Post Redacted - Islam, The ultimate excuse

 

1. Drew - this reminds me of a brief interview I saw at the start of OIF (you know when the msm was still on board with the whole thing, probably in the first 30 seconds) a couple of women ‘on the street’ were interviewed (probably after a IED or what not) who said - ‘The men lie, they are told to lie to the Americans, talk to the women, we don’t lie to you.’

   I just read Ann this morning - apparently if you read Barry’s tomb of wisdome - ‘Dreams of My Father’ - it is the American version of this lie, hate, anger and violence against all things American/white.

   I can’t understand how these people haven’t figured out they are being spoon fed a pack of lies - if the Americans/whites have all the _______(fill in the blank - weapons, money, power, hate, racism, control, anger etc) - why are they NOT DEAD?

   As Homer would say - D’OH!

   Posted by wardmama4       04/03/2008  at  09:20 AM  



2. "A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it’s boots on” is another Pratchett quote I think I should add to the rotating quote header.

   Posted by Drew458       04/03/2008  at  09:25 AM  



3. Regardless. I agree that fictional accounts should not be taken as pure truth. I didn’t read the disclaimer either, so it’s an add on. But the fact remains these quraniac quotes are truly taken from the book, and that the insanity of “the prophet” has not been purged from the Earth. It DOES seek to destroy all of us. But what was it Jesus said about the stories HE told? Understanding is the key whether fictionally set or factually. This story was a fictional expansion of a factual occasion.

   Posted by cmblake6       04/03/2008  at  07:39 PM  



4. Okay, so it was fictional. You’ll notice that a LOT of people, many of them people with a reputation for doing their fact checking (unlike CBS or the NY Times) were taken in by it.

   Something I have noticed about fiction is that successful fiction *is successful* because it accurately models people’s perception of reality. The more people see that model as accurate, the more popularity a well told story commands.
   In this case, well okay, it was not verifiable as fact. So why would people who make a point of watching for BS be fooled? Perhaps because it fits perfectly with thousands of stories, over several years, that ARE factual and are verifiable?

   A fair number of people are fond of pointing out that the Israelis are hardly innocent in the whole Middle East mess, which is quite true. The early leaders of Israel were, by and large, terrorists themselves. In most ways, they can’t make any valid claims of being any nicer than the Palestinians. But there is one factual, verifiable, completely inarguable difference between the two sides:
   The Israelis have never once claimed a desire, much less the intent, to wipe all of Islam from the face of the earth. Their enemies have claimed both the desire and the intent to utterly eradicate Judaism from the earth from day one of Israel’s existence, and continue to do so today. They have made it abundantly clear that in their eyes, a newborn baby who knows nothing whatever of religion or politics, much less of Israel, Palestine, Islam and Judaism in particular, is a legitimate target, simply by virtue of being born to Jewish parents.

   Unless and until that changes, well.... wahabism delenda est.

   Posted by GrumpyOldFart       04/04/2008  at  05:20 AM  

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