We MUST win...
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 9:05 amI am listening to the news on my XM radio, and it seems that a reporter wrote that an interrogator at Guantanimo Bay, Cuba flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. This started a series of very violent, anti-American demonstrations in the entire Muslim world, from Egypt to Indonesia.
This is because a holy book was allegedly flushed down a toilet. This report has since been retracted as wrong. It doesn't matter, though, as the damage was done. People worldwide are calling for a holy war against the USA over this.
I think about the reaction in the Judeo-Christian world if word got out that Muslim interrogators had thrown a Bible or Torah into a toilet. I cannot imagine worldwide demonstrations by Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, calling for a holy war against the Muslims. We don't even get that outraged when civilian prisoners' heads are sawn off on video. We should be galvanized to fight to the death over this, to destroy them, plow their bones into the earth, and sow salt so nothing will ever grow there again. But no, our passions are spent as we argue whether or not a little boy should be returned to his father in Cuba, or we are holding vigil over a brain-dead woman who had her feeding tube pulled. I am using hyperbole for the sake of my point, but I hope you get the idea.
Religious fundamentalism is rarely a good thing. Consider the example of women's center doctors being murdered by extremist pro-lifers, as they cite religious reasons for their actions. Likewise, the religious fervor of so many Muslims who call for our deaths because someone supposedly threw a Koran into a toilet is equally dangerous.
I, for one, do not wish to live in a world where innovation and original thought are seen as heresy, and religion holds such power over others, and is used as the justification to cause harm.
This is why we must win, and so thoroughly crush our opposition that there is no chance of their rebuilding. We have got to get a bit of passion ourselves.
I just wish this is what we were doing now.
This is because a holy book was allegedly flushed down a toilet. This report has since been retracted as wrong. It doesn't matter, though, as the damage was done. People worldwide are calling for a holy war against the USA over this.
I think about the reaction in the Judeo-Christian world if word got out that Muslim interrogators had thrown a Bible or Torah into a toilet. I cannot imagine worldwide demonstrations by Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, calling for a holy war against the Muslims. We don't even get that outraged when civilian prisoners' heads are sawn off on video. We should be galvanized to fight to the death over this, to destroy them, plow their bones into the earth, and sow salt so nothing will ever grow there again. But no, our passions are spent as we argue whether or not a little boy should be returned to his father in Cuba, or we are holding vigil over a brain-dead woman who had her feeding tube pulled. I am using hyperbole for the sake of my point, but I hope you get the idea.
Religious fundamentalism is rarely a good thing. Consider the example of women's center doctors being murdered by extremist pro-lifers, as they cite religious reasons for their actions. Likewise, the religious fervor of so many Muslims who call for our deaths because someone supposedly threw a Koran into a toilet is equally dangerous.
I, for one, do not wish to live in a world where innovation and original thought are seen as heresy, and religion holds such power over others, and is used as the justification to cause harm.
This is why we must win, and so thoroughly crush our opposition that there is no chance of their rebuilding. We have got to get a bit of passion ourselves.
I just wish this is what we were doing now.