Soldier butchered in street in Woolwich

[Beanz]

Miles,Kirkland,Lyle,Vendettos,IamInuit,Andre, etc. Who the hell made two British born people spokesmen for Iraqi or Afghan civilians ? By their actions they have shown a breathtaking arrogance, self righteousness and callous ignorance of anyone's suffering and took it upon themselves to be the very embodiment of evil. They should bear the responsibility for what they have done, not innocent Muslims or British Citizens. They wanted to butcher an unarmed man to death on the streets and in doing so should have forfeited any right to a voice. Trying to imply that their predictions of a war on British streets between scum like them and everybody else is imminent or in some way justifiable is playing right into their hands. They are a shitstain on the arsehole of history not a turning point or a call to arms. Common criminals,and murdering scum nothing more.

Well done Kirkland in making excuses for the cowardly barbarous murder of civilians. You can't legitimise 9/11 by saying killing civilians is the fault of anyone but those who carried it out.

I'm not making an excuse for anything or trying to justify anything.

Let's say me and you are going to a football match. We're seated outside a pub before the game enjoying a glass of chilled chablis and watching the world go by. On the other side of the street X, a big bugger in stylish blue polyester, is walking down the street. Y, a smaller man clad in red ployester, is walking the other way. As they come up to each other X punches Y right in the dish. Y falls to the ground, gets up, takes a knife out of his pocket and stabs Y with it, killing him instantly.

Now lter we're talking about the incident. I say to you that if X hadn't punched Y in the face in the first place then he'd never have been stabbed and killed. I might also comment on the nature of violent acts begetting further violence. I see this as reasonable speculation about the incident and violent acts in general. Neither of these two arguments negates the fact that the stabbing was a reprehensible act of murder, excuses it or justifies it in any way.

" And it's that kind of thing that pisses Muslims off and causes them to bomb your skyscrapers, sporting events etc."

Those people had an agenda. That agenda was not to draw attention to an injustice suffered by innocent civilians at the hands of indiscriminate carpet bombing by allied forces. Their agenda was the propagation of extremist ideology and the glorification of violence. So clever is this agenda that you and thousands of well meaning people like yourself have now been used to propagate it. To call them Muslim, and this is where both you and Lyle agree, is to further heap insult onto the civilian victims of extremism who would not raise their hand in violence.

Miles who like yourself, I would in many instances defer to as having superior knowledge on politics, economy and history comes to the same conclusion as you and it surprises me considering his distaste for religion. These same religious extremists are often responsible for agitation and the escalation of sectarian violence within Muslim countries. Their war is not just with Britain,America and the West but with moderates in their own countries who would condone the mutilation of women, the burning of books and the execution of ethnic groups they deem to not be pious or totalitarian enough in enforcing their own twisted brand of religion.


If we are really interested in justice then how hypocritical is it to enjoy the benefits of living in a flawed but basically decent democratic society and then turn our eyes away from those whose own liberties are trampled on by despotic leaders who seek to persecute and wipe out those who seek nothing more than the human rights we hold dear ? You can pretend that the Iraq war was all about Oil but that is a gross over simplification and misrepresentation of a conflict prompted by much more than that and at it's heart represented a universalism and willingness to stand alongside others who wished for nothing more than the opportunity to aspire to liberal ideals.


The Left has let down many oppressed people in these conflicts by deluding themselves into thinking that groups like the Taliban can be reasoned with or that the victims of such nutjobs should be allowed to remain subjugated in order to ease their own uncomfortable feelings about the harsh bloody realities of liberation. I say this as somebody who I consider to be way farther to the left than either yourself or Miles. Pacifism does not work and the kind of socialism that busies itself only with the interests of it's own members due to something as arbitrary as nationality is acting in a far more self interested way than the most hard hearted of Capitalists.

Getting back on track; this sort of thing is another reason why Muslims need to sort their Islamic laws out too as well as stopping future terrorism so that we can start to see them acting as they preach, a religion of peace.

Saudi blood money ruling angers activists - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

How is what happens in Saudi Arabia getting back on track ? Saudi Laws are Barbaric and there is no justification for that regime or the laws that govern it. If people in SA or the UK choose to use a weird perverted form of Islam to justify themselves carrying out the most barbarous of acts then what more can moderate Muslims do but condemn it vocally and vehemently oppose it ? I don't doubt that there are many who feel fully justified in exploiting a religion for their own twisted agenda but I will not pretend that it is OK for them to use it as an excuse to hide behind. Religion is poisonous. It relies on hypocrisy to rule people by fear. All the way back to Moses this is evident, in that immediately after declaring one of the ten commandments was "Thou shalt not Kill", Moses instructs Aaron, along with the sons of Levi, to take their swords and slay everyone who worshipped the calf, that Aaron a son of Levi, had made.

The only way to way to combat irrational hatred, depravity and barbarity is to reject the Idea that God, or anything that People claim he said, is in any way relevant to the behaviour of human beings. It's not an excuse, it's not a reason and it sure as hell is not a defence for things that society and individuals know to be innately wrong.

They are the lowest of the low. Scum.