We have to ask: Do you have the first clue as to the ramifications of your actions? Do you not understand that the net result of such irresponsible, appalling action is to give ample fuel to every racist in the country to reinforce every bad stereotype they have ever had of you, and that will affect badly the hundreds of thousands of other peaceful and law-abiding Islamic Australians?
In short, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!
I don't think they WERE thinking, Pete, I think they were feeling.
Their religious fervor is equal to ours, that is just the human condition, but in their world the country is ruled by religiously oriented leaders and the laws require adherence to the only religion recognized by their government. Jihad is an honorable reaction to slurs to their god or their religion....and to die as a Jihadist ensures eternal bliss in whatever heaven in which they believe. They die happily...:stunned:
Remember Salman Rushdie? Just recently the "reward" for his death was reportedly raised....after more than 20 years since he published the offending book?
Yet, in their fervor, they fail to recognize that they offend our sensibilities with their revengeful efforts just as we do theirs with our (often unintentional) acts which ridicule their god, their religion,
their fervor. They are so egocentric, so tied up in angst over their ONLY hope for salvation being ridiculed, that their feelings rule.
They are not thinking....no rational human would do what they do if they were, IMHO.
How long before our U.S. government gets enough and starts revoking visas, sending home the offending parties as well as the innocent. We interred American
citizens of Japanese descent during WWII, an act that was upheld by our court system, because they were percieved as a danger within our society. Can purging our country of the new danger within (whether right or wrong), many who are here on temporary permits, be far behind?
I, for one, hope not!!!!!
Cheers!
Doug