Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, but I disagree. I know it is politically correct to say these days that all fanatics are equally bad, but from a practical standpoint this is simply not the case. I cannot recall any terrorist incidents perpetrated by, say, fanatical Mormons or the Hassidim. While fanatical Baptists in the US have committed a few crimes such as shooting of an abortion doctor, these are isolated incidents. We should call a spade a spade. Within the past week terrorist plots have been uncovered in Denmark and Germany. Earlier this year, there were car bombs in the UK; then we have July 7th 2005 in London, March 11th 2004 in Madrid, September 11th 2001 in New York and Washington...the list goes on. Here in the Netherlands, religion may be freely criticized, but pick the religion you criticize carefully...a film director was murdered on the street in Amsterdam in 2005 for making a film criticizing Islam's treatment of women; an ex-Muslim politician of Somali origin, Hirsi Ali, was effectively hounded out of the country (she is in the US now) in 2006; and an anti-immigrant politician, Geert Wilders, is currently living under police protection for expressing anti-Koran views. So no, while on an intellectual level all fanatics may be equally idiotic, on a practical level there IS a difference between them, a difference quite significant to our daily lives here in the liberal West. Nathan Ric Carter wrote: > I fear you are right, Jay > > ric > > > On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> The real clash of >> civilisations is between the believers and the rest - the actual >> religion is >> immaterial..... > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville: http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!