Dancing in the "streets" - Arab haters please read

I\'ve seen three different useless pieces of footage - all they\'re for is to further tarnish the view of muslims and arabs not only in the middle east but in the entire world.

The first footage was of some idiots in Palestine - again look at the footage, you see about 10 people around a worn down cafe-type building and most of the hooting and hollering is being done by 3 or 4 silly children who are clearly just happy to be on TV. Two of them were holding mini-Palestine flags - it\'s not like they were burning US flags - christ, they\'re children for god\'s sake - the notion of us dying is just as abstract of our notion of them dying. Do they even understand what was going on - all they\'ve known is opression and that the US (like Israel) is a symbol of their oppression (the brightest symbol of all, for the most powerful nation in the world).

Even the other two pieces of footage were from WITHIN refugee camps in Lebanon and Palestine - these people (and again, they are a MINORITY) are torn from their homes and their families - what they\'re doing is dispicable NO DOUBT - but who are we to judge them when we haven\'t walked in their shoes and who are we to tarnish the entire nation of Islam and all the arabs with the same brush as those FEW idiots.

It was ignorance that drove those celebrating to do so, and it is the SAME ignorance by some I\'m reading here and seeing on the news for blaming ALL muslims, arabs and palestinians for the bombings.

We did, and still do, the same thing when we associated Iraqi people with their ruthless DICTATOR Sadam Hussein. The Iraqi people didn\'t elect him  - it\'s a farce there, oppostion leaders go missing in the night, the people there live under Sadam\'s thumb but when Desert Storm was happening we weren\'t solemn and grim when the bombs were raining down on Bahgdad - no we were glad that we were \'getting Sadam\' - when really he was hiding in his bunker while innocent Iraqi\'s (many of whom are Sadam opponents, and there are even numerous Christians there - bet you didnt\' know that) were getting killed.

Thanks to the media those people were an abstract concept - we didn\'t see them dying, we didn\'t hear THEIR stories of loved ones calling each other before dying. And likewise that minority of idiots who were cheering yesterday felt we were a similar abstract concept - so you see we are ALL privy to the same ignorance

AGAIN, and this is important, I am in no way saying that what happened yesterday should go unpunished - I sincerely hope whomever is responsible for this is swiftly brought to justice - and the only justice suitible for this heinous act is death.

So please, no calling me names - I was affected by this incident too as I mentioned before in other posts - I\'m just stating once again that we shouldn\'t stereotype a group of people based on the actions of a few - and I\'m also giving a counterpoint to why ANYONE would act the way they did - it was definately ignorant, but if we put ourselves in their shoes we can see that even we can be guilty of the same ignorance.

Okay, that\'s my last long-ass post - if you\'ve read it thanks, I\'ve done enough talking about this horrible tragedy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1540000/1540371.stm

Too many human beings have a taste for blood. Its to the point where they hope or want to have a reason to hate

We cannot let ourselves be infected by media stimulation.  Instead we need to realize that even in our own Society we have  White supremacists, serial killers, and other non productive extremists.

We have numerous hating factions in this country, so many hate so much

Hate is one of the strongest forms of evil, and we need to rise above blind hate

I personally feel that war and bloodshed has been a part of Arab and Palastine way of life for far too long, and it has become nature, at least to most, to fight as a way to solve problems.

I think that war is not the anwser. I think it is pathetic how the Israeli\'s have been fighting over land for centuries. This is why middle eastern nations have not been able to grow and prosper. The soon the fighting stops, and everyone grows up over the stupid land issue, then the sooner the two contries can become civilised.

I reckon they are jealous of countries like the US, Britain and Australia, amoung others, because of the equality of life.

I do not hate arabs, i have many arab friends.  I hate arabs which house terrorists, i hate bad arabs.  I will enjoy seeing them get theirs when we bomb the hell outta them, I hope they all die and suffer just as much as the people who died in NYC did.

I agree with you Lavan,

Only stupid fools/and retards go through life believing in one side of a story, i guess because people are too lazy, so they depend on their media to baby-feed them BS.

I\'m pissed at the media, cause they are doing the "usual" now,
"sensationalism" ...  How many times are they going to show the plane crash into the building? and how many times are they going to show 9 year old kids dancing? Maybe they should kill those kids to get-off.

MAKES ME SICK.

The worst thing about the media is that they cater to joe-six-pack, Ignorant, loud-mouthed mofos.

Of course this is just MY OPINION.

I\'m not an Arab, i\'m not Muslim, i\'m a Catholic with European roots, so if i can see BS, i\'m sure a great country like the USA can too.

right so.....when can we bomb them all?

Its wasnt just a few people dancing around happy about the tragedy!! My brother who lives in spain said there were many arabs dancing around both adults and children saying god is great (allah). He said there are a lot more footage of these activities being shown in europe than here!

Originally posted by Majin Prince
Its wasnt just a few people dancing around happy about the tragedy!! My brother who lives in spain said there were many arabs dancing around both adults and children saying god is great (allah). He said there are a lot more footage of these activities being shown in europe than here!

Even in Australia, where there aren\'t really that many Muslim/Arab communities, there has been graffiti on buildings and public signs, stating that their god has answered their prayers.

There is only but one God, and it isnt theirs.

Well, technically, Allah is one and the same as our God:)

In any case, no, we should not retailiate against Arabic people. The entire race did not attack us, a select few did. I do have an intense hatred for the people responsible and the people who helped them. I don\'t care if my hate is evil, it\'s nothing compared to what they did yesterday.

But at the same time, one of my family\'s closest friends is Jordanian, and even though I\'ve heard of how Arab nations don\'t particularly care for us, I have never had a reason to distrust this man, and I would never think of him or his family as evil murderers out of association. That is the same mentality as people who think all whites are oppressive to blacks and minorities, it\'s all 110% jacked up batshit.

Love your neighbor, he might be on the field with you one day.

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##

There is only but one God, and it isnt theirs.

Nicely Put...

Originally posted by Lavan
(everything Lavan wrote)

Excellent said Lavan. Nothing makes me sadder than seeing people getting caught in by the media - don\'t believe for a second they\'ll show you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.... they\'re looking for \'hot stuff\' and sentations. Come on, how many (western) people do you reckon knows and cares about the stuff that\'s happening in the middle east? Not many. It\'s just happening far away and we live our happy careless lives, so why care.... and that\'s who the media caters to.

Easy.

Those who express joy for this event must be killed.

Damn your right LAVAN  !! people pissed me off when they were saying they are all bad and blaming them all ! its not like USA had pitty if german soldiers died ! and its the same for then ! USA is their enemy ! their opressor ! killed women and children ! same in Iraq ! 2 millions kids died since desert storm ! how can we for 1 second think that they would be sad for the enemy ????? never look one side ! both are thinking thats its good ! just depends wich side ! i for one think that it sucks on both side and i am very sadfor what happen .... very sad for what it came to..... and sad that Bush just wants to bombs a nation and kill innocent people in the process ! if bush does that...... then he his no better then the terrorist !

jp, do you have any hint of an idea on what War is?!?

Gimme the keys to the world you live in where no innocents are killed in war. I wanna see.

Originally posted by CygnusXI
Gimme the keys to the world you live in where no innocents are killed in war. I wanna see.

I think he meant killing innocents during a bombing of a nation as opposed to killing the guilty terrorists alone.