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08.30.10 - 9:37 PM
All You Ever Needed To Know About Islam
A Kansas man says he already knows all he needs to know about the Muslim faith, having witnessed the 9/11 attacks by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion believers, and doesn't want any "potentially illuminating facts" to get in the way of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion. From The Onion.
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The oninon. Shit! I now believe them to be part of the 9/11 attack.
The reason I have a dislike for the onion is it hangs my computer up every damn time I click on one of those parodies. And 'forced' shut down, waiting, then rebooting is the only way I can get around it.
Unless you are running something like Windows 98, you should not have to do this. If you are using Windows XP or something newer, try Task Manager (control-alt-delete) to stop locked-up processes. If you are using Internet Explorer 8 on XP (highly suggested) you can UNINSTALL it and reinstall it (and a number of updates, sorry to say) and this may cure this type of problem. Also, uninstall all worthless toolbars, search assistants, adware, c**pware, third-party browsers, and so-forth. Most customer computers I see with problems like this are merely victims of layer on top of layer of junk installed by users. Merely removing this rubbish is almost always the cure. If this is not helpful, call your starving local computer servicer (look for someone under twenty with lots of acne) and have him reinstall Windows. If you need more help, you may e-mail me at my screen name at Hotmail dot com. Or just Google your problem since you are NOT the only one having it!!
Thanks for the info and the offer, but I failed to say it is happening on a steve jobs apple macbook pro.
This Islamic Mosque NEAR World Trade Center site is SUFI
The SUFIs are a mystical Islamic sect that are seldom associated with radical aggressive behavior.
They are often persecuted by other Islamic sects or groups as heretical.
My impression of them has always been very very good.
It is wrong to characterize either SUFIs as "Westernized" or characterize the rest of Islam as violent.
The Muslim population of earth is 1.3 billion.
The aggressive Wahhabi Sect rules Saudi Arabia and is not overtly terrorist to it's US supporters.
SO... the "Muslim Brother Hood" of Egypt and all of Al-Qaeda and worldwide angry groups calling themselves Al-Qaeda to be impressive is under a million in number.
The tiny fraction of Islam these people represent are empowered by a kind of racism that considers such a small fraction that it is at war with to be more important in defining Islam than the 1.3 billion who are not at war with the US.
That may be human nature, but is is not reasonable.
BUT it gives much money to Western Weapons Makers and Islamic Anti-American groups, each who prosper in such deluded hostility.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism[/url]
Get real...
Come on - this is an Onion article surely? And if it is, that's pretty damn disingenuous of you Abby and Common Dreams, not even putting a disclaimer.
Doesn't the last sentence say "From The Onion"?
It does say from the Onion now. But it didn't about an hour ago. But I agree, even if it were not written by them ...it could be mainstream!!
Ah. Didn't realize there has been an edit. I must have gotten to it late.
Dosen't the Onion say it all??
>^^<
This article would be quite appropriate even if it were NOT written by The Onion. We can always count on that satirical newspaper, though, to use sarcasm and humor to cut through the bullshit and say what is real.
I have thought for years that the hardest job around would be writing for the Onion. I can't imagine trying to come up with something MORE ridiculous than what passes for intellectual thought in this country. This article shows this to be true. We ALL know people who think this EXACT way. Unfortunately, this is art imitating life, not satirizing it.
I wouldn't want that job for the life of me. WAY too hard to be further out than people really are.
Maybe if everyone would start questioning the information they have been given for the past nine years, they would realize that "The Enemy Is Within"!
1. NORAD was ordered to plan 5 exercises for 9/11/2001 that would leave The Northeast United States defenseless and unable to intercept 4 hijacked planes.
2. Al-Qaeda was formed by The United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.....Osama Bin Laden was still being consulted by the CIA as late as June 2001.
3. NSA had every communication of Osama Bin Laden monitored up and until 9/11.
4. Most of the terrorists were either training in Saudi Arabia or The United States not Afghanistan.
5. Mossad agents were all over The United States..Some living two blocks from Mohammed Atta in Florida and some documenting, filming, the World Center Attacks from New Jersey.
6. The Department of Defense destroyed all documents relating to their secret intelligence operation, "Able Danger Group". "Able Danger Group" had either been following Mohammed Atta or working with him. Three eyewitnesses were to testify in Congrees, but were muzzled by the Generals and never heard of after that.
7. There was never an investigation of almost 3,000 murders and the "Official Version" was given the morning of 9/11/2001 without any investigation.
To "The Power Elite" anyone should and can be sacrificed as long as "They" maintain control of The Power and The Money.......In order for "Them" to maintain that control there must be "An Enemy" and "Fear of the Enemy."
Look what "They" have done to the United States!
The Onion article, though satire, re-enforces this insidious meme: Of course it wasn't ALL Muslims who attacked us on 9/11, it was just some extremist BAD Muslims.
I should point out, not only was it not ALL Muslims, it was NO Muslims. It was some extremist BAD people in our own Power Elite (the shadow government that runs our government).
Thanks yet again, Herb, for bringing a bit of reality into this madness. Every one of your points is factually verifiable and therefore irrefutable.
Note how the whole brouhaha over the "ground zero mosque" creates an upteenth pretext for the MSM to trot out the BIG LIE over what happened that day. They seem to find another such pretext, oh, every couple of months or so.
We will wander in darkness, into wars and death and hardship, so long as the lie passes for reality.
Can you say "Pearl Harbor" here we go again, every time WA. wants a war and we don't.
>^^<
Sounds like an indictmnet of this intellectually uncurious man from Kansas.
Thanks everybody, for keeping the "gawd" deity alive! Great to be disconnected from our true origin!
I love the onion. Too many folks just don't get irony.
I've met some very pretty Muslim ladies from the Middle East. No wonder their men want to keep them locked up at home!
There is no God but God, and Mohammad is His prophet.
You're pretty good at irony too, comrade!
Those powerful people are only in power because they are (whether tacitly or overtly, directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously) aided and abetted by uninformed xenophobes like the one satirized in this article.
If more Americans actually got to know immigrants and their families in the U.S., traveled internationally someplace besides beach resorts, actually learned a foreign language, watched something other than Pro Football and Fox 'News' [sic], and quit being easily-manipulated puppets of the corporate class, we'd have a different batch of 'powerful' people running the show.
I agree with you:
"The people who voted for Obama do not think of themselves as "haters".
But many of us are mightily pissed off.
And I'd rather be in Copenhagen.
Donny-Don, Thanks!
Jill, we usually see things similarly, but not here. Maybe it's because I'm an inveterate fan and amateur practitioner of parody and satire. IMO, "The Onion" can be uneven, so it's not a question of "automatically" laughing at their offerings-- but I think this one is good.
I agree that, in a nutshell, the greatest evil flows from the top down. But I think this piece beautifully captures the clueless, complacent mind-set that animates the well-intended ordinary reactionary citizen.
I especially appreciated the deft manner in which the piece evokes the popular "half-bright" perspective of having just enough self-awareness to rationalize, affirm, and justify one's inalienable right to BE clueless and complacent. It's a less strident, assertive variation of the absurdly circular "argument" that "X offends me and makes me uncomfortable or afraid; ergo, I have the right to DEMAND that X go away or be changed to my satisfaction because people disapprove of it".
Perhaps this caricature of the contemporary Amerikan "Good German" isn't particularly helpful in the scheme of things, but FWIW it's not necessarily an either/or proposition-- that is, I don't find it unfair or especially inappropriate to lampoon this mind-set along with lampooning the authorities who cultivate it, as "The Onion" indeed does.
Americans are just stupid and nothing is going to change that. We must accept this as a given and go forward with that fact in mind.
Wow, folks. I read this on The Onion yesterday and was saddened by the fact that this Man in Kansas could really exist. Perhaps you all don't understand that The Onion is satire. Don't get your panties in a knot for pete's sake. Yes, I know it seems real but until I hear otherwise i am going to take it for what it is: satire that cut way too close to the truth.
When I hear about all those Christians who worked in the Nazi death camps, those who brought Africans over to the Americas on slave ships, and those who slaughtered, tortured, and maimed the Amerindians, I know all I ever needed to know about Christianity.
What about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? How about the Quakers who ran the Underground Railroad? How about Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopalian bishop? What about the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who led the Resistance movement in Germany? What about Sophie Scholl, a devout Lutheran university student who also led a resistance movement and was killed in a Nazi concentration camp?
To be fair, there are progressive Christians, just as there are progressive Muslims. True Christianity, "in the spirit of love your neighbor as yourself" hungers and thirsts for justice.
And for the record, I do not believe that non-Christians go to hell, I read the Bible as a metaphor -- not literally, that is -- and I believe in evolution.
I would hope that Oikos was writing in the satirical spirit of The Onion's article, mimicking the (imaginary) Kansas man who said "I know all I'm going to let myself know."
I have a hard time understanding, how any sane person can have faith in anything but reality!
As an atheist, I agree that religious intolerance is a particularly weird thing to watch.
I don't think people should be discriminated against for their particular believes about An Invisible Man Who Lives In The Sky, but at the same time... C'mon people. Really? You're fighting about that?
THERE IS NO INVISIBLE MAN LIVING IN THE SKY.
I'm someone who ascribes to the Christian faith who agrees with you. I am not an atheist, but neither am I a theist.
I don't believe that God is an invisible man who lives in the sky behind some sort of Wizard of Oz curtain. I believe that God's presence can be found in loving actions and kind deeds.
Just a Flying Spagetti Monster........
>^^<
Which reality are you referring to? It's hard to discern exactly what you mean from your brief comment, but I would guess that reality as it was conceived by many of history's greatest scientists is quite different from your conception of reality. Do you really think that makes them insane?
Can you not see how your inability to accept that sane and intelligent people can hold viewpoints different from yours concerning the nature of the universe is a mirror image of the intolerance so typical of religious fundamentalists?
I used to recognize satire when I saw it.
But now that it's 2010 in amerika...
Humor: the distorted "reflection" of reality.
Of course this is the onion! Still you could change the person a tiny tad, and then you'd have my father cold and steady on that FOX diet of complete and total BS.