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Selective respect for life?
By eeka on Thu, 07/07/2005 - 2:13pm
At least 30 people were killed in England this morning.
At least 27 people were killed in Iraq this week.
The people killed in England were killed using deadly weapons.
The people killed in Iraq were killed using deadly weapons.
The people killed in England were killed by foreigners who had not been asked by the country's government to enter the country for the purpose of detonating weapons.
The people killed in Iraq were killed by foreigners who had not been asked by the country's government to enter the country for the purpose of detonating weapons.
The people killed in England were killed by people who are believed to have disagreed with England's government and who are not believed to have known anything specific about the people killed.
The people killed in Iraq were killed by people who are believed to have disagreed with Iraq's government and who are not believed to have known anything specific about the people killed.
The people killed in England all had families and friends and communities who are now trying to understand why their loved one was taken from them.
The people killed in Iraq all had families and friends and communities who are now trying to understand why their loved one was taken from them.
I am being told to mourn the deaths of the people in England and am being told to call their killers "terrorists."
I am being told to take pride in the deaths of the people in Iraq and am being told to call their killers "heroes."
Why?
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Comments
Heh. Good question.
"Why"? Good question. The people murdering civilians in England are Islamists, and the people murdering civilians in Iraq are also Islamists.
The left thinks that all people who target civilians for any reason are heroes, and also that all Islamists are heroes, whether they target civilians or not.
Conservatives think that all people who target civilians are terrorists, period.
I don't understand your selective respect for life, and I don't much care to. I don't waste my time trying to understand the KKK, holocaust deniers, Islamists, neo-Nazis, or left-wing terrorism fans. A fascist is a fascist, as far as I'm concerned. In this country, we tolerate people with paranoid delusional belief systems, and rightly so.