Aim64c is the typical dumbass american that thinks his government and soldiers are doing the right thing.
Perhaps you should re-read my post.
American soldiers tend to do their best to do things the right way. Even if what they are commanded to do is the wrong thing to be done.
The way I looked at my service was very simple. I do not get to decide where we go, who we attack, or what justification we use for it. I can agree with it - or I can disagree with it. It matters little as to what I must do.
What I can choose to do, however, is how to go about carrying out those orders. I can make sure our equipment is accurate - so that the munitions fired by the systems I work on are accurate so that there are fewer stray rounds. I can protect, even shield a family caught in an exchange of fire. I can try to make the best out of every order given.
You will find I am a very strong critic of our government and its foreign policies. I'm most closely aligned with Libertarian philosophies and I believe that our military should be almost completely done away with and our arms/defense sectors opened to the free market. If a business wants us to protect their shipping lanes - we've got a company contracting those services with a wide range of solutions. If a country wants the experience of Americans to consult on their defenses - we have companies who do that. If they want defense services - there are contractors willing to fill that job.
The free market handles military foreign policy quite well.
The only thing our military is necessary for is defense. Our force projection will handle itself through the market. The 'nation' needs to be making no decisions regarding whether or not to support rebels, whether or not to topple a regime, etc. We may have a department that contracts intelligence reports regularly from a few of the companies with intel assets abroad - but that should be the extent of our national interest in foreign affairs.
War is business - so let our companies and other countries handle that business. Out government shouldn't be involved.
Who gives you the right to say what is allowed and what not in this "modern age"?
Survival.
When a group of people show up and command you to let them have control over your property, your family, and your future... it doesn't take some grand moral paradigm shift to reason that they are using you as a slave to serve their own selfish ends.
Perhaps you believe that morality is subjective enough to allow that to be correct under 'certain circumstances.' That the people under that system have somehow 'chosen' to 'live that way.'
Call me an ass - but I reject that notion and will destroy anyone who attempts to declare himself lord over my children.
Can't believe there is another person that posts so much ridiculous stuff as USSJ Trunks on this base.
You should better know the religion you have a hate against before talking nonsense that has nothing to do with it.
Oh, tell me all that you know of Islam.
This should get interesting.
I'm against any religion and against people that use it as a thing to cause war, but this has nothing to do with it.
It's again the american way to get in a country steal their shit and then in the end look like the heroes that saved the country and people.
What is there to steal from these nations?
We've sunk trillions of dollars worth of assets into the country over the last several years. There is absolutely no means by which the U.S. could recover the economic investment in Iraq within the next three decades. We could take every physical asset currently there, and it wouldn't even put a dent in what we've invested.
The only thing that would promise any kind of return would be to invest MORE into the region to develop mines for rare earth metals and other minerals that various surveys have indicated are likely to exist throughout the Middle East. And that wouldn't pay off for another 30 years or more. And certainly not be considered 'equivalent' to the investment placed into the nation.
What -have- we stolen from these nations - other than a totalitarian government (that was at least keeping these whack-jobs under control)?
You see - when you actually open up a history book, young one, and begin to read about things - you'll understand that the world is a very brutal place and there are very inconvenient truths to the world that have been veiled with very promising lies.
One of them is that Islam is a religion of peace.
Open up the history book. Study not just the Koran - but the whole of Islamic texts. You'll find that, while it is nice to believe that all religions are 'valid' and 'good' - that they all should 'coexist' - it is just not realistic.
Its true that muslims believe that heaven is for the believers ,but that doesn't say in any way attack/kill the non believers.Everyone has a choice and if they chose to not believe Its their choice and they don't get killed/judged for that by a mere human but by god (means:not going to heaven).
God has already judged them and given the command to his followers.
Quran (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves"
Like i said real islam is only in Quran and the prophet Hadith
And in Quran it clearly says
- people has the choice To be faithless
-fight who only fights you and not to invade
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"Say, "O you faithless
I do not serve what you serve;
Nor will you serve what I serve;
Nor will I serve what you serve;
Nor will you serve what I serve;
To you be your religion, and to me my religion"
Al kafiroon
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"Fight in the Cause of Allah
with those who fight you, but transgress not the limits (or begin not hostilities); verily, Allah loves not those who aggressors.
Albaqra -190
Quran (47:3-4) - "Those who reject Allah follow vanities, while those who believe follow the truth from their lord. Thus does Allah set forth form men their lessons by similitude. Therefore when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners,"
Quran (17:16) - "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction."
Quran (9:30) - "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"
Quran (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."
He may as well have just said: "God commands you to lay roadside bombs."
Quran (8:15) - "O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them. (16)Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless maneuvering for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a hapless journey's end."
Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"
Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"
"But I clearly quoted peaceful passages"
2:106 "Whatever of Our revelations We repeal or cause to be forgotten, We will replace them with something superior or comparable. Do you not know that Allah has power over all things? Do you not know that Allah reigns sovereign over the heavens and earth and besides Him you have no protector or helper? Would you question your messenger as Moses was questioned in his time? Those who exchange their faith for disbelief have gone astray from the right path."
16:101 "When We exchange one verse for another, and Allah knows best what He reveals, they say, 'You are making this up.' Most of them do not understand."
As it is written.
When two verses are in conflict, the later written verse is the more correct verse and that which the Muslim is commanded to follow.
Now - do we need to get to the Hadith?
Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
Abu Dawud (14:2526) - The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, "There is no god but Allah" and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist)
Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah'. And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally."
Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484: - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
I can continue.
But you get the point.
What you have said describe the ISIS people not the Islam itself.
No, ISIS describes Islam, itself.
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@Aim64C: What is exactly your standpoint? You give enough time to describe the hearts of soldiers in Iraq, but neglect to share that Muslims are human too.
My standpoint, if you had the stomach for it, is a very clear one to discern.
Islam is an ideology built upon the framework of military conquest and forced subjugation - the likes of which most modern people do not understand.
In the U.S. - we claim that the 'police are oppressive.' We complain that 'our society is male dominated.'
Sentiments that are hilariously stupid and adorable within the context of human history. That these sentiments exist is a testament to the equality that has been established and the prosperity that must exist to allow for such complacency.
It means, however, that our society is completely ill-prepared to deal with the rationale of a centuries-old ideology that is willing to view men and women in accordance with their raw reproductive function. Entire cultures were destroyed by Islam because the men were slaughtered and the women forced to bear children to Muslim men. Some of them have been lost to history.
If you value your freedom. If you value the future of your children. You will prepare yourself for war with this ideology - because it declared war on all of us centuries before we were born. And it is no longer sleeping.