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[rick49]

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[Garg]

While that is a good meme, honestly, it was an invasion. And genocide. It was NOT a refugee issue.

 

[PaulB47]

Yep. The only early Americans who treated Indians decently were the Quakers. Read the book, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown.

 

[rick49]

Remember the first Thanksgiving in our childhood lore? The red man took in the white man and kept them from starvation, cold, and the hazards of the season.
Besides my post was satirical not meant to be factual.
Rick

 

[Jamie6.5]

That's not accurate Garg.
Invasions involve extensive military personnel and battle plans from the beginning.
By definition the pilgrims were refugees, attempting to avoid religious persecution as well as subjective and unreasonable prosecution and subsequent imprisonment by the forces and capricious laws of King George.

 

[Garg]

Okay, fair enough Jamie. The end result was we slaughtered 99.9 % of the indigenous population. Call it what you want, it was an invasion, and genocide.

Edit. Maybe I have a a few too many beers..... for that I apologize.

 

[308]

Curious what the indigenous did to each other before we arrived.

 

[rick benjamin]

Garg
"We" infers we accept our predicessors as our own.

 

[Martini_Up]

While that is a good meme, honestly, it was an invasion. And genocide. It was NOT a refugee issue.

It began as a refugee scenario. We just have to wait to see what becomes of it. The lack of assimilation means invasion. Low birth rate for one group while the other has a high birth rate means one goes to extinction. That replaces the genocide but the effect is the same it just takes longer.

 

[4Freedom]

Okay, fair enough Jamie. The end result was we slaughtered 99.9 % of the indigenous population. Call it what you want, it was an invasion, and genocide.

Edit. Maybe I have a a few too many beers..... for that I apologize.

In fact, you and Garg are both correct. It was an invasion and genocide by former refugees. As they say, history repeats itself. Look at Paris, former refugees gunning down and massacring unarmed natives. The entire nation of Belgium is in lockdown and people still cannot leave their homes. People are prisoners in their own land thanks to the refugees they brought in.

 

[NWGlockgal]

Curious what the indigenous did to each other before we arrived.

Waged wars against each other and also had slaves.

Many of the indigenous people were killed by diseases brought over by European settlers since they
had no immunity against them.

 

[erudne]

arguing about what you can't control.....

 

[Certaindeaf]

Come on. We gave them a nice pre-warmed blankie for Manhattan. Score!

 

[Hawaiian]

To keep this firearm related..... No one is taking your guns away is like saying, the reservation we are moving you to will be much better for your people. Right, we all know how that worked out.

The government still speaks with forked tongue.

 

[DMax]

Wasn't it those really kool blankets and pillow cases from the TB and Measles hospitals given to the Indians by the British not our Fore Fathers.

 

[mjbskwim]

While that is a good meme, honestly, it was an invasion. And genocide. It was NOT a refugee issue.

We didn't kill the indigenous people here any more than they were killing each other.
They were doing all the same stuff people like to say we brought here,like slavery
I mean if y'all feel bad about it,find out where your family came from and head out! Give the land back.
Back then there was plenty of open country to homestead.yes we brought diseases and such but oh well. We needed a new place to expand,that's what humans do.
But this is now a settled country. We have our own values and traditions. So from the old countries some American made.
We are established. We start letting in people who don't want to assimilate but want to take over and we will have big problems.Only unlike Europe,we won't stand for it as nicely.

 

[albin25]

I suppose after the "New" invaders have out populated, or killed the "New"
natives (us) they'll move the stubborn, surviving non-muslims to reservations and pay us treaty money?
My only question is....so when do I get my Casino?

 

[4Freedom]

I suppose after the "New" invaders have out populated, or killed the "New"
natives (us) they'll move the stubborn, surviving non-muslims to reservations and pay us treaty money?
My only question is....so when do I get my Casino?

In Islam, you must pay a jizya (Muslim Tax) and you will be treated as a second class citizen. Read about the lifestyles of the Jews and Christians who lived in the Islamic lands throughout history. Despite, being almost completely exterminated, the ones who could pay were allowed to live or not sell their daughters as sex slaves, etc.

No casinos, but if you get a nice ruler, he may promise not to ransack your village and allow you to practice your "Book Religion" /Monotheistic religion without executing you.

Check the number of native reservations in Muslim countries. All the natives had to integrate, live as slaves (Only Monotheists, Christians, Jews, etc) or were executed.


IF you want to read an interesting history of Islamic invasion into India and Pakistan (which use to be mostly part of India before Moghul invasion), you can read about the Sikh wars against the Moghul empire. The type of things done to Sikhs were horrifying. Basically, convert to our Islamic religion or we will bound you in ropes and saw you in half..



Had it not been for the Sikh resistance against the Islamic immigrants (invaders) into India, all of India would have been a Muslim country today, as the policy of Muslims was to force conversions of all Hindus and Sikhs.

 

[mjbskwim]

In Islam, you must pay a jizya (Muslim Tax) and you will be treated as a second class citizen. Read about the lifestyles of the Jews and Christians who lived in the Islamic lands throughout history. Despite, being almost completely exterminated, the ones who could pay were allowed to live or not sell their daughters as sex slaves, etc.

No casinos, but if you get a nice ruler, he may promise not to ransack your village and allow you to practice your "Book Religion" /Monotheistic religion without executing you.

Check the number of native reservations in Muslim countries. All the natives had to integrate, live as slaves (Only Monotheists, Christians, Jews, etc) or were executed.


IF you want to read an interesting history of Islamic invasion into India and Pakistan (which use to be mostly part of India before Moghul invasion), you can read about the Sikh wars against the Moghul empire. The type of things done to Sikhs were horrifying. Basically, convert to our Islamic religion or we will bound you in ropes and saw you in half..

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Had it not been for the Sikh resistance against the Islamic immigrants (invaders) into India, all of India would have been a Muslim country today, as the policy of Muslims was to force conversions of all Hindus and Sikhs.

The blood that would run in the streets before that happened in the US of A
Those little 'terrorist hunting permits' ?
That would change to 'Muslim hunting permit" in a hurry
Tey are hitting soft targets.Maybe to gain some recruits ? maybe to get their followers excited?
They know if they hit Germany,UK,the US that they will be hit back hard. That the citizens of the US at least,will hit back.
Not a Howard Stern fan,but maybe we need to do what he said right after the 9/11 attack.

 

[thorborg]

Most of this is BS.
There isn't a utopian piece of land anywhere in this world that has not lived, or is living now through some sort of horrific oppression since life began on this earth. To manipulate, coerce, control or otherwise influence anyone because of anything that has happened before you were born and outside of your control is ludicrous.
Ethics, morals and life in general are constantly evolving, (not always for the good)
While we must learn from the past, I refuse to accept the premise I am in any way culpable for past transgressions of anyone.
I place no value on, and find no merit as a human, for those who would judge or control me by the actions of others in the past, for they either have ulterior, sinister or unkindly motives, or are unthinking minions.