Reply #20: Bullshit [View All]

Our government claims we are in a "war on terror" perpetrated by RELIGIOUS FANATICS. Timothy McVeigh's religion was inconsequential, immaterial, and irrelevant since he was not acting as a religious extremist group.

Al Qaeda is religiously motivated and in this case, it's a matter of how we conduct foreign policy to know the difference between the different sects of Islam and the different extremist groups within the region. Shiites are mostly in Iran and if Reyes is dealing with issues regarding the possible threat Iranian nukes pose, he damn well better know that Iran is predominantly Shiite and Saudi Arabia's extremist Sunnis/Wahhabis are primarily responsible for Al Qaeda.

This is like those claiming that Iran is a threat to us because they sponsor Hezbollah, a SHIITE group in Lebanon, fighting Israel. Not all extremist groups are the same and I want our leaders to know that.

I'm frankly disappointed that so many on DU will defend this ignorance if it's from own of "our own".

And for the record, I believe McVeigh considered himself Agnostic but was raised Catholic. I know he asked for "last rites" to be given though.