rachamim18 said:
Frogwoman: Seems you are a bit confused.
No, I am not. Crime is crime, terrorism is terrorism.
Case in point: Here in NYC after the Crown Heights Riots of [about] a decade ago, an Arab in a van spotted a Chassid Jew i a passing car and followed. When both stopped, the Arab got out and knifed him to death. You seem to think this a hate crime.
It is, just as it would be a hate crime if it had occurred the other way round. Do you agree with that statement?
The Arab upon questioning said it was to avenge his "Palestinian brothers."
People are always going to find things to justify their crimes with, mostly out of hatred. ffs, a racist nutter stabbing someone to death isn't at all the same as a terrorist planting a bomb in persuit of a "war" or some other twisted purpose.
Most construe this as terrorism.
Erm, how is it "terrorism"? Its just an anti-semitic nutter stabbing someone to death, and using the palestinians to justify their actions. how do you know that was what he really thought, or whether he was just saying anything that came into his head to try and get himself a reduced sentence? did the palestinians tell him to do it, like some kind of voice in his head saying "kill...kill...kill..."
its the palestinians fault ... they made him do it - thats the same kind of an excuse as "the devil made him do it" and it just lends legitimacy to this kind of attack ...
In Israel, when a Jew is attacked it is both terrorism and a hate crime. Semantics do not change an action.
you have a funny idea of what terrorism is, then.
If a black shoots a white because iof skin color, it CAN also be terrorism.
I suppose you could call it terrorism if it was part of some kind of political campaign, but its a stretch of the imagination to call every incidence of that sort terrorism, whereas it might just be done out of prejudice, or a vendetta against that person, or any number of reasons.
its bollocks ... you cant turn every racially motivated crime and say that its all politically motivated, most of it is done out of pure hatred and i am sure when someone attacks a jew in 99% of cases the palestinians aren't on their mind . i have read stories about skinhead gangs in eastern europe beating palestinian students to death and then the same night, the same people beat jews to death.
they might say it was because of terrorism
they might say it was because of the idf
neither would be true .
its hatred encouraged and bred by social circumstances, the media and the person's upbringing, which is entirely different to the goals of a terrorist organisation
Rape CAN also be terrosism. Does it inspire fear?
its sometimes used as a weapon of war, but thats an entirely different scenario from a woman being attacked walking home by someone she doesn't know
An attack based on race or religion being labeled a terrosit attack is the stupidest thing you have ever heard?
erm, read my post again.
So Afrikaners who did just that right after the fall of Apartheid, with the reestablishment of the status quo being their avowed goal were NOT terrorists then?
yes they were, because they were seeking a political goal, they weren't attacking someone just because they felt like it.
I don't see that you have though this one out too well.
Jihad is not the only reason for terrorism. ETA were not jihadi.
Statistically you ARE more in danger of being victimised by violent crime but that does not discount the very real specter of terrorism.
of course, but the danger is very much exaggerated, IMO and you have to be very careful about getting into some sort of paranoid frenzy about terrorism when a lot of it is overhyped for political reasons and it is infinitely less likely to happen to you than racially motivated or any other type of crime or even an accident.
thats not to say that terrorism isn't a real danger but you have to keep it in perspective based on what's already happened and you can't label acts of violent crime "terrorism" as though they were all done for political reasons.
Israel IS a secular state AND DOES have equal rights fro ALL its citizens.
what was the point of you saying that?