Saturday, January 29, 2011
The Egyptian Revolution Shows that the Us-Versus-Them Narrative of the War on Terror is False
While many in the U.S. have tried to paint most Muslims as extremists, and the "War on Terror" as being a black-and-white war of good guys versus bad browned-skinned people, the Egyptian revolution shows that the reality is very different.
As Democracy Now producer Sharif Kouddous tweets, moderate Muslims are drowning out members of the Muslim Brotherhood:
Muslim Brotherhood chanting Allah Akbar. Crowd stopped them chanting louder: Muslim, Christian, we're all Egyptian.
Similarly, an editorial in the Guardian states:
Tell everyone: Egypt's revolution is sweet and peaceful.And as Sana Saleem tweets, Muslims and Christians are working together to replace their tyrannical leader:
No one wants the Muslim Brotherhood to take over, no one wants violence – just elections and a new constitution
While Muslim Protestors prayed today, Christian Egyptians formed human chains to protect them. Solidarity,strength and co-existence.Indeed, interviews with Egyptian protesters show that they just want equality and freedom ... like we do. Despite their accents and appearance, they are really not that different from us.
No wonder even former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told the Senate that the war on terror is "a mythical historical narrative".
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God Bless all the people of Egypt.
ReplyDeleteA GOOD MAN WILL ALWAYS DO GOOD THINGS; AN EVIL MAN WILL DO EVIL THINGS, ONLY RELIGION HAS THE POWER TO MAKE A GOOD MAN DO EVIL THINGS.
ReplyDeleteMOST RELIGIONS PROPHECY THE END OF THE WORLD AND THEN CONSISTENTLY WORK TOGETHER TO ENSURE THAT THESE PROPHECIES COME TRUE.
GIVE A MAN A FISH AND HE WILL EAT FOR A DAY. TEACH A MAN RELIGION AND HE WILL STARVE PRAYING FOR A FISH.
RELIGION IS A FAIRYTALE AND ITS PRACTICE IS A CULT! -
ALL RELIGIONS ARE LOOK LIKE A CULT FROM THE OUTSIDE. NO RELIGION LOOKS LIKE A CULT FROM THE INSIDE. -
NO ONE! WILL EVER TAKE THE TEACHINGS OF YAHUSHUA, JESUS OUR SAVIOR FROM ME!
ReplyDeleteAND I OR ANYONE IN MY CHURCH HAVE NEVER NEVER EVER CARRIED OUT DECEPTION OR VIOLENCE TOWARDS OUR BROTHERS & SISTERS WORLDWIDE & IN OUR COMMUNITY EVER! IN OUR LONG LIVES!
IT IS POWER AND GOVERNMENT RULED BY CORPORATE BANKER ELITE....KNOW THIS! THE ELITE MONARCHY HERE IN AMERICA!
THE GLOBAL ELITE WHO ARE CAUSING WAR PLUNDER OCCUPATION & MURDER ECONOMIC DISASTER THRU THE UN CFR & IMF FEDERAL RESERVE WORLDWIDE....
SOME IN THE NAME OF RELIGION! ALL IN THE NAME OF GREED & POWER!
THERE IS ONLY ONE KING!YOUR CREATOR!
HIS TEACHINGS WILL SAVE THIS TROUBLED WORLD CONTROLLED BY TREASONOUS UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVT!
NEVER THESE OBVIOUS OPPRESSIVE WAR MONGERING PROFITING FROM DEATH & DESTRUCTION WORLD & US GOVTS!
some of the most cruel and brutal ideologies were atheist ideologies.
ReplyDeleteFor example, communism is an atheist ideology that committed pretty atrocious crimes. It seems that you don't really know much about atheism and its history. If you don't want to believe that Hitler was an atheist, don't worry, there are plenty of other atheists who are more passionate about mass muder.
Atheists include: Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Mussolini, Napoleon Bonaparte, Kim Jong Il and plenty more.
Mao is thought to be responsible for the death of about 30 million people. Stalin killed about 26 million people.
Mao and Stalin are considered the most brutal and bloody in history.
Jeffrey Dahmer, an infamous serial killer and atheist sentenced to 900 years in prison, said “if a person doesn’t think that there is a God to be accountable to, then what’s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges?”. He brutally killed seventeen men and boys, dismembering them, storing their parts and indulging in cannibalism and necrophilia. In 1991, he was caught by the police after one of his would-be victims escaped. Despite pleading not guilty on the basis on insanity, the court found him sane and fully accountable. He later expressed remorse.
Jim Jones drew people into atheism through the People’s Temple, largely based in California. He said that he “took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism”. In 1978, 909 people at the restricted communist “sanctuary” he presided over in Jonestown, Guyana, committed “revolutionary suicide” at his command. This occurred after the arrival of an American delegation, which he claimed was conspiring against the People’s Temple. Men, women and children took a vial of cyanide and died within five minutes. Only a few people escaped. This event was the largest single loss of American civilian life, in a non-natural disaster, up until 9/11. This entry has the unique status of being on both the atheism and Christianity list. The reason is that the majority of people considered Jones to be the leader of a type of Christian cult, but, as the quote above illustrates, it was really a ruse to attract people who would otherwise have steered well clear of him.
http://listverse.com/2010/06/05/10-people-who-give-atheism-a-bad-name/
"many brutal atheists however wouldnt have been greatly influenced by there lack of faith in a god or gods in the same way there lack of faith in unicorns wasnt a major influence".
Athiests have no belief in the hereafter and judgement day.
This makes it easier to see no consequences in committing the most horrible of crimes as evidenced in the actions of atheist figureheads such as Stalin and Mao who are believed to have been the most brutal in the history of humanity and they both are Atheists. What a coincidence!
A Holocaust survivor described how the atheist Nazis were not treating those in the camps as humans, they were treating them as meaningless organic matter.
Nazism was founded on the principles laid down by Neitsche and his "God is dead" philosophy.
Nazis designed government programmes to dispose of those with mental and physical disabilities in order to purify the race. People were dehumanised and treated as nothing but biological compounds. This is all the result of Social Darwinism which is archetypal atheism.
The father of Fascism was atheist Mussolini.
Is this all a coincidence or what? I mean, believing in survival of the fittest is compatible with all the atrocities committed by atheists.
The most oppressive and brutal government systems in the history of human kind were atheist systems i.e. Nazism and Communism.
You can blather about your unsubstantiated myth of the 80 millions but we all know for a fact that Nazism and Communism murdered far greater number than that.
Mao and Stalin alone are estimated to have killed 50 million of their own people let alone those murdered WW2.
Facts are facts!