• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    14
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    Not to be confused with ham-ass, a charcuterie specialty, unfortunately frowned upon by both Hamas and Hamaas

    ETA: but highly praised by David Cameron

    • @Skullgrid
      link
      English
      25 months ago

      I hear he’s more into the head of the pig

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    85 months ago

    Is it etymologically related, in the way that “salaam” and “shalom” are, or is this just a particularly spicy coincidence?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      65 months ago

      The terror org Hamas’s name is an acronym, but was afterwards glossed to mean strength or zeal. That vaguely fits, so maybe? But I’m no expert on Proto-Semitic etymology.

      • @Woozythebear
        link
        English
        -75 months ago

        Terror org? The fuck? I didn’t realize that fighting for your freedom from a brutal oppressor made you a terror org.

        Do you call native Americans terrorists too?

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          95 months ago

          Terrorism, according to Wikipedia, is “the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.”

          Hamas is doing that, see examples.

          I frankly don’t see, whatever its goals, how systematically attacking civilians can not be terrorism. (Since Native Americans to my knowledge don’t do that, I wouldn’t call them terrorists, no).

          • @eatCasserole
            link
            English
            05 months ago

            This definition fits israel just as well or better, do you typically refer to it as a terror org?

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          45 months ago

          If native Americans today did organised attacks on Americans it would be considered terrorism in pretty sure.

          • @LinkerbaanOP
            link
            English
            35 months ago

            Stupid Natives doing terror attacks on those peaceful Americans that God promised the land to because they were white.

            Good thing Americans defended themselves into coincidentally taking over all of America.

        • @Passerby6497
          link
          English
          14 months ago

          This the first time you’ve heard the classic phrase “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”?

          Because yes, oppressors always see oppressed freedom fighters as terrorists, because the only way to get your freedom from an oppressor is to take it, usually by force.

    • @LinkerbaanOP
      link
      English
      25 months ago

      Hamas was a dark bay or brown horse with no white markings

      Wikipedia really went there