Seriously? Is this “Political Issues Discussion” or just a total free for all where anyone can post the most outrageous of offensive thing they can imagine? I understand a gun owner forum is going to be largely conservative and right wing, but rabid anti-Semitism isn’t conservative or right wing, it’s just rabid anti-Semitism.
This is, of course, the "Political Issues Discussion". At one point Graybeard declared that the nearly constant Christians vs. Islam fighting threads must be consolidated here. It's actually in the rules section at the top of the thread. Then Matt grew tired of Powderman opening several threads each days saying roughly the same thing. He can correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall he was concerned about the image of GBO and that it was founded as a guns and hunting website, not a "Islam is a Cancer" website. Powderman had actually caused GBO to be a top google hit for "Godless ones" among other things, based on the prolific and repetitive nature of his postings.
At Matt's request, powderman started fewer threads and brought some of what would have been new posting here. I've done my best to allow this thread to remain open for that purpose since it benefits everyone here to have a single central location for the "information". As stated above, I'll continue to protect this thread from trolling and drifting off topic for that purpose. Where another thread might get locked or deleted, I'm spending more time filtering through bad posts and trying to keep this thread open. If there are repeat offenders they will be sent to Matt.
TM7 and others are allowed to discuss the topic, as they would anywhere else. To the extent that they do or do not make sense, or are or are not operating within the bounds of human reality, that's not my job to decide. If it's on topic it can stay, regardless if it's anti-jew, anti-Islam, anti-Christian, or anti-reality.
The comment that set this off was TM7's response to Swampthing's claim of no linking between Islam and Socialism. It is close to being off topic, but I allowed it. The validity of TM7s response is not for me to decide, only if it is on topic and within the rules of GBO. I decided it was. If you would like to keep this thread clean and focused I would suggest you simply ignore comments you feel are dragging the thread off topic and/or are trolling. You'll find it's the easiest way to accomplish some things.
I hope this clears some things up. If it does not, please ask questions by PM. Threads get messy when you debate moderating decisions.