The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102635   Message #2083360
Posted By: Steve Shaw
21-Jun-07 - 04:29 PM
Thread Name: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Subject: RE: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Quote beardedbruce:
"The obvious bigotry of demanding a double standard ( We have to change what we do because they might not like it, but they do not ever have to change what they do, regardless of our opinions, because it is their culture) has still not been addressed."

Millions of Muslims have had to change what they do because of us. Palestinians kicked out of their homeland to accommodate the state of Israel. Those left in Gaza and the West Bank forced to give up farming because the land was stolen or cut off from them by illegal occupiers whom we bankroll and arm to the teeth in spite of UN resolutions. Millions of innocent Iraqi civilians with their lives ruined, family members slaughtered and homes destroyed as a result of an invasion predicated on a lie. And you can go a long way back if you like. Ruthless exploitation of Iranian oil by the Brits. Even the foundation of Iraq was a balls-up of major proportions. And so on ad nauseam. Oh yes, we have made an awful lot of Muslims change what they do. Mostly it has been to our benefit and to their impoverishment.   Or are you basing your argument on half-understood nonsense picked up from the Daily Mail about Sharia law?