There can be no other reason for something so silly to turn into an international event. If there was ever a moment in time to look at why Islamic countries that have natural resources, are still bassackerds it is this moment.
Mohammad is one of the most popular names in Islam. Why? Because it is the name of the Prophet who crafted Jewish, Christian, and Indigenous religious beliefs together and called it a religion. They then began to take over all of the Middle East, like that is a challenge, and sweeping through Africa and parts of Europe. So it was this cycle of reinforcement that they had “the true” faith.
One could also say that it was because they had people who looked into medical, philosophical, and scientific advancements thus making them a superior fighting force than those they fought, but then you would have to be rational.
Fast forward a couple hundred years with that same religious people that had a hunger for knowledge then found that such quests were against the teachings of the Prophet and kill those who didn’t comply, and have the repressive Christian Church lighten up on its technological breakthroughs and presto, we have the modern age.
How far has the West come do to this line of thinking? Cell phones, laptops, nuclear weapons and walking on the moon. How far has the Middle East come? They get upset at people who let 7 year old name Teddy Bears. Which by the way Republicans should issue their own Jihad, for naming a toy after Theodore Roosevelt, instead of the true prophet of the Lord Ronald Reagan, Peace be Upon Him.
My favorite part of this story is the quote given by the Brit’s employer, “It’s a pretty fair verdict, she could have had six months in prison, and a fine, and she only got 15 days and deportation.” Whaaaaaaaat? That logic makes my head hurt and I lived in the deep south for 10 years.
Though this could be a positive thing. I mean if Muslims were not the hypocritical people. If you don’t want “modern” technology like bikini’s or television or fire, then don’t use modern weapons to attack Western targets. Use the weapons that Allah gave you sticks and stones, that way you get to have the vestal virgins, and we are rid of your stupid ideology.
I mean lets at least be congruent with our own teaching shall we? Christ told us that is would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a man of wealth to enter heaven, so we began to build advanced technology to make smaller camels. You on the other hand call the last 1300 years of advancement heresy, yet use those heretical technologies to kill others. I find that confusing.
I think it is time to bring back a practice that the Romans used, which seems to be the only method of communication you people understand, decimation. In Rome it was when every tenth person was killed to make a point. Now it may take killing every third, or even every other person before you get the point, but in the long run, considering your past behavior, it may well be worth it.
The only groups of people that seem to be able to merge the teaching of Islam with being decent human beings are the Druze, Kurds, and Turks. Everybody else seems to have a psychological disorder that gives them moral authority to kill all who do not agree. And to you hippys that feel I am doing the same thing, you would be wrong. Because as I write this, reports are flying in that thousands of Sudanese want to have the British Teacher executed.
With the atrocities that the Government of Sudan has done to the Africans in Darfur, for us to hold this “Muhammad-Gate” as a pinnacle of lunacy is sadder still. Perhaps a message does need to be sent to Sudan, and the Islamic world to knock it off. But it may take wiping out the whole populace, since Muslims In Sudan Are Stupid.
The media often refers to Northern Sudan as pro-Arab. IF this was true the Sudanese would have been making the same kind of protests for the invasion of ras they did for the teddy bear incident.
If Northern Sudan is so pro-Arab, why haven’t the Sudanese demanded the arrest of British and American high level government officials responsible for the genocide in Iraq?
The government of Sudn IS pro-Arab, hence their official stance of an Israeli visa makes your passport illegitimate. The mere fact that they had to have a teddy bear incedent is also proof that their priorities rest in looking for slights to Islam rather than taking active roles in making Islam the peaceful religion it claims to be.
To your second point, and it is a stretch in rational thinking to say that it is anything remotely resembling a point, is that the British and American forces within Iraq are not committing genocide. Killing people does not constitute a genocide, and killing people who are trying to destroy the technological advancements that ave come to pass since the year 1300 is also not genocide.
You ill informed and ridiculous charges do nothing but cheapen the true instances of genocide, which is the intentional and systematic killing of a certain group for the mere fact that they are different, often targeting women and children, kinda like what your buddies in Sudan are doing in Darfur.
I would ask that you either refrain from making such ridiculous charges without at the very least offering what we sentient being call facts to go along with your ridiculous and offensive charges. This would at least the limit the amount of work I have to do to keep you from lowering my IQ in order to deal with you and your “opinions”.
Killing people does constitute a genocide especially when the Iraqis have done nothing to deserve what is being done to them. Saddam Hussein was helped into power by the United States and the U.S. supported him strategically and financially when he was committing his worst atrocities. There is plenty of information about this. I’ll just put up one link
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html
The information is available if you look for it. The United States preaches human rights and democracy, yet it goes around engaging in regime change (even of democratically elected ones) and supports brutal kings and dictators that do its bidding.
Well you try to give someone the benefit of the doubt and they show you exactly uninformed they are and how words larger than two syllables make them nervous. The United States did not help Saddam Hussein into power, he did that himself by taking advantage of the Batthist Party’s willingness to use violence in order to gain power.
Saddam was aided by the United States during the war that Iran initiated by its Islamic Republic rhetoric. Understanding the dynamcs may be too complicated for you, but it is against the interests of the United States and the world in general for their to be a reginial hegemon, thats a fancy word for one country dominating those around it, in the Middle East due to the economies needing the outflow of oil to function.
Secondly it would be against the world’s interest for that government to be as supportive of the fundamentalist Islam, and exporting of terrorist ideologies and the funds for them to do their attacks.
The third reason was that Iran had held US citizens hostage for over a year, and it was a way to get back at those Iranians who had overthrown the Shaw, who was an Ally, the enemy of my enemy is my friend as they say.
What turned the US against Saddam was he was actually beating the Iranians too badly and keeping with my first point above, had to switch sides, and unfortnately hep the Iranians not get taken over.
Now to your feeble attampts to give legitimacy to the US committing genocide against Iraqi’s. You are a true bafoon, and I will repeat myself and maybe the information will sink in. Merely killing people that are different from you DOES NOT CONSTITUTE GENOCIDE. Their needs to be a direct and systematic political strategy followed by violent force with the specific intent to annihilate an entire ethnic group.
What the Shia are doing to the Sunni would be the example that best suits your arguement, yet your blind adherence to mistruths and false convictions attempt to place blame where their is none. And your goal is to what defend the actions of a govenment that wished to execute a teacher for allowing the seven year olds in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammed?
To your other point of the US getting democratic leaders to “do our bidding”, I don’t see what the problem with this is. We preach about human rights and personal worth, often to places that have no concept of these notions. This is the big leagues son, and in order to obtain long term safety hard decisions need to be made in the short term. And make no mistake these are not the carebears that we are facing, but people who wish to have the United States fall, and will have non of the qualms over the means of how it is done, whereas we do.