Mygaffer said:
Stainlesssteele4 said:
At first, I thought it was some derogatory remarks towards Islam, after seeing how widely this was reported. But to find out it was simply a quote above a toilet...
I just don't understand the mentality. Do they not understand that not everything has to conform to their religion? Or that they are not free from criticism?
I guess I'll never understand, as I'm too free minded to conform to such zealotry. But I'm going to remain annoyed by the whole situation.
If someone calls me something on the internet, I live with it, because is can't be helped. But if someone openly criticizes Islam, heads roll.
I am sufficiently bugged by this ordeal. Bugged I say.
Except that is baloney! There are attacks on Islam all the time in this country, hate crimes are between 3 and 5 times more likely on Muslims in the US since 9/11, depending on which numbers you look at. In either case that is a huge increase, imagine the murder rate going up by 300 to 500%, or rape, etc.
I myself, who is NOT a Muslim but of middle eastern descent, have had several instances of personal harassment, once by a cop. The current "war on terror", the 9/11 attacks, there is a long and complicated history leading up to that, going as far back as 70 years ago and the US/UK backed ousting of Iran's democratically elected president. It goes back to US support of Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran and supplying him with weapons, many of which were used to suppress his own people. It has to do with US support of the mujahideen, and thus indirectly Osama Bin Laden.
US foreign policy of the last 60+ years, basically post WWII, has been all about trading short term gains for long term problems. When people generalize about homosexuals most people will put them in their place right away. When people generalize about African Americans most people will put them in their place. But when people go around saying all Muslims are cry babies, all Muslims are terrorists, etc., more often than not 90% of the comments are "Yup, your right, screw those guys".
Did I say anything about attacks? No, I said
criticism.
To put it bluntly, religious fanatics demand that everything go
their way, or else. This scenario is just exactly that; Fanatics demanding something change because it isn't perfect for them.
Video games and movies have inadvertently said and done homophobic and racist things in the past, but if a single anti Muslim sentiment goes through, it's a fucking backlash from the entire Islamic community. Meanwhile, everyone else just sucks it up and moves on.
Of all the groups facing adversity, they are just making themselves look petty. Yes, they are the largest growing religion, and yes, they are entitled to some courtesy. But seriously, they outright demand certain things go their way!
This particular instance, the MW2 'scandle', is different. He didn't
demand anything, but there was no need to even bring it up. Be offended, and move on. And after being brought up, the Islamic community did want it changed.
An instance of the Muslim community complaining about outlandish things?
Burger King stoped selling ice cream cones because 'the silhouette of an ice cream cone looks like the symbol for Allah'.
If it's honestly a big deal, then stop buying Burger King ice cream cones, instead of ganging together and demanding BK change it. It's just crazy!
I say they demand too much. And this incident is no different. In fact, this one is pretty huge. They are going to change an actual map, in a video game released 3 years ago.
Now, you can continue on your whole tirade about foreign policy, and so on, but I'm not talking about that. I am talking about how the Islamic community are far too demanding, and hold themselves in far too high regard.
Also,
pork.
