Is it just me?

[ghost_of_theo]

IS IT JUST ME?
by Neal Boortz


... or are some of the rest of you getting just a little bit tired of all of the butt kissing we're delivering to disgruntled Muslims out there. This whole flap over the faulty Newsweek story is starting to get under several different patches of my skin.

Reuters is reporting from Islamabad that the Pakistani government remains unhappy with Newsweek. Well, don't feel pregnant, Pakistan. But Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad pushes things just a bit with his statement that we need to work harder at understanding the sensitivities of the Islamic people. He says "The apology and retraction are not enough. "They (Newsweek) should understand the sentiments of Muslims and think 101 times before publishing news which hurt feelings of Muslims."

Sorry, pal. I'm not buying it. I getting just a bit beyond the point where I'm all bent out of shape trying to understand Islamic sensitivities. If there is something about your religion that should make me feel badly about poor Muslims getting their feelings hurt, you had better get it out there on the table now. All I see is a religion that seems to take great pleasure in passing condemnations and "death sentences" on various people around the world for all sorts of meaningless infractions of some great system of Islamic law.

I'm just not going to get all worked up worrying about the sensitivities of devotees of a religion that will stone a woman to death for adultery, while letting the man go unpunished.

Sensitivity would not be the word to describe how I feel about a religion that is in some way involved in more than 95% of the actual shooting conflicts and wars around the world.

Muslims shoot school children in the back! Remember Chechnya? They brag about bombs in schools in Israel! Tell me again about how I need to be sensitive?

The daughter of a devout Muslim gets violently raped. The devout Muslim takes a knife and, in front of the entire family, cuts his daughter's throat because she has dishonored her family .... by being a rape victim. Yeah, sport. Let me just pour out my sensitivities to this practitioner of the religion of peace.

There's a school on fire outside Riyadh. It's a girls school. The girls are trying to escape! But wait! Their faces aren't covered! It's the Islamic defenders of the faith to the rescue! They block the doors to keep the young Muslim girls from escaping ... from a burning building. The dignity of the great and wonderful religion of peace must be protected, even if young women burn to death! Yeah ... my respect for your sensitivities is on the way.

Those insurgents who are killing innocent civilians in Iraq? The suicide bombers in their cars and trucks? Haven't you heard? Most of them are from Saudi Arabia. They're crossing borders to kill innocent women and children because they don't like the idea of people being able to chose those who will rule them. I'm feeling so sensitive to that.

Tell you what: When you stop killing your own daughters; when you stop trying to lock young girls into burning buildings; when you eschew shooting school children in the back; and when I can look in a newspaper and read that Muslims are NOT involved in one way or another in revolts, insurrections and hot wars around the world --- and when you're not working so hard to kill American civilians --- and when you start to show some tolerance and respect for the world's other religions .. then maybe I'll feel a bit more worm and fuzzy toward your incredible religion of peace.

AND CONDI GETS IT WRONG

Secretary of State Condi Rice had something to say about those false reports of desecration of the Koran. Rice says "Disrespect for the holy Koran is something the United States will never tolerate."

Sorry, Madame Secretary, but there is something a bit unnerving about your statement. If the violent world that is the Islamic religion is, in fact, based on the words of the Koran, than disrespect has been duly earned. We enjoy freedoms in this country, and that includes the freedom to "disrespect," as you put it, the Islamic religion and it's holy book.

Oh, and on this burning issue of disrespect for the Koran. Here's something I lifted from James Taranto's Best of the Web column from yesterday:

In fairness to Rice, she presumably was referring to government policy, not the actions or opinions of private individuals. Still, by way of comparison, recall that three years ago Palestinian Arab terrorists occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Priests reported that "gunmen tore up Bibles for toilet paper," according to the Daily Camera of Boulder, Colo. The Chicago Tribune noted after the siege that "altars had been turned into cooking and eating tables, a sacrilege to the religious faithful."

Christians in the U.S. responded by declining to riot and refraining from killing anyone. They had the same response 15 or so years ago when the National Endowment for the Arts was subsidizing the scatological desecration of a crucifix and other Christian symbols. This should also put to rest the oft-heard calumny that America's "religious right" is somehow a Christian equivalent of our jihadi enemies.

[voltaires_priest]

...for editing the actual title of that article. Why Carter, I do believe you're becoming domesticated


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[ghost_of_theo]

Originally posted by voltaires_priest
...for editing the actual title of that article. Why Carter, I do believe you're becoming domesticated

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We animals are getting along just fine here in the petting zoo.

Still waiting for my death fatwah though. I wanna be somebody, damnit!

[-theTruth-]

If you were honest I would have agreed 100% with you if the cases are indeed true. but you are not you are nothing but some one who is ignorant of what Religion is and expect people to be all good.
Let me explain
it is very easy to become muslim it takes 2 seconds all you have to do is say that there is no God but One and believe in all his messengers all his books and the hearafter see you too can say so can Satan aswell in a form of man but becoming a true muslim is lifetime struggle.
If you want to blame Islam I can guareentee you you will not be able to because Islam is totally against any action you have described being done by anyone muslim or non muslim.
if you want to blame Muslims i agree with you you can take saudie Arabia for instance who put the rulers there? muslims? absolutly not Islam says when three people go out on a trip they must vote for one person to manage their travel. who voted for any king? no one so you will eventually see people rebel and take it out on innocents.
Who installed sadam? who installed the Shah in Iran who installed The king of Jordon? Egypt you already know the answer but can not admit it so the easy target is people who can not defend themselves
you mentioned Chachnya?
It is easy to point a finger at few people. what they did is against common sense let alone Religion but look at from their point of view so you can stop it in the future why?
because Rusia the mother of evil(killing millions of innocent in the past ) do not want to leave people live in Peace if they get out of the land the evil will stop while they are there they have no one to blame but themselves.
He who diggs a hole will fall in it.
you mentioned Israel what happened to the poor people that are under occupation since 1948? what happened to the UN laws that have all been broken by iSRAEL? oh no we must not talk about Israel we are still suffering from a shameful act committed by Hitler so we close our eyes again.
THEN YOU may want TO MENTION THE USA?
who killed over 100.000 inncent people plus Innocent American soldiers and UK ones? all because of a pack of lies.
Finally who killed 6 million Jews? where they Muslims? no it was Hitler who was a christian but no one blamed Christianity however when you see lawless so called muslims by name comming a crime you automatically blame islam because you like to pick on a verse or two to suit your desires.
so your argument hold no justice what so ever
case dismitted

[ghost_of_theo]

If I were honest? Nobody is more honest than I-n-I. Moreover my brain isn't soaking in low IQ relgious-fascism which allows me to think a wee bit clearer than thou.

I agree with your "anyone in 2 seconds can convert" to any religion in a snap-of-a-finger retrospect.

The rest of diatribe is lame apoligizing and fancy imaginary machinations of an American magic wand responsible for all evil.

Hitler didn't kill 6 million Jews in the name of Christianity, not that I care why he did it. Islamic mass-murders do kill in the name of Islam, maybe not your interpretation, but nonetheless their's.

Feeble, weak-minded, religion spewing sheeple need to quit making excuses and apologies and think sans a conquer-and-divide theology. People should think in lucid terms about what is best for themselves and for everyone else in the world, we are brothers and sister who are not conjoined in religious-fascism, moreso were one big family who happen to share control over the the earth.

Drool, quack, squat, flap your elbows like a chicken, go bug-eyed with rage and squeal anti-American slogans as all good sheeple do - none of it matters.

America nailed Saddam because he so, so deserved it.

Israel will protect it's citizens when threatened.

Deal with reality. Accept reality. Avoid parallel universes.

[Anonymous]

yes theo, its just you ....

[ghost_of_theo]

Originally posted by Anonymous
yes theo, its just you ....

You can squawk better than that. Let's hear a big "Bush is Evooool" shout out. How about a "Go Car-Bombers Go!"

Better those Iraqi children die hearing a scream of "Allah Ahkbar!" before the big boom versus living in a human rights obsessed democracy. How dare Bush!



BTW, good morning.