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Originally Posted by Sigaba
QP Pete--
With utmost respect, I think it is a mistake to make the issue one of statistics. Not the least because doing so allows the counter argument that GWOT (how ever one may interpret the enemy) is unimportant because one is, statistically speaking, more likely to die in an automobile accident than to be killed by a terrorist. (A classmate of mine used this argument back in 2008 as part of the denouement of a decades' long friendship.)
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Sigaba:
With all due respect, that comparison fails to consider that a vehicular homicide is generally without malice, but terrorism is not.
The motorist wants to kill no one, and practically, can kill only a few, but a terrorist is limited only by the capability of his weapons. Given sufficiently large weapon(s), the terrorist would eagerly kill the maximum number of people possible. And the radical islamic ideology encourages them to do so, exhorting them to kill ALL non-believers, in this case, billions, by any means available.
Have you seen many Christian terrorists around, indiscriminately killing Muslims, even after 9/11?
TR
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