I suppose there's very little I can say or do to change your current modus operandi, however. People like you need to believe in a clearly defined evil,
And you don't have a clearly defined "evil" scapegoat ??
No, not to my knowledge, no. My philosophy is live and let live. What's yours?
The world needs a scapegoat so what's more perfect than a bunch of dark-skinned weirdos turning to Mecca five times a day and refusing to accept that their God is routinely insulted in most ways imaginable
Most western Jounalists go out of their way to not be insulting, despite the dark-ages mentality that the majority of Islam holds on to. Fundamentalist monotheism begs to be mocked.
On this I agree, absolutely. But the cartoons were not about that, they were about ridiculing so many more people than just a few fundies. The cartoonists (and above all, the people pulling their strings) are hiding--and mocking--behind the pretense of freedom of speech, and I'm not saying that they aren't allowed to because they are. I'm saying that it's unwise, unnecessary, and downright stupid. Just because it's within your rights to call someone an arse, it doesn't mean that you
have to. Freedom of speech is not just a right, it's a responsibility because most of the time, the world isn't black and white.
by the same folks that bomb them,
Turn on your T.V. , they're the ones doing the bombing.
I have, and long before they were, the US was, in the case of Iraq, or a number of other Muslim countries out there. Do you have any idea of how many civilians that died, both as the results of direct bombings and the results of the long-term sanctions?
And can you honestly say that it wasn't then, or is now, a question of their oil rather than the freedom of the Iraqi people and other propagandist nonsense?
sanction their supplies,
Who has been sanctioned who did'nt first violate U.N. mandates ??
and steal their oil.
Yes, I forgot how poor oil countries are. They have to beg on the streets to make their Mercedes payments.
Iraq is a classic example of a poor country with vast oil resources, the Mercedes payments notwithstanding. Without the oil, Saddam would still be in power. (And if you disagree, why is that guy in Zimbabwe still ruining his country?)
Why do you think the US is interested in sanctions against Iran, right now? Can you spell "Halliburton"?