The Religion of Pieces

It amazes me that there are some people in the west that still believe islam is a religion of peace. I'm not sure how anyone that's been paying even the least bit of attention the last few years could still fall for that. Since I would never want to be accused of hate speech, xenophobia, or racism, I'll stick to the facts:

May 14, 2010: (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants have warned America that it will soon "burn" while calling for Pakistan's rulers to be overthrown for following "America's agenda".
The United States is convinced Pakistani Taliban militants allied with al Qaeda and operating out of northwestern Pakistani border regions were behind an attempted car-bomb attack in New York's Times Square on May 1.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. If confirmed, it would be the first time their members were involved in an attempted attack in the West.

If the Obama administration and FBI say they're "convinced Pakistani Taliban militants allied with al Qaeda... were behind an attempted car-bomb attack in New York's Times Square", they're shifting blame and attemting to divert attention from the real problem. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-born naturalized American citizen, is the man that built and emplaced the bomb. Pakistani Taliban may have "claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing" in Times Square, but it was an American citizen that built the bomb, loaded it into the SUV and delivered it to Times Square with the intent of killing dozens if not hundreds of Americans. While assimilation into western cultures after attaining citizenship would appear to be a low priority for most immigrants, continuing the jihad apparently still ranks pretty high.

Here's a few more fun-filled headlines:

March 2, 2010: Two killed as Indian newspaper sparks Muslim riots (Reuters) - A curfew was imposed on a southern Indian town on Tuesday after two people were killed when Muslims rioted to protest against a newspaper article they said offended Islam, police said.

July 5, 2009: Muslim Uighurs riot as ethnic tensions rise in western China (The Guardian) Three people were killed during rioting in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, as thousands of Muslim Uighurs took to the streets during the biggest display of ethnic unrest in recent memory.

Dec 2, 2007: France stunned by rioters’ savagery (TimesOnLine) - Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns.
What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: 'Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs must die tonight!'
The 43-year-old commissaire realised it was time to leave, but that was not possible: they set his car ablaze. He stood as the mob closed in on him, parrying the first few baseball bat blows with his arms. An iron bar in the face knocked him down.
'I tried to roll myself into a ball on the ground,' said Illy from his hospital bed. He was breathing with difficulty because several of his ribs had been broken and one had punctured his lung.

Feb 6, 2006: Muslim cartoon fury claims lives (BBC News) - At least five people have been killed in Afghanistan as protests against European cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad swept across the country.
Meanwhile in Somalia, a teenage boy died after protesters attacked police.
Iran announced it was halting trade with Denmark, as protesters pelted the Danish embassy with petrol bombs.
The violence follows attacks on Danish embassies in Syria and Lebanon over the weekend. The cartoons were first published in a Danish newspaper.

Nov 5, 2005: As Youth Riots Spread Across France, Muslim Groups Attempt to Intervene (The Washington Post) - SEVRAN, France, Nov. 4 -- By dusk Friday, the streets of Sevran were deserted. Inside high-rise apartments and stone cottages here on the outskirts of Paris, residents waited for the explosions and sirens to begin.
Night after night, youths armed with rocks, sticks and gasoline bombs have confronted police and set cars, businesses, government buildings and schools on fire. Police officers said Friday that approximately 1,260 vehicles had been torched in the Paris area in the past week.
The attacks were triggered when two Muslim teenagers were electrocuted last week after they leapt into a power substation in an attempt to evade a police who had set up an identity checkpoint.

These are just a few of the 1,480,000 hits I got from doing a google search of "muslim riots". I got over 4 million hits when I searched "Christian riots", but those had headlines that ready "anti-Christian riots" or "Christian riot victims" and talked about riots being conducted by - you guessed it - muslims. I didn't read all 4 million, I just scanned the first 50-60, so there might actually be Christians rioting somewhere and I missed it. It's hard to miss all the muslims rioting. I wonder if the koran calls for rioting as a fundamental duty, right up there with killing civilians and blowing up women and children.

Of course, no discussion about the religion of peace would be complete without mentioning the 9/11 attacks, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000 that left 17 sailors dead, the 1998 bombings of the embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that left hundreds dead, the 1995 attack on Khobar Towers that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six and injured 1,042 people, or the 1983 bombing of the Multinational Forces barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French servicemen.

Apparently the religion of peace is peaceful only if everyone in the immediate area is of the same religion, and by "everyone" I obviously mean every adult male because women are mere property and they don't matter anyway.

Peace.