To Moshe on this bad Nazi joke

Submitted by Plato (United Arab Emirates), Jan 9, 2007 at 02:44

The "free civilised" world is also partly responsible for the resurgence of Islamic violence. Maintaining friendly dictators and potentates in the Muslim world who brutalise their own people in turn breeds terrorists. The "civilised" world must learn from the example of India which has the second or third largest Muslim population in the world. That country has a free democratic polity and despite being a markedly poor nation there is very little Muslim terrorism, except in Kashmir helped along by Pakistan. Just across their borders in Pakistan which has a military dictatorship maintained by the free West, they have fast breeder reactors for terrorism.

Those dictators are being maintained for the energy security of the West and the result has been as you say: "

Moshe, it is a kind of action having an equal and opposite reaction. You have your energy security but you have no personal security. That is the harsh truth. Until the "free civilised" West helps the benighted Muslim nations to democratise themselves there will be terrorism. And not in the way "democracy" has been brought to Iraq and Afghanistan!

One's religion can influence you only so much. Even a cursory glance at the Koran tells you that it calls for war against infidels, inhuman punishments, discrimination against women and so on. But the vast majority of Muslims, who are good normal people like you and me, will in order to keep their faith "go into denial" (which is not such a bad thing considering the stuff that is dished out in the Koran) or try to put their own take on them. The Muslms too will learn, like the Jews and Christians have done with the Old Testament, to accept a sanitised version of their Koran. This process cannot be helped by what is happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon or by propping up dictators to suit the West's selfish interests.

You say: 'Iran is speeding "full throttle" towards military nuclear capabilities, and is openly declaring that the Jewish State of Israel must be wiped off the map. And implicitly these threats mean also that Iran dreams to control the Middle Eastern oil reserves and supplies, and to teach the world "Who's the Boss".

Iran has no right to wipe any one off the map. But they have a right to nuclear capabilities especially if other nations who threaten them have such capabilities. North Korea, Pakistan, India and Israel have nuclear capabilities. Not many complaints. Why should Iran not. And if the West can control Middle Eastern oil reserves why not a country in the Middle East itself. As I said it is all about oil. You want energy security with tanks and bombs. You can expect bombs and guns to go off in your backyard too.

And by the way, the present "Boss" of the world already has his tail between his legs preparing to flee the inferno he created in Iraq.

Plato

In the civilized countries, no one can travel freely or walk freely into public places because of this Islamist terrorist threat. Security checks at airports, train stations, shopping malls, stadiums, theaters, and any other crowded places are mandatory. And in spite of all this, almost no day is passing by without another murderous terrorist attack done by the "glorious" followers of this "beautiful and pure religion of peace"….and in its name."

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