Psycler - pedaling through the psycho babble of a media distorted reality
I have a lot to say about a lot of things. I think the world is a fucked up place and we're all under the influence of mind control and social conditioning via the use of media, religion, education and chemically induced genetic manipulation.If you can't understand me then you have been programmed and are sadly lost to us.
If you understand me then ask yourself what you did today to change things and that's the best you can do.
Monday, September 18, 2006
ABC News: 'Day of Rage': Anger Not Jihad: "Three words suddenly have a lot of Westerners worried and, it must be said, likely making some wrong assumptions about modern Islam. 'Yaum al Ghadab' is Arabic for 'Day of Rage.'
When the Qatari Islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi called for a Day of Rage this Friday in response to Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Muslims, it might have sounded like a call for street violence.
But if there is trouble Friday, and there could well be, it will not be because of language but because of what some people choose to do after they have answered the call for 'Yaum al Ghadab.'
Political manipulation of protest crowds is not a uniquely Islamic idea. It happens in the West, as well.
But why do Islamic leaders use what many Westerners regard as inflammatory language?
Because it is not inflammatory, at least not in the context of Islamic culture. 'We must not try to interpret Islamic terms and cultural signals by using our Western ideas,' said Fawaz Gerges, a professor in the department of international affairs and Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College, and an ABC News consultant. Gerges pointed out that in Islamic culture 'ghadab' means anger or frustration. A day of rage does not mean a day of jihad (war), added Gerges."
When the Qatari Islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi called for a Day of Rage this Friday in response to Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Muslims, it might have sounded like a call for street violence.
But if there is trouble Friday, and there could well be, it will not be because of language but because of what some people choose to do after they have answered the call for 'Yaum al Ghadab.'
Political manipulation of protest crowds is not a uniquely Islamic idea. It happens in the West, as well.
But why do Islamic leaders use what many Westerners regard as inflammatory language?
Because it is not inflammatory, at least not in the context of Islamic culture. 'We must not try to interpret Islamic terms and cultural signals by using our Western ideas,' said Fawaz Gerges, a professor in the department of international affairs and Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College, and an ABC News consultant. Gerges pointed out that in Islamic culture 'ghadab' means anger or frustration. A day of rage does not mean a day of jihad (war), added Gerges."
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