Terrorism - and old joke?
918790
LOL. Ah! Sensationalism and Prejudice!\n\nIt's really sad in a way. So many are like that.\nI am from two very different cultures, and was raised to look at the indvidual, and not the label.\nI taught my sons the same values.\n\nI was Blessed with Beautiful Parents.
624846
I have a reference from 1997 that already says it is old:\nhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/terror01.html\n\nThe fact that numerous sources fail to give the original source of the quote suggests that no-one actually knows when it was first used.
800755
i heard the joke he was supposed to tell and it made sense. i dont think he would ever take a shot at military persons considering he was one. i saw a reporter read it on the news and the joke was somewhere along the lines of  get an education or you will end up in iraq like the bush administration meaning that there was no intelligence behind the decisions and invasion. he did really mess it up though. i do think he was on the right track with it as well.
481627
terrorist comes from the word terror. when you think of terror, what do you think of? i doubt that it is a race that comes to your mind.
1056669
Do you have a link?  I haven't seen any.  If you don't know what they mean, I think it might be strtching things just a little to start thinking they are terrorist communications.\n\nA more rational explanation would merely be that it is someone asking a question using an arabic script.\n\nIf you provide a link, I can try to decipher it.  It might be fun.
34698
Real answer: Never.  Terrorism, in one form or another, has been around since the begining of civliization.  There is always going to be a set of people who are not pleased with another set, and then a small subset of them who will go through extraordinary lengths to prove it.
125543
I laughed my ass off when I heard this joke, but it is kind of racist. Just know that I didn't come up with it.\n\nAn african tribesman's wife has a baby one night, and all is well until he comes home and sees the baby is white. The only white guy within a hundred miles is the village doctor. So the next morning, he takes his wife and the baby to confront the doctor. He walks right up to him and says, "Hey, I have ten other kids with this woman and they're all black, except for this one. So why don't you tell me what happened." Well, the doctor knows he's been caught, but he tries to play it off like nothing happened, so he points to a herd of goats and says, "Look there, all those goats over there are white, except for that little black one. It's weird, but these things happen." The tribesman thinks about it for a minute, then takes the doctor aside and says, "All right, I see where you're going with this. I'll drop the whole white baby thing, and you don't tell anyone about the black goat."
529260
A. yes it would be funny in a sick way...\n\nB. that's our tax dollars hard at work... how did those pesky terrorists ever get past our FBI that is busy looking for a man that probably died years ago?
1104283
Yeah, I also thought that, but it just goes to show that the terrorists are a bunch of thick shits........lol
776984
LOL!  Old joke......but still funny!
125448
that wasn't terrorism, that was guellia war fare...some thing that the ameriacn military needs to "re-learn". because that is why we sucked sso bad in vietnam, & that is what is happening to our troops now in iraq. the modern idea of terrorism, is to blow $hit up, & kill as many people as possible while doing it. back then, in the 1700's, the worst thing done was just throwcrates of tea in to the harbor. a loss of product, thus a loss of wages, but no major loss of life!
143880
Please give me an example of someone in the US being beheaded by an angry religious mob recently.  If the premise of your question is false, you aren't going to get any answers that make any sense.\n\nNote to Additional Details:  we are certainly not immune to terrorist attacks in the US, it is a real concern.  However, we are in much less danger than in many other places in the world, and I don't think that falsely magnifying the danger is going to make it any better.  \n\nA major reason that the absurd demonstrations over the cartoons have gone on for as long as they have is because some people in Muslim countries continue to inflame and stir people up with overblown, reckless, and irresponsible rhetoric.  In fact they use the same sort of arguements that you're using now:  "Our countries are all going to be taken over, our youth corrupted, horrible things are going to happen, by depraved Westerners unless we all stand up and do something drastic about it."  \n\nLike you, these people do have a small basis for what they are saying, but they're not doing anything to help the problem constructively.  They're just trying to incite a riot.  Do you really want to emulate them?
942870
You are more likely to be a victim of crime than terrorism. This just shows you where their priorities lie. Scaremongering rather than solving.
977574
LOVED the joke.  Haven't heard (or read) such a funny joke is ages!!!
369485
dunno when or where but it makes me laugh,\n\n"my fellow americans there will be another september the 11th, we just don't know when!"
676566
I don't think so.Terrorism based on religion used to be a lot worse in the past(think of what was happening in Europe in Medeaval times).It's just that we feel more secure now from other things and that's why we think this kind of terrorism is increasing.
290180
Because Political Correctness has no sense of humor. Before PC, Polock jokes, anti-Catholic jokes, dumb people jokes and many more were regularly told regardless of who was listening. In those days, you laughed even if it was at your own expense, or you were a poor sport. Today, everyone is so oversensitive about everything that jokes are almost extinct. Today, the only 'correct' way of making people laugh is through vulgarity. Kinda sick, huh?