July 21, 2005

I am a Fanatic, but what am I fanatical about?

Sally and I held a conversation about your average extremist attempting to blow themselves up in the name of Allah. There are a few issues I have here with the understanding of the aims of these people.

With your average terrorist they have specific aims and goals and, whilst I hope that the god of syphilis visits everyone of them, I can understand their goals. ETA wanted a seperate Basque homeland, the IRA wanted a united Ireland, the PLO wanted their land and right to govern themselves, the PPK in Turkey want a Kurdish homeland - all goals I can see and that are tangable.

Now we come to your average "Islamic" fundamentalist. I use "Islamic" in quotation marks because I do not believe these people act in the name of religion. For a start I was under the impression that all religion preached peace and love for your fellow man. You cannot do that whilst killing people. Secondly I was not under the impression that the entire of the Islamic world had declared a Fatwah on the western world.

Serial killers and psychopaths kill in the name of god, or jesus, or the little pixie that lives under the stairs, or because their TV is crap. There is no real motive or justification for their crimes. It seems that these fanatics are in this same, broad category.

Why are the attacking us? Do they want a seperate homeland? Oh, no. They have that already. Are we occupying where they live? Well, aside from Iraq I am not aware that we are. Are we forcing our religion on them? I don't think so - missionary work in the aggressive 17th century Spanish style has long gone.

So they do not like our lifestyle, our politics, our alleged decadence? Well, and here is the shocker fundamentalists, go somewhere else. Anywhere else. I don't care where. I am not interested in you any more, in your killing of people because you don't like our skin colour (makes you a racist) or our TV or our right to let women dress in something other than a head to toe bed sheet. I cannot be bothered to fathom out your tiny, idiotic, insignificant railings at a world that you feel is unjust and unfair. The world is unjust and unfair for most people. It is for me - I want to bring my daughter up in a world where some idiot with a rucksack is not sitting next to her and she is wondering if she is going to get blown up. I want to travel into London with her and show her the sights she lives so close too, that she has a right to see because she lives in a free and demcratic country.

So tell me your aims and your goals. What do you expect to achieve? Apart from the undying emnity of people who live in this world with you, you have achieved nothing except to make all people of your race and creed now suspect in the eyes of everyone.

Idiots.

Posted by AlexC at July 21, 2005 02:42 PM
Comments

You are correct. I know people not willing to travel to London or New York now. Sad. There are so many good things in those cities.

Posted by: vw bug at July 21, 2005 06:50 PM

Glad you're ok.

I'm going to go fart in the general direction of Mecca now.

Posted by: Harvey at July 21, 2005 07:45 PM

Bravo Alex, Bravo.

I mean really, isn't everyone wondering why the hell these people are doing this. What is their main goal, the end point.

Well we know that, bringing the world back to the 17th century. But there has to be something besides that.

Posted by: Machelle at July 21, 2005 08:55 PM

The little pixie that lives under the stairs is actually He Who Keeps Breaking The Printer. Honest..

Posted by: Sally at July 21, 2005 10:37 PM

Hey, now, on't bring ME in on this one. All MY Fatwas involve squirty bits of ink or laser set toner.

Okay, and the occasional paper jam, but thats reserved for the REALLY bad days. You know, Thursdays.

:-D

Posted by: HeWhoKeepsBreakingThePrinter at July 22, 2005 05:15 AM

Alex, it isn't good enough that they go somewhere else, the very fact that we infidels exist is (in their eyes) an insult to Allah.

They want us dead, converted to their interpretation of Islam, or enslaved.

Why do I believe this?

Because their clerics preach that, and their terrorist leaders say so. Any muslims who preach anything other than those three options about infidels are denounced as apostates and targeted along with the christians, jews, etc.

It aggravates the living hell out of me that so many people can't come to grips with the fact that the fanatics will never stop until the entire world is islamic, or they are wiped out through a combination of killing them and moderate muslims taking out their own garbage (not teaching their kids to hate christians and jews from the time they could crawl would be a start).

What do they expect to achieve?

They expect to climb to heaven on a smoking pile of infidel corpses.

You can't reason with that.

Posted by: Graumagus at July 22, 2005 07:37 AM

Honestly I think these people are just on an ego trip. They want everyone to be just like them.

I'm just glad you guys are okay, however I am a day late and a dollar short... damn living under a rock.

Posted by: Contagion at July 22, 2005 01:43 PM

Rereading my comment, it comes across as I included Alex in my "people who can't come to grips and aggravate the hell out of me".

I didn't mean it that way, I'm talking about the morons who, when these subhuman animals murder people, immediately blame it on anyone and everyone except for the people who commit, plan, and finance the bombings.

Posted by: Graumagus at July 24, 2005 02:25 AM

to them we are the infidels , the unworthy ones , they think they are better than us , they hate everyone who isn't islamic

Posted by: gina at July 27, 2005 03:04 AM
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