Afghans: Death to Christians! Iraqis: Death To America!

   from the AP: March 28'06 KABUL Afghanistan:

   On Monday, hundreds of clerics, students and others
   chanting "Death to Christians!" marched through the
   northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif to protest
   the court decision Sunday to dismiss the case [of
   an Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for
   converting from Islam to Christianity]. Several
   Muslim clerics threatened to incite Afghans
   to kill Rahman if he is freed, saying that he is
   clearly guilty of apostasy and deserves to die.

   "Abdul Rahman must be killed. Islam demands it,"
   said senior Cleric Faiez Mohammed, from the nearby
   northern city of Kunduz. "The Christian foreigners
   occupying Afghanistan are attacking our religion."

What is this mindless need George Bush and others have
to "help" these Islamic countries?!? The only thing
we're doing there is "helping" one set of butchers
against another set of butchers. Is THAT really worth
all the efforts and sacrifices the West has made?!

It is one thing to punish Saddam Hussein/Taliban for
their attacks against Western interests. It's
something else entirely to believe (if anyone really
does) that one can turn religious fanatics & lifelong
cult members into secular humanists. Wake up!

It's not a question of Muslims (even the Muslims
living in the West) simply not "liking" Christians and
Westerners in general---it is the fact that no
Christian or Westerner can walk through ANY Muslim
society without being in constant mortal fear for his
life from every manner/shape/form of ordinary Muslim.
The only Christians/Westerners who can do this are
those who are under the "protection" of some
horrifically vile/powerful warlord or dictator making
money from some business arragement with the West.

[Abdul Rahman was freed only because all the king's
horses and all the king's men of the West pressured
the beggars who run the Afghan government.]

Yes, they have oil. Buy the damn oil. Or better yet
just take it ... which most Muslims would understand
and respect, as their religious doctrine is one of
"those who can steal/kill: do it! God will bless you."

But to try to promote the shameful lie that Islamic
countries can become civilized democracies is one of
the greatest crimes ever yet perpetrated against
Western civilization. And to this day I still do not
know if it's done out of ignorance... or sheer, foul
perniciousness [not even "secular" Turkey has yet
managed to get Islam out of its public/civic affairs].

The West should get out of Iraq/Afghanistan NOW and
deal with whatever the most single-minded butchers win
out in the end there: Such butchers will win there
whether Westerners are pointlessly dying there or
watching the Dark Ages horrors there on their TVs.

S D Rodrian
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