Sometimes, but it's not a generalized belief system. Unless there's a church of "Shoot Em Up".
In the videos the Virginia Tech killer compared himself to Jesus Christ and said he died to inspire generations of ‘weak and defenceless people’.
Because then the motive is insanity, rather than a social thought system. All sorts of murders have been committed in the name of the fictional god behind this fictional system.
Then again, if the social thought system is kind of insane, I suppose it renders the difference moot.
Yes, I see. However, despite the vast abundance of Christians in the US - a clear majority - they seem rarely to "get their shooting Jesus on".
Nor, moreover, is there any literal scriptural backing for behaviour; i.e. there is no common source, no taught tradition, of individuals attacking nonbelievers for their disbelief. No jihad, no shaheed. I'm not aware of any Christian schools teaching that non-Christians, or women, or homosexuals, or apostates, should be attacked; nor any Jewish ones, or secular ones, or anything else. Still, I imagine there are, and they should be shut down - and they are, with only their apologists to defend them: yet their apologists are instantly recognized for such, and dismissed. Ergo, they're very, very few. Masses of Christian students physically attacking their teachers and wrecking classrooms for teaching about the Holocaust, or about evolution? I've yet to hear of that.
So one could make the comparison to Christianity and even monitor them more closely - and radical groups of all stripes certainly should be - but it is exceeding unlikely that it would be profitable.
Yes, I see. However, despite the vast abundance of Christians in the US - a clear majority - they seem rarely to "get their shooting Jesus on".
Nor, moreover, is there any literal scriptural backing for behaviour; i.e. there is no common source, no taught tradition, of individuals attacking nonbelievers for their disbelief. No jihad, no shaheed. I'm not aware of any Christian schools teaching that non-Christians, or women, or homosexuals, or apostates, should be attacked; nor any Jewish ones, or secular ones, or anything else. Still, I imagine there are, and they should be shut down - and they are, with only their apologists to defend them: yet their apologists are instantly recognized for such, and dismissed. Ergo, they're very, very few. Masses of Christian students physically attacking their teachers and wrecking classrooms for teaching about the Holocaust, or about evolution? I've yet to hear of that.
So one could make the comparison to Christianity and even monitor them more closely - and radical groups of all stripes certainly should be - but it is exceeding unlikely that it would be profitable.
Well said, thank you.
And even the oft-mentioned Crusades actually had nothing to do with Christianity - it was all about greed and plunder, not religion.
I think you'll find the highest number of shooting incidents in the West; however none of them say Oh God! or Jesus Christ! when they do it (well maybe they do, but saying Jesus fucking Christ is somehow completely different from the habitual Yallah! or Allahu Akbar of the Moslems).
Plus everyone is the west is so PC, one would never attribute a shooting to race or class or economics, and all Muslims are so effing religious, its obvious they could not have the same concerns as other people on earth and just not be as PC about it.
Too busy watching the new Big Brother on TV.I don't understand why non-muslims in britain aren't offended by this.
As for "teaching" look no further than the warrrrrr on terrorrrr and you'll see what PC discrimination looks like.
I don't understand why non-muslims in britain aren't offended by this.
And stabbings, and shootings, in the Middle East. Iraq, for example. Pakistan. Of course, with a near-homogenous mix of people it's getting harder to kill people for their religion there these days. Where'd they all go, one wonders? Attacks by muslims in the West isn't a case of stubbing their toe and crying "fucking Mahdi!", but rather an attack and then the inevitable finding of diaries, and videos, and literature all about striking "back" (and which "back"? at who, necessarily?) at the evil evil nonbelievers. Oh, there's a plethora of people killing each other in the West, but the religious dimension of islam is in the name of a higher "cause", namely islamofascism. This implies a movement, conscious or unconscious. I'd be very concerned if some segment of society overall proclaimed their superiority over another, and attacked them accordingly. Skinheads, NOI, Nazis, KKK and the like all fit in the same stinky boot.
Rather, it's the finding of the jihad symptoms thereafter that makes the connection, or the blaming of Israel, or the infidels, or apostacy from islam, or whatever the fraie du jour happens to be. Burned Hindu families, Jewish centres attacked, flying imams. All part of the same thought process, and of the same underlying reason.
So let me see if I follow you: widespread islamic supremacist attitudes in muslim children in Britain are excused by the notion that somewhere, somehow, islamic society is improving. Is that the thesis then?
Oh please, in the same state of development, the West was far more perverse and backward.
"Perverse"?? Really? Well that's certainly toe-ing a curious line, doctrine-wise. "Perverse"? Interesting.
Of course, that's also the issue: "same state of development". I don't care that islamic society in the ME - and that taught to their children in the West - is lagging a hundred years or so behind everyone else. It really doesn't matter. It's the exigent attitudes themselves in those students that are the problem. There is no way you can excuse them on that pernicious Western factor, no way Israel can be blamed, and no way responsibility can be shunted off on the idolaters. Those attitudes exist, they appear to be widespread, and they are sick and wrong. Violent denunciation doesn't make those views correct. Period.
The widespread islamicist attitudes exist only in your fanstasy. You're confusing a patriarchial system with a religious one.
Yeah, like Holocaust denial, some things are more than religion.