Shame to waste a good soapbox...
And another thing...
(deep breath... dodgy ground here)
ISLAM...
May I apologise in advance if I upset anyone... I know it's dodgy territory, but I promise... no cartoons!
My parents were christians... They had God... They muttered and complained when Life of Brian was released... BUT they didn't burn embassies, threaten to kill people or anything violent... they just muttered...
Now while I agree with the right to practice whatever religion you like, I must admit I'm getting oh so slightly tired of Islam...
For a religion that is as old as it is, you would kinda think that it could be better organised, more resilient, and generally more easy going
More organised as in there doesn't seem to be a concensus on condemnation of acts portrayed in the name of Islam, which most true Muslims seem to abhor too...
More resilient as in, surely if Islam has been around as long as it has, it doesn't have too much to prove...
And more easy going as in... CARTOONS ffs... no disrespect intended, but surely any god would have a sense of humour, or at least the opportunity to get his own back if he was really offended
I watch daily events with an impending sense of doom... The warmongers may be pulling the strings, maybe manipulating the press, and provoking reaction, but surely religion, if you have it, is a spiritual thing... why dirty that with political crap?
For the record, I try and avoid religion as much as I can. My soul is doing just fine... I try and treat people as I find them without having to conform to a view based on the hidden agendas of the religious elite. I'm sure most sane people that 'have' religion do so too... it's just a shame that...
a) That extremist views sell papers
b) That Islam is treated as the new evil
c) We can't all just accept that opinions are just the rantings of the individual, and shouldn't be treated as an indication of a nation's feelings
Just my view... don't crucify/torture/behead me for it...
(deep breath... dodgy ground here)
ISLAM...
May I apologise in advance if I upset anyone... I know it's dodgy territory, but I promise... no cartoons!
My parents were christians... They had God... They muttered and complained when Life of Brian was released... BUT they didn't burn embassies, threaten to kill people or anything violent... they just muttered...
Now while I agree with the right to practice whatever religion you like, I must admit I'm getting oh so slightly tired of Islam...
For a religion that is as old as it is, you would kinda think that it could be better organised, more resilient, and generally more easy going
More organised as in there doesn't seem to be a concensus on condemnation of acts portrayed in the name of Islam, which most true Muslims seem to abhor too...
More resilient as in, surely if Islam has been around as long as it has, it doesn't have too much to prove...
And more easy going as in... CARTOONS ffs... no disrespect intended, but surely any god would have a sense of humour, or at least the opportunity to get his own back if he was really offended
I watch daily events with an impending sense of doom... The warmongers may be pulling the strings, maybe manipulating the press, and provoking reaction, but surely religion, if you have it, is a spiritual thing... why dirty that with political crap?
For the record, I try and avoid religion as much as I can. My soul is doing just fine... I try and treat people as I find them without having to conform to a view based on the hidden agendas of the religious elite. I'm sure most sane people that 'have' religion do so too... it's just a shame that...
a) That extremist views sell papers
b) That Islam is treated as the new evil
c) We can't all just accept that opinions are just the rantings of the individual, and shouldn't be treated as an indication of a nation's feelings
Just my view... don't crucify/torture/behead me for it...
posted by Slaine at Wednesday, February 15, 2006
2 Comments:
How dare you!
May your crotch be infested with the plague of a 1000 camels fleas.
Tolerance is not in the same dictionary as the one in which extremism can be found.
You wait until they find out that Walt Disney was really an anti-islamic covert broadcasting network, and Porky Pig is really Mohammed and Bugs Buuny the great US.
I was going to make a post on my blog about it, since I am having a hard time understanding their problem.
(I probably have more tolerance of the Islamic faith than Catholocism and I am married to a catholic and my kids are brought up as cathlolics. But that opinion is fast changing).
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