Mikk whines: "Look to the mote in thine own eye ..."

It is preciously because we have heard/learnt/deconstructed NOTHING BUT the motes in our own eye, that deluded souls like NC & Hadi and McAdam can blather on as if team Islam embodies all that is good and pure --it is long overdue to talk about the huge mote in Islams eye.

The only question is whether people like Mikk have any principles?

Sigh, more balderdash and hyperbole from Singer.

“In much of Iraq and Syria today, millions of Christians, whose ancestral presence there pre-dates current Muslim majorities by centuries, are being scrubbed out of their homes.”

Millions? There aren't even 2 million Christians in the whole of Iraq and Syria combined.

One suspects, with very valid reasons, that the main thrust of singer's article is to try and take the spotlight off the war crimes being committed by Israelis in Gaza and the West Bank.

Look at the scores of Mosques targeted and blown apart by the IDF in Gaza supposedly because they contained weaponry or tunnels.

There was a time when another peoples seeking nationhood engaged in exactly the same behaviour.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb1_1191106989

Did the British authorities blow up the Grand Synagogue of Tel Aviv on this occasion or on innumerable others when weaponry or bombs were found in other locations? No. This is a particular level of savagery reserved for the IDF.

The issue of religious discrimination in other countries is of course of deep concern and should be discussed. But under the auspices of David Singer it is purely a distraction from the barbarity of the mass killing of a beleaguered and blighted people in the Gaza Strip by the government of Israel.

Dear runner,

You wrote “take the high moral ground while blasting Israel”.

'Blasting'?

My god are you really that unthinking. While Israel blasts children's bodies apart, blasts UN refuges, blasts homes and mosques, blasts ambulances and blasts entire families to smithereens you are trying to make the case that Israel is getting blasted?

You my friend are totally displaced from reality with such a warped sense of right and wrong that can only come from either a fundamentalist or an ardent nationalist and we all know what breed you are.

Mr Singer has certainly aroused some well worded, passionate responses against this latest effort.

It is not surprising, given the factual, intellectual and moral vacuum which underpins this particular article.

Yes, I know that attacking the author is bad form, but what is the choice? Isn't the Middle East facing enough problems already, without more argument from those who seek to defend the indefensible.

How empty is the claim that Israel needs to be protected from the people that they have overpowered militarily many times, from whom they have stolen lands and resources, whose children they target, whose meagre infrastructure and homes they pound to dust? All this is not because it is good, necessary or right. It is done because it can be done.

Sorry, Mr Singer, but there can be no moral or other high ground for a tribe, by whatever name, that acts in this manner in the 21st century. The puny efforts of the dispossessed and oppressed in the face of Israel's might is no justification for brutality on this scale.

SteeleRedux

your anti semintic rants in disguise of your 'love ' of the Palestinians illustrates my points so well. No concern for the masses of people being killed in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and where ever else Islam gets the opportunity. Instead defend and join in the propaganda war for Hamas as they use kids as fodder to win sympathy from the anti semetics. You forget that your appeasement for your own propoganda purposes will not result in you not being labelled an infidel. Pathetic.

Has everyone forgotten that Left Wing politics and terrorism go hand in hand and that in the 1970's we saw European Leftists actually hijacking planes and murdering people for the cause of Palestinian liberation?

JoM, have you forgotten the Irish terrorists in the longstanding 'troubles' between the Christians in Northern Ireland and England? I doubt this will ever end really.

I think we can safely say that it is humans in general who have violent tendencies, regardless of religion, culture or race.

most violence has been committed in the name of religion...so let's ban religion!