A Primer on Muslim Anger and Hatred Towards West

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Thursday August 02, 2007 · 8:32 PM PDT

2007/08/02 · 20:32

A wrote this as a primer on Muslim anger towards the West. It is well known that George W. Bush is the cause of most Muslim anger, along with fellow racists such as John Howard of Australia. But it does have a longer history.

During the pre-Muslim era, the wanton and vicious habits of the desert people of the area from Egypt through Saudi Arabia is well known, and memorialized in the oral history contained in the Bible. The stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the binding of Isaac (by negative implication the ritual child sacrifice among neighboring peoples), the purposeless plugging with sand of water wells dug by Abraham and Isaac are but some examples. The wickedness and idolatry prevalant in these areas, along with sexual perversion and violence, existed well before Islam and the fault for them must be laid at the door, not of Islam, but of local "cultures".

Islam's extremely violent start is also well known. Their virtually unhindered spread from the Mecca area to the Atlantic and to the borders of modern India occurred largely at the point of a sword. There were, during those early years, some constructive developments.

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Tuesday July 31, 2007 · 8:45 PM PDT

2007/07/31 · 20:45

This timely New York Sun article on the University of Michigan's squandering of public moneys (nominally raised from tuitions)to meet the special pleading needs of a small segment of its student body shows the extent to which we are pandering to a homophobic, militaristic, violent group of people.

First, one must doubt whether footbaths are used in the arid lands from which Islam sprang. How often did Muhamed get a footbath? I want to know. Equally to the point, why is one religious group being accomodated to the exclusion of others. Do Jews have arks, complete with Torahs, installed in university buildings. What about a rosary for Catholics?

Are we turning our secular, public universities, long dedicated to academic and personal freedoms, into feudal religious enclaves? Should we subcontract their administration to the Taliban?

I wonder how the Gay Pride Chapter would react.

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Thursday July 26, 2007 · 7:00 PM PDT

2007/07/26 · 19:00

This article, in a recent issue of the Journal News, a Westchester County, New York paper (link to article) emphasizes that Islam can function as just another religion, blend into and play a constructive role in the community.

There are several points worth noting. One is the interest in being part of the local community, not being apart from it. Another is the unequivocal rejection of terror, not one couched in saying "Israel does it also". Another is the abjuring from the Sunni=Shi'ite schism. This seems to be a model for Muslim development in the West. It depends, however, on integration, as opposed to multiculturalism.

There are reactionary forces that would exclude even these as "icky brown people". That is intolerable bigotry, that every American should be ashamed of.

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Wednesday July 18, 2007 · 6:29 PM PDT

2007/07/18 · 18:29

At a reception that was decidedly upscale and beyond the reach of the average Democratic voter, Al Gore's daughter got married at a lavish Beverly Hills ceremony. On the menu at the "rehearsal dinner" was the endangered chilean sea bass (link to article about wedding and about fish's endangered status), for 75 people.

It seems that the same people who preach self-abnegation for the average person, e.g. Al Gore in the US, and David Suzuki in Canada, have problems foregoing such luxuries as private jets, SUV's, tour buses and limousines. Big houses full of creature comforts are for them; "green" living is for the hoi-poloi.

Though I am a liberal Democrat, I am ashamed that we share the hypocrisy of the right, and are equally out of touch with ordinary people. What can ordinary, hard working people whoo may be asked to pay a "carbon tax" be thinking?

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Monday March 05, 2007 · 9:50 PM PST

2007/03/05 · 21:50

Thomas Eagleton, former US Senator from Missouri (1968-86) and Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate for about one month of the 1972 campaign died today at age 77. He was sought after and accepted the VP nomination in an atmosphere where the Democrats in general and McGovern, the Presidential nominee were being ridiculed and in some cases subjected to criminal treatment by the Nixon White House. He is most famous for the inglorious betrayal at the hands of the "peace, love and helping-hand" liberals in the US, who supposedly cared about people.

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