Posted on 02/07/2006 9:47:49 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Gee, if they find them guilty maybe they can burn the editors at the stake. Actually, scratch that...their Muslim masters would probably prefer a beheading or a good old stoning.
This is NOT a "clash of civilizations". It is a clash of civilization and UN-civilization.........
I have to wonder how much anti-Christian stuff you'd see going on today in America if Christians would have robustly protested things such as the Crucifix in a jar of urine, or plays about Jesus being homosexual.
A new children's book, "The Three Little Mohammeds" is about three pigs addicted to violence, who shout slurs at everyone else, shoot into the air, look scruffy all the time, burn flags, and who all built their religous faith houses on sinking sand.
How representative they are would seem to be debatable. It took months of prep work to get them to vent their "spontaneous" outrage.
They seem more representative of a minority position that seeks to control events by a few dramatic instances of violence that are used to intimidate the remainder of their own society and ours.
We've protested those things. We just didn't burn down embassies. Of course, our protests were called "intolerant" and "hateful", while the mohammadiens burnng down embassies and rioting in the streets is called "a legitimate expression of outrage."
That's the independant media for you.
When you believe all this, there really is no reason to put up a fight.
Keep that stiff upper lip.
There are those of us who maintain that the fanatics are simply not civilized. We note that violent and civil are diametrically apposed concepts.
In conclusion, the author is well "off target".
...In order for there to be a clash of civilizations, it is necessary for there to be two civilizations, both of which are prepared to defend their deepest cultural values. Those in the Islamic world who are violently protesting the Danish cartoons clearly represent a civilization that is keen on maintaining its own deeply held traditions and convictions, as the Muslim rioters are prepared to do, even to the point of bloodshed. ...The evidence, unfortunately, is that the West is not even remotely interested in mounting a defense of its values in the face of Muslim fanaticism. Worse, there are signs that the West is even prepared to sacrifice some of its core values in order to appease those who have always despised these values values such as the freedom of individual expression and the right of every man to hold views that others find offensive and even downright blasphemous...
...we are watching a civilization that has lost its sense of purpose capitulating before a civilization that continues to believe, and to believe fanatically, in its own mission. A civilization that no longer believes in itself, and in its values and traditions, is no longer in a position to defend itself from the onslaught of a civilization that does. It is only in a position to appease
Nailed It!
Moral Clarity BUMP !
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The concept of 'Ethnic Cleansing' makes more and more sense to me every day.
Maybe the "deepest cultural value" of the West is not to have any cultural values?
We have been fighting here the war of secularism vs. traditional morality for a long time. In the OT, when the Israelites lost their way, God sent vicious enemies like the Assyrians against them.
History repeats itself, over and over.
"For it is the doom of men that they forget". - Merlin, from Excalibur
Here's what the Queen of Denmark has to say:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571930/posts
Get ready people. It's coming this way also. Lock and load!
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Taken to its natural conclusion, the rest of us should slaughter any Muslim we can get at, but he would probably then claim we are attacking a people much more noble than the rest of us.TWADDLE!
I wish I could answer "yes," but I can't.
I agree with this statement.
You have to be civilized to have a civilization.
Muslim extremists have no civilization.
The Arabic world, as a whole, barely have any civilization anymore.
So is this a clash of civilizations? No.
It is, however, a very telling point on the Muslim religon.
(And no, you don't have to have a civilization to have a religon.)
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