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Admitted publicly for the first time? That’s bogus. I walked it back relatively quickly and apologized. Oct. 19th.
Post in thread 'Hamas launches surprise attack on Israel; Israel has declared a state of war. Vol. II'
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...-a-state-of-war-vol-ii.4310417/post-172194775
You warned me that it would be used against me in the future - yet it was only you who “used” it against me despite my apology. I certainly didn’t feel the need to repeatedly apologize everytime that you brought it up.
I am happy that you denounce violent Jihadists. I certainly find it strange that you would try to find a more generous interpretation of their actions though and be morally outraged at those that would be less forgiving.
Respectfully, I'm reading along here and finding your position a bit flummoxing. Making light of "moralizing" in the context of a discussion about an armed conflict seems to be a strange take - isn't that what we are all doing here? there are some posters who only want to talk about strategy and weapons and history, but in this particular case, the whole thing is more or less a moral disagreement. Both sides aren't just sort-of moralizing, that's almost all they are doing - yourself definitely included.
And to the disagreement you're having here, it's not about "giving jihadists the benefit of the doubt" - it's important to be critical of the claims and translations that we see, from which everyone is basing their moral positions. I find it particularly strange, given your history of being caught up in a (moral) panic in this thread, that you don't appreciate the value of ensuring the accuracy of reporting, given this:
...admitted as such that a friend had told me he had seen it. We were all freaked out and believing the worst and there was a deluge fof awful content - we were being gaslit by the world including by you and continue to do so.
"gaslighting" works on both sides - and is also, not the word I would use to describe hallucinating and saying I had seen things which turned out to not exist.
It's frankly very difficult to take you seriously when you're throwing around accusations of moralizing, when that's exactly what you're doing, and then criticizing people's well-intended attempts to verify information when you're guilty of reporting personal experiences with things that did not actually exist.