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[talktooloose]

One more thing for today:

In light of the protests and threats of assassination, etc. regarding the publication of cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammed, I am moved to return to an old hard-line position that I had softened recently.

Fuck Yahweh, fuck Jesus, fuck Muhammed, fuck Buddha. If things these teachers allegedly wrote or said move you to be a better person, that is wonderful. It is your job to study these words and add to them in the context of your own life and times. If you worship these dead or mythical figures above living human beings, you are an idoloter and an irresponsible human being. Our job is to love the human race, not worship idols and ideologies.

All fundamentalist religion is evil. All spirituality is suspect. You have been warned.

Comments

[corduroyarmy.livejournal.com]

You're right in that, if measured by our standards, this is crazy. As a result, you don't see that kind of outrage here in the West. But the fact of the matter is that there is an EXTREMELY widespread outcry of the kind you describe, and I'm reluctant to dismiss that large a group as crazy animals as readily as some. If your idea of appropriate response is to say 'Fuck Jesus, fuck Muhammed', I'm pretty sure you're not according the slightest bit of thought to WHY they would feel this way. I've not once said that the violent response is right, but I can certainly see what's behind it. The West is engaging in a cultural war against Islam, and this sort of thing is part of it. It's such a cop out to blame it on religion- if there was no religion, we'd still be in the same boat.

As for the last point you made, you don't think anyone is angry about the racism behind the cartoons?

I find it so infuriating that people think that this is about the cartoons- the cartoons are just the spark. There is so much anti-Islamic hatred in the West, and if you think that the Muslim masses would have reacted similarily to these cartoons in the absence of any other factors, you're dead wrong. The current state has been two hundred years in the making. It's so bad, violence is inevitable. Just because they threw the first punch doesn't mean they started the fight.