Invoking God to bomb Iran, Trump is reviving a deadly tradition of religiously justified US violence.
The only people who claim God told them to do something are the same people who God would never say nice things to
Telling someone to bomb a country isn’t very nice.
If God told you to bomb a country, then you have a serious mental illness.
Bush said the same thing about iraq
Did god appear to Donny in his morning Big Mac?
[x] Doubt
I really need to start a religion.
God came to me in a vision today. He told me that you - yes, you! - are the Holy Prophet!
Rich coming from the Qatar.
Setting aside the obvious “Al Jazeera is not Qatari state media,” who has Qatar used religion to justify bombing?
The article broadens the connection to violence, not just bombs dropped from aircraft. Qatar has for years supported Islamists in the region, including the Houthis and Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar, like this article, is aligned with Iran.
First: Define “support”. Second: The Muslim Brotherhood stopped using violence decades ago. Third: Way to miss the point. The article is discussing imperial violence. I hope this doesn’t need to be said, but not all violence is equal.
Oh, OK. Imperial violence. Got it. If you define things narrowly enough, you can never be a hypocrite.
Yes, that is the only reason one would want to distinguish between violence in the interest of self-determination and violence in the interest of robbing from others self-determination.
