Pig head stuns mosque visitors

[drgilbert4]

These people have been fighting for thousands of years. I do not agree with desecrating mosques, but I think we should dip our bullets in pig blood so that when they are killed in battle their people will not think they are going to heaven as martyrs. CAN I GET A WITNESS!!!

[Chaossaber314]

What's so special about a place of "worship"? We have laws against vandalism. Those laws don't consider the target, just the illegal act.

That's not exactly true. Vandalize federal property and you'll be in significantly more trouble than if you just vandalized municipal or state property. Not really relevant to this issue in particular, I suppose, but still to the point about laws not considering the target.

[rmnunez]

Brien, though feces-smeared madonnas and urine-soaked crucifixes may not be artistic either, those were exhibited to the public as art. The mosque thing is most likely one of those 'hate crimes' by someone who really wants to offend them. We can only speculate on what ticks off this perpetrator about Muslims, maybe he's a supremacist who hates all minorities, or maybe its a group. I don't think we should make comparisons between public reaction to terrorist attacks and hate crimes, terrorism is not expressive conduct, hate crimes always are.

[luke virtual kh]

You non-Muslims criticize Muslims for not speaking out against "terrorism" well how about you non-Muslims speak out against hate crimes against the Muslims? How about you condemn USreal for their barbaric attacks on Muslims, how about speaking out against the Russians in Chechnya or what India is doing in Kashmir?

Exactly what are the "Hate Crimes" being committed by so called 'USreael!', Russia and India? Examples please. And if you're being scholarly, a little balance please and less of the sectarian zeal which is often the raison d'etre of hateful acts in the first place, and the root cause of many of the world's woes. If you're capable of balance that is. I'd like to think you are.
So alongside Russian crimes etc, have the Muslims there ever ever done anything wrong, grossly wrong?

...and a belated Eid mubarak to you Abdi, even though I'm a big fan of scientism and a hardened atheist...

Luke.

ps I found these words on an Islamic website: "Major sins are indeed the cause for all misery, evil and torment in this world and the hereafter."
The moral veiw of the origins of suffering seems to me outdated and unscientific. Diseases and syndromes for instance exist and we are all generally prone no matter what we do or say, and giving up backbiting or praising "God" certainly won't stop one from contracting the 'flu. There is a moral dimention to finding political peace, but when 25% perhaps of the world population believe that the common cold could be eradicated if we all stood for prayer at dawn, I don't see much hope for the human rationality which would underscore that morality. Ind if that 25% want to dominate and order affairs, then I'm willing to fight against them, and to a degree support those who do.