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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (37725)	7/9/2005 2:24:02 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

You actually got it, you just don't know it yet. The analogy, which you like almost every non-Muslim, doesn't seem to be able to deal with is this: You can see that there is no commonality between a Mexican Roman Catholic who is trying to get across the border into the USA, and the IRA radical who is PO'd at the Queen. Well their is one... They are likely both from a staunch Catholic Heritage. You would not consider that enough to call on the Mexican to account for the behavior of the IRA radical or to ask the IRA radical to speak to the issue of Illegal immigrants coming into the USA ... at least not based on their commonality of Catholicism. The Irish Government and IRA members definitely have direct tie to issues over how they are treated as subjects of the crown. So comments from the Irish government would carry a great deal of credibility and weight on the issue. Then you assume that an African tribesman, a person born and raised in the USA, a Palestinian, a naked person covered with flies and rapped in a blanket lying on a street of Somalia, a bomber on the streets of bagdad, a south East Asian, a village Imam from Asiria, the dictator of Libya, the prime minister of Pakistan have some responsibility to account for a bombing in London. OK they may have one thing in common ... a heritage of being Muslim. I am pretty sure that anyone and everyone who is educated and feels impacted by the event is commenting a plenty, and struggling to gain a worthwhile perspective. Your expectations, however, seem a little overly broad and far to general. I don't want uninformed dopes going off half cocked to stand on street corners making proclamations. I would prefer that people give this some thought and discussion first, then let qualified spokes persons do their job. Did you know that on the same day, the only Islamic Ambassador in Iraq was murdered. He was an innocent man from Egypt. I think the terrorists made a grave miscalculation about several things that day and that we will start to see a serious Islamic tide turning against them. Egypt is definitely ticked off, where as a year ago they were on the streets protesting against Bush. This is a turning point if my powers of prophesy are in working order.