First of all Glander YOU don't know crap.
All the media is shouting Muslim and Russia - but we really haven't been given the facts of whether this is a bunch of idiot guys who hate their lives and Americans - which may have absolutely NOTHING to do with this tragic event. We won't know until facts come out but you somehow think YOU are morally superior by making statements that this was a religious hate crime without ever waiting for the facts to actually come out and then slamming us because we point out some simple truths with questions.
You see, people that might ask, might question, might conjecture but that state they ARE NOT in favor of fundamentalism - could be construed as morally superior - know why? Because we are willing to admit that there is hate and crime and finger pointing throughout all nations and in all religion. We don't think we are superior beings - we just aren't willing to give ourselves a big pat on the back for being somehow better - when in fact a bomb dropped on 250 innocent people is no less murderous than another dropped somewhere else on the same number of innocent people. A mother in Iraq cries as does a mother in America. A child weeps in Africa just as a child weeps in Australia. Our blood and tears and love for life is no different - it is small number of people who fundamentally hate others and will seek to destroy them.
Do I understand Islam? No. I really have no desire to. Do I detest fundamentalism? Yes. That approach serves to seek out and oppress and destroy all that does not align with it - no matter what religion it is. Am I glad to be living in North America? Yes I am. Would I want to be living in Iraq or Afghanistan? No I wouldn't. My choices don't mean that I don't believe that there aren't good people there - it just means that yes, fundamentalism lives there and I detest the degree of fundamentalism it represents. There are people there trying to change those attitudes but it may never work. Does pointing out our own approach to spreading Christianity - Bush and his Crusades - Jesus rifles - do those make us better or do we just dress the issue up so it doesn't look as evil?
JW's believe they are morally superior to everyone else. They believe a child must become a martyr rather than take blood. They cut people off as if dead and by doing so destroy people and families and lives - if the laws of the land allowed otherwise, perhaps they too would become the poster child for stoning the flock. Those pushed to sucide by shunning - a living death for some - is no less death. Are we morally superior because we pass laws that still allow a living death opposed to stoning? Are we somehow morally superior when we say a child should die on the religious beliefs of the parent? I don't know if we are or not. I'm okay with asking myself those questions and looking for answers. sammieswife
