LOL delicious delicious irony!!!

[blinklynx]

From the news this morning: "...muslims protested the violent depiction of mohammed by burning down the local danish mission and attacking a nearby christian neighborhood....".

Quote from BBC article: "'They want to test our feelings,' protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC. 'They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not.

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[blinklynx]

well, the conflict is downright inevitable really, because you have two philosophies that are more or less in direct conflict with each other. I mean, the west says that nothing is sacrosanct, and the east says there is. Where is the line drawn? If there has been a line drawn before, it's not consistent, because images of mohammed have been produced for centuries, yet it's not like there have been mass riotings to tear down every last painting depicting mohammed from museums around the world.

The whole situation just doesn't cut easily; there are too many things going on there to just say that the west is provoking the near-east imo. Does it help that muslim religious doctrine calls for the destruction of any jewish state? Does it help that the Jewish doctrine says that a certain patch of sand out in the middle of nowhere rightfully belongs to them? Iran has been very adamant about being entitled to nuclear energy. Does it help that the president of such a nuclear technology hungry state has stated that Israel needs to be wiped off the map? Muslims like to cry foul and say that the west shouldn't claim to know the feelings of muslims in general based on the actions of a few extremists. Does it help that the people of a muslim state elevated a terrorist organization to the political stage, presumably to work on their political agenda which the voters felt best represented the people's desires?

The whole thing is a powder keg waiting to go up. My flippant response really belies a deep-seated cynicism about the state of human affairs. It's just all so very....disappointing and childish. Honestly, is killing each other because two books say the other side is wrong really the best we can do?