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Blogging in Iran Takes Courage
netbuzz writes "This morning's Boston Globe has a thought-provoking profile of Iranian bloggers who are risking everything, quite literally, to bring a modicum of openness and truth to a society where the former is not tolerated and the latter strictly defined by government/religious authorities."
Takes courage too, look at the dixie chicks. Anything that is not favored by another is deemed to be "unamerican".
Ow cool. Great idea. Proportionality. Let's look closer at what the more recent enemies of america did, what they consider "appropriate" violence.
... i.e. "the west" : starting up a police force of reasonable people that have as their main purpose preventing violence from escalating
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Let's react with "appropriate" violence, I find this a great idea. What violence is appropriate ? Let's see what the different people of this world think is appropriate :
muslims : blowing up random unrelated citizens, murder out entire villages, pillage burn and rape, as dictated by the quran
iraqi baathi's : hanging anyone with an even slightly dissenting opinion, if necessary killing tens of thousands at once with nerve gas
afghani's : drag any women that can read (or *gasp* tries to teach another women to read) around the town by her hair then shoot her
hezbollah : randomly firing rockets into a foreign population, bombing people that are perceived as a threat
syrians : killing of hundreds of thousands of people, because they are immigrants and tried to stop the police from murdering them
Americans, Israeli, Europeans, Australians,
Tell me, who is right about what is "appropriate" an what is not ? Are the muslims right ? Is the quran correct about what is proportional ? The entire premise of proportionality is something that is a central part of the new testament, of Jesus' life, I do hope you realise that. Proportionality is not a valid principle in the arab world, not even in the highest courts in supposedly "moderate" nations :
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/12/17/todays-bahai
As you would probably say. RESPECT others' culture and religion. ESPECIALLY in a war. Do NOT attempt to predict their reactions by christian standards. It's dumb, incorrect, foolish and disrespectful. Withouth accepting the violent, mass-murdering basis of muslim culture (as evidenced by the life of the paedophile prophet himself) you will never ever remain peaceful with a muslim for a reasonable amount of time. Either you accept muslims, including mass-murders, violently enforced religious discrimination, subjugation of women, and tribal nepotism trumping all other affiliations, or you don't.
"They" won't stop if america retreats. On the contrary, their attacks will intensify, as can be clearly evidenced by the situation in somalia.
"The west" is NOT an army, it's NOT a geographic location, it's NOT a people, it's NOT a religion, it's an idea. It is capitalism, equality, democracy, enforced secularity, religious individualism and, most importantly, the absolute rule of law. It is worth fighting for. It is worth dying for.