Posted by
EFuller on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:55:02 PM
Are the World's Muslims More "Civilized" Than Americans? is the title of an article by RJ Eskow at the
Huffington Post. He makes a case that the majority of Muslims
are more civilized (surprise). Eskow followed the reasoning of Terror Free Tomorrow, whose survey said Americans were more approving of terror attacks on civilians than the citizens of the Muslim countries surveyed.
Of course, some of the most hard-line Muslim countries
were not surveyed. Albeit there are Muslims who do not support the Jihadists, the real question is whether Jihadists are more civilized.
The most interesting part of the article is the comments where the definition of "civilized" is debated. Exerpts follow:
SRegnet:
To answer with a question, you may just ask
"Is there anything less 'Civilized' than
Suicide Bombing?"
YoImaNiggaGirl:
Americans generally believe it's OK to win a war - that is, to attack and occasionally kill civilians when a war is declared, and that's part of the way of war. You fight to win.
Islamists, when they mean attack civilians, mean sending random people at any random time into a cafe in Israel or a World Trade Center in NY.
The Islamists are obviously far less civilized by any traditional definition (which are good definitions). They believe in terror. Americans believe in winning war.
kenoshaMarge:
Seems to a lot of us that a country that makes a mega-hit out of a program that promotes torture like "24" and obsesses for weeks over the rotting corpse of a blond bimbo has no creds as being civilized.
1Will:
Aside from dancing in the streets whenever a successful suicide bombing occurs, funding terrorism, cutting off heads (hands and feet), beating and oppressing your wives, female genital mutilation and believing Jews and Christians are pigs then yeah...they beat us hands down in the civilization catagory
.