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Posted on 11/05/2007 12:24:03 PM PST by LibWhacker
This is why one should not worship idols. Idols can be destroyed.
That was the first time I had ever heard of the Taliban. Of course, they got more famous a few months later.
Pakistan has been a bad news place for a long time, and balanced on the edge of a knife. They've been more-or-less our friend for the past few years -- but I think that may be changing.
I don’t know why the world stands in awe of these savages. A couple of brave men with rifles could back down an army of them; they’re only good at sniping from the shadows, beating up on women and children, and blowing up statues. Faced with courage, they run like dogs.
Good thing there’s no statues of Jesus or Mary...
I am a Christian, but it doesn’t threaten me that Buddha’s exist. Good heavens, the Buddhists’s are generally a peaceful group. Coexistence is not possible?
How shallow, how weak, how childish, how mentally deficient to you have to be, to not understand that ancient statuary is not something to be afraid of, or to be destroyed just because of your own feelings of inadequacy?
I’m thinking the Middle-East through Asia could use a few million psychologists to help work out some massive pockets of inferiority complexes that exist.
Generally I don’t support the psychological arts all that much, but this seems to be a world class situation of small wingers and even smaller cranial matter.
Well said! I used to work for a well-known Harvard researcher -- a professor of medicine -- who told me once that if you were to do a standard, double-blind, psychological exam of all Arabs, most of the results on them would come back saying the person was a severely deranged psychopath and/or sociopath. And that was years and years before 9/11.
Most Westerners don't have a clue what they're up against, but I think (and hope and pray) they are beginning to come to terms with it.
I doubt it.You an I know,for example,that if any professor at Harvard University...medical school...law school...business school...or the faculty of arts and sciences...were to say anything like what you noted in your post he or she would be looking for work with three business days of having said it.
I believe that the push to multiculturalism has completely overlooked the fact that not all societies are capable of multiculturalism. We are supposed to embrace it, but it takes both parties embracing it. It takes all other parties present to accept that and embrace it.
The Middle-Eastern mindset is different. They see things in entirely different ways than we do. I’m not here to say they are inferior, more ignorant or anything else. The facts can stand on their own merits. I just think it is insane to drive for the intermingling of large numbers of people from the Islamic states, into our nation.
This makes no other assumption, other than to recognize this has been problematic and will continue to be so. And until the mind set changes for some groups, we need to forget about this inceasant drive to have equal protions of every race in this nation.
Frankly, I’m tired of feeling I shouldn’t say that I am proud to be of white European decent, and I don’t see the need to flood this nation with everyone but.
Every race in the world should have some place where they can exercise self-rule. Blacks have it. Hispanics have it. Asians have their nations. What’s wrong with Whites having a few where they can exercise self-rule.
Population manipulators, knock it off. I’ve had it up the here with your bull s—t!
Thanks for the comments.
ping...What a darn shame that this is happening.
It’s true, he didn’t say it publicly, that’s for sure, but to me in private. And I’m not turning him in!!! He was probably one of the few rays of light remaining at that school. By now I’m sure he’s retired.
“Faced with courage, they run like dogs.”
Dogs do run like dogs...
Yes it is a shame these things are being destroyed. But they are just things. Objects. This is a wonderful lesson on impermanence.
Can it be that after the Iraq war, and the dismaying images of looting at the National Museum in Baghdad, we have lost our capacity to be outraged? Or is it that we have become so inured to bad news surrounding the war on terror that we have no desire to know more?
I'm afraid the author, like a great number of people in the west, is still half-asleep. Islam is trying to kill or enslave us all. They have no compunctions whatsoever about who is killed or how. If there is no outrage about that then why would anybody care about some musty antiquities? I don't. Until the civilized world gets over itself, over its false sense of higher morality and compassion, and starts killing Muslims as fast as they can possibly be killed then we can expect to see icons of non-Muslim culture destroyed. More importantly, IMO, we can expect to see unabated murder and mayhem on non-Muslim people.
The Buddha wouldn't give a mouldy bowl of rice curry for a statue.
I agree. Sadly too.
Wow...that’s not a completely ignorant statement....
Aww, now. Give credit where credit is due.
Thank you.
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