Vicious circles.

Sorry, I do have a few things on the back burner... But I'm distracted at the moment so I'm not in front of my PC enough. Doesn't mean I'm not knocking back rumbos and getting my rant on.

I just thought I might post some musings I had concerning some anti-muslim shit my far fetched facebook mates thought was appropriate. Feels to me like a subtle form of hate speech and I just didn't want to let it fester. Fuck em, they don't have to agree with me, but someone should break the cycle of intolerance.

So this is my post, and it's cheating cause it's cut and paste, but feel free to comment or review. You can hate it, or repost it or print it out in wingdings and burn it. It's your life and you only get one crack at it..

The shocking video Muslims don't want you to see!!

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Watch this video about the shocking similarites between Muslim and Nazi beliefs. Listen to a former Palestinian terrorist. What is being taught to Muslim chi...

• • Morgan Parkinson 
    

    I haven't watched this video, but be careful not to broadly generalize yourself. There are courts in Kuala Lumpur who recently used the internationally recognized Nuremburg principles to successfully prosecute war crimes (as the Americans did against the Nazis), that the American government simply shrugged off. In their absence George Bush and Tony Blair were found guilty of war crimes.
    
    There is more than enough war and violent crimes against humanity already, whether it's legitimate or not depends on whose laws you subscribe to. There is a more common law of nature which teaches that, instead of hatred, we should foster understanding. Instead of division, we should focus on compassion and instead of perpetuating violence, we could attempt co-operation as fellow humans.
    
    Since there literally are Australian troops abroad, training guns at foreigners (including muslims) right now, in your name, make sure you are capable of deciding for yourself if we are doing the right thing ourselves. As I said, I don't know what the video is, but I have no interest in watching anything that inspires hatred and division, which probably utilizes carefully selected footage to perpetuate a world of war and terror of which I feel no connection.
    
    It disgusts me that westerners have subtly been ingrained with a racial superiority, which makes it impossible to understand why there is literally an entire world of people who are fed up with our arrogance. We pollute the planet, we are out there killing people with technologically superior weapons and we will be in relatively air conditioned comfort eating caviar until the world breathes its last gasp. It'd be nice if occasionally someone showed some humility..
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    *********** Morgan soumds like a liberal fool
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    ************* Hey *******l. This is total B&^*Shit!! Don't believe the hype.
  • ************* Skillful editing can make any story you want...
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    I know what you mean ********, but i don't underestimate what fundermentel Religion can do, Look what is happening all over the islamic world,Its a little to cute to blame it solely on the west. what is your idea of an infidel,? Seems to me theres a lot of people in the west with there head in the sand, and if none of this is true, why do we seem to get such a response about it. and if none of this is  true, then we have nothing to worry about, ay.?
  • Morgs, havent watched this vid,? man you wrote plenty, You very articulate bro,I reckon you would rather live with us disgusting superior arrogant western types though,not you ofcouse, but judging from where you live,you should feel pretty comfortable.
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    Morgan Parkinson I have no problems with my own lifestyle. I am free to eat, take shelter, work and vote. I am very happy. I try to give to charity where I see fit and I try to educate myself better and avoid resorting to self-righteousness. I understand what you are hinting at, that fundamentalism of any kind is dangerous. But there may well be many good things about Islamic life that you will never know, because the kinds of emails, links and shares you receive are from people who would rather criticize and smear other cultures than understand them.
    
    I think there would be a lot of parallels between Islam and Western culture, that we would both see the value of human life and look towards moral and ethical pursuits. I have heard the Quran is actually a very beautiful book and that the fundamentalists read far beyond its words to give creedance to their minority belief systems, much the same as Christians have always refuted scientific discoveries that don't align with their mythological beliefs.
    
    The major disparity arises when westerners fail to realize the influence that our way of life has on countries outside our own. We don't have bombs dropping here, we don't have fundamental factions armed to the teeth who turn our neighborhoods into warzones, we have food on the table and for the most part feel safe in our streets. Yet we harbor a deep seeded widespread cultural apathy and choose to ignore that fact that we are a cog in the wheel of the global problem. Our schools don't meaningfully teach second languages, learning about other cultures is more of a peculiarity and our privilege to learn about other cultures through travel is far too often left unpursued.
    
    The US and Australia take credit as the biggest polluters per capita worldwide, together we have installed countless puppet dictatorships and kept them in power with our money, weapons and increasingly cyber technology which has facilitated large scale human rights abuses. After decades of maltreatment I can see how other cultures may see westerners as an evil influence, seeing as how it's our bombs killing their families, our money feeding their corrupt governments and our technologies rooting out champions of human rights and seeing them imprisoned, tortured and killed. This is without mention that it our business practices that have decimated the environment and the global economy, the effects of which we are comfortably insultated from.
    
    Fundamentalism is wrong, but we should understand that it is a reaction. A desperate reaction to an unfair world by others who may never be fortunate enough to share our freedoms. They're starving, they're being killed by the hundreds of thousands and they don't have a fucking shining light at the end of the tunnel. If that shit was happening here it would be the end of the world, but their blood is cheap to us. That is why I refuse to watch a video which is hand picked to perpetuate a climate of indifference towards our fellow man, which capitalizes on the most basic human emotions. Anyone can be conditioned to hate. It will be the links of those among us who seek to teach and bridge the cultural gap, who inspire peace and understanding, that I choose to spend my time on.
    
    I'm sorry to take the ball and run with it, but I just cannot stand that people are brainwashed to rationalize our aggressive military behaviour overseas. Can't we just stop dropping bombs on each other?