http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/04/pakistani-villagers-attack-taliban.html [rquoter]Clashes between militants and villagers in the Dhoda-Shah Hasankhel area on Thursday morning left two people injured. About a dozen people were taken hostage by the militants. Sources said a group of Taliban militants had beaten up some transvestite dancers, shaved their heads and broken their musical instruments near Abdulkhel as they were going to the Dhoda village to perform at a wedding on Wednesday night. Villagers decided to take revenge by raising a Lashkar against the Taliban, the sources said. Light and heavy weapons were used and the Taliban also fired rockets during the clash which lasted for several hours. The Taliban took 12 villagers hostage. Five of them were later freed while the others were in the custody of the Taliban till late evening, according to the administrator of a seminary, Hafiz Amanullah Khan. A heavy contingent of police and Frontier Constabulary personnel reached the area. A ceasefire was brokered by some local ulema who held talks with village elders and the Taliban.[/rquoter]
In my estimation, there are significant numbers of individuals in the US who would advocate a similar degree of tolerance of transvestites.
Yes, there likely is relatively sparse numbers of twisted individuals in the US. The distinction is ALL your terrorists of middle-eastern regionality are intolerant to others based on a twisted religion...
Untrue, can you state that all intolerant bigots in the U.S. are intolerant to others based on a twisted religion?. I would think not.
Okay...you've used the the phrase "twisted religion" in each of your last three posts. I'm just wondering, but do you think Islam, in general, is a twisted religion -or- do you think the way the Taliban's mutated/self-constructed interpretation of Islam is twisted?
I guess when I see Too Wong Foo screening at the AMC Tora Bora 24, I'll agree. Really just kidding, the fact that they were headed to a wedding party actualy bolsters your thesis. Unfortunately, it looks like Middle Eastern Islam is going through some of the zany hijinx that Protestants and Catholics went through during the Middle and Renaissance Ages. Cross your fingers that, within our lifetime, the people get tired enough of it to spawn a similar region-wide Enlightenment, secularization and separation of church and state.
To be clear, I'm not saying that fundamentalists in the US physically attack drag queens with regularity. I just think there are quite a few who find transvestitism reprehensible and immoral. I also think that people like Pat Robertson have twisted Christianity to the point that it would not be recognizable to Christ. My guess is that the reason that basso posted this was to highlight the fact that some of the villagers in Afghanistan attacked the Taliban, thus proving that the Taliban isn't greatly loved. I am reading a book at the moment called A World Lit Only by Fire. From what I've read thus far, I would say that it is amazing that Europe managed to have its Enlightenment. I wouldn't bank on the process being particularly common, and it is made worse by the fact that the fundamentalists know what will happen (by looking at Europe) if they loose.
I'm just saying all the bigots in the U.S. are bigots. Just as Roxran was saying that all the terrorists in the middle east are intolerant. It only figures that anyone based in intolerance would all be intolerant. I wasn't saying that only the U.S. is full of bigots.
equating general bigotry, which is of course reprehensible, w/ terrorist bigotry, wherein the object of said bigotry gets thrown off a cliff, or burried alive, or meets some equally "divine" end, is the problem. i don't doubt that there are many in the US who view transvetites in the same way as do the taliban. but w/ rare exceptions, they're not killing them. on the other hand, for the taliban, it's part and parcel w/ how they practice theri mutant form of islam. nice to see that at least some villagers aren't having any of it.
No need to clarify your earlier argument FB, the prose in your prior post reminded me of something, so I tried to make a really dorky joke.
