General Petreus illustrates perfectly why Islamophobia is borderline treasonous activity–backstabbing our troops in the field, and the Muslim allies fighting and dying side by side with them.
Of course, most Muslims over here in the US have a perfectly sane response (and despite endless claims to the contrary, it’s hardly impossible to find such Muslims, you just have to spend all of five minutes actually, y’know, making a sincere attempt), but that isn’t the point: in places like Afghanistan in particular, we are looking at a largely illiterate, extremely poor population easily manipulated by a single image accompanied by these words:
“The Americans hate us and all we care about! Just look!”
I know from experience that most people don’t get this, and I’m done trying to explain it, because I believe most people don’t want to get it. And no, I don’t want to discuss it; if you want to rant and rave about the Islamic faith because Muslims in poverty-ridden, impoverished cultures, ground their whole lives under the bootheel of fascist tyrants, tend to have angry reactions when you piss on everything they hold dear, go find somewhere else, probably someplace loaded with atheists or fundamentalist Christians, where they’ll happily agree with every word you say.
Terry Jones is a disgraceful traitor, just like most of the tools at Jihadwatch and Atlas Shrugs. He’s not standing up for “free speech,” he’s indulging in hate speech, and stabbing US armed forces in the back. Thanks, a$$#0les.
And no, I have no interest whatsoever in debating the matter.
*Update*: The BBC shows reactions in the Muslim world. Predictably, violent reactions are not the norm, although I’m sure someone, somewhere in the world’s 1,000,000,000 Muslims will act like an idiot and be used in a “see! see! here’s all the proof you need!” demagogue fashion.
I am proud to see that the Vatican was front and center in condemning this filthy behavior.
If you’re making excuses for Pastor Jones, I don’t even want to talk to you. His “free speech” isn’t at issue, he’s free to burn crosses, burn flags, burn Bibles, burn the Book of Mormon, burn the Baghavad-Gita, burn the Koran, he can burn whatever book he wants. Hey, the Nazis loved burning books too, Pastor, you’re in good company!
*Update 2* Here’s how Gainesville’s Muslim community plans to respond. Good for them.
*Update 3*: I hear that the Pastor has finally decided to do the Christian thing and not give offense simply for the sake of being offensive. Good for him.
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