're terrified of people that we perceive to be different than us. So could Christians who say they're not in favor of killing civilians. Weird how you didn't mention that possibility, but went straight to it when talking about Muslims... But they ARE. There are plenty of laws, both on the books now and in recent history that have violated the rights of everyone in the name of Christianity. I'm far more concerned about the lake of Secularism among Christians than I am among Muslims. So far, the only talk I've ever heard about Sharia Law has been from right wingers who are absolutely terrified of it. Also, integration takes time. The fear of Sharia Law taking over is a right wing scare tactic, I don't buy into the hype in the slightest. And lets say a Muslim immigrants says they don't believe in democracy or secularism, but get to Europe and after a little while think "hey....this isn't so bad. I have a job, my kids are going to school, and I can pray however I want". That's the goal of immigration. So when I see polls of people from Syria saying nasty things, I don't care. That's what they've been raised to believe in their homeland, which they are now fleeing in search of a better life in the western world. "No-go zones" are a myth, dude. The guy who came up with the term admitted to it. And also, we did have huge waves of migrants coming at once. Irish, Italian, German, etc... http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/paris-mayor-to-sue-fox-over-no-go-zone-comments/384656/ The US is perhaps the most western of the western nations (in terms of media and commerce at least). Could it be that US Muslims are a model for westernization? This is why we are supposed to support Secular leaders (even if they are dictators like Saddam Hussein). Its a little known fact that the CIA actually helped spread radical Islam, here's an interesting read if you're interested: http://www.salon.com/2015/11/17/we_created_islamic_extremism_those_blaming_islam_for_isis_would_have_supported_osama_bin_laden_in_the_80s/ Pre-Erdogan Turkey was a model for the Secular Muslim world, which is why the military (the protector of Turkey's secular government) launched the coup. A secular and western Muslim world is possible, if it were given the right conditions (education, secular leadership, economic stability, etc). We've deprived the Muslim world of those conditions for a very long time. This is why people such as yourself look at the Muslim world and believe that its the fault of the religion, but I believe that's just a misnomer of a much larger geopolitical issue.

We target civilians, this has been known for a long time. We even do "double taps", where we also kill the first responders that go to help the injured. "Oops I killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of civilians" isn't more moral than intentionally killing however many civilians have been killed by ISIS. The western world is giant glass house in that regard I wasn't twisting your words, I was proving a point. You don't hold Christianity to the same standard that you hold Islam. And I'd encourage you to skim through this: https://thinkprogress.org/less-than-2-percent-of-terrorist-attacks-in-the-e-u-are-religiously-motivated-cec7d8ebedf6#.ubygb3ba6 And you're right, Christian terrorism is virtually non-existent in Europe. But are you really going to attribute the fact that they're Christian as the reason for that? And if you're curious about the terrorism threats in the US, check this out: http://www.globalresearch.ca/non-muslims-carried-out-more-than-90-of-all-terrorist-attacks-in-america/5333619 I don't exactly trust the testimonies of insane people to tell me why they're insane. And your first point was addressed by the statistics that I linked you before. Muslims are not the sole perpetrators of terrorism, they barely make up 2%. The real weapon is fear. I'm not entirely convinced those polls are accurate or a fair assessment of the views held by those people. People desperately trying to escape brutal murder from ISIS aren't exactly the kind of people you stop and ask "Hey, how do you feel about democracy?". Here in the United States, we call that freedom. You're allowed to believe whatever you want to believe, and think whatever you want to think. And here in the States, there are PLENTY of Christians that don't believe in separation of church and state, and would love to impose their religious beliefs on the entire population. But we feel OK about having them in the country, because they're good'ol white American Christians. Oh, and I'm afraid you're wrong about the last part. I live in New York City, where very large numbers of immigrants from all over the world flocked to. We now have a Little Italy and Chinatown. Integration is preferable, but countless cultures and nationalities have failed to integrate and are doing just fine. That's only scary if you ignore similar polls done among different religions. There has been a massive effort to paint Islam as the enemy of the free world, and that has come with a lot of cognitive dissonance in regards to how we think about the different religions. http://www.rawstory.com/2011/08/poll-muslims-atheists-most-likely-to-reject-violence/ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/a-fascinating-look-at-the-political-views-of-muslim-americans/242975/ Republicans fight for Christian legislation all the time. It was illegal for gay people to get married a few years ago because of Christians. It was illegal for gay people to visit their dying spouse in the hospital becuase of Christians. It was illegal (and still kind of is in some places) for women to choose to have an abortion because of Christians. Christians violate separation of Church and state all the time, but we don't care, because they're Christians. If you're arguing for Secularism, I am 100% on board with you. I don't want any country to have religious laws for the reasons you mentioned. For the longest time, Turkey was a Muslim majority nation that maintained a secular government. That is why I am in favor of Secularism, because it usually means that people are allowed to practice their religion of choice in peace. But when you look at a country like Syria and claim that they got that way because they're Muslims, I absolutely disagree with you.

I never said it was. What I was pushing back on was the idea that "we are civilized, and they are not". We kill innocent civilians with drones, and they do it with bombs. So is Christian terrorism because of Christianity? Should we be suspicious of you as a Christian because you read the same book as Robert Deer? Christian terrorist believe just about the same exact thing. Is there a fundamental problem with Christianity? I'm not arguing that Christian terrorism is as far reaching or frequent as Muslim terrorism, I'm arguing that the religion itself is not the problem. Fox News has been crying about Sharia Law ever since 9/11. Its part of the facade of the War on Terror propaganda: "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here". If you're arguing that Muslims are going to infect the western world with Sharia Law and force the poor Christians to live under a Muslim regime, I would begin to question where you acquire your news from. The VAST majority of Muslims integrate into western society with no problems. Also, I hear the same thing about the Hispanic population in the US. People seem to think that white Christians are entitled to being the majority; they're wrong. You also ignored the research in that linked that proved that the vast majority of Muslims are against ISIS, even in countries where large portions of land are under ISIS control. How convenient. You are correct about the content of Sharia Law, but are you aware that Islam and Sharia Law are not synonymous? And if you would like, I could show you the verse of the bible that was in favor of murdering innocent people. So when you compare a war-torn Muslim majority country with a Christian majority and country and say "see? Islam is the problem"- you're being intellectually lazy.

So in this mod there's the Los Santos County Sheriff (Sheriff.ytf files) and Blaine County Sheriff (Bsheriff.ytf files), and I can edit the bsheriff units to respond in Blaine County by editing the backup.xml file. But in callout plugins, the sheriff.ytf cars spawn in Blaine County. They also spawn on the side of the road normally in game, and they spawn in traffic. I would love for RDE to figure out a way to completely separate the jurisdictions.

There have always been and will always be extremism within any ideology. Radical Christians don't kill or maim at the world-wide level that radical Muslims do, sure. But there seems to be this general consensus that it "doesn't count" when Christians kill people. Who called for investigating Christians after the mass shooting at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado? Who quoted the Bible's horrific verses and condemned "christian culture"? Did anyone poll Christians and asked them if they supported the killings? Did anyone assert that all Christians should condemn the attack, otherwise they're responsible as well? And what about the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of civilians that we've killed in the disastrously unsuccessful "War on Terror", does that not count? It absolutely counts. Our society doesn't have an ISIS, but we're only relatively more civilized. The Christians here that want to take away people rights are no different than the Muslim men who demand that their women wear hijabs. I think the problem is radical religion, not the religion itself. And out of the factors that contribute to radicalization, the dogma of the religion is perhaps the least important. There are radical Buddhist monks across the world that behead people, not because they're Buddhist, but because they found an aspect of Buddhism that gave them an excuse to kill. Christians do the same when they kill gay people or abortion doctors. The same is true for the 9/11 hijackers, who as you mentioned were wealthy and college educated, making them an outlier in terms of who usually gets radicalized. But they're just like the economically stable mass shooters in America, that shoot up schools and movie theaters to find some kind of glory in their lives. Islamic terror organizations are able to grow because there is a seemingly unlimited supply of young men willing to sacrifice themselves for glory. There's not a fundamental problem within Islam, there are fundamental problems within Muslim majority countries that lead to the growth of terror organizations. The question at hand is how do we keep them out of situations where they're eager to do so.