Situation 1: Stimulus
PanzerCardinal Benedict quotes a Byzantine Christian Emperor essentially declaring islam 'evil and violent' and plays down the reference to islam in the quote with the rather watery and not entirely condemnatory word 'brusque'.
Situation 1: Response
Protests across the global muslim community expressing dismay and disappointment in the Catholic Church. The protests are mainly peaceful, however some minority groups perpetrate isolated criminal acts such as church burning, effigy burning and death/attack threats. The media blows this out of proportion in their usual 'demonise the muslims' way.
Situation 2: Stimulus
Ferenc Gyurcsany, the prime minister of Hungary (a predominantly white christian nation) is videotaped speaking of how 'we lied morning, noon and night.' with respect to government promises and performance and spoke thus, 'There is not much choice. There is not, because we have screwed up. Not a little but a lot. No country in Europe has screwed up as much as we have. It can be explained. We have obviously lied throughout the past 18 to 24 months. It was perfectly clear that what we were saying was not true. We are beyond the country's possibilities to such an extent that we could not conceive earlier that a joint government of the Socialists and the liberals would ever do. And in the meantime we did not actually do anything for four years. Nothing.', among other shocking revelation of misgovernment.
Situation 2: Response
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5358690.stm
What begins as a peaceful protest, carried out by predominantly white christian folk, degenerates into a rampage of carnage, burned cars, burned buildings, riots, vandalism and looting perpetrated by minority groups.
Point
Continue demonising muslims if you really want but don't think they have some kind of monopoly on anarchic behaviour when the words of powerful people test sensibilities. They're human just like you and me and we're just as capable of responding like some of them have under certain circumstances. Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone, as a part-time magician/part-time carpenter once said.
PanzerCardinal Benedict quotes a Byzantine Christian Emperor essentially declaring islam 'evil and violent' and plays down the reference to islam in the quote with the rather watery and not entirely condemnatory word 'brusque'.
Situation 1: Response
Protests across the global muslim community expressing dismay and disappointment in the Catholic Church. The protests are mainly peaceful, however some minority groups perpetrate isolated criminal acts such as church burning, effigy burning and death/attack threats. The media blows this out of proportion in their usual 'demonise the muslims' way.
Situation 2: Stimulus
Ferenc Gyurcsany, the prime minister of Hungary (a predominantly white christian nation) is videotaped speaking of how 'we lied morning, noon and night.' with respect to government promises and performance and spoke thus, 'There is not much choice. There is not, because we have screwed up. Not a little but a lot. No country in Europe has screwed up as much as we have. It can be explained. We have obviously lied throughout the past 18 to 24 months. It was perfectly clear that what we were saying was not true. We are beyond the country's possibilities to such an extent that we could not conceive earlier that a joint government of the Socialists and the liberals would ever do. And in the meantime we did not actually do anything for four years. Nothing.', among other shocking revelation of misgovernment.
Situation 2: Response
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5358690.stm
What begins as a peaceful protest, carried out by predominantly white christian folk, degenerates into a rampage of carnage, burned cars, burned buildings, riots, vandalism and looting perpetrated by minority groups.
Point
Continue demonising muslims if you really want but don't think they have some kind of monopoly on anarchic behaviour when the words of powerful people test sensibilities. They're human just like you and me and we're just as capable of responding like some of them have under certain circumstances. Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone, as a part-time magician/part-time carpenter once said.
Last edited by CameronPoe (2006-09-19 09:44:17)
