tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post112178322504976672..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Cross & crescentRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1121832997469131432005-07-20T00:16:00.000-04:002005-07-20T00:16:00.000-04:00With the utmost respect I will attempt to answer y...With the utmost respect I will attempt to answer your questions directed at me.<BR/><BR/>"i) The IRA is an example of domestic terrorism based on issues of nationalism and colonialism, not international terrorism. The IRA isn’t blowing up soft targets around the world."<BR/><BR/>"ii)”Foreign” and “international” are not synonymous. In any case, the issue is not some technical definition of what constitutes an international terrorist organization, but the actual threat level which it poses to the free world." <BR/><BR/>(Answer to the first two) You are not arguing with me. You are arguing with Colon Powell. http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2001/10/fr100501.html.<BR/><BR/>"iii) Why could a war on Islam not be considered a just war? Islam is the aggressor. Our response would be a defensive war or counteroffensive."<BR/><BR/>Simple, Islam is not the aggressor. Islam is no more the aggressor than the Lutheran church in WW2.<BR/><BR/>"iv) Just-war theory is a product of medieval moral theology. Why does David Kear embrace this part of medieval moral theology, but not the part about the Crusades?"<BR/><BR/>Here is a good site to learn some modern ideas of the Just War Concept. http://www.credenda.org/issues/9-2magistralis.php. My opinion is that the Crusades did not meet the criteria in most cases either.<BR/><BR/>"v) Is it merely guilt-by-association that leads us to link jihadism with Islam? This is not a Christian characterization of Islam. Rather, that’s part of Islam’s self-definition."<BR/><BR/>This is like saying that blowing up abortion clinics is a self description of Christianity. I am a Christian. I am pro-life. I have even gone to jail to protect the unborn. But, I do not blow up clinics. Fairly simple concept.<BR/><BR/>"It is not a case of guilt-by-association to judge behavior by its stated belief-system. Would Kear make these same generous allowances for the Nazis?"<BR/><BR/>No, but I do make the same allowances for the Lutheran church that hung swastikas from their alters. Under your logic we should have declared war on the Lutheran Church. Or better yet since you can't differentiate between Lutherans and Christianity we should have declared war on Christianity.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the rant space.<BR/>DKDavid Kearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17186331498574851542noreply@blogger.com