tomahawKSU said:
If they would have tried that in middle America, where, well, you have more guns than people, the second they took out the gas can, it would've fallen to the ground. I know a lot of people with good shots. If you are unhappy where you are, get THE **** out, and let someone who wants to live there live there. (This is probably going to sound extremely horrible but **** it, I don't care) Go back to the desert and protest there, at least there are like minded people there and Team America will come for you some day.
I think this is genuinely a difficult one. These people think of themselves as "missionaries". They are trying to show the "Christian world" that Islam is a live religion and they want to convert people to their way (I assume they do, or they want people to leave them alone to their Islamic ways in their Islamic countries - there's a topic for another day).
Fortunately for them, the "Christian world" is accommodating to everyone, so they allowed to live here and live under the protection of our laws. They have no reason not to use that to their advantage, why should an extremist not use everything they have to their advantage? Let's face it, to make people believe in your idiocy, you need every opportunity you can get.
The thing is, the reason people are allowed to do what they want and be kept safe by the law is because we're (as countries) open minded and "mature". All people have rights. This is actually a really good thing. The same thing that allows for idiots to spout violent rhetoric also allows us to speak out in the news or streets against our governments. It facilitates democracy. At the very least, it's allowed the growth of atheism (particularly in the UK) from a very strict religious structure. If you have to put up with raving idiots (who are a loud minority) for those benefits, then fine.
In the US, there was that group of fundamentalists who protested that soldiers funeral, I can't remember the details. They were allowed to be offensive too even in the US. Of course, if it had been fundamentalist Muslims doing it, there would probably have been bloodshed... Not sure what that point is, but it seemed relevant at some point to me :lol:
Even worse, if you went to an Islamic country and tried to speak out against Islam, then you'd probably find yourself strung up very rapidly. It seems completely unfair, but you have to look at it in a bigger picture, one of a grown up world against a childish, teen sulky world.
We're (trying to be) a mature culture which is accepting of everyone, no matter what their difference in terms of colour, creed, sexuality, whatever. That means everyone has their own soapbox, but it doesn't mean that everyone has to take any notice of these people on their soapboxes. Most people don't either.
It's frustrating to see people who clearly despise our culture raving against it while living under the benefits and protection of that country. However, we have to be the bigger people and just let them rant and rave while we just enjoy the benefits and protection ourselves.
Just be thankful you wake up every day and you have the right to believe in a god, or not. Every few years you have the opportunity to try and change the way the country is run f you're not happy with it. You can walk the streets without fear of breaking an arcane law that has no relevance in a modern society. That everyone is treated as equals, whether they deserve it or not.
In other words, be the grown up and simply laugh at the babies chucking their dummies out of the prams.
