Jackson Jambalaya

It is high time that westerners stop referring to "moderate" muslims. What happened in Paris today is the inexorable outcome of the simple obedience of followers to the "words of allah" and the "teachings of mohammed." There are either those who follow the Qu'ran and the Hadith (muslims), or those who do not (infidels). There is not a happy medium. Wake up, westerners. The religion of peace is working to slaughter you and your way of life.

Bull shit, 1:23 p.m. A serious f'ing problem on our hands. Your way of thinking is not the answer.

You guys are so silly. What we need is to come together and have an open dialogue with them. They will learn to come to understand our differences, become tolerant and accepting of others and quit killing those that are different with them.......
Hoowie!

Only an idiot would make it his/her purpose to convince others that their religion commands them to commit atrocities. For the sake of everyone, shut up, 1:23. There are over 1 Billion muslims in the world - if all (or even the majority) of them wanted you dead, they would have been able to accomplish that with those numbers.

1:23 - spot on
1:55 - you really need to do some reading and research. if all Muslims were devout(i.e. followed their prophets teachings and holy book) the world would be substantially more violent. If all Christians were more devout the world would be substantially more peaceful. It cuts both ways...

Are The Crusades or the conflicts in Northern Ireland an example of your point, 3:02? I'm Christian, and I don't want to beat up on my own religious community, but completely ignoring our own problem, while exaggerating another's is no way to be "the salt of the earth."

The KKK hijacked Christian teachings to justify their actions.

Likewise, terrorists are hijacking a religion to justify their murderous ways.

A civilized society will not and cannot tolerate either group.

The question is, when do we start doing something about it and what exactly do we have the stomach to do?

Christians more devout? What in the world do you mean by that? We should all become radical fundamentalists and snake handlers?

3:11 - you cannot judge a religion based on people who misrepresent it. You can however judge it based on its founder and intent what directives are given in its holy book. I'm simply saying compare how Christ lived and how he encouraged others to live to Islam and how Mohammed lived and told others to live. Jihadists are actually more true to their founding and calling than "moderate" Muslims whereas Crusaders were completely contradictory to their founding and calling.

1:23 Let us slaughter a lamb and share.

@2:17 - you correctly write, "[t]here are over 1 billion muslims in the world ..." My question to you is this: When will even a paltry few of the 1 billion muslims in the world begin condemning the atrocities of these terrorists who claim they commit these atrocities as an act of obedience to the "words of allah" and the "teachings of mohammed?" When?

4:23, probably when you start speaking out against mosques in the U.S. being shot up (including one in Hattiesburg this year). By the way, do you really believe individuals have a duty to apologize for every evil act committed by a member of his/her faith? You are also wrong about there not being a large amount of Muslims who speak out against religious violence in the name of Islam.

@4:23: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/01/not-in-our-name-muslims-respond-in-revulsion-to-charlie-hebdo-shooting/

4:23 - why would a Muslim denounce violence when it is prescribed in the Quran?

Stop being naive. Muslims "speaking out" against the extremists in their midst has accomplished, and will continue to accomplish, absolutely NOTHING.

One religion commands its followers to love non-believers. The other commands its followers to kill non-believers. You can figure out which is which.

Why would so called peaceful Islamists denounce the carnage when it's an underlying tenet of their 'religion'?

Religious scholar at 2:10, violence is not an underlying tenant of Islam. Read a book (written by someone other than Glenn Beck).

5:39 - read the Quran. Forget about other books, hadiths and what Muslim holy men say; just read the Quran. It's quite simple and undeniable.

Most Muslims are peaceful and that would be considered a disgrace to Mohammed.

We were successful against The Red Brigade and homegrown terrorists like the SLA and Weathermen by painting them as the criminal psychotics that they were.

We legitimize religious terrorists anytime we suggest that any religion condones murder or by allowing sentences from religious texts taken out of context to define a religion or by using past history of those who used and abused religion as evidence that it is the religion rather than insanity and criminality.

We legitimized terrorism as a strategy when we bought into the idiotic notion that " one man's terrorist is another man's patriot" to excuse the terrorism of those with whom we politically sympathized.


There is not now nor was there ever a legitimate religious or political basis for an act of terrorism at any point in history by anyone! That was then and is now the acts of the demented !

And perhaps if we had been shouting that loudly and clearly, fewer would have aspired to join a group that would clearly prove their insanity!

Most Muslims are peaceful

The peaceful majority is irrelevant

Everything I understand about Shariah is completely incompatible with our civilization and our religion. To try and understand the Muslim mind that has been trained since early childhood or to try and "reason" with such a mind in our methods of reasoning is insane.

I consider myself as a moderate to left leaning individual but not on this subject. I served in the armed forces in the UAE and Saudi Arabia 1990-1991 and told people back then that this was going to be a huge problem in the future. Every muslim I meet from young to old looked at you from a perspective of what religion you were first. This is their mindset. It's not nationalist it is strictly religious with these people. We need to separate ourselves in the west from Islam, the sooner the better.