Congressman: Mecca a possible retaliation target

Next up in the retarded responses to terrorism contest:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/18/congressman.muslims.ap/index.html


Take THAT, religion of peace......that'll show you for having a small radical faction amongst your members.

It was a dumb idea when stockula was for it and it's a dumb idea now.

well, the terrorists already blew up the neo conservatives most holy shrine, the world trade center...

Huh?

I do wonder if Congressman Tancredo is aware that there are 800 million to 1 billion Muslims in the world. I think we are slight outnumbered if we want to start a holy war, particularly since European Christendom doesn't seem to have much fight left in them. Maybe if we could get the Hindus on our side......

Sorry, not cool.

Yeah, you get a big heaping helpin' of 'duh' for that one my man.

Actually I assume that the day Mecca is destroyed is the day the terrorist win.

Given the reaction to, as stockula put it "a little water accidentally splashed on the Koran" I can't imagine the fury that destroying Mecca would unleash.

The neo-cons most holy site is surely the pentagon? The high temple of the military industrial complex?

nah that's more the old corps Reaganites temple.

it's a moronic idea. and everyone knows it. I'm sure the congressman is getting all kinds of "boy are you a dumbass" memos from his esteemed colleauges.

yea I can't imagine this going over very well

It's almost funny that anybody could be fucked in the head enough to think attacking Mecca could help the world in any way, at all, ever.

Sometimes I feel like the laws of stupidity don't apply in politics.

Edited to say that anybody who say's shit that fucking ignorant shouldn't be allowed to express himself through talking, writing or signing....And yet this guy is a representative in our political system

[Edited on Jul 18, 2005 by One_Pure_Thought]

There's been a lot of dumb shit said about things various people say giving "aid and comfort to the enemy", but I think this comment definitely applies. You know this is getting spashed on extremist Islamic sites right now, with exhortations to join in the holy war to save Islam that they say is going on.

Attention Representative Dumbfuck: this is not Christianity vs. Islam. Osama bin-Laden wants it to be. Don't do his fucking work for him.

Tancredo is a goddamn moron. Trust me.

I guarantee you that if someone launched a nuclear attack on anyone, all sorts of holy motherfucking hell would break loose. So, it's probably best to hope and pray that it never happens, rather than playing a lot of what if games.

this is the worst thing i've heard in years.

[Edited on Jul 18, 2005 by STURANIUM_235]

Well, for starters I would denounce the government, renounce my citizenship, and seek to emigrate. Launching nuclear or other weapons against Mecca would be a crime against humanity of a magnitude that I cannot draw any comparison.

Well, i think it's because the type of warfare changed.

Bombing Mecca would be retarded. Our beef isn't with Islam, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be too enthused, Muslims everywhere would HATE America, even if they didn't before.

Nuking the two cities was arguably necessary, and saved a lot of lives. And we were fighting an actual country, that we could bomb in that fashion.

If nukes would save a lot of American lives, go for it. If they are used in a counterproductive and foolhardy way, than anyone with common sense would be against it.

A nuclear attack by Islamic jihadis is pretty much inevitible. And when it happens, there's really only two courses of action:

1. A measured and limited conventional action against the the individuals and states involved in the nuclear attack. This will result in future nuclear attacks, not just against the USA but other non-Islamic states.

2. An unlimited extermation of Islamic societies, cities, nations, militaries, and holy sites without discrimination. This will probably halt all further nuclear attacks on non-Islamic civilizations.

Muslims have to understand where support of the militiant radicals are leading them. They are leading to the extermination of their religion and about a billion people, if they pursue the ultimate goal of Islamic jihad: nuclear detonations in western cities. If this is made seriously clear to them, it may help in them (finally) aideing in squelching militiant Islam. Instead of apologizing and rationalizing it, which is what they usually do.

Ah, here we go...

I don't know, at this point why even bother?

Hey Stock, if that really becomes a viable option then maybe our way of life isn't worth saving.

You're advocating the genocidal slaughter of innocents because some nutjob claims to be affiliated with them. Doesn't that bother you a little? Isn't there anything ticking in the back of your head that says "the goodguys don't indescriminately murder innocent people because they're angry that they can't find the bad guys?". Anything? What you are suggesting is purely and undeniably Evil. If it were to become a reality then it would be the duty of all decent people to bring about the fall of the state that instigated it, be it the US or any other nation.