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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 1792803" data-attributes="member: 277">As you can tell, the definition of &#039;terrorist&#039; isn&#039;t clear. As was said before, one person&#039;s terrorist is another person&#039;s criminal, enemy or freedom fighter. Was Osama a terrorist when he fought the soviets in Afghanistan in the 80s? Soviets probably thought so, but we clearly didn&#039;t mind. As others have said, your view is scarily broad. Saying all Muslims want to do anything is ridiculous at best. It&#039;s no better then saying that the Westboro folks speak for all Christians. They believe in the same good book afterall, but with a very different interpretation than most. In fact, i had a great conversation with a Muslim woman last night at a party. She doesn&#039;t eat pork, but she does drink and she doesn&#039;t wear a head scarf. Some in her religion would say she isn&#039;t truly a Muslim, but others wouldn&#039;t care. To make it worse, she is highly educated, which some in her religion would consider reason to kill her and again, others wouldn&#039;t care. Despite the contradictions in her faith, she still self-identifies as a Muslim. Saying that she believes the same thing as the Taliban or any other extremist groups is unbelievably dumb. Ascribing any view to millions of people and claiming they all must believe it is a terrible overgeneralization.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="donner, post: 1792803, member: 277"] As you can tell, the definition of 'terrorist' isn't clear. As was said before, one person's terrorist is another person's criminal, enemy or freedom fighter. Was Osama a terrorist when he fought the soviets in Afghanistan in the 80s? Soviets probably thought so, but we clearly didn't mind. As others have said, your view is scarily broad. Saying all Muslims want to do anything is ridiculous at best. It's no better then saying that the Westboro folks speak for all Christians. They believe in the same good book afterall, but with a very different interpretation than most. In fact, i had a great conversation with a Muslim woman last night at a party. She doesn't eat pork, but she does drink and she doesn't wear a head scarf. Some in her religion would say she isn't truly a Muslim, but others wouldn't care. To make it worse, she is highly educated, which some in her religion would consider reason to kill her and again, others wouldn't care. Despite the contradictions in her faith, she still self-identifies as a Muslim. Saying that she believes the same thing as the Taliban or any other extremist groups is unbelievably dumb. Ascribing any view to millions of people and claiming they all must believe it is a terrible overgeneralization. [/QUOTE]

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