Airport Security is a waste of time and taxpayer money.

[Christopher McCandless]

I know one easy way to stop the terrorists at airports: stop the flights.

As I said in the OP, the biggest deterrent to airline terrorism is the passengers themselves.

We don't need government to make airplanes safe, we just have to be vigilant ourselves.

Any terrorist trying to fuck with an airplane has to deal with 100 passengers who won't let him get away with his Islamic bullshit.

You think that they don't catch most terrorists before they get on a plane? Asides, this all serves as a fantastic deterrent for wannabe terrorists - chances are they are going to get caught one way or another.

[ProfessorFarnsworth]

Meh, wouldn't the terrorists just bomb the terminals instead, if they know they can't get on board?

Come to think of it, the terrorists are winning indirectly. Their attempts are slowly destroying all the freedoms and privacy people have by having the affected governments increase 'security'. Hell, all they have to do is just threaten to do something, and the government does the real damage for them, at expense from tax payers.

[Scrapheap]

Scrap, it's not "islamic bullshit", it's just a deranged mind. Which is a lot if there's explosives but it's not about the religion, it's about the nutcases that interpret it.

Islam, along with all other Abrahamic Religions (Jews, Christians, Mormons, etc...) are the products of deranged minds. These Ideologies, at their root, have a form of Orwellian doublethink. The holy books all contain internal contradictions so that the religion can be re-interpreted in a different manner, at the drop of a hat, for whatever suits the purposes of the clerical class.

When you add to this chameleon like religion, the human tribalistic mentality of "Us vs Them", you have a recipie for unparalleled violence. It wasn't so long ago, that Christianity behaved in the same way. It was the Secular Humanism Movement, born out of the Renaissance, that forced Christianity to behave in a more civilized manner. This hasn't happened in Islamic culture yet, and likely won't happen any time soon.

[Scrapheap]

Come to think of it, the terrorists are winning indirectly. Their attempts are slowly destroying all the freedoms and privacy people have by having the affected governments increase 'security'. Hell, all they have to do is just threaten to do something, and the government does the real damage for them, at expense from tax payers.

 

That's my whole point behind this thread.

[odeon]

Scrap, it's not "islamic bullshit", it's just a deranged mind. Which is a lot if there's explosives but it's not about the religion, it's about the nutcases that interpret it.

Islam, along with all other Abrahamic Religions (Jews, Christians, Mormons, etc...) are the products of deranged minds. These Ideologies, at their root, have a form of Orwellian doublethink. The holy books all contain internal contradictions so that the religion can be re-interpreted in a different manner, at the drop of a hat, for whatever suits the purposes of the clerical class.

When you add to this chameleon like religion, the human tribalistic mentality of "Us vs Them", you have a recipie for unparalleled violence. It wasn't so long ago, that Christianity behaved in the same way. It was the Secular Humanism Movement, born out of the Renaissance, that forced Christianity to behave in a more civilized manner. This hasn't happened in Islamic culture yet, and likely won't happen any time soon.

It's still about the nutcases that interpret it, not the religion as such.

[Parts]

Scrap, it's not "islamic bullshit", it's just a deranged mind. Which is a lot if there's explosives but it's not about the religion, it's about the nutcases that interpret it.

Islam, along with all other Abrahamic Religions (Jews, Christians, Mormons, etc...) are the products of deranged minds. These Ideologies, at their root, have a form of Orwellian doublethink. The holy books all contain internal contradictions so that the religion can be re-interpreted in a different manner, at the drop of a hat, for whatever suits the purposes of the clerical class.

When you add to this chameleon like religion, the human tribalistic mentality of "Us vs Them", you have a recipie for unparalleled violence. It wasn't so long ago, that Christianity behaved in the same way. It was the Secular Humanism Movement, born out of the Renaissance, that forced Christianity to behave in a more civilized manner. This hasn't happened in Islamic culture yet, and likely won't happen any time soon.

It's still about the nutcases that interpret it, not the religion as such.

 They need to bring their mainstream into the 21st century

[odeon]

I suspect some of them are trying. But with all those nutcases around, many will probably avoid revealing their faith.

[Adam]

Those religions are insane anyway, even without being taken to the extreme

[odeon]

Every religion is insane.

[Parts]

Every religion is insane.

[Adam]

I'd rather be trapped in a lift with a buddhist and a pagan than a catholic and a muslim

[TheoK]

I'd rather be trapped in a lift with a buddhist and a pagan than a catholic and a muslim

 

[Dexter Morgan]

I'd rather be trapped in a lift with a buddhist and a pagan than a catholic and a muslim

Not if they're going to light themselves on fire.

[Scrapheap]

It's still about the nutcases that interpret it, not the religion as such.

Every religion is insane.

Well, which one is it??

If you go to Skeptics Annotated Bible.com/Quran and click the Injustice and Intollerance links, I think you'll see first hand just what an evil book the Quran is and the hate that it fosters.

[Parts]

I'd rather be trapped in a lift with a buddhist and a pagan than a catholic and a muslim

But after the catholic and muslim kill each other you can go through their pockets and get some money