Quote:IS IT JUST ME ....

... or are some of the rest of you getting just a little bit tired of all of the butt kissing we're delivering to disgruntled Muslims out there.    This whole flap over the faulty Newsweek story is starting to get under several different patches of my skin.

Reuters is reporting from Islamabad that the Pakistani government remains unhappy with Newsweek.&nbsp; Well, don't feel pregnant, Pakistan.&nbsp; But Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed pushes things just a bit with his statement that we need to work harder at understanding the sensitivities of the Islamic people.&nbsp; He says <span style='color:red'>"The apology and retraction are not enough.&nbsp; "They (Newsweek) should understand the sentiments of Muslims and think 101 times before publishing news which hurt feelings of Muslims."</span>

Sorry, pal.&nbsp; I'm not buying it.&nbsp; I getting just a bit beyond the point where I'm all bent out of shape trying to understand Islamic sensitivities.&nbsp; If there is something about your religion that should make me feel badly about poor Muslims getting their feelings hurt, you had better get it out there on the table now.&nbsp; All I see is a religion that seems to take great pleasure in passing condemnations and "death sentences" on various people around the world for all sorts of meaningless infractions of some great system of Islamic law.

I'm just not going to get all worked up worrying about the sensitivities of devotees of a religion that will stone a woman to death for adultery, while letting the man go unpunished.

Sensitivity would not be the word to describe how I feel about a religion that is in some way involved in more than 95% of the actual shooting conflicts and wars around the world.

Muslims shoot school children in the back!&nbsp; Remember Chechnya?&nbsp; They brag about bombs in schools in Israel!&nbsp; Tell me again about how I need to be sensitive?

The daughter of a devout Muslim gets violently raped.&nbsp; The devout Muslim takes a knife and, in front of the entire family, cuts his daughter's throat because she has dishonored her family .... by being a rape victim.&nbsp; Yeah, sport.&nbsp; Let me just pour out my sensitivities to this practitioner of the religion of peace.

There's a school on fire outside Riyadh.&nbsp; It's a girls school.&nbsp; The girls are trying to escape!&nbsp; But wait!&nbsp; Their faces aren't covered!&nbsp; It's the Islamic defenders of the faith to the rescue!&nbsp; They block the doors to keep the young Muslim girls from escaping ... from a burning building.&nbsp; The dignity of the great and wonderful religion of peace must be protected, even if young women burn to death!&nbsp; Yeah ... my respect for your sensitivities is on the way.

Those insurgents who are killing innocent civilians in Iraq?&nbsp; The suicide bombers in their cars and trucks?&nbsp; Haven't you heard?&nbsp; Most of them are from Saudi Arabia.&nbsp; They're crossing borders to kill innocent women and children because they don't like the idea of people being able to chose those who will rule them.&nbsp; I'm feeling so sensitive to that.

Tell you what:&nbsp; When you stop killing your own daughters; when you stop trying to lock young girls into burning buildings; when you eschew shooting school children in the back; and when I can look in a newspaper and read that Muslims are NOT involved in one way or another in revolts, insurrections and hot wars around the world --- and when you're not working so hard to kill American civilians --- and when you start to show some tolerance and respect for the world's other religions .. then maybe I'll feel a bit more worm and fuzzy toward your incredible religion of peace.

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Nope, not jsut you Neal, I feel the same way.

I agree we shouldn't be kissing their respective ***e$, but as with the Newsweek article, I also don't think we need to flush the Koran in their face or offer them a pork sandwich. That doesn't help make an already bad situation, better.

blah Wrote:I agree we shouldn't be kissing their respective ***e$, but as with the Newsweek article, I also don't think we need to flush the Koran in their face or offer them a pork sandwich.&nbsp; That doesn't help make an already bad situation, better.

I don't think that story did as much as people think it did. I think it only gave the "peaceful" followers of this "peaceful" religion an excuse to commit violence. Here's something else from Boortz:

Quote:AND CONDI GETS IT WRONG

Secretary of State Condi Rice had something to say about those false reports of desecration of the Koran.&nbsp; Rice says "Disrespect for the holy Koran is something the United States will never tolerate."

Sorry, Madame Secretary, but there is something a bit unnerving about your statement.&nbsp; If the violent world that is the Islamic religion is, in fact, based on the words of the Koran, then disrespect has been duly earned.&nbsp; We enjoy freedoms in this country, and that includes the freedom to "disrespect," as you put it, the Islamic religion and it's holy book.

Oh, and on this burning issue of disrespect for the Koran.&nbsp; Here's something I lifted from James Taranto's Best of the Web column from yesterday:

&nbsp; &nbsp; In fairness to Rice, she presumably was referring to government policy, not the actions or opinions of private individuals. Still, by way of comparison, recall that three years ago Palestinian Arab terrorists occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. <span style='color:red'>Priests reported that "gunmen tore up Bibles for toilet paper," according to the Daily Camera of Boulder, Colo. The Chicago Tribune noted after the siege that "altars had been turned into cooking and eating tables, a sacrilege to the religious faithful."</span>

&nbsp; &nbsp; Christians in the U.S. responded by declining to riot and refraining from killing anyone. They had the same response 15 or so years ago when the National Endowment for the Arts was subsidizing the scatological desecration of a crucifix and other Christian symbols. This should also put to rest the oft-heard calumny that America's "religious right" is somehow a Christian equivalent of our jihadi enemies.

Well said, Mr. T.

I wonder if I took a dump on a koran in my backyard would newsweek cover it? :D

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So, let me get this straight. Get some toilet water on a bunch of bound pages -> punishment calls for bombing and mass murder?

Yeah, that's sane. :rolleyes:

The International Media Cartel somehow finds tossing a religious book into a toilet (even if it would be insulting) more troubling than the overzealous, murderous reaction to it. But then guys like Salmon Rushdie know this all too well.

And the Koran-into-toilet thing didn't even happen.

Skipuno Wrote:I wonder if I took a dump on a koran in my backyard would newsweek cover it? :D

Let's find out.....

Please post the pics here after the experiment.