I just glanced at the news this past week and noticed that there was a bombing in Israel, a bombing in India and three Indonesian girls were kidnapped, raped and beheaded on their way to Church. Oh but if a muslim is insulted because he was handed his koran by a christian who did not wear gloves in a prison in cuba or some terrorist body was burned in the field of combat to draw out other terrorists, we hear about it forever.
Quick Dog posted a link to the beheading. Personally, I prefer not to dwell on the lunacy of the rest of the world. I'm the father of two girls and not a day goes by that I don't think what the future holds for them but I'm not Uri Geller or the Amazing Kreskin and I can only learn from the past and deal with the present on a day-to-day basis as far as a being a dad goes. Keeping an eye on them is a full time job, and there would be NO WAY IN HELL I'd let my girls get into a situation like those three little girls found themselves in... Bone
Bonedog, you have a good point. Having kids changes your priorities in so many ways. Including the way you view the world and all of it's extreme insanity. You just don't have the time to be outraged by every idiot trying to make a name for himself in the name of Allah. Kind of makes you wonder if the nut-jobs doing these crazy things have ever had any kids.
"You just don't have the time to be outraged by every idiot trying to make a name for himself in the name of Allah." But my point Moen is where is the outrage. Most media mention it in passing and usually excuse it or blame the victims-as in the India and Israel bombings, some ignore it and in other parts of the world it is cheered.
I still look out for my daughter, and she is married and 27. I believe that you guys know what I am talking about. One of my main duties as a husband and father was, and is, to protect the women folk at all cost.
It is what happens when actions from islamic terrorists become "common-place". In other words, it is NOT news anymore because it happens too often. Of course if a NON-mulsim comiitted these acts, the press would be all over it. The left likes to remind us about the Oklahoma bombing or some whacked head that blows up abortion clinics, but news from the scum of the earth is in fact NOT news anymore...it is just the way it is with these people. You can site islamic terror act after islamic terror act over the last 40 years, but the shock value is gone. Think about it...you open up the paper on page 13 and the headline reads, suicide bomber blows up children in a market place. Of course they DON'T state the terrorist is mulsim (we don't want to offend those peaceful loving mulsims do we?) and later on in the article you see that Hamas or whatever jihad group has taken responsibility. Are you shocked? Are you surprised? Is it anything new? The day they stop acting like animals and their terrorist activity...now, that would be news!! ...wouldn't happen in my lifetime or my kids
"Yaaaaawwwwwn!" ajm229. Is that an appropriate response to children being raped and beheaded for being Christian or Hindus and Jews being blown up for being Hindus and Jews. Like I said before, these atrocities against humanity are being ignored, excused and cheered by to many.
From my local news just this morning: Man killed at Houston-area grocery 11:00 AM CST on Monday, October 31, 2005 From KHOU-TV Staff Reports A man was shot to death Sunday in the parking lot of a Krogrer in a Houston suburb. According to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office, Alim Kermally, 23, died at Memorial City Hospital from what appeared to be fatal gunshot wounds. Police said two groups of people were in the Kroger lot at 9203 Highway 6 in Fort Bend when a fight broke out that involved baseball bats and firearms. No arrests have been made. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-8477. Information that leads to the apprehension and filing of charges on the suspect(s) involved could be rewarded with up to $5,000. 2 found dead in Coppell apartment 10:44 PM CST on Sunday, October 30, 2005 By BRAD HAWKINS / WFAA-TV WFAA-TV Police found two bodies in a Coppell apartment after they received reports of gunshots. Police are investigating what happened to two people who were found dead Sunday inside a Coppell apartment in the 600 block of North Coppell Road. Police arrived at the scene after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots. A Coppell medical examiner said it was a man and a woman who were discovered by the police, and some have said it appears to be a murder-suicide. Also Online Brad Hawkins reports The call came into the police around 20 minutes before noon Sunday. Police forced their way into the apartment when they arrived on the scene and found the two bodies. While police have not made any statements on their identity, a neighbor in the area shared some clues into noises she heard coming from the apartment. "I heard two bangs," said neighbor Rachel Regner. "It sounded like somebody had taken a steel rod and banged it either against the wall or something hard. I didn't think of [the sounds] as gunshots. It may not have been." Coppell police shared a small amount of information on the incident, including some possible assurance to the community of little danger to the public related to the bodies found. "At this point I don't believe we have something that anybody here in the neighborhood, or anyone else should be concerned about as far as a murderer at large, these kind of things," said Lt. Steve Thomas. But despite those words from police, neighbors at the Mansions by the Lake apartment complex expressed concern. Many of them said they would like to know exactly happened to the family who they described included a mother, father, a son and a daughter who were just walking a dog the night before. The point is, **** happens everywhere, and it's oversensationalized by the news. Fear breeds ratings, and that's what the national news syndicates are feeding on. What you have here are 3 grisly crimes. That's 3 crimes out of a total Muslim population of what? 2 billion people?
So what is your point? Are you trying to say these are the only crimes committed by/or too Muslims on this particular day?
Cyclonus11, it is ironic that you sing a song in a response to make light of innocent death. When I was younger it was different. Music was used to help bring aid to areas destoryed by Islamic hate. But I guess you never heard of the Biafra concert or care about the genocide of the Ogoni people in Nigeria.
With so much genocide, killing, murder, rape, and so on, the better question is, when do you stop being outraged? There are certainly enough atrocities in the world that one could be outraged every waking moment of ones life. You could run around screaming until they locked you up. Instead of asking why people aren't outraged by world events, you might ask what we can do about the atrocities occurring around the world. Outrage is easy, solutions are tough. Now I have to get back to playing Doom 3.
No, bad stuff happens everywhere, all the time. It just seems a lot worse than it is because of sensationalism in the media. That's the point of the "song" - not to celebrate, but to make a point.
Well, actually no. That wasn't the original point of Don Henley's song. He wrote it when a blond Los Angeles anchor woman, who's name it forget, reported that he had been busted doing things of let's say a sexual nature with a 13 year-old while in L.A. Not Don's finest moment to say the least.
Andy people do deplorable things and that really sucks. But it is not JUST Islamic people, all sorts of people do terrible things. I like you wish it would stop, but we must not fool ourselves into thinking that Islamics are the ONLY bad people in the world.
Then show me ANOTHER group of people that strap bombs to themselves as they enter a crowded marketplace or take over a school and kill hundreds of children. Show me ANOTHER group of people that makes it clear that if you don't believe in their allah (as in infidel), you must be killed. Show me another group or religion of people that is currently responsible for OVER 95% of the world's conflicts that have or are taking place for the last 50 years. We are not talking about isolated incidents from individuals that you are referring to, but pretty much the blueprint for an entire religion. Even the mulsims that don't kill themselves quietly support and harbor these animals...and for that, they need to be eliminated just like a cockroach. Fire bombs anybody??
It is easy to say oh I am a nice person and most people are nice and if you say otherwise you must be a bad immoral person. It is harder to face the reality that there is a movement that has been going on since Mohammad first picked up his sword, notice the Saudi Flag, to wage death or conversion. Now all of you who seem to ignore history, current events and what the Koran actually states amaze me for what you are defending is against everything you seem to believe in. Equal rights, womens rights, freedom of religion, freedom from religion, freedom of thought, etc.... and as for isolate incidents, give me a break-genocide in the name of allah has been and is going on as we live our fleeting comfortable lives. We are in big trouble for not only is the Islamic movement big in numbers but they have the wealth to buy influence to undermine us. I just hope a conservative democrat wins the next presidential election for then perhaps people who are just Bush bashing will realize that Bush did not start this, it exploded in his face and the explosion that happen on 911 was just part of the fire that has been buring since islam started its reign of terror with muhammad's jihad and the book of hate.
THAT'S ONE...ONE!! As I alluded in my previous post. Bleeding hearts love to point out the Oklahoma bombing and the whacked person attacking abortion clinics. IF that's all you got, you have made my point. You just defined a rare and isolated incident by an individual. The big differance is that "right-wingers" like me search and put away these sick people. We don't try to understand their feelings nor do we support them. We go after them, prosecute them and get rid of them. If I see a fellow "right-winger" doing a crime, I will turn him in. I don't run into the streets to praise allah for these acts. We dealt with McVeigh and we executed him...rightfully so! On the other side, there are MILLIONS of muslims that want non-muslims (infidels) dead! For you muslims that support and harbor these animals, you are NO differant. Go ahead and look at the television cameras and state, "Islam is a religion of peace" as you donate money and supplies to your terrorist oversize-night-t-shirt buddies...I am NOT buying into your crap. "Evil wins when good does nothing".
And he was stationed in Saudi Arabia during the gulf war. And he used a car bombing that is popular in the middle east. And he bombed the FBI's anti-terrorist headquarters before 911. And there was an arab seen with him on tape that was detained in Europe with bomb making materials and released. Timmy was not Islamic as far as I know but there is alot of things that suggest that he was used. Wake up before your head is cut off America.