If we don't like what someone says, kill them

[miriam_e]

Oh yeah, Islam has really come a long way in the last 2,000 years. Very mature. The epitome of a loving, caring religion. If allah exists she must be very embarrassed by the way these dickheads are carrying on.

You seen the cartoons the Danish newspaper published? Not very offensive are they. Were you puzzled as to how those pictures elicited death threats for the cartoonists and rioting as far abroad as New Zealand? It seems those pictures were published ages ago and caused hardly a ripple, then recently some jerk-off imam got ahold of some obscene cartoons from heaven knows where that had not been published and showed them around. Viola! Instant indignation... except that all the mindless fools doing the rioting and fatwa-ing got it completely wrong.

Oh religion is such a wonderful thing.
Faith!! Bah! Idiots!

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[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I didn't realise it was 5 months ago. Still, that is a long time in the media.

I think some Saudi moslems might be at the heart of this, but I doubt that the people at the top of Saudi society want it. I think they have unwittingly caused it by unjustified imprisonment and torture of people and keeping their people poor while they swim in riches, but they would not be happy with these uprisings. They are powerless to stop it. If they try to repress their people even more then they worsen the problem. If they let it go ahead unchecked then (at least in the short term) it also gets worse.

John Howard ought to take note of what happens when you allow an elite super-rich class to develop at the expense of the workers and what happens when extreme law-and-order measures are taken, like imprisonment without cause and state-sanctioned torture.