thingy
16-10-2003, 06:14 PM
I can't help but think of this song by seal when I read this (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7577227%255E1702,00.html) article. I was going to put this on the front page, but my little rant and writeup was going to be too long to fit in, so I figured this was the next best spot for it.
A basic summary of that news story, is that the Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad has claimed that Jews rule the world and get others to fight for them. "The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them," Mahathir said, adding, "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews." Mahathir has become somewhat notorious for controversial speeches in the last 22 years that he has ruled, and this one certainly is no exception. To think / believe along these lines you'd have to be pretty crazy. I got this far down the article and almost stopped reading just assuming this was yet another idiot with a few screws loose.
The speech was made during the biggest gathering of Muslim leaders since the September 11 incident. The next third of the article is going on about how they need to emulate the Jews by fighting with their minds instead of their hands. Still rather off-target, but he's closing in.
The turning point though, is in the last third of the article. It seems completely out of whack. After 2/3rds of the article making this guy look like a loonie, you suddenly realise he does have some brains behind him after all.
"Over the past 50 years of fighting in Palestine we have not achieved any result. We have in fact worsened our situation." This is something I have said again and again. Palestine and what is happening there is all about revenge. The people don't know any different. Both sides are taught from birth that it is all important.
He said the Koran "tells us that when the enemy sues for peace we must react positively. True the treaty offered is not favourable to us. But we can negotiate".
He said he was aware that this proposal could not be popular and its opponents "would want to send more young men and women to make the supreme sacrifice. But where will all these lead to? Certainly not victory." Well fuck me dead. Finally someone who has the right idea about that area.
I want to support this guy to get his thoughts on Palistine followed through, but I can't help but oppose him with all my might due to how crazy his views on the rest of the world are. I didn't think it would be possible for someone so crazy to be the one person with some form of ability to do something to show any sanity on a subject such as Palestine.
If this religious nutter can have some form of decency, maybe there's hope for the rest? Possibly S*nol one day? Nahh, that's going too far. :p
A basic summary of that news story, is that the Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad has claimed that Jews rule the world and get others to fight for them. "The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them," Mahathir said, adding, "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews." Mahathir has become somewhat notorious for controversial speeches in the last 22 years that he has ruled, and this one certainly is no exception. To think / believe along these lines you'd have to be pretty crazy. I got this far down the article and almost stopped reading just assuming this was yet another idiot with a few screws loose.
The speech was made during the biggest gathering of Muslim leaders since the September 11 incident. The next third of the article is going on about how they need to emulate the Jews by fighting with their minds instead of their hands. Still rather off-target, but he's closing in.
The turning point though, is in the last third of the article. It seems completely out of whack. After 2/3rds of the article making this guy look like a loonie, you suddenly realise he does have some brains behind him after all.
"Over the past 50 years of fighting in Palestine we have not achieved any result. We have in fact worsened our situation." This is something I have said again and again. Palestine and what is happening there is all about revenge. The people don't know any different. Both sides are taught from birth that it is all important.
He said the Koran "tells us that when the enemy sues for peace we must react positively. True the treaty offered is not favourable to us. But we can negotiate".
He said he was aware that this proposal could not be popular and its opponents "would want to send more young men and women to make the supreme sacrifice. But where will all these lead to? Certainly not victory." Well fuck me dead. Finally someone who has the right idea about that area.
I want to support this guy to get his thoughts on Palistine followed through, but I can't help but oppose him with all my might due to how crazy his views on the rest of the world are. I didn't think it would be possible for someone so crazy to be the one person with some form of ability to do something to show any sanity on a subject such as Palestine.
If this religious nutter can have some form of decency, maybe there's hope for the rest? Possibly S*nol one day? Nahh, that's going too far. :p