[dervish]

moral clarity ping.

[WOSG]

ping for later read. interesting.

[horse_doc]

faced with this "moral atomic bomb," we have no other solution than to counter with another triangle

And if that triangle doesn't work out, we can always use a REAL atomic bomb . . .

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"There is between these three poles a veritable triangle of death,

A clear demonstration of the true nature of the Islamic Cult of Death.

[SJackson]

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[Gondring]

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[Ancesthntr]

...we have no other solution than to counter with another triangle -- a triangle of life and reason, which more than ever must unite the United States, Europe and Israel in a rejection of any clash of civilizations of the kind desired by the extremists of the Arab-Muslim world and by them alone.

While I share the author's concern over the way the Arab/Moslem nutjobs are pushing the world of late, I cannot disagree more that the civilized world should reject "any clash of civilizations of the kind desired...". Why? Because if one side declares war and starts fighting, and the other says "I don't want to fight and won't do it" then the passive side loses, big time (especially with nukes in the equation.

Sometimes war is forced on a country or group of countries, and if they wish to survive then they must not only fight back, but must fight better so as to emerge victorious. The Arabs/Moslems seem intent on a clash of civilizations the likes of which haven't been seen since WW2. We had better react, and do so powerfully and quickly, or we will perish.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"a triangle of life and reason,"

Hey, what gives?

Our triangle has only two sides!

[timer]

An observation : If an islamic person was truly convinced that mohammed was a prophet of GOD, the cartoons would be meaningless drivel; if that person wasn't REALLY convinced that mohammed was divine then those cartoons hit a raw nerve of TRUTH, and he starts rioting, burning...

[MillerCreek]

MORAL ABSOLUTES Ping.

DISCUSSION ABOUT:

"MORAL ATOMIC BOMB"

The significant explosion that is the Islamic vs. Everyone Else concept of moral reasoning.

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[Salvation]

Moral Atomic Bomb    BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

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One can find these cartoons mediocre. One can perceive in them, as I do, a certain similarity with the anti-Semitic and racist caricatures of the 1930s or '50s.

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One can — and it would still be true — decide that depicting the prophet in this way, particularly with such dumb and obnoxious features, wasn't the brightest idea in the present context and amounted to tossing a lit match onto a powder keg.

Still, it is one thing to publish ludicrous cartoons in a newspaper that no one has heard of outside Denmark, but it is quite another to see these cartoons travel around the globe four months later, igniting a form of planetary intifada with enormous demonstrations, embassies and consulates set on fire, a priest shot dead in Turkey, four protesters killed in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan, not to mention the turning of Westerners living on Islamic soil into targets, mortal enemies threatened with death — expiatory victims offered to the white-hot, crazed and radicalized crowd.