re: #97 ProGunLiberal

It pisses me off that one of own own does this, and I want him punished.

As for how I want Salafis dealt with, again I get my pointers from Mahmud II and Mehmet Ali Pasha.

And it worked so well they were never heard from again…

oh wait.

Yeah. Three things:

1. There is no magic equation whereby an idea can be defeated if you just hurt the right/enough people.

2. Making your opponents dead does not pierce their ideology. There are, in fact, many ideologies fortified by the corpses of believers.

3. Some day you’re going to find out that often as not formal ideologies is just a costume for dressing up less abstract drives such as power, greed, and prurience. Purge one idea and people will find a different excuse to be just as brutal and judgmental.