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=> Hitchens' assumptions...

Hitchens' assumptions...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, July 24 2011, 23:40:41 (UTC)
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I think he thinks like Arrow: Palestinians weren't doing much with their country so why shouldn't Euros take over and "improve" things. I think you have to think like this or else how could you maintain that Muslims never have a reason to retaliate against the West...that while the West may do whatever it pleases, because they are "superior", Muslims and anyone else in that lowly conditions may not even defend their homes, lives and countries, not to mention their honor or children.

How else could he look back at the last 50 years and conclude that Islam is the greatest danger the world faces? In order to think this way, in order to see Muslim defenders of their lands, even when they bring the fight to the home or their enemies, as Terrorists, while Christian armies are "liberators" you have to assume that Muslims are never justified while Christians always are...even if, as Hitchens does, he makes a great show of condemning all religions...still, he gives Christian CULTURE a pass, while condemning Muslim culture, and religion as terrorists all.

When people are defending themselves, assuming you believe that when they are in their homes fighting occupiers they ARE defending themselves, their religion doesn't really matter...does Hitchens suggest that were it not for Muhammad and Islam, Iraqis and Afghanis and Libyans would NOT be defending themselves?

However, when it comes to those doing the attacking, the stealing and the occupying, religion DOES matter, even if they don;t give that as the main reason for their wars of aggression....Nazis claimed to hate Jews, not just for what they were, but because of what they supposedly DID, as Jews...they made the two inseparable and even the one following naturally from the other.

In their new Genocide against Islam, the West has used religious imagery and language to justify its cause...while Islam needs no religious pretext to defend its home. It doesn't matter than an Iraqi is a Muslim when he fights to defend his lands from occupiers...he or she could be of any religion or none at all and their reaction would be the same.

But, in the case of Christians we see people going directly against what they say their religion asks them to do: that is they are killing innocent people who have every right to fight to defend themselves, while attacking their countries in illegal and one-sided wars. Therefore to carry out this war Christians are being hypocrites and betraying their religion while Muslims are behaving in ways anyone would, religion or no.

It is Christianity which has declared a centuries-old war against first Judaism and now Islam, often using religious symbols and exhortations to get the job done...there need be no religious component for Jews and Muslims when they fight to defend themselves. Islam is not involved on the Muslim side, the defensive side...but Christianity is involved on the attackers' side as part justification...even though Hitchens won;t say "Christianity brings benefits outweighing the losses to those it attacks"...but he does believe that Christian CULTURE is justified in these wars and justified in fearing Islam...but it fears Islam, not because of what Islam has actually DONE or is likely to do, though he tries hard enough to scare us, but because of what Islam IS...an "enemy of Christianity"....and even that isn't true as Muslims revere Jesus and his mother and the prophets while Christianity mocks and insults Islam and the Prophet.

If you take religion completely out of the picture it is still easy to understand the actions and motivation of Muslims....however, take religion out of the Christian camp and you're hard put to understand their actions as anything other than Imperialism and a little Colonialism as well, where Israel is concerned. And Christianity has shown itself capable of hating and murdering millions of people just because of their religion...as in the case of the Jews, therefore we all can be forgiven for believing there is the same religious zeal behind what the West calls its "defense of our way of life"....Hitler too was convinced that he was defending the Christian Euro way of life.



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