........Evil is slithering its way into our society.
Because of your democracies we will invade you. Because of our religious laws we will dominate you.
Do something about it!
Don't just simply keep on whining.
But really, the thing that people fear most is fear itself.
Colin Powell seems to be a very brave man in proposing more consideration for Moslems. I won't be surprised that sooner or later a crank or a supposedly mentally-ill guy might attempt to cut him down. Remember how Martin Luther King was shot and killed for his DREAM.
Like it or not, I think Colin Powell has started to delegitimize some of the complaints and excuses of the militant Moslems by getting Americans to be nicer than ever before to Moslems. It seems to me the general idea is that if Moslems realize, in general, they are being shown consideration and respect, then they would be less liable to join the militants against America. All this sounds like pipedream and poppycock, eh?
Of course, whether this will work or not remains to be seen. But alas, far too many folks have a short fuse and are very impatient! To them the best solution is the final solution ---- obliterating Islam and vaporizing all Moslems! Oh well, to each his own!
Maybe a page of history will give you some idea of what delegitimizing a cause can do. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Communists in SE Asia tried to get the common people (labouring class) join them by telling them that the bourgeousies and the colonial masters were exploiting them left and right. The bourgeousies and the colonial masters delegitimized the Communists' propaganda by creating business opportunities and prosperity for the common people and raising their standard of living (especially in Malaysia and Singapore).
In the end, the Communists lost and had to vamoose and scram!
Indeed, history has shown that delegitimizing excuses/complaints/causes can be a way to win big time!
In the days following 9/11, I was condemned as being pro-Islam and pro-terrorists and anti-America for proposing the delegitimization of the militants' cause. Now Colin Powell and even Bush are seemingly pro-Moslem. And yet no one is screaming, screeching and yelling foul. What happened? Is it because folks (except for some Darrens and sheep farmers??????) are now wiser and are now agreeing, albeit reluctantly, with the Prez and Colin Powell? |
