..it has to be so much worse if you're not in the comfortable position from where you can simply observe and shake your head in amazement.
Today, I got referred to a blog posting, mentioning Ahmedinejad uses the Farsi equivalent of 'we can' in his campaign for the presidential election.
Yes, this does go beyond being inspired by someone else's catchphrase... it's near plagiarim, but it's just a phrase.
The conclusion of the blog posting, however, is highly amausing. "I guess this is nothing new. Leftists and Islamists have shared similar Anti-American for years."
Makes me wonder... in what way is "We can" anti-America? The Americas are home to roughly 900 million inhabitants, of which one third lives in the United States of America. Practically each and every one of them descends from people who came to the new world from overseas, be it Europe, Asia or Africa, in search of a new, more prosperous, future. Out of despair? I'd say, because they could. "We can" is the core the New World revolves around.
Not anti-American at all.
Yes, maybe it's harsh to realize that the world as described in the Old Testament now is ruled by religious fanatics. The Paradise Adam and Eve once lived in and Babel are, most likely, situated in Iraq, the old Persia lies where Iran is situated now, and all around the Middle East, we find traces of places and events described in biblical scriptures, nowadays inhibited by people with diffent ideologies than the ones they had thousands of years ago.
Wherever you go, people, civilians, are the same, and hev the same needs, but politicials who represent them can, indeed, be quite scary. Ahmedinejad serves as an example of that, as does the Taleban or, say, the Union of Islamic Courts in Somalia.
Yet, something I do find funny is that the Sharia, the age old law, urging people to stone commiters of adultery (even if they're victim of rape) to death, and limit the rights of gays and women, are basically nothing more but a translations of the laws described in Leviticus and Deutronomium. I'm so tempted to say reconstructionists have everything in common with mujahideen, despite the fact they refuse to see it.
For me, this underlines the importance of a separation of church and state. Wherever men-made laws and religious doctrine collide, please let compassion prevail. Don't put signs of the Ten Commendments anywhere near Court.
Do the world a favor, be kind and compassionate.
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