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In reply to the discussion: Ugh, DU. The anti-Muslim sentiment here is getting to me. [View all]limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)113. You are correct on this.
I keep thinking it's like the LA riots. It wasn't all just about Rodney King being beat down. It took decades to create the conditions for it.
Several idiots got on TV trying to explain the whole thing by moral decay and welfare dependency, or some barely hidden racist language.
We better start asking "why" if we want this kind of stuff to stop.
It's not defending the rioters to ask what creates the conditions where this happens.
To be honest I think religion is a major problem there. But if people are that religious maybe we ought to try and respect their religion a little more by condemning the film instead of rushing to defend it. I'm NOT suggesting to ban it. But socially condemn it if it is hateful.
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The US is one of the most religious countries in the world. It just has better police & civil order.
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2012
#61
No, we just practice "organized rage" called wars, occupation, drones and the like. nt
nanabugg
Sep 2012
#134
And what percentage of the killing in the Middle East has been done by us or are allies?
Puregonzo1188
Sep 2012
#158
i'd be enraged if saudi arabia was randomly bombing people in the us, canada, mexico, etc.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#10
There are riots over this video in countries with free speech and freedom of religion
oberliner
Sep 2012
#195
Actually this kind of behavior isn't unique to the middle east...look at gang violence.
dkf
Sep 2012
#73
i'm sorry but bombing people because they have different customs doesn't fit my definition of
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#12
You don't remember when we bombed Saudi Arabia for not allowing women to drive?
Nye Bevan
Sep 2012
#53
I would be more in favor of economic blockades and other measures to right that wrong.
randome
Sep 2012
#54
Do you think advocating for equal rights is NOT a good use of American influence?
randome
Sep 2012
#175
that's not why we're doing it but it's certainly one of the PR techniques used to make it ok in the
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#59
Yeah, it's easy to sweep it all under the rug when it's 'over there' instead of 'here'.
randome
Sep 2012
#65
glad you're not a comedy writer, either. despite the smiley laugh track, you're not funny.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#130
no we just rationalize & justify it in those terms. which is what all the "oooh, look at all these
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#162
LOL, at one time people said the same thing about slavery. Brilliant! Congrats!
Logical
Sep 2012
#155
"Calling" for women to be subservient and "forcing" them to be are 2 different things.
randome
Sep 2012
#30
And what's even LESS civilized is to take those people up on their invitation to do so
MNBrewer
Sep 2012
#118
But whenever that happens, it too gets condemned/mocked/criticized on here.
NYC Liberal
Sep 2012
#63
we're not invading and bombing israel. i rarely see anything here about jewish fundamentalists.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#17
Agree!!! Some people pose as free-thinkers, but their biases are very evident. nt
patrice
Sep 2012
#116
Sorry, but fundamentalist religious sects of any stripe are, by their very nature, uncivilized.
MadHound
Sep 2012
#18
I blame religious people for a lot of the world's problems. Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc...
Comrade_McKenzie
Sep 2012
#29
I admire their personal, private, honest, and very deep jihad. That's not something that is
patrice
Sep 2012
#117
The ones who commit murder over insults are everything you mention and worse.
CBGLuthier
Sep 2012
#44
This has nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with social backwardness.
Odin2005
Sep 2012
#77
"without an attempt to understand context" - What context makes these murders ok?
Ohio Joe
Sep 2012
#79
I agree with this sentiment, and I say that as an atheist and fan of The God Delusion. n/t
backscatter712
Sep 2012
#150
Totally agree. I don't why some DUers can't seem to grasp that this film is just the tip
Puregonzo1188
Sep 2012
#160
The arrogance is a generally Western and particularly American response
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2012
#103
In what context is this "understandable" and not uncivilized, backward and violent
MNBrewer
Sep 2012
#105
A abhor all extremists, no matter the religion, also can't stand anarchists, libertarian extremists,
progressivebydesign
Sep 2012
#106
Freedom? Slavery: when "it's the other guy", it's ALWAYS "the other guy" who caused me/us to
patrice
Sep 2012
#111
Sorry, but when hoards of people riot and cause violence because of a cartoon or a movie....
liberallibral
Sep 2012
#127
This war is no more anti-Muslim than the wars of conquest for CA, TX, NM and AZ were
cr8tvlde
Sep 2012
#137
"Blacks, gays and Jews never did anything wrong. Muslims deserve to be abused"
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2012
#141
I thought the information coming to light shows evidence of planned attacks by an organization?
theinquisitivechad
Sep 2012
#147
So because the indigenous people are less sophisticated, they will act with greater restraint?
riderinthestorm
Sep 2012
#198
Civilized or sophisticated is simply semantics. The Aztecs felt their culture was superior
riderinthestorm
Sep 2012
#207
Let's drop their fundamentalists in the desert with our fundamentalists ...
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2012
#170
"Protests against us"? No, I think it is everyone's job to press for equal rights.
randome
Sep 2012
#192
Oh FFS, where? I've been called a bigot because I object to women having to wear a burqa
riderinthestorm
Sep 2012
#217