No. It IS hysteria. Furthermore we have a duty in the secular world further to enrage muslims until they eventually become inured.

Let’s not forget, after all, that all theistic religion is utter, unmitigated nonsense. It’s time for these people to grow up.

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Well, what you say makes sense only to an extent. In India, there is no American opression. Still, a torn book resulted in deaths of 6 innocents. In Sydney, there is again no opression by US, and thousands protested on streets. Which makes me wonder what is the real cause. The real cause is that Muslims have preferences in following order: Allah, Prophet, Quran and then nation and fellow countrymen. Its eveident all over the globe.

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HISTORICALLY….How many countries did the muslim prophet Muhammad invade?…how many tribes did he wipe out.?…how many people were slaughtered?…butchered? How many were forced to convert by the edge of the sword?
Wasn’t that very offensive to the people. The attackers rejoiced but the attacked mourned.
And they were enraged but what could they do?
Those who are now enraged are those who enraged others earlier.

PRESENTLY …How many minority groups in islamic nations are being persecuted and prosecuted….. their churches, are bombed, burnt, their leaders and people are killed, butchered, beheaded, hounded out, their homes are stoned, torched, vandalised, they are treated unfairly…as second class citizens.. they are framed with trumped up charges,
Isn’t that very offensive to the people. Muslim attackers rejoice after the damage is done but the attacked remnant mourn and are forced to convert to Islam or flee for their lives and service to their God..

SERIOUSLY, should these people have a right to become enraged as muslims do? and become lawless mobs, enough to riot, burn, kill, destroy property of muslims? Should they then issue fatwas, death threats to islamic leaders and governments? Should they plot and conspire to raise up christian taliban, christian al queda and other christian terrorist organizations?

What is to be their recourse. Maybe one or some may take the chance and make a movie, as occurred. Western countries may not be christian, but they have learn some things from the Bible…such as
…….the right to respect a man’s belief even if we dont agree with it.
…….the right to co-exist with someone of another faith even if we dont believe in it.
thats why muslims can build a mosque in the US, but building a church in a muslim country
is a difficult assignment.
…….the right to respect the sacredness of life so we dont go about killing others just because there
is a protest or disagreement.
…… the right to call to God in prayer when we are offended
…… the right to appeal to the law or the courts for judgment
……. eye for eye and tooth for tooth is not normal western culture though some may practice it.

So muslims are enraged but they have enraged many also, including their own citizens. Many mock muslims today but muslim themselves have done much to others.

The plain truth is this…the chickens have come home to roost. What goes around comes around. Be not mocked whatever a man sows that he or his generations reap. No offense intended!

If muslims want respect from others they must first give respect. If muslims expect non muslims to treat muslim citizens well…then muslims must treat citizens of other nations and minority groups well.

In perspective, it will be as Jesus said in the Bible, LOVE thy neighbor as thyself ” and “give and it will be given back to you…good measure , pressed down, shaken together and running over, will men (others) give back to you. ( Luke 6:38)

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The Global Empire that does not wear ‘Red Coats’ (nor funny looking helmets)

The issue is not anti-Americanism, but rather an undiagnosed but roiling anti-Global-Empire issue throughout the Middle East (and much of the rest of the world).

There should not be any surprise at the level of resistance, and even street rebellion, in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and the rest of the region — which is being misdiagnosed (or simply distorted by the media) as anti-Americanism.

What’s the big surprise in these attacks in Libya and the Middle East?

What’s the big surprise in violence against all troops, from all Western NATO countries?

When indigenous people view, even partially, the entire array of forces in their lands as representing an “Occupying Global Empire”, which talks of modernizing and changing their culture, but effectively uses vastly superior military power to control the direction of any changes, it should not be surprising that there is a uprising against what they perceive as Global Empire interference, or even exploitation of their relative weakness. The same could be said of colonial Americans facing what the “Occupying” British Empire described as merely “influence”, or governing assistance in the colonies — or what the “Occupying” German forces of the 1940’s merely described as co-ordination with the ‘Vichy’ government (which that Empire had conveniently put in place to suppress resistance).

When you are running a global Empire the Viceroy (as the British Empire called the ‘vice royal’ representative of the Empire) is bound to be a target for the territorial subjects who despise the Empire, just as many ‘Vichy’ officials were targeted by the French resistance — like forces of the perceived Global Empire in the Middle-East are targeted in “Green on Blue” resistance.

The only surprise, as I see it, is that most Americans have no idea that their former country has been ‘captured’ and now fully “Occupied” by a DGE (disguised global Empire), by a corporate/financial/militarist Empire, which hides behind the facade of its ‘bought and owned’ modernized two-party ‘Vichy’ sham of faux-democratic and totally illegitimate government — just as the Nazi Empire earlier tried to disguise itself with the crude and single-party ‘Vichy’ facade regime in ‘captured’ and “Occupied” France c. 1940.

A critical issue that the domestic Occupy movement has to correctly ‘frame’ (as George Lakoff would say) is the key issue of the unjustness of military and money-power, and such framing must ‘change the mindset’ or analogy of what has now been very guilefully framed by the ruling elite 1% as a founding freedom issue of America.

The distorted framing of the 1% is that America was founded on an individualistic ‘freedom’ to succeed by hard work, and that this constitutes the ‘American Dream’, and furthermore that this system should be impressed on a global level.  This perverted vision of such an ‘American Dream’ is absolutely wrong, but supported with powerful propaganda all the way back to the Heratio Alger fable. 

The real and counter-version of the American Dream was of a commonwealth of individual people to achieve freedom from the entrenched, elitist, un-fair, and most importantly un-democratic hierarchy of the British EMPIRE.  To achieve a ‘new world’ where a group of people could throw off the bonds and power-based ‘might makes right’ fearful and unsustainable political philosophy of hierarchical rule that had ruled since the age of the Roman Empire in the ‘old world’.

[As an aside the perversion and corruption of the original ‘American Dream’ of a new world devolved into our current corrupt, shabby, and hustling grifter vision of a death-spiraling unsustainable world is beautifully critiqued in fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald in “Gatsby”, and in non-fiction by Morris Berman in “Why America Failed; The Roots of Imperial Decline”].

The Occupy movement needs to “expose”, and then confront this sophisticated and money-powered distortion of what America and Americans originally envisioned and worked toward as a ‘new world’ can only be accomplished by clearly, compellingly and honestly pointing out that what the ruling elite 1% is currently enforcing through their money-power is exactly the inverse of the real ‘American Dream’ and showing the vast multitude of Americans that the 1% ‘framing’ and propagandistic dystopia is precisely the same as a continuation of the wealthy, entrenched, and unsustainable British Empire’s vision of keeping the American colonies ‘captured’ and “Occupied” for the unjust, un-democratic, entrenched, greedy, and violent control of King George and the 1% who already controlled the wealth of England and half the world.

The only difference between the British Empire’s 1% capture and “Occupation” of our colonial lands and the current 1% ‘empire-thinkers’ capture, control, and violent oppression of what we think of as ‘our country’s commonwealth and freedom’ is that neither the existing Occupy Movement, NOR ANY OTHER MOVEMENT, has yet exposed, educated, and confronted the far more sophisticated propaganda of this 21st century DGE (disguised global Empire) only posing as our fading country.

Best luck and love to the fast expanding “Occupy Empire” educational and revolutionary movement against this well disguised Global 1% Empire that doesn’t wear Red Coats.

Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality.
Over
Violent/Vichy II
Empire,

Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine

PS to understand what some articles call a “long siege” of the GAP countries along the 5000 mile swath from Mauritania to the very boarders of China and India one must only read Thomas Barnett’s 2004 Naval War College strategy and book, “The Pentagon’s New Map”, which fully defines the “Old Core’s” (the DGE’s) global soft/hard war plan for the post-nation-state 21st century.

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have to agree with some points from the author, this issue should be looked at in the context of world politics and power struggles, what happend in Benghazi is hardly a surprise, So much for the Western countries who cuddled up with extremist elements such as Al Qaeda to get rid of Gaddafi, probably to be replaced by a far worse social unrest….just hope that the process of democracy will flourish in this oil rich land and not become another authoritarian puppet of the western regimes…or far worse

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Islam though believed otherwise was never a peaceful religion. In fact it is a religion of submission in which total submission of the believers or the non-believers is expected. In a state as such gruesome opposition to the free thinking man, it is ironic to indicate that a person with Islamic upbringing would react to a religion based criticism in a lukewarm manner. If you are in a Islamic nation, if you feel like you are threatened, I think what you feel is correct. It is because though you believe otherwise, human being includes a sense of freedom that over-rides any so called divine word. You are reaping the benefits of incorrectly forcing the world to believe what you believe.

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