The delivery of the head of some random soldier who probably wanted to be fighting as much as I want dance barefoot on glass is odd however celebrating the defeat of an enemy (because that's what that was) is simply a natural response.I want my side to win because that guarantees my continued survival and if my guaranteed survival hangs on killing more of the enemy then the enemy kills us you better believe I will be happy.lokiduck said:I am not saying that we shouldn't celebrate his death, I mean he was a evil man, what I'm saying is that personally I can actually agree with that man that you shouldn't celebrate any persons death in such a way because it's wrong. This mostly due to the fact that I just recently watched a video where people celebrated the death of countless people because they were the enemy. In fact I'm still traumatized that there is actually a photo of a women holding a skull and it the caption explains how it was a present from her soldier boyfriend of his first Japanese kill and how happy she was about it.spectrenihlus said:These people who will be pissed at us celebrating the death of this man are pissed at us already, hell I don't think they can get any madder. These people do not respect our ways and don't care if we respect theirs so frankly they can go die in a fire. What we have is the death of a man that would have wanted every single person in the western world dead and if he had the means would have done so yesterday. The fact that there are people in the western world not only not celebrating but actually violently against such displays astounds me. Seriously how did you people react to the end of Harry Potter?lokiduck said:... In history today we watched a video on the Atomic bomb.
With the deaths of countless innocents in Japan, the USA partied like it was the end of the world because they had defeated the enemy. Everyone celebrates not because of the death of the enemy. They celebrate because they made a victory...
I understand what the Islam leader is saying because he is stating simply that those who celebrate death are disgusting, which is understandable because I personally found the footage of the partying while countless Japanese laid there dying horrible back at the end of 1940.
Though this is different. I mean Osama Bin Laden was the horrible man and the fact that he is dead is good, and it is a victory which is why people are celebrating, but you can understand why some people would be offended because they may not understand that.
Like the Mosque reader said at a Muslim Service I attended said, "The key to world peace is respect for peoples different opinions" and yes we should celebrate, but we should understand and respect that some might think us cruel for enjoying death.