Is Rome next?

[Gato_Solo]

New terror threats have emerged.

Got no legs...pay close attention to this...

"We must destroy Rome,” Qatada is reported as saying on the tapes. Qatada was arrested in October 2002 and has been held in a British prison for over a year under emergency powers.

 

[Gonz]

All some want to do is talk. Everything can be settled by talking. Violence never solved anything.

“The destruction must be carried out by sword. Those who will destroy Rome are already preparing the swords. Rome will not be conquered with the word but with the force of arms,” Qatada says in transcripts of the videotapes seen by Panorama.

 

[chcr]

New terror threats have emerged..

When I read this I thought you neant threat from a new source. I see they are trying to go after emotional targets. I don't think they understand that the vatican is nearly irrelevant to most American christians anymore. There would certainly be an emotional response, but I feel like most protestants are indifferent about the papacy. On the other hand, it could backfire and turn some people who are not actively against them to reconsider. Interesting.

 

[Gato_Solo]

When I read this I thought you neant threat from a new source. I see they are trying to go after emotional targets. I don't think they understand that the vatican is nearly irrelevant to most American christians anymore. There would certainly be an emotional response, but I feel like most protestants are indifferent about the papacy. On the other hand, it could backfire and turn some people who are not actively against them to reconsider. Interesting.

Protestants, maybe, but Catholics make up the largest structured religious community in the world.

 

[chcr]

Protestants, maybe, but Catholics make up the largest structured religious community in the world.

That's what I mean about backfiring. The French, Spanish, and a lot of the third world are still largely catholic. I think it would be a strategic error for them to attack the vatican (which is how an attack on Rome would probably be viewed). I think it's an emotioanl target for them, and the response would certainly be emotional.

 

[Luis G]

Protestants, maybe, but Catholics make up the largest structured religious community in the world.

Yes, but they are catholics.

 

[Thulsa Doom]

I really dont think they care. They arent looking to win any popularity contests. They are irrational brain washed zealots. Why try to interpret their thinking through any other lense then that?

 

[Gato_Solo]

I really dont think they care. They arent looking to win any popularity contests. They are irrational brain washed zealots. Why try to interpret their thinking through any other lense then that?

Because, according to some folks in this very forum, we have to understand them, and we have to have empathy for their cause. Anything else makes you either a racist, a war-monger, or a dupe...

 

[Thulsa Doom]

Because, according to some folks in this very forum, we have to understand them, and we have to have empathy for their cause. Anything else makes you either a racist, a war-monger, or a dupe...

well sure we should try to understand them since that helps us fight against them better. but make no mistake that these terrorists are not "good faith enemy" if you will. They are part of a cult. Warped and brain washed. I have no problem with hunting them down and killing them all. I guess the real issue is not killing terrorists but how you do it without knocking over the china shop in the process. Because of course that makes more terrorists (when innocents get in the path). Not to mention its the terrorists ultimate hope that we turn againt Islam as a whole rather then just a handfull of zealots who dont represent Islam at all. So theres a delicate dance to this.

 

[Gonz]

Today 06:30pm

The day Gonz & TD agreed

 

[Thulsa Doom]

Hey I just got a call from hell. Something about snow.