From: Vadim Kogan (vadim@XCF.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 09:35:39 PDT
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:50:15AM -0400, Ryan Gill wrote:
> >"bastards" (his words, according to several news reports) who should be
> >killed while innocently flying in an aircraft that can be destroyed by a
> >weapon he brokered. Those "people", Muslims, Moslems, or whatever they
> >call themselves today are for the most part viscious,fanatically
> >religious animals who should be expelled en-masse from our country
> >immediately. Political correctness be damned!
>
> Careful with that broad brush. I work with 2 obvious Muslims at work
> and neither fit the fanatical color you paint them. Are you going to
> apply the same rules to fanatical Christians?
No, hold on there... Let's be fair, OK? I think we in fact should be hating
christians much more. After all, over the last couple thousand years
christians have probably killed more people with their religion being the
main reason than the rest of the religions combined. In fact, christians
have been pushing their religion on american freedom all along! The US
dollar says "in god we trust".. Hmm, which single god would that be? How
many wives can you have? Just one? Why'd that be? Oh, atteming to commit
suicide is illegal? Why would that happen?
Any religion is bad, especially in its extremes. However, I seriously doubt
that Iraq residents just have nothing else to do, but watch TV and hate
"american way life" because "their religion tells them so". Nah, they have
much more practical reasons to hate europeans and americans. After all, it's
europe and US who stuck their noses in the middle east first, not other way
around.
On a lighter note, I suggest you watch this:
http://vadim.berkeley.edu/iraq_hard_place/
There are 4 .rm (real media) files there, 4 parts. It's factually correct,
but at the same time really funny. (And yes, there is good MV content in the
those files, especially part 4 :)
Vadim.
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