Anti Islam/Pro war Propaganda On Sixty Minutes
Yesterday evening, I saw a 60 Minutes that enraged and disgusted me. It was about a Danish artist who was killed for, stupidly enough, making a soft porn film which debased the Koran and insulted Islam as a religion that promotes the abuse of women. Man, do they come any stupider? I am thoroughly opposed to his murder, but some things you just have to call natural selection. The Netherlands has a sizeable Muslim minority, so it's obvious that the poor artist was taking a serious chance with his life. He may as well have been basejumping, climbing Mount Everest, or driving drunk. He took the risk and he paid the horrible price of his life.
According to 60 minutes, the film was made as a protest about the treatment of women in Islam. It depicted a naked woman praying as a muslim would with lines from the Koran on her chest and other arabic writing on her bare back implying that Islam promotes abusing women.
Now we all know that you can't generalize like that about any faith. Islam is a rapidly growing Religion of around ONE BILLION THREE HUNDRED MILLION FOLLOWERS. There are not only Arab Muslims. There are caucasian Muslims throughout Europe "blond haired, blue eyed Muslims" as a suprised Malcolm X described them. There are black Muslims throughout western, central and northern Africa, and of course in North America. There are Chinese Muslims whose faith survived even Mao's Cultural revolution in vast numbers. Islam also thrives as far east as the Phillipines and even Fiji. As a matter of fact, the country with the largest number of Muslims isn't even in the so called Middle East, but in Indonesia in the Pacific! Yes, the country with the most muslims consists of Pacific Islanders.
So when we are describing Islam, we are talking about a vastly diverse array of peoples and cultures. In some cultures in a few muslim countries women are given codes to live by with which most Americans, including yours truly find too strict and even cruel. There are far too many backwoods locales here in the U.S. where women's potential is looked down upon, or where theyre expected to be "barefoot N' pregnant". Even most of the U.S. Military men who are supposedly "freeing" the Muslim World are leaving behind housewives with little independence or economic power of their own. In fact, many servicemen seem to hire or import, as opposed to marry their wives. I guess this is because they see American women as too free! It is the culture of a few remote tribal areas, not the religion of Islam which places limits on women's freedoms. There are many more muslim cultures where Muslim women conduct their lives with as much "freedom" as they do in Europe and the United States. If we are concerned with how women in a few cultures are treated, we need to open our borders to them instead of increasing our hate for or fear of them. Most women in "strict" muslim cultures wouldn't trade their way of life for anything. They are following what they believe to be God's will. Sanctioning or bombing whole countries because of how we percieve women are treated in their most remote and backwards areas is as foolish as bombing or sanctioning Alabama or Mississippi, but I feel the 60 minutes special could have inflamed some westerners to support such actions against other nations.
If 60 minutes were a trustworthy source of information, which it proved not to be, there would have been a comparison to the way women are treated right here in the United States.
In the United States, I venture to say, women have it much worse than in most Islamic cultures. In the United States, four women DIE every day because they are killed by their partners. That's ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY annually!!!
FOUR MILLION women in the United States suffer physical abuse every year at the hand of a husband, fiancee, or boyfriend. One in four women in THIS country will be physically abused eventually by their partner. One third to one half of all homeless women in the U.S. THAT'S OUR COUNTRY are fleeing an abusive partner for their very lives! ONE THIRD of the time police officers spend on duty in this country is spent responding to domestic violence. White Christian bombers are in custody right here in the U.S. for attacking women with EXPLOSIVES who for a variety of reasons, cannot become mothers of healthy, happy, law abiding children at this point in their lives.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it's quite obvious that the intolerant, back woods, woman hating terrorists are living right here in the United States!!!
Naturally, the corporate owners of 60 Minutes, who no doubt are heavily invested in MILITARY CONTRACTING and OIL CORPORATIONS want you to hate Islam with all your might so they can waste your money and your family members in an unnecessary, never ending war for oil that will make our country the enemy of the entire world.
According to 60 minutes, the film was made as a protest about the treatment of women in Islam. It depicted a naked woman praying as a muslim would with lines from the Koran on her chest and other arabic writing on her bare back implying that Islam promotes abusing women.
Now we all know that you can't generalize like that about any faith. Islam is a rapidly growing Religion of around ONE BILLION THREE HUNDRED MILLION FOLLOWERS. There are not only Arab Muslims. There are caucasian Muslims throughout Europe "blond haired, blue eyed Muslims" as a suprised Malcolm X described them. There are black Muslims throughout western, central and northern Africa, and of course in North America. There are Chinese Muslims whose faith survived even Mao's Cultural revolution in vast numbers. Islam also thrives as far east as the Phillipines and even Fiji. As a matter of fact, the country with the largest number of Muslims isn't even in the so called Middle East, but in Indonesia in the Pacific! Yes, the country with the most muslims consists of Pacific Islanders.
So when we are describing Islam, we are talking about a vastly diverse array of peoples and cultures. In some cultures in a few muslim countries women are given codes to live by with which most Americans, including yours truly find too strict and even cruel. There are far too many backwoods locales here in the U.S. where women's potential is looked down upon, or where theyre expected to be "barefoot N' pregnant". Even most of the U.S. Military men who are supposedly "freeing" the Muslim World are leaving behind housewives with little independence or economic power of their own. In fact, many servicemen seem to hire or import, as opposed to marry their wives. I guess this is because they see American women as too free! It is the culture of a few remote tribal areas, not the religion of Islam which places limits on women's freedoms. There are many more muslim cultures where Muslim women conduct their lives with as much "freedom" as they do in Europe and the United States. If we are concerned with how women in a few cultures are treated, we need to open our borders to them instead of increasing our hate for or fear of them. Most women in "strict" muslim cultures wouldn't trade their way of life for anything. They are following what they believe to be God's will. Sanctioning or bombing whole countries because of how we percieve women are treated in their most remote and backwards areas is as foolish as bombing or sanctioning Alabama or Mississippi, but I feel the 60 minutes special could have inflamed some westerners to support such actions against other nations.
If 60 minutes were a trustworthy source of information, which it proved not to be, there would have been a comparison to the way women are treated right here in the United States.
In the United States, I venture to say, women have it much worse than in most Islamic cultures. In the United States, four women DIE every day because they are killed by their partners. That's ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY annually!!!
FOUR MILLION women in the United States suffer physical abuse every year at the hand of a husband, fiancee, or boyfriend. One in four women in THIS country will be physically abused eventually by their partner. One third to one half of all homeless women in the U.S. THAT'S OUR COUNTRY are fleeing an abusive partner for their very lives! ONE THIRD of the time police officers spend on duty in this country is spent responding to domestic violence. White Christian bombers are in custody right here in the U.S. for attacking women with EXPLOSIVES who for a variety of reasons, cannot become mothers of healthy, happy, law abiding children at this point in their lives.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it's quite obvious that the intolerant, back woods, woman hating terrorists are living right here in the United States!!!
Naturally, the corporate owners of 60 Minutes, who no doubt are heavily invested in MILITARY CONTRACTING and OIL CORPORATIONS want you to hate Islam with all your might so they can waste your money and your family members in an unnecessary, never ending war for oil that will make our country the enemy of the entire world.
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