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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 992113" data-attributes="member: 14668">It is also important to make a distinction between political versus religious terrorism.The fact that many of the &quot;terrorists&quot; happen to be Muslim does not mean that the religion of Islam condones such behavior. Correlation is not the same as causation. What it means...is that many of the nations and political groups that we happen to be in conflict with right now are Islamic.Turkey is an Islamic nation. Turkey is also a democracy and a political and military ally of the United States (and to a lesser degree Israel). Turkeys people do not condone or practice terrorism, even though they are Islamic. Is it fair to the Turks to assume that &quot;their&quot; religion promotes terrrorism?Sweden, like the United States, is a Western democracy the majority of whose people are primarily Christian in faith and Caucasian in ethnicity. Yet Sweden has experienced no issues with terrorism against its people from the Islamic world. Is it possible that the reason for this is that Sweden has not invaded an Islamic nation or spent the last 60 years meddling in the affairs of the Islamic world?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 992113, member: 14668"] It is also important to make a distinction between political versus religious terrorism. The fact that many of the "terrorists" happen to be Muslim does not mean that the religion of Islam condones such behavior. Correlation is [I]not[/I] the same as causation. What it [I]means[/I]...is that many of the nations and political groups that we happen to be in conflict with right now are Islamic. Turkey is an Islamic nation. Turkey is also a democracy and a political and military ally of the United States (and to a lesser degree Israel). Turkeys people do not condone or practice terrorism, even though they are Islamic. Is it fair to the Turks to assume that "their" religion promotes terrrorism? Sweden, like the United States, is a Western democracy the majority of whose people are primarily Christian in faith and Caucasian in ethnicity. Yet Sweden has experienced [I]no[/I] issues with terrorism against its people from the Islamic world. Is it possible that the reason for this is that Sweden has [U][I][B]not[/B][/I][/U] invaded an Islamic nation or spent the last 60 years meddling in the affairs of the Islamic world? [/QUOTE]

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