So next time there is some hideous atrocity, be it here in the UK, in the USA, in Iraq, in Israel or anywhere else in the world that Al Qaeda or Hamas have infested, can you kindly resist the urge to say "But Islam is a religion of peace...". We heard you before and we have not reacted to previous incidents by torching mosques from London to Lanarkshire. Please. PLEASE...just.shut.the.f***.up.I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds these ubiquitous pleas for restraint annoying. As if we're the ones who are dangerous. As if any of us who might be dangerous would listen in the first place. Condescending and ineffective all at the same time.
Don't these politicians get that the reason Westerners don't torch mosques is that we see it as the government's job to enforce the law? The mosque torching will commence only when citizens feel the government is helpless to protect them. So maybe our leaders should stop lecturing the choir and get about the business national security.
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I agree. I'm very strongly supportive of Bush and the Bush doctrine, but I'm disappointed everytime he shies away from saying that Islam has seriously dangerous radicalized elements and that they are drawing their inspiration from religious doctrine that is not peaceful -- and that someone in the Muslim world needs to revisit that interpretation. And it can be done, because I don't notice Western Judeo-Christian religious practitioners going around anymore burning witches, keeping slaves, practicing polygamy, or any other of the many thousands of daily practices prevalent when the Bible first appeared. These religions have managed to draw the abstract moral lessons (witches bad; marriage, but not to too many people at once, good; slavery bad -- since the Old Testament requires that slaves be manumitted after 7 years). It's time for Islam to make this leap and stop the obsession with beheading.
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