Posted on 12/01/2006 8:29:29 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
One of the basic mantras of multiculturalism is that all peoples and all cultures are essentially the same. But if this were true, then how does one explain how the media portrayed Muslims this past week?
NPR, 11-26: "Should the pope pray, make the sign of the cross or get down on his knees while there, he's likely to further anger Turkish Muslims".
New York Times, 11-28: "But on this trip, any mention too specific about religious freedom holds the danger of offending Turkey."
AP, 11-28: "It [Haghia Sophia] is now a museum, and Turks would take offense at any religious gesture by the pontiff".
AP, 11-28: "Benedict also said guarantees of religious freedom are essential for a just society, comments that risked bringing the Vatican into conflict with some Islamic nations that allow only Muslims to worship or impose restrictions on religious minorities."
New York Daily News, 11-29: "Pope Benedict began a sensitive trip to Turkey yesterday seeking to ease Muslim concerns, but risked stoking more anger by urging religious leaders to 'utterly refuse' to back violence in the name of faith."
The subtext of these statements is that Muslims are not like the rest of us.
After all, can anyone imagine Jews getting angry because the pope made the sign of the cross while in Israel? Moreover, why is it that the sheer mention of religious liberty is likely to offend? What kind of people are they, anyway? And who, other than Muslims, would actually get angry if the leader of some other religion were to say that killing in the name of God is wrong? What does this say about their religion?
If this is all it takes to anger Muslims - along with cartoons they don't like - then we're all in big trouble. It's time we started asking the tough questions.
Media to Muslims: And we like it that way.
That it isn't one.
Muslims to media=if you dont like us shutup and pretend to or we will kidnap & behead you.
Actually, they're the ones in big trouble. In the long run, the rest of the world won't tolerate them.
The lesson to be learned here is if you promote your religious beliefs with public beheadings that's okay. It's protesting against Planned Parenthood clinics that the American liberal finds to be 'scary'.
"It's time we started asking the tough questions."
Are you kidding me? The time for questions was 9-12. We already have the answers but the PC crowd can't deal with the reality and repercussions of those answers.
Unless stopped in a very hard and complete way, Islam will end up killing the free world. Deal with it...or be dealt with.
All people and all cultures are essentially the same?
This kind of thinking proves that all forms of mental disease are not clinical.
Amen to that.
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Well, I've already decided that I will openly pray over any Muslims that I see praying in public, furthermore, I intend to ask any other passersby to join me in saying the Lord's Prayer over the Muslims.
I hope they are plenty offended, because they offend my sensibilities often.
Sweetheart, they are out breeding us so fast that the rest of the world is rapidly being overrun by them. The "rest" of the world is also trying their best to be "politically correct" and not anger them. They will all be swept away once we fall.
Anyone ready to start reading the Koran?
Yes, but there is a separate and conflicting corallary - "Special Rules For Special People." That is, if one's culture has been oppressed by the West - and isn't everyone's? - then it ends up being "more equal" than ours.
I didn't say it made sense. But it's real.
Time for all of us to wake up.
Which one of these things is not like the others...
The quintessential "Useful Infidels".
I've decided the same thing...only I'll annoint myself and my surroundings with bacon grease prior to doing so.
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