Friggin hell...here we go....
What I find funny is that the picture isn't from the article. So I could post images like this:
Oh jees sharkman, talk about petty...I posted a picture from my local cache since I don't like to friggin hotlink. Oh btw, unless you wanted a picutre that showed you too could win a million pounds...
The picture I linked to came from a similar story about protests in the street about the Pope. Don't believe me,
here's my blog post which covered a humorous side of that picture. Original story is
here
OK, now to the story at hand.
That's assuming our culture is better then theirs; and IMHO there isn't one culture that's better then another. There's no way to decide. Each different culture has different values, norms, etc.
Yes there is. If you honestly think a culture that...
a) Views women as things and not as people.
b) Discourages education except for studying the Quran.
c) Advocates violence and suicide as a means to get into paradise.
Is on par with our...or India's, or China's...or even the Aboriginies of Australia.....you have some serious issues to work through.
So I should start listing all of the abortion clinics that have been attacked by christian religious extreemists? What about gays that have been targeted by religious attacks? Religious extremeism is on both sides of this fence. They just have different enemies.
F*ck, we can go through each an every action that has been carried out "In The Name Of (insert deity here)". Now that we have a list...lets see who has been "more bad".
I really hate this argument of "oh Christian did bad things five hundered years ago, so we have nothing to talk about" which is a load of sh*t. I smoked a bunch of dope and drank well before I was 21. Doesn't mean that I can't tell my kids not to do it. It's the same friggin argument. There's a vast difference between "learning from your past" and "living in your past". Radical Islam and a number of religophobes are carrying out the latter.
There is no problem with calling "evil"...well..."evil". We know what bad thins are, yes they have our own cultural perspective on it; but bottom line is we and many other cultures on this planet value certain things...
Life.
Liberty.
If you honestly think that a culture that does not value those two ideals is on par with our, I highly suggest you ask those people what they think of their native culture. And then please explain why teenagers are running away from those cultures in droves, especially in countries that are in the areas that I am mentioning.
Oh, in parting...Sinead. Was not the brightest career move in performing that little stunt, but I would also put it in the same sense as a certain British performer playing a certain song which had an unfavorable view of the audio broadcasting world on the same show... I don't think anyone outside radical Christianity really wanted her dead, and those that did need to have some serious re-evaluation of their spiritual side.
