Fitna, Islam, and messages being sent
Muslims upset at being portrayed as violent crazies by the movie “Fitna” have threatened the lives of the staff of LiveLeak, a video-sharing site, forcing the site to remove the film. (It’s still available on YouTube.)
Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.
LiveLeak does still offer video from Islamic extremists, including, for example, “Martyrdom volunteers attack apostates & western interests in Algeria” (Reads the description:”Near simultaneous martyrdom attacks upon the Prime Minsters building, Interpol, & a security force building claimed 26 dead & 160 wounded. Al Qaeda in the Maghreb is a growing force.”)
And then there’s “Qaida al-Jihad: The Radwaniyah Martyrdom” — one of those videos a suicide bomber made before killing himself.
We wouldn’t want people to think that Muslims are, you know, violent and crazy.
gnomic says:
Nor would you want all Christians judged by the snipers and bombers they had a few years back.
The root of this evil is a system that keeps many in poverty and hopelessness, and a bunch of nutcases that use the situation and a crazy interpretation of islam to recruit people.
Its not much different from the anti-abortion or anti-gay groups that recruit marginally insane people to stand around any yell at people going to clinics or people who burn down buildings in the name of ecology or people that toss red paint at people who wear fur. Although the intent is different, the basics - disaffected nutcases following another nutcase with more charm or personality or sense of purpose is a sad state of the human condition that has been exploited for centuries.
In the case of most of these muslims, if they had employment, choices, a sense of freedom and something to lose, I suspect that much of this nonsense would cease.