Michael Moore: They Don't Hate Us For The Book-Burning, They Hate Us For The Killing

[Hissyspit]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/burn-baby-burn

September 9th, 2010 9:08 PM
Burn, Baby, Burn!

By Michael Moore
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So the friggin' SECRETARY OF DEFENSE took time off running all our wars to call some nutjob preacher in Florida.

And we have to witness the sissy sight of Gen. Petraeus begging from Afghanistan for this nutjob preacher not to burn a Koran.

And now the nutjob preacher is filled with delusions of grandeur that he's stopped the "Ground Zero" "mosque" from being built.

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All I can say is, they had better build that mosque now. If a Florida bigot can get a place of worship halted because of his threats, then we are all truly doomed. All this crap about how if the Koran was burned "we'd really be hated by Muslims then!" Are you kidding me? Get outta the house and take a trip through the Arab world! THEY ALREADY HATE OUR GUTS. And not because of a stupid book burning. They hate us because we've killed hundreds of thousands of their people! We've claimed their oil as ours. Never ever forget that Saddam Hussein was armed and supported for years by the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And WE overthrew the democratically-elected government in Iran. We continue to prop up the dictators of the Arabian peninsula and we have turned our backs on the Palestinian people.

They don't hate us for a book burning. White people of European ancestry have enjoyed a good book burning for some time now!

They hate us because WE trained and armed the people who then trained and armed Osama bin Laden and his buddies in the 80s to fight the Soviets. Then Osama, Inc., the trained killer dog, decided to turn on its master. Who the hell is surprised by this? Are we a nation of idiots?

It's that crazed Reverend's right to burn that book as many times as he wants. That's just how free we are.

And dammit, they had better build that mosque in downtown Manhattan. If they don't, the Florida terrorists win.

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[gratuitous]

1. Home run

Al Kaline used to hit 'em like that.

[G_j]

2. Are we a nation of idiots?

and proud of it!
:toast:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. yet Rupert Murdoch and his Fox hasn't denounced the Pastor

[Matariki]

4. "And dammit, they had better build that mosque in downtown Manhattan.

If they don't, the Florida terrorists win. "

Preach it Brother Mike.

[ProSense]

5. "And not because of a stupid book burning." That is ridiculous.

There was rioting in Afghanistan because some allegedly peed on the Quran.

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[ProSense]

7. It's like people loose all perspective to make stupid points. n/t

[dionysus]

8. he makes a valid observation, in the first bit, but it has nothing to do at all with the koran

burning... it's rather odd.

"they have valid reasons to hate us!" (true)

as if burning their holy book won't make it even worse...

[ProSense]

9. Exactly. n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. He seems not to get the impact on muslims of such a sacrilege

[dionysus]

12. i myself think of religion sometimes as fairy tales, but millions of people take it dead serious.

[ProSense]

13. It's completely baffling that

people can understand the cultural and religious sensitivities of various groups/peoples, but everyone pretends it's so hard to understand Muslims.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. It is also true is that many around the world lack an understanding of western style freedoms

Its clear from the comments on AJE and elsewhere that many muslims can not believe that the government can not just shut it down. Its why the west gets blamed in total for the actions of a few nut jobs.

[Mimosa]

15. ProSense, I agree

I'm good friends with a couple of Muslim doctors. One is Sunni and thinks the other, being Sufi, is a heretic. Yet both of them are sweet, humble and very KIND. I see the similarities. They see the differences.

But good Muslims aren't all that different from good Christians. They treat other people as they'd like to be treated.

[Rage for Order]

17. "Cracker"? Seriously?

[dionysus]

10. how bout they already hate us for the killing, and burning their book will make them hate us more...

[Hissyspit]

18. Actually, that's his point.

That the killing part is being left out of the book-burning outrage.

Plenty here - deliberately or not - missing it.

[ProSense]

21. If that's his point, he didn't make it well

"They don't hate us for a book burning. White people of European ancestry have enjoyed a good book burning for some time now...It's that crazed Reverend's right to burn that book as many times as he wants. That's just how free we are."

He's trivializing burning the Quran as a typical book burning and saying it's the lunatic's right to do it as often as he wants. The latter is true, it is within his rights in this country, but that doesn't change the horrible implications of his hateful expresssion.

[Rage for Order]

16. Why do they hate India?

And England. And Spain. And Bali. And Germany. And... well, you get the point.

[gerenimox]

20. why do you hate Iraq?

and Pakistan. And Lebanon. And Turkey. And Algeria. And...

[MellowDem]

19. Well, some do hate us for the book burning, as has been seen....

they also think it is being encouraged by the US government. Ignorance has no bounds.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Can I get a DUH