dream an impossible dream

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), May 29, 2010 at 21:04

Eman,comfortably esconced in one of the wealthiest of Muslim nations, the UAE, writes:

"It's just so sad to see the oppression and prejudice the Muslims are facing, are caused by those who were once oppressed due to their Jewish belief"
Wrong. Once again you seek to blame the Jews for your own self-created problems. The dislike for the attitudes and activities of Muslims is worldwide. It exists in he Western hemisphere in Europe, Australia, the USA and Canada. It also exists in Russia and China, Thailand, the Phillipines, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia, Sudan, Nigeria. Are you going to try to blame the Jews for that too?

The universal prnciple of karma works whether you believe in it or not. It works on a micro scale in our own lives and on a macro scale in large groups. One great teacher put it very simply - 'as you sow, so shall you reap'. And also - a little more pertinently in the case of muslims - 'if you live by the sword , then you'll die by the sword'.

Anytime a group oversteps its capabilities and strikes at the USA - guess who is going to come off second best? Japan did it at Pearl Harbour. IDid you expect there would be no repercussions from the USA towards the muslim world after 9/11? They are perfectly entitled to seek out and destroy any nest of vipers anywhere that contributed directly or indirectly towards that event. And in doing so - along the way they've discovered just how widespread the monster is. And it grows. There is often a palpable hatred (no doubt based partly on jealousy) towards the US and Europeans in general - by people who are told from birth that 'they are the best of people'. I see this even in my city. The prejudice and insularity of people in muslim enclaves towards the wider society is alarming. And all the more absurd when you see many of them wandering around in bedsheets and slippers - explaining how wonderful their little muslim world is.

Large cults such as your own should look inward and impassively evaluate exactly what it is you teach your members - and realise what effect such brainwashing is having on their lives and the lives of non-cult members. Ultimately you'll see it's a massive ponzi scheme - but instead of money it's people's lives beng traded. It's somehow important for you that you increase in numbers - so that eventually there will only be religion - Islam. Isn't that what the Koran requires?

So you (you plural) look and work feverishly toward this unrealised (and impossible) dream. All the while forgetting to live in the moment - the only place any of us actually exist. The answer is for Islam to have its own Reformation and expunge those hateful passages from the Koran.

But, hey, you can't do that can you, it's already 'perfect' (just as you say Mo was).

And if it is not perfect - that means something else is - and that's just too terrifying to think about isn't it ? To admit you were wrong is an impossible thing.

"....at least give your self a chance to know about us;.......'

We have and basically, we don't like what we see . We see an archaic desert religion/political system based on the sayings and example of a 7th century arab caravan raider who today would have a rap sheet that would include pedophilia, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, armed robbery, conspiracyto murder and genocide. We see bizarre anachronistic cultural practices such as female genital mutilation (which are only practised in muslim countries).

We see barbaric punishments such as amputation of limbs and flogging for minor crimes. We see people frothing at the mouth , burning property and even killing over cartoons of a person whom nobody has seen or has the faintest idea of what he even looked like.

We see killings occur weekly because people resist Islamic advances.

We see no muslim country that has made itself rich through its own efforts - apart from the sale of oil reserves. And even in those countries that have had the happy geologic accident of sitting astride vast amounts of oil - the wealth is not shared equitably amongst their own people. And it rarely goes to the plight of other non-arab Muslims such as Darfur and Indonesia after their tsunami. No, you leave it up to the Infidels to waste their time and resources in that regard.

And in the case of Saudi Arabia - as well as being squandered on luxury cars and prostitutes inthe West - that wealth is used to export Wahabism - to set up 'Islamic studies' centres in Western Universities and to fund mosques and at the same time buy arms in areas requiring Islamic conquest such as Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya.

....at least give your self a chance to know about us;.......

yes , we have - and it's a dangerous schizophrenic that we see.

We've had 1400 years to see the effects of this on both muslims and non-muslims. We're smart enogh to send spacecraft to Mars - so don't you think that with 1400 years worth of facts already - we'd be able to deduce that your system is not viable?

Remember the phrase - 'an 'Islamophobe' is a person who is not a muslim and wants to stay that way'.

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