Re: So, do you think Ahmadinejad is behind the massive outburst of anger throughout the Islamic world directed at the "cartoons" and those responsible for them?
Yes, I believe so. But then, what's wrong with it? Ahmadinejad and other Muslim leaders use Islam as a rallying standard against Judeo-Protestant aggression the same way G.W. Bush mobilizes US opinion behind the defense of "our values", "our freedom", "our God",...
Again, as Orwell wittily put it, opposite fanaticisms feed upon each another:
Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three blocs are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Judeofascism, in Eurasia it is called Laissezfaire, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.
The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all.
Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine creed, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. It follows that the three blocs not only cannot conquer one another, but would gain no advantage by doing so. On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn.
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