April 7, 2003
How to deepen the divide
... between Christian and Muslim countries even more.
Simply declare that God is on your side.
This does, of course, imply that God isn't on the Muslim's side and is likely to inflame the hatred felt by other peoples and cultures for western culture even more. From this action comes a 1000 bin-Laden's. This is the best recruitment drive that Al-Quaida (I know I've probably spelled that wrong) could have possibly hoped for.
I, for one, want to know about other cultures and don't believe very much (if anything) of what I am spun by the news broadcasters in the UK (especially Sky News as they are closely linked to Fox News which, I admit, I do watch but only for 5 minutes at a time as I can feel my brain turning to mush because of the jingoistic ra-ra-america reportage).
Just about the most impartial reporting is coming from good ol' Auntie Beeb and it can be seen to be relatively impartial as both sides are complaining about it which proves it must be about right. Still worth attempting to corroborate facts properly though.
As a final thought on this blog entry, remember this about good ol' boy GWB (and you should remember while reading this that I AM a Christian)...
Bush is ignoring his Bible. That should worry us regardless of what "Islamic" terrorists do.
This is a man who doesn't believe that evolution is real, he thinks the world was made in 7 days around 15,000 years ago and that man lived with dinosaurs (the usual fundalmentalist/evangelical/born again philosophy). This is a man who thinks all non-fundamentalist Christians are destined for hell, period.
This is also a man who was arrested and convicted on a variety of theft, drunk-driving and other crimes. He is a recovering alcoholic, he is the first President in history with a criminal record.
This is who we're dealing with and this is who we should be worried about.
Is cheaper gas really worth World War III?
The BBC providing impartial news?! Yeah right, do they mention all the anti-war protests? Do they correct the lies that the US military keep offering us? NO, for truely impartial news you want to watch chanel 4, read the guardian, aljazeera, pravda, etc.
Oh, and it's actually world war IV, world war III was the cold war.