Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2059440-20160822192203/@comment-26884760-20160829220207

Promethius20 wrote: Radical middle eastern terrorists are villans though, in many movies and series they appear as villans, In the Back to the Future series in the mid 1980s there were Libyan Terrorists that tried to kill Doc Brown and Marty. Also you got other Terrorists as well. Also about 100 years ago they were not called terrorists instead they were called Anarchists and had things like a gang known as the Black hand sociity, Black Glove society and such. But my point is Terrorists and other non conformists like anarchist should be considered villans. Promethius20 (talk) 16:32, August 29, 2016 (UTC)

so? all terrorists are villains - this trend of it being "all terrorists are Islam extremists" is just a product of our times.. look up IRA, Neo-Nazism etc etc.. a terrorist is a terrorist and we've established already a terrorist is not representive of their nation or society.. by definition a terrorist goes radically *against* the values of their mainstream society.. Middle East is not just a unified Jihadist group (quite the opposite) and groups like ISIS are as criminal in those societies as they are in our own.. popularity of a criminal movement doesn't make them any less criminal (like when Nazis took over much of Europe, they were still criminals - even if they were followed by millions.. as soon as the regime was toppled the societies they ruled over were quick to change because they did not want Nazism to begin with.. same deal with Jihadists and any terrorist movement (fiction or otherwise) ).

For example, in Gargoyles the Quarrymen were very popular with the public but went against the established norms of their society, by the end of Gargoyles the Quarrymen became hated as terrorists (much like the KKK) - a minority movement (even popular) is not equal to the whole culture.