Radical Islamic terrorist shoots police officer in attempted execution in Philadelphia

If that's what you get from it, sure. I thought of it as a means as not to isolate the Islamic community of Philadelphia so they are more willing to work with authorities and be more willing to report suspicious activity.

If you can name me one positive of an executive head stating criticism of Islam that outweighs the tactic of showing solidarity with Muslim Americans, then I'll be all aboard with Western heads of states and leaders stating negative things about Islam.

 

Fair enough. Maybe he should have not mentioned it all but at the end of the day, I don't see tangible negatives of him stating that it wasn't because of faith. It's not like investigators are not pursuing leads because of what the mayor stated to the public.

 

Yes, since the sixties. When the world was invented and history began.:grin:

 

No, but it was well before Trump became a candidate, which was the point of my rebuttal to the other poster's insinuation that Trump influenced contemporary acts of violence.

 

Except the person that did the shooting claims he did so in the name of a religion.

I get that the point is that not all people of a particular faith agree with shooting a cop. However let's not lie.

 

He needs to be honest.

He can say the actions of this person are not representative of the vast majority of Muslims or could urge that the peace is kept.

However religion certainly played a part in this, he is claiming allegiance with ISIS.

I will say this though... I strongly wonder how many bat **** crazy people are seeing ISIS attacks in the global media and are going John Hinkley because it fuels their insanity.

 

Why criticize Islam? Even say something nice about Islam... Just don't BS people.

He could have easily said:"His actions do not represent the vast majority of Muslims" or completely steered clear of the Islam angle and said "All Americans are sickened"... He interjected Islam into his message and then lied, unnecessarily.

 

What percentage of blame do you assign to

a) Islam
b) Trump

for this guy's actions?

Hint: The guy didn't say that he did it in the name of Trump (if that happened, the leftists on this board would be OUTRAGED, typing really fast and drooling all over their keyboards).

 

What other lies should the government disseminate to the people to make them more compliant?

 

Zero.

100% on the guy.

 

So you are insinuating Trump's messages "helped push him over the edge", but completely discount his stated motive.

Shows where you stand.

Case closed.

 

Didn't like the answer?

You don't understand the difference between influence, blame and responsibility. That's not very surprising really for you.

I might influence you, but your actions is all on you and you are completely responsible for it. Blame for your actions laid with you and no one else.

There has been cultures that punish a whole family for action of a member of the family. That type of backward behavior still exists today with folks like you.

 

You certainly don't. You have shown time and time again that you are one of the more unintelligent posters on this site. I might disagree with others, but at least they can put together an argument. Your posts are mostly just ignorant and dumb.

 

I'm surprise you didn't ask for my age and education level.

I don't claim to be smart. I'm rather new at this life thing and I'm still learning through my mistakes.

But I think I would much rather be stupid than be the person that blame a whole religion for action of a few instead of placing the blame on those few.

 

So you would not blame Nazi supremacy ideology (and Islam is a supremacy ideology) for the actions of Nazis, but just the people themselves. Got it.

 

I don't where you get that idea. Nazi wasn't simply an ideology. They took actions. Same with ISIS.

 

So you think ISIS has nothing to do with Islam?

 

No, but to get to the pt.

ISIS has an ultra-fundamentalist and extreme interpretation of Islam. Most if not all Religion have groups with that type of view. Even Buddhism have a fundamentalist sect. Where we differ is if it's mainstream or not. I believe you view ISIS behaviors as mainstream and typical of Islam. I don't.

 

A huge percentage of all Islamic literature in the world has been funded out of Saudi Arabia.

Can you explain the ideological difference between Saudi Wahhabism and ISIS?

Just to be clear: You are saying ISIS has nothing to do with Islam? That was my question - not whether you consider it mainstream or not.