I was going to write a nice, wryly cheerful comment in reply to Brian and Mac-elitists until I checked out some more posts in that blog. Unfortunately I came across one post which was made on Sunday, July 7, 2002, entitled, 17:56 - Moooom, make the freaky Muslims go away. So I think: okay, so this guy's got the tact equivalent of sending in a dog lover to the intensive care ward of a children's hospital and explaining to one child's parents who's daughter was brutally ravaged by a rottweiler that there aren't any bad dogs, only bad owners.
In this post he cleverly dissects a letter written by a Muslim fanatic--conveniently forgetting all the Christian fanatics the world has spawned--with highlights and his own carefully thought out sub-text before coming to the ultimate conclusion that all Muslim’s clearly won't be happy until all Jews are dead and Christianity is abolished. His final solution remains unspoken, though he pretty much advocates military action against a third world nation filled with relative innocents, the majority that have an extremely low literacy level and no access to current events. He even makes a reference, comparing the Qu’ran’s account of the Jews trying to kill Mohammed to a child crying about his favourite Pokemon character dying in a battle for Christ’s sake! Does he spend much time watching Pokemon, or better yet, around young children!? But let’s not get personal.
The problem here, essentially, is that it’s easy for someone to take an objective view of a situation when they’re sat behind their 21in flat screen or in their parents basement (I get a twinge of irony as I’m writing this from my parents conservatory, though I don’t have a flat screen monitor) but to take a multiple-subjective view of a situation is infinitely more humbling. How would you feel if you were the father---or mother--- of a son who was shot ‘accidentally’ by Israeli soldiers? After your own offspring were killed, would you freely offer yourself to the local terrorist faction as a simple bomb laden puppet and step onto a bus filled mostly with Israeli soldiers? Hell, would you even bother to wait until the bus got there, it’s not as if you’ve got much to live for past your mud hut and three goats?
But no, I don’t agree with people blowing themselves up as an act as retribution, but I won’t pretend I can’t imagine why they do it. Even Tony Blair’s wife said; “While the Palestinian youth have no hope, they’ll keep blowing themselves up.” You can imagine the fuss that caused. The next day headlines hinted she was a terrorist sympathizer that then prompted a weary looking Prime Minister to spend hours at press conferences using the straw man technique to bail his wife out of the dirt. Amazing.
I guess this is my long winded way of saying I think this guy’s a jerk.
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Date: 2002-07-18 15:50 (UTC)In this post he cleverly dissects a letter written by a Muslim fanatic--conveniently forgetting all the Christian fanatics the world has spawned--with highlights and his own carefully thought out sub-text before coming to the ultimate conclusion that all Muslim’s clearly won't be happy until all Jews are dead and Christianity is abolished. His final solution remains unspoken, though he pretty much advocates military action against a third world nation filled with relative innocents, the majority that have an extremely low literacy level and no access to current events. He even makes a reference, comparing the Qu’ran’s account of the Jews trying to kill Mohammed to a child crying about his favourite Pokemon character dying in a battle for Christ’s sake! Does he spend much time watching Pokemon, or better yet, around young children!? But let’s not get personal.
The problem here, essentially, is that it’s easy for someone to take an objective view of a situation when they’re sat behind their 21in flat screen or in their parents basement (I get a twinge of irony as I’m writing this from my parents conservatory, though I don’t have a flat screen monitor) but to take a multiple-subjective view of a situation is infinitely more humbling. How would you feel if you were the father---or mother--- of a son who was shot ‘accidentally’ by Israeli soldiers? After your own offspring were killed, would you freely offer yourself to the local terrorist faction as a simple bomb laden puppet and step onto a bus filled mostly with Israeli soldiers? Hell, would you even bother to wait until the bus got there, it’s not as if you’ve got much to live for past your mud hut and three goats?
But no, I don’t agree with people blowing themselves up as an act as retribution, but I won’t pretend I can’t imagine why they do it. Even Tony Blair’s wife said; “While the Palestinian youth have no hope, they’ll keep blowing themselves up.” You can imagine the fuss that caused. The next day headlines hinted she was a terrorist sympathizer that then prompted a weary looking Prime Minister to spend hours at press conferences using the straw man technique to bail his wife out of the dirt. Amazing.
I guess this is my long winded way of saying I think this guy’s a jerk.