lies, religious wars and cartoons Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Posted by cerebralgraffitti in rants, rif raf.trackback
okay … read this … ?? what do you think …? to tell you the truth, i’m not sure what to think … i mean, i’m sure most of us would not dispute the cartoon’s message … Islam seems quite a violent, fanatical world … they do like to blow things up, and they do grow up hating … there seems a culture of violence … BUT, that said … it does seem disrespectful to mock a religious figure … wondering what all the Christians would think if an editorial cartoon depicted Jesus in some kind of similarly disrespectful pose? hmmmmm ….
oh, dear …. the war rages on … war of religions … war of words … ideas … beliefs … ho hum … i see both sides of the story … watched Condaleeza tell the world about the big bad Hamas government … gawd please spare me, dearie … does she HONESTLY think that she or any other western politicians are going to accomplish what has not been accomplished in thousands of years ….
that piece of land i like to think of as palestine will remain the source of wars, terrorism, etc for generations to come … ALL THREE SIDES ARE AT FAULT HERE … (the USA being the third side … can’t seem to stop sticking their noses where it doesn’t belong …ackkk) … how can Condaleeza sit up their telling the world they will not recognize a gov’t that supports terrorism? what a fucking double standard bull shit that is! they are certainly the running for such a distinction -gov’t that supports terror … and that wall … apparently no one was listening when reagan said about the berlin wall ‘tear down this wall …’ … so it’s okay for the livelihoods of palestinians to be destroyed for some fucking jewish bullshit wall? uh fuck … this is exactly why i choose NOT to watch the news … unfortunately today it was inflicted upon me …grrrr …
well. got that out. we all know we’re not gonna solve anything … but there. its said. now – violence … yes … this is not an insult … Islam is a very violent culture … when my husband lived in africa (his dad worked for the UN and was stationed there) he and his (swiss) parents lived in a flat above an arab family … one evening they heard some absolutely horrific screaming … the most awful sounds … coming from that flat … the next day when ‘dad’ asked about these noises … this is what the neighbour told him …”the rabbit only started screaming when i stepped on his head to slit his throat!’ … and, folks, that is a true story, and the said thing is … the guy who stepped on the rabbit’s head thought this was terribily funny … obviously the swiss family did not!
that story conjures up an image in my head … and that is the image i have when i hear hamas and their declarations of killing, destruction and war … i really wonder where this leaves the mideast process … nowhere … at an impass … with one side wanting a two-country solution (the side that doesn’t live in the mideast, of course), and two other sides wanting a one-country solution …
i’m really hoping that one day soon cooler heads will prevail and someone will stop and ask, ‘wait …why did those people elect a hamas government? what message does that send us?’ but … i’m not holding my breath … 
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Hypokalemia? I haven’t heard of that drug before…
Just curious- if you do have too many patients all at once and you aren’t able to check lab values (which I do believe is the real world), and the patient has an adverse reaction that potentially could have been avoided, are you legally responsible?
hi katie … see the comment i left on your blog (under the post about toradol)
The reason is the asstinking oil. The substance that makes us buy the ridiculous SUVs with the 2 gallon mug holders. AGHHH! We are the consumers of these wars that rage on the oil rich lands. That is the bottom line. I do my part by driving compact and economic. But contribute to the stupidity by speeding.
Someday, there will be no preservatives, splenda, equal, corn syrup, sodium and other poisons in all the food we consume. Some day I will be dead already.
i do my part by not driving my car at all … there it sits, parked in my driveway, covered in snow (grrrr – while i still pay for it!!) … i do agree greed is a factor (perhaps for the west – i.e. dubya) … but let us not forget that religion/culture/nationalism is really what the fight is about in the mideast and that piece of land … that is what this is all about … the arabs think the jews are evil and visa versa … how can their be any resolution when each side thinks the other should be anihilated?
I can’t see the problems in the middle east ever being resolved short of annihilation. I find the attitude of Condoleeza & GW amusing tho’
Embrace democracy infidels!
Oh no – Embrace democracy so long as you vote in the party we want…..
I liked the response from the leader of Hamas where he basically said that there was no difference between his country electing his party & the US electing George W.
Don’t agree with the politics of greed whether it is oil, land or religion at stake.
[...] i refer you to this post, which i wrote a couple days ago … [...]
“Islam seems quite a violent, fanatical world … they do like to blow things up, and they do grow up hating … there seems a culture of violence … ”
I’m sorry but you need to get your info cleared up. Read more about “Islam” in Wikipedia. I also recommend reading this simple article to know why and what sort muslims blow things up….
http://drhaisook.wordpress.com/2006/02/03/real-muslims-vs-islamofascists/
learn about religion from wikipedia??? no, thanx … i have learned what i know about islam from muslims – people actually practicing islam – and also from people who have lived in the middle east and north africa … where did you get your info from??? if you don’t agree with me, then say so, don’t friggin’ tell me to ‘get my info cleared up’ …!!!
i don’t really need to know why people in the world blow things up to have a better understanding of the world … i just need to know its happening ! i point you to the continued, violent uproar in the muslim world over these cartoons … people have actually died in the demonstrations, building and flags were torched … ! that is stunning behaviour over some cartoons … i call that behaviour ‘fanatical’ and violent … what do you call it?