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This Is How Religious Mob Lynching Looks Like

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Imagine being pulled out of your house by the police to face a festivity like mob (with music, drums beating and chanting) to be dragged to a car, all the while suffering blows and fists to your body by the crowds, and all of that because you are suspected of thinking/believing that there is no god.

Watch this video, for the most part of it you can easily think that this was taken at some middle eastern wedding or party, until the last few seconds when a person is pushed out in the frame and the crowd just goes wild on his person. This is how it looks like in the Arab world, if you have the miserable luck of being a non Muslim in a Muslim land you face a very real chance of having this – or worst – happen to you.

 

This is the face of the new Egypt, the “liberated” Egypt, the country who pulled itself out of the tyranny of the former government. In the past few days we all witnessed the explosion of Islamic zero tolerance to anything non Muslim, this was at the boiling point for many years and when the signal was given all believers followed the known pattern, there can be only one religion, there can be only one version.

We in the West did not go through hundreds of years of struggle to form this civilization to see it kneel down before a stone age animalistic and barbaric culture, and we should wake up and make sure this is understood.

A Religious Mob Goes Lynch-Style on a Egyptian Christian-Atheist

Charlie Hebdo Has the Solution

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The French magazine “Charlie Hebdo” is at it once again, its people told the press yesterday that they plan to take out the weekly edition with caricatures of the prophet Mohammed and go another round with the local French muslims, who by the way burned the offices of Charlie Hebdo last time the magazine published offensive content.

This could be the solution to the everlasting hurtful feelings of some Muslims, simply getting them used to the sort of creative critic the rest of the world enjoys for a hundred years now, maybe it is their persistent exclusion from this sort of films/magazines/novels that creates this violent insane response across so many Islamic countries.

In any case it is remarkable that more and more people are joining in on the fight for free speech and opinion, and the right to state your mind, no matter how “offensive” someone finds it, people can easily learn to live with opinions that they do not like, even hate. This is turning to be an expansive month,first we needed to back Tom Holland’s documentary on Islam‘s origins by buying his books, now we need to head to the newsstand to buy a new copy of Charlie Hebdo

New Mohammed Cartoons by Charlie Hebdo Out This Week

Dalai Lama Becomes the First Holy Atheist

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The Dalai Lama has told his FaceBook followers this week that the old time connection between ethics and religion does not hold any more, if only the great Christopher Hitchens would be alive to hear (or read) these news he might have reduced some of his criticism of the Dalai Lama.

Religions hold on to what they consider an exclusive connection with ethics, as if without religions there would be no ethics, as if in a world without religious there will be no morals. It does not take a religious person to know what is right and what is not, it only take a religious person to tell other what is good and what not – and in many cases we have seen in history religion has it wrong, but that does not change the heavy punishments it lays on its followers in the process.

Make no mistake, the Dalai Lama has not turned atheist, he does not encourage people to leave religions or faiths (as can be clearly seen by his loving attitude towards religions), but the one religious leader in the world that truly considers compassion and peace, with little consideration for politics or money is coming closer to the inevitable conclusion that religions are becoming more of a hobby than a way of life.

The Dalai Lama Feels the Times Are Changing

 

The West Battered Person Syndrome

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This “Battered person syndrome” which is actually and originally called battered wife syndrome is exactly how Islamic anger is met through out the Western world, here is what it means (form the Wiki page) –

Additionally, repeated cycles of violence and reconciliation can result in the following beliefs and attitudes:
▪ The abused thinks that the violence was his or her fault.
▪ The abused has an inability to place the responsibility for the violence elsewhere.
▪ The abused fears for his/her life and/or the lives of his/her children (if present).
▪ The abused has an irrational belief that the abuser is omnipresent and omniscient.

And there you have it. Now you know how to call every person out there that thinks that it is more important not to aggravate the believers and limit the expressions of others, these are people who think that its always the West fault, that responsibility for violence does not lie with the people who commit it, people who live in constant fear and thinks that the opposition is too strong to deal with.

This is why, every time Islamists pick up reasons for inflicting violence and damage on others, world leaders stand up and say that we should not do anything to upset Muslims, because even the stupidest thing, said in the most remote and non Muslim corner of this world would, under the right circumstances, send them into a frenzy of blood and riots.

We say it is more simple to do it our way, we say whatever we want, whoever wants listens and can object, anyone is free to be offended and live with it, no one will turn time back to the dark middle ages and limit our thoughts and speech.

 

Is This How a Religious War Looks Like?

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It ultimately comes to this, we are used (or at least we think) to wars being the consequence of long and troubled diplomatic arguments, or the eruption of pre-existing pressure between countries or communities, the current situation is either one, and is in fact a simple extension of an ever growing sense of hostility between the West and Islam.

The current crisis (that poorly produced 14 minute teaser) had not blown up as soon as it was made public, the film was uploaded to YouTube months ago, it also did not have the same effect through out the Arab Muslim world, it started with Egypt and Libya, only to be slowly followed by other countries. It is not by chance that the two “champions” of protests were Egypt and Libya, those two countries that toppled a regime and quickly formed religious governance.

The players here are moving their blocks now, the repeated attacks of Islam upon the way that Western civilizations manage their citizens liberties have now reached a boiling point, but do not mistake this current demonstrations as just a violent way to simply try and land blows on the US or Europe, it is all done in the name of faith, of defending Islam from non believers, the nationality or continental support of the so called crime (of expressing ones opinion on any matter) has nothing to do with any of that.

Even the news that the actual producer of the film is an Egyptian Copt did not calm down the Cairo protestors, even though this is one of them (well, he is a copt) and not an American infidel, did not make the mob turn to its own streets, amazingly the riots continue – with the same target in mind.

The last statement president Obama made about Egypt is that important one of all, Egypt is not an ally of the U.S. and not considered an enemy, he said, Egypt is walking on that thin line between being a full blown enemy of the West and just being not friendly.

The president probably did not want to say these things, not after he had fully supported the Muslim brotherhood campaign in Egypt, but was left no real choice when twits from the US Cairo embassy met ones of the official brotherhood site, where the english tweets were comforting and peaceful and on the same time the arabic tweets and site content encouraged the riots and glorified the violent demonstrations.

Obama Calls It As It Is – Egypt Is Not A Friend