(April 4, 2011 at 2:15 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Once again, you don't see widespread rioting in the US and elsewhere over this.
While the rioting may seem like an overreaction, people are forgetting everything else that that the Afghans have endured and are angry about. Remember that the country has faced years of invasion and exploitation of resources by American soldiers. Thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in particular, have been killed in drone strikes and botched operations. It all adds up and the book burning is just an icing on the cake.
It obviously isn't worth killing people who had nothing to do with it, which of course, plays right into the hands of Terry Jones. This is what he wanted. And yet, maybe, he wasn't quite able to satisfy his goal because he may have expected the violence to be even deadlier and wanted a significantly greater number of Muslims to riot over this.
Well said Rayaan. Apparently, something that is most hard for Americans and Europeans alike is for them to understand why the Umma, on average, is so damn angry with anything Western. It doesn't seem to occur to us that the rag heads over there don't like indiscriminant destruction of their lands, their people; It also doesn't occur to us that they're very, very well aware of when our corporations and actions rape their resources, etc,.
Some of it is true. Some of their anger is direct towards things that are untrue. But it still doesn't change the fact that most of the Umma really fucking doesn't like the west, in particular, America. Which is why troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding among dead militants people from the other side of the world, like Indonesia -- they've traveled there to assist in defensive jihad in any way they can.
On a slightly related topic, has anyone else wondered at how stupid one has to be to attempt to bribe off Afghan tribal chieftains, especially when they've been cozy with the Taliban and friends -- one cannot help but suspect that they are taking the money and funneling it to jihad.
