Monday, June 13, 2005

Did you know that one of the Army's guidelines for handling a Koran is that you must use gloves when carrying one? This is because non-Muslims, or infidels, are considered unclean. I'm not unclean, and I'd be willing to bet the average Islamist fanatic smells a lot worse than I. I think we're taking this respect for other religions a little too far. Perhaps the other side should be required to show some tolerance, a little tit-for-tat. I doubt they carry Bibles with gloved hands. In fact there are many incidents of Islamists destroying Christian churches and Jewish Temples, and not even once has there ever been an apology, or even an acknowledgement of a wrong being committed. It's one thing to hold yourself to higher standards than others, but it's a whole other realm when you allow tolerance to lead to suicide, and right now we seem to be on course to tolerate ourselves to death.

2 Comments:

At 4:35 PM, Anonymous said...

But yet there we are, "liberating" them and trying to give them a better life.

 
At 7:19 PM, Ben said...

Hey anonymous guy, the scare quotes are kind of silly. Ask any Iraqi in Iraq if thye feel liberated from the hell of living under Saddam, and they will say, "Hell yes, we've been liberated." You'd feel the same way if you had to live uner daily fear of death or torture by the man that is supposed to be your leader. Yes, they still have to live in fear of death.... From foreign insurgents who want to establish a theocracy.

8 million people in January with blue fingers say they were liberated.

 

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