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Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site
another random user sends this quote from the BBC:
"Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again. The social network had placed a temporary ban on the material in May following complaints that the clips could cause long-term psychological damage. The U.S. firm now believes its users should be free to watch and condemn, but not celebrate, such videos. One suicide prevention charity criticized the move. 'It only takes seconds of exposure to such graphic material to leave a permanent trace — particularly in a young person's mind,' said Dr. Arthur Cassidy, a former psychologist who runs a branch of the Yellow Ribbon Program in Northern Ireland. 'The more graphic and colorful the material is, the more psychologically destructive it becomes.' Decapitation videos are available elsewhere on the net — including on Google's YouTube — but critics have raised concern that Facebook's news feeds and other sharing functions mean it is particularly adept at spreading such material."
its current configuration in the world today, islam doesn't have a separation of church and state. so its culture is heavy in membership rules (sorta an anthropology term) which downplay the individual, and emphasise the group. all the monotheisms have that, and any old culture in the world has had that, simply because in earlier aeons most of the world was organised along tribal and membership rules.
from the point of view of a membership moslem, islam is the final truth given by god, after the christians and earlier, the jews corrupted it. it is version 3.0 -- best and purest. so it has a strong cultural ethos to preserve that purity. when middle east nations who are engaged in a cold war with each other, persians against arabs, try to destabilise each other using religion as a weapon, they can easily draw on jihad-membership culture-of-honour messages which are already part of the religion just because it was founded in the 7th century when that's how the world worked, to varying degrees. it would be harder but not impossible to manipulate jains into that because they are fundamentalists about non-violence. so there are several ingredients. but today, big money is one of those ingredients and is how all these guys who would perhaps dream of jihad can actually get the funding to buy stuff and get out there and get fighting.
for anyone who objects to the features of a particular religion being singled out, there are several books by moslems, men and women, detailing their experience of islamic culture as it is today in the world, and whilst we would wish to be sensitive, what they say is that western "sensitivity" doesn't do any favours to the large numbers of moderate modern thinking moslems who are held back by the well funded political groups, who are using extremist membership culture, deliberately promoting it as a political tool, in the middle east and beyond. they are aghast that they leave their home nation and come to say, america and find the local mosque and local moslem community is more extremist than the one they left behind in the developing world. this it seems, is no accident.