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Originally Posted by Mach  WI,
Because it's hypocritical. That's what make everyone crazy, and it always will.
The reality is that if the OP is "really alarming", or "enlightening", it would be a surprise to some individuals who read it and correctly respond that this is no different than most any power, be it a world power/nation/religion/government.
So, then question then becomes, why is it important to post? As ID points out, it's because it's related to drumming up anti-Islamic sentiment because of the war on Iraqi's, and basically part of a war on Islam.
This is then hypocritical, because the REASONS behind it, would necessarily mean those decrying Islam, should actually be decrying their own state/nation/religion. And since they aren't, they are called on their nonsense.
So if you ask why every time someone writes 1+1=3 always leads to people telling them it's 1+1=2, you can be sure that if someone writes 1+1=3 again, you'll see the same, boring response.
-Mach |
I once started a thread dedicated soley to the discussion about Islam. I outlined in my OP that I would not accept any discussion of anything other than Islam and its role in the world. It was a thread that, if people wanted to discuss it singularly, they could. It ended up not being a very popular thread. I doubt it made 3 pages. But when the OPs do not outline the direction of their discussions about Islam, we end up with 20 pages of bashing the US and/or Christianity, rather than discussing Islam at all. Its not about hypocrisy, its about taking off the blinders and looking at the rest of the world, rather than just the narrow focus on American atrocities and wrongdoings. Its about opening up perspective about Islam, and how it affects the entire world, particularly the humans that reside in the regions where it is dominant. But nobody is interested in that, because of the "American" attitude that dominates both the left and right. Arrogance, not only that of a nationalist superiority as it relates ot our status around the world, but also our denial that problems around the world will not eventually become our own problems, if left unchecked. And also the arrogance, that as the supposed beacon on the hill, we would allow other human beings to suffer under truly brutal regimes, and look the other way.