Film protests: What explains the anger?
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But they are the exception rather than the rule, much like we have here.
The closest thing we have to their kind of nuts are the inbred Phelps clan, from Kansas. And as vile and inhuman as they are, they don't burn , vandalize or kill anyone. Then there are snake handlers, who are generally only a threat to themselves. And maybe a few snakes. But no, we don't have anywhere near the crazy as they do over in Islam land. ( Which sadly, is not confined to any 1 geographical region )
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Hmph. We have soldiers who carve biblical messages into their rifles, and pastors who burn religious books in outrage, and people who send death threats to "satanists" like J.K. Rowling or the Wizards of the Coast People. We have people who dress up like Spanish church officials and perform various rites and rituals up to and including burning or killing black people.
I find arguments about cultural superiority very ho hum. Wasn't that long ago that even Americans had less than stellar attitudes about justice for rape victims - and as a side note, in 2008, Egypt had the lowest rape rate in the world.
You might be able to argue that our governments have been less awful, and that probably accounts for a number of misunderstandings. But in terms of injustice and violence and intolerance and people who fly off the damn handle at any little thing, they're everywhere, not just in the Middle East.
That whole suicide bomber business IS bad though, I'll give you that.
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Just to offer some perspective, something I heard last night on The Daily Show. Islam is some 1400 years old. When Christianity was 1400 years old, we had the Inquisition, the Crusades, killing of "heretics", burning "witches" alive, and on and on. So if we want to make any comparisons between Christianity and Islam, we should start there. It's a different world now from when Christianity was only 1400 years old, but it's NOT that different in many Middle Eastern countries.
So maybe the comparison should start there about violence.
Of course that doesn't include Judiasm, which is 3800 years old...I don't know if we know much about them at 1400 years, but they certainly haven't been very violent in any history I've read. "Rabbinic Judaism", which is what is practiced today, is about 2000 years old, so I guess you could look back 600 or so years to find out what their "violence spectrum" was.
And buddhism is 2550 years old, tho' I believe it had its violent period in the early days as well.
At any rate, Christianity and Islam are youngsters in comparison, and each has had its violent period and its violent radicals. And in neither case do the violent radicals represent the entire religion. I would be willing to bet Islam won't continue to have as much violence for another 600 years...
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I don't think we can blame the differences in religions on age, especially considering the amount of communication flowing between nations nowadays. But we might be able to blame it on how the Middle East has been constantly fought over and how the inhabitants have been bombed into the stone ages a few times.
On the plus side, that level of flow of communication is only 20 years old, and has already started to accelerate positive social changes in those countries. Perhaps it won't be more than a few decades before everyone is on a more even keel all on their own effort.
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Explaining Our Anger.
After WWII, the USA could hardly be, nor appear to be isolationist,
as in the years following WWI.
Mine is a simple view, maybe a child's view, understanding of US
foreign policy coming out of that era:
Keep the Power.
Don't help anyone but our immediate cronies (UK).
Keep the Third World countries barefoot and pregnant.
And Above All, written in stone,
Don't Ever Be Vulnerable; Don't Ever Be Taken By Surprise.
Over the decades, we/USA became a monster; the seeds of this
germinated on 7 December 1941. A day that lives in infamy.
While this may seem off topic, it does relate to how we treat
the countries that we can rape and pillage. And it looks as if
We are willing to do the same to ourselves. Can it be sustained?
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I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ~Charles R Swindoll
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