Alas the ignorance is now flowing freely. With one little blog entry I was able to get a bunch of zealots all riled up. I work in a world where we solve business problems. One of the tools often applied is simple root cause analysis (RCA). I still hold my position that the root cause of most of this fighting in, around, and from the Middle East is RELIGION. Go forth now and squabble amongst yourselves like spoiled children fighting over a plastic bucket and shovel in a sand box. I have to go to work…you kids play nice now. Just understand clearly that if you come over to my sand box and bring your fight with you, I hang around with a bunch of folks that will put your little shovel in your ear and insert the bucket in your @%#!
Oh, but just to clarify…none of them consider white bed sheets with eye holes cut in them to be acceptable outerwear, for any season. I have friends that are Muslim and Buddhist and Christian and Hebrew. I would love their children like they were my own if anything happened to them. If your religious beliefs make you feel otherwise, then you might just indeed be the one that’s screwed up in the end. Hello! Are you listening?
Sholkar, you nailed it buddy. Religions that persecute other religions walk in peril. History has already apologized for the actions of Christians 500 years ago. Similarly, it has apologized for the actions of racists in the U.S. 150 years ago. But, I’m about damned tired of apologizing to anybody for actions I took no part in. I am a Christian. I am also a Falcons football fan and I watch the Detroit Tigers play baseball when I can. If Islamic fundamentalists win their misguided jihad, and align behind a different team for religious reasons, will we have to start killing people for showing up at a picnic wearing the wrong franchise logo on their hat?
The Mayan culture had some pretty disgusting and cruel religious beliefs. They persecuted their neighbors at the behest of religious leaders too. Look how well all that worked out for them! Again, for those of us whose passion is obviously blinding, look out into the night sky and get your head around the fact that the stars go on forever. If all the answers were spelled out in detail in the Bible and Qur’an why the heck didn’t we get an explanation for that one? If your heart tells you to hate me because I went to a Catholic school, well we’re just going to be at odds about that then aren’t we? Why is it that the closer one gets to the letter of the law as related to most religions, the closer they get to being so self-righteous they act out in ways that border on evil?
Go Here to see the full string - http://sheikyermami.com/2009/09/14/new-bin-laden-tape-surfaces/comment-page-1/#comment-192119
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces...and so therefore I ranted.
http://sheikyermami.com/2009/09/14/new-bin-laden-tape-surfaces/comment-page-1/#comment-191779
My response to the thread will shock some. Those who know me well will simply shake their heads and wonder...
OK, that’s all great. Thanks all above for the history lesson. But, as a business person I just need to get the bottom line quickly. So, can you clear up how this jihadist that advocates killing kids if they’re Christian, cutting the clitorises off of little girls, sending suicide bombers into weddings, burning women alive on the accusation of infidelity and backing the murder of 3,000 of my countrymen has a leg to stand on? We don’t scare that easily.
I have some good Muslim friends that don’t believe any of that diatribe either. I explain it to the kids like this: Islamic fundamentalism is to Islam as the KKK is to Christianity. Except that the Middle East has let some of them (fundamentalists) steal power with terror. Hopefully we’ll get to the point where they [the constituency - including women] let these misguided elders parade around with signs proclaiming their ignorance and prosecute them if they start to collect weapons or actually act violently. Just like we have to do with the idiots in sheets here in Georgia!
Bin Laden’s rhetoric is indeed weakening. I’m not much for reading, and the Bible as well as the Qu'ran are both way too thick for people with ADD to wade through. Let alone learning the Arabic or Hebrew required to make sure you don’t dump language translation on top of translating the word of God and Allah. But, I’m willing to bet my soul that when we all reach our respective promised lands God and Allah are one in the same and he’s pissed at us for being such idiots. Men wrote both documents and the potential for data being misinterpreted and lost in translation(s) is huge.
Let’s look If the Bible and The Qu’ran were plans for airplanes they’d probably fly like bricks. In the Qu’ran Ayesha was only six when married off and in the Bible moses was 600. Really? Or, perhaps were we as mankind still getting up to speed on a universal solar cycle based calendar? Every attempt to take the words of either text literally invariably fails to end well. For example, all the massively successful crusades that happened, ½ a millennium ago. Why are Muslim fundamentalists still upset about that? We got over being angry with the Japanese in the 1960’s. Give me a break.
In the end, Bin Laden’s foray into history will likely end in a fizzle as opposed to bang. They’ll find his lanky corpse in the back of cave, alone and cold with the blood all 1,000s all over his hands. “Hey look mom, I’m a prophet.”
Oh and here’s one more thing I’d like to prophesize: When we reach the end of days this God/Allah/Buddha/Soaring Eagle creator of ours is likely going to be a woman too! How do ya’ all like that?
My response to the thread will shock some. Those who know me well will simply shake their heads and wonder...
OK, that’s all great. Thanks all above for the history lesson. But, as a business person I just need to get the bottom line quickly. So, can you clear up how this jihadist that advocates killing kids if they’re Christian, cutting the clitorises off of little girls, sending suicide bombers into weddings, burning women alive on the accusation of infidelity and backing the murder of 3,000 of my countrymen has a leg to stand on? We don’t scare that easily.
I have some good Muslim friends that don’t believe any of that diatribe either. I explain it to the kids like this: Islamic fundamentalism is to Islam as the KKK is to Christianity. Except that the Middle East has let some of them (fundamentalists) steal power with terror. Hopefully we’ll get to the point where they [the constituency - including women] let these misguided elders parade around with signs proclaiming their ignorance and prosecute them if they start to collect weapons or actually act violently. Just like we have to do with the idiots in sheets here in Georgia!
Bin Laden’s rhetoric is indeed weakening. I’m not much for reading, and the Bible as well as the Qu'ran are both way too thick for people with ADD to wade through. Let alone learning the Arabic or Hebrew required to make sure you don’t dump language translation on top of translating the word of God and Allah. But, I’m willing to bet my soul that when we all reach our respective promised lands God and Allah are one in the same and he’s pissed at us for being such idiots. Men wrote both documents and the potential for data being misinterpreted and lost in translation(s) is huge.
Let’s look If the Bible and The Qu’ran were plans for airplanes they’d probably fly like bricks. In the Qu’ran Ayesha was only six when married off and in the Bible moses was 600. Really? Or, perhaps were we as mankind still getting up to speed on a universal solar cycle based calendar? Every attempt to take the words of either text literally invariably fails to end well. For example, all the massively successful crusades that happened, ½ a millennium ago. Why are Muslim fundamentalists still upset about that? We got over being angry with the Japanese in the 1960’s. Give me a break.
In the end, Bin Laden’s foray into history will likely end in a fizzle as opposed to bang. They’ll find his lanky corpse in the back of cave, alone and cold with the blood all 1,000s all over his hands. “Hey look mom, I’m a prophet.”
Oh and here’s one more thing I’d like to prophesize: When we reach the end of days this God/Allah/Buddha/Soaring Eagle creator of ours is likely going to be a woman too! How do ya’ all like that?
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