"It says right here! It must be true you infidel swine!"
Dear Fred,
Thanks for your email.
The perception of Islamic hostility toward the West is wildly over-inflated.
To the extent that such hostility does exist, it is largely justified.
But why go half way round the world to identify hostility to America?
Brief reflection reveals that conservative Americans are hostile to what is -- in fact -- The American Way of Life. (I am not referring to conservatives' shared delusion but to the lived reality of our country.)
Is Diane Rehm sindicated where you live?
Typically, The Rehm Show embodies what Fox pretends - i.e., "fairness and balance." (Notably, people who mainline Rush Radio and Faux News have no interest in listening to Rehm because her program will unsettle their presumptions.)
Clearly no human expression is completely objective if only because we humans are subjects, not objects. Plus, "the heart leans to the left."
In any event, I encourage you to check out Rehm's recent show, "Culture Clash Over Free Speech."
General friend, AC -- a man who has visited over 200 countries (including both poles, twice) and a fellow whose 40 year Air Force career was dedicated to "military intelligence" -- says that 'the deeper one's understanding of the actual "workings of the world," the more one sees liberalism better attuned to Truth than conservatism.' http://humanities.psydeshow.org/political/mcgovern.htm
Inevitably, "Greater Arabee's" transition to modernity-and-democracy will be rocky.
However, after centuries of medieval authoritarianism (which our own Catholic tradition did not shed until the Second Vatican Council), the Islamic "shell" has cracked and the mullahs are about to slough off like a snake molting.
The Apocalypse - the Revelation - is under way.
There is no going back.
Top-down hierarchies can only exist on "the ground" of coordinated obscurantism, and those benighted millennia are coming to a close.
It may take centuries for "The Arab Spring" to flower-and-fruit, but -- barring the ascendancy of Armageddon Cheerleaders -- the transparency of Revelation is already "baked in the cake."
Having said all this, it is possible that the Islamic World will have its own "Thirty Years War" as prelude to eventual stabilization and global integration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War
Pax on both houses,
Alan
PS Although it is a trivial aspect of "revelation," I am struck that the last month has brought us nude photographs of Prince William and Duchess Kate. There is nothing that is concealed that will not be revealed.
PPS Once, when I was particularly lathered at "the monstrosity du jour," AC enjoined patience: "Alan, it may take thousands of years for our vision to be realized."
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
Egyptian youth are rioting in Cairo. It's too bad they can't go to soccer games and drink beer -- get in the occasional brawl, vomit on the sidewalk, pass out, go home, and so on.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Fred,
Thanks for your email.So can Etch-a-Sketch.Jesus can be anything you want him to be.
On the other hand, Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim socialist, anti-American, job-killing quisling, whose Anti-Christ goal is to strip Americans of their guns as prelude to surrendering the United States to a One World Government headed by Arab sheiks.
Pax
Alan
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
According to recent news, Jesus got married. He is also a Chicago Bears fan. Jesus can be anything you want him to be.
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