Fury over attack on British war graves in Benghazi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17244211

How can we live in peace with a people who would not let the dead of different relgions rest in peace.

Watch the end of the video on how they attack the grave site cross with a hammer and chisel.

 

It isn't as bad as you made it out to be. The Libyan authorities sound mortified that this has happened, calling them a group of thugs or whatever. I'd call this an isolated incident and not something most Libyans would allow if they saw it happening. Every so often, maybe every couple years, kids in my area vandalize headstones in a similar way... and I wouldn't say the entire people in my area are like that. It's childish behavior... religiously motivated childish behavior really.

 

It is worse than he made it out to be when you have multiple peoples do stuff like that because their religion teaches them that it is right - 1,000,000,000+ of them.

 

I don't have any issues with individuals being religious, but groups of like-minded religious people eventually come to believe they have the right to dictate to others their interpretation of their religion must be followed. So yeah, I'll agree on the point that a billion like-minded individuals are dangerous as hell... but I feel that way about all religions that qualify.

In the article Andy provided, the majority of people in the area were just as upset about the behavior as you and Andy are.

I consider the incident an isolated case of religiously-motivated vandalism and something the vast majority of muslims would not condone.

 

You are looking at the Libyan government through rose colored glasses.

 

Andy would probably agree with you. What I can say is that I look at the available evidence and use my general knowledge of related issues as a filter. That means, for the story Andy posted I believe I'm correct... but that pertains only to the limited circumstances, to the vandalism of the headstones, and not in the larger more complicated social issues in the area.

In those I believe we've made some headway... in the people not hating the U.S. as much as they had before... and in that sense I may be looking through cock-glasses, but it's more a measure of my higher sense of hope for relations between our countries than a blindness to the hatred we have for each other's countries.

 

I found the actions quite dispicable and hope that the Lybians do as they have promised which is to prosecute those responsible

 

They are just jockying for position by saying one thing to the west and doing another at home. Remember the libyan jew who started to take the bricks off the jewish temple had to leave for a death order was placed upon him. The government acted to the west as if they were upset but the reality is they want a nation where it only sunni islamic which is in their speeches at home This is not uncommon in the arab world. If you look at the video it looks as if the local Iman was leading it.