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At 9/13/10 04:13 AM, drDAK wrote: People like you shouldn't be allowed to vote, or reproduce. In fact, I'm very content in actually denying you any of the rights of a thoughtful person because, well, you're a Neanderthal. Well, Homo neanderthalensis had a big brain, so you would most definitely be the missing link. Want to turn yourself in?

Anyways, it seems you are butthurt about being wrong about most things in life, including but not limited to politics, and your sad existence is a shame to what you call traditionalism.

You know it's alright not to respond if you can't think of an actual argument, sport? Don't get me wrong, the man (boy?) displayed considerable ignorance but your little love letter to his demise only makes you look as ignorant as him.

As for the main premise of the thread: any culture advising another that it needs to be more like them is neo-colonialism. Outrage is not an Islam specific cultural trait; it is, however, facilitated in the Islamic world by lingering resentment towards the West and a ruling class more than happy to exploit that for political gain. It is also rather exagerrated by a similar faction in the West for similar reasons: the very images posted in this thread were from an extreme minority condemned by Religious leaders. Without the Islamic boogeyman that protest is not dissimilar to the many political rallies held by the Christian right (though even the extremism finds a mirror in the murder of abortion doctors). That is not to mention the Muslims who fights for the freedoms we champion in their own countries; at much greater personal risk than the average westerner who must only casually brush off the biscuit crumbs from our guts as we reach for the permanent marker.

Outrage over petty things can be found in every culture on this Earth, it's a Human trait. Whilst we have protesters burning children's fiction for promoting 'witchcraft' any call to emulate us will, and should, fall on deaf ears.

At 9/10/10 08:21 AM, Drakim wrote:

Huh? These things aren't usually in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I'm goint to leave the topic at large in peace but I have to comment on these pictures you see posted all over the nets of muslims holding "massacre those who insult islam" signs and the like. While I do not doubt that there are islamists that might show such signs, be VERY careful about your sources from them. Some of these pictures are made by right-wing groups; as an anti-rasist activist in sweden, I've seen far-right groups make these with my own eyes. There's a quite famous one here in Sweden which says "krosa svensken allah akhbar" ("crush the swede, god is the greater") which has been spread around swedish bbs's and bloggs. That one was made by members of the national socialist front some years ago. It's just an example, but you can count on many of the ones floating around the web to be fakes.