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Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Monday, October 3 2005, 14:49:19 (CEST)
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...just what does that phrase mean...I mean out in the world...verses what it means inside the pointy heads of boys...

...I know what boys THINK it means....take religion for instance. In a Muslim country Muslims obviously are accomodated and accomodte themselves. To the boys, who are in the minority, this means that they too should get to accomodate themselves...so that if Muslims can have their dearest religious rituals and rules respected...Christians likewise should get the same...they get "equal treatment"...equal consideration and equal status and protection for all of THEIR religious rituals and customs and beliefs. Makes a lot of sense to Firas.

Only that`s not what the phrase means in practise. America is a Christian country...it paves the way for its own religion...that doesn`t mean it paves the way for other religions to an "equal" degree. It will indeed accomodate other religions up to a point...and that point is: so long as other religions do NOT fly in the face of Federal Law...OR dominant Christianity. In fact, even in the case of the same Christian religion, this Christian nation will not allow certain Christian beliefs that go against its own dominant form of that religion...take bigamy and the Mormon Church or the government`s position on parents who endanger their childrens´ lives by claiming that Jesus doesn`t allow a sick child to get a blood transfusion or therapy for life-threatening diseases...in that case the government AND all other Christian denominations have no problem stepping in and doing what is needed medically...regardless of a Christian parent`s own Christian beliefs...and none of them will tolerate bigamy, no matter HOW dear a part of YOUR Chistianity it is.

Iraq has always been a Muslim country...but under Saddam it tolerated Christians far more than it will now that the United States has liberated it..."gee, Firas...how did THAT happen"?

The law in Iraq now says that all women must wear the veil...ALL women. Iraq will not allow discrimination based on religion...and here is where national dummies REALLY fall flat: It would be DISCRIMINATION to make an exception for Christian women...ain`t that sweet? It`s the law in America that women must cover their breasts in public. Some special and private places exist where they can ignore that law...but not in public...in public all women are expected to obey that law...they are EQUAL under the law and there is no discrimination, no separate treatment allowed under the law...no woman is deemed so unworthy of her dignity as to be forced to go about naked, OR allowed to do so and therefore become an offense to every decent Muslim woman and man...a Christian woman in Iraq can not be allowed to set herself apart from the majority of the women and flout the law...no matter what her minority religion tells her she can do. And no Muslim woman can do the same in a Christian country.

The trick is: WHAT the law is. Laws are passed by a majority and they can indeed be obnoxious to the minority...but that`s the way it goes in the world. To BE a Law it has to apply to everyone...especially in a democracy ruled by law. If you don`t happen to LIKE that law...or if it goes against your own beliefs...that`s tough shit for you, you know; "LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT"...it`s that way for Mormons in America...who are not of another religion but of the SAME Christian religion as the dominant majority, with a few quirks of their own...and THEY can`t get their way entirely.

What is so odd or weird or UNJUST in a Muslim country having laws inspired by its religion? Aren`t we proud to say that BY GOD...this is a CHRISTIAN nation? And doesn`t our Congress of rat catchers want even MORE religion in our lives? Why can`t Iraqis get MORE god into THEIR lives? Sure, as a non-Christian...or Pagan, the rest of us are made nervous by all this god-shit...so why can`t the Christian minority in Iraq live with THEIR nervousness and get used to having a god THEY don`t believe in pushed in their faces every waking hour?

It`s questions such as these that our national computer geeks, dweezel accountants and cross-eyed engineers can`t even begin to deal with, hell, they can`t bear to SEE them printed out on a page but must ban and delete them, as if that changes anything out in the world, where they expect to be GIVEN a country!!! Oh give me a fucking BREAK!!!

The villages where these boys came from had only Christian madrassahs which taught everything through yahwe`s crossed and bloodshot eyes...when the boys needed REAL schooling they were forced to the big city where they were shocked to find the universities were all teaching "LIES"...because the history lessons were nothing like what Father Rukhtapolitous taught them back at Mat Mariam`s basement...that meant that any higher education they were to receive would have to come in math and chemistry...excellent topics if you go into neutral fields such as medicine or engineering, but not much help in understanding the tangle of global politics or the subtleties of history and human behavior. Not a single boy ever got any REAL schooling in REAL history or the way of the world...which hasn`t stopped any of them from writing "books" or dictating long letters to wurld leeders telling them what Father Rukhtapolitous told them the world should be like, with them on top of it...or, at the least, "highly cherished"... as the littlest damn assholes this world ever saw.

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