Ethics

Submitted by victor (Spain), Aug 12, 2006 at 02:33

Observing reactions of many in the West to the behaviour Hizbolah and other fundamentalist Moslems vis a vis their reaction to Israel, US or British behavour it is obvious there is a double standard. If civilians placed intentionally in the line of fire by Hizbullah get killed by Israeli bombs not intended for innocent civilians it turns out for many Israe's reaction is excessive, even a war crime, When Hizbollah for 6 years throws rockets at Israeli civilians on purspose somehow that does not outrage many. Blowing ut the Twin Towers, London, Madrid, Bali, behading on TV, stoning adulterosu women, indoictrinating kids in hate, turnig them into suicidal maniacas, and on and on seems to be sor of expected behavious among millions of Moslems.

This is my reflection: Have millions in the West concluded Islam-Arabs are some sort of inferior race-culture-religion of which we can not expect even the lowest standards of respect for human life and therefore not worth outraging ourselves over their behaviour? Have we reduced them to som sort of animalistic beings incapable of loving life adn of developing the behaviours to act as lovers of life? I find few ideas that would be more insulting to me if people "left me alone" because they concluded I am incapable of civilized behaviour...

I mean, what the hell does Islam to so many that they can descend to the worst imaginable ideasthe name of Islam; "eliminate the Jews", "death to all infidels" and to act on those ideas with 100% conviction!

My hope their irrational fanaticism, hate and resentment will start to fade as the BBC, CNN, Sky News, travel, mortgages, education and in general exposure to the Advanced West and Advanced East advances. Every time a French or Japanese UN doctor helps a Palestinian in a camp, a Iraqi the underlying mesage is "see, ours is a better wayb of thinking, it generates moiney and technology to save your life, yours can not even generate money or technology to save your own, let alone other´s!" Similar veffect has to turn on a Mitsubishi air conditioner, a Intel computer, a Merceces Benz, a Nokia phone, BBC programming, fashions and on and on.

It is my believe radica Islam is son of the "agony of the monster", it is an internal crisis in Islam which if not sorted out may even destroy much of Islam. The World is not now 6th century Arabia, where an adaptation of the Jewish God spread like fire in a world of pagan shepperds and mountain tribes. Just like the Church had to adapt to avoid self destruction Islam will have to. But perhaps that change will not occur until a sufficient number of Moslems have studied at Oxford, Harvard, Sorbonne, Heidelberg, etc.

Islamist irrationality will not prevail because it does not contribute anything of value. The 10th Century Islam offered a superior cultures in some respects, this is why it survided for a time, until the Islamic World fell behind. I said FELL and not pushed by the West. In fact, whatever prosperity, technology, etc. the Islamic World has to day it ows to the West. It is the West that found the oil, it is the west that develop the technologies to use it, it is the money of the West that gives most of the Arab-Islamic World, whatever perosperity they have NOW. If they were rational, not only would the Islamists not exist but the Arab-Islamic masses would have obliterated them because they are their own worst enemy.

The only good thing about the fundamentalist-terrorists is a not intended effect; the reaction they generate in the West and Adnaced Asia accelerates the modernization of their thinking. Islam belongs in the home and the Mosque, the "infidels",, "crusaders", "death to israel", "death to America" thing is just crap. "the "crusaders" already won the confrontation in the 16th Century. Islamist thinking only ensures the prevalence of the "crusaders" that now include Japan, the US and soon India, China and Russia. There is no contest.

Radica Islam is the global equivalent bof a "tough" neighborhood; angry, mostly with very low self esteem, occasional "attacks" to good neighborhoods to steal and murder but mostly just kill and steal from ecah other and do not threaten the establishment because, for all its faults the establishment is smarter, better oraganized and has a better value system

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