VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 16:50:58 10/23/04 Sat
Author: ts
Subject: Re: Saudi attitudes toward Jews
In reply to: Joe 's message, "Saudi attitudes toward Jews" on 17:11:31 10/11/04 Mon

Found this
here
http://www.freerepublic.com/~melas/
I saw a t-shirt in the mall recently that really caught my eye. It said, "Everything I need to know about Islam, I learned on 911". I'm sure Robert Fulghum, would absolutely not approve of the t-shirt.

I really like Robert Fulghum. From his writings, I've gleaned that he's an incredibly nice person, and an all around great guy. His compassion is obvious to the causal reader, as well as his unwillingness to judge others. These are qualities that I greatly admire. Qualities that I think deep down, I've always wished that I myself possessed in greater abundance. This is how I know Robert will hate what I'm going to write in the following paragraphs.

I did learn everything I need to know about Islam, on 911.

I learned that Islamic extremists are willing to cut the throats of stewardess in front of passengers.

I learned that Islamic extremists are willing to fly planes full of crying, frightened, innocent passengers into buildings.

I learned that moderate Muslims, run of the mill Muslims, everyday Muslims, around the world weren't there to condemn the extremists. Instead they danced and wagged their tongues at our loss.

Since then, not a lot has changed, except Islam has shown it's colors time and time again. Car bombs in Israel, suicide bombers in cafes, a subway explosion in Spain, Children raped tortured and killed in a Russian school, and at the heart of it all, Islamic extremists. Terrorists.

I would like to think that Islamic extremists are the exception and not the rule, but the more evidence that builds, the more I realize that the extremists at the minimum, enjoy the silent support of the moderate majority. If the everyday Muslim, the so-called good Muslim, is geniunely as appalled by the bloodshed in his name, as I believe an American Christion (I can't actually speak for them, I'm an atheist) would be, he's certainly being very quiet about it.

I would love to be Robert Fulghum. I desperately want the cheery optimism, the slow fused unwillingness to judge. I want desperately to believe that every day Muslims aren't the fiends that are behind these atrocities, but everyday Muslims aren't showing me that they're truly against them.
?

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Post a message:
This forum requires an account to post.
[ Create Account ]
[ Login ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.