Postby Kamal35 » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:51 pm
Mad Mac can say that I'm not the biggest fan of the USA Army and we have usually great disagreements about the rol of USA soldiers here and there. But I'm gonna be controversial here:
Some American soldiers behave in a very disgusting, fukking and criminal way against another culture. Who's the first on investigating that? You have that: 1) Australian TV (Western TV of a country which is a loyal ally to USA) dennounces the desecration. 2) The USA Army starts an investigation to make a full report about the event. 3) The soldiers will be identified and brought to a military court in USA. 4) They, for sure, will be considered guilty and, hence, degradated and sent to jail. 5) Other soldiers -and I suppose that Mad Mac will have his say- will reject this behaviour. 6) The Western world will feel scandalized with this.
OK. In one hand, we have this disgusting and rejectable behaviour of American (Western) soldiers, who acted like barbarians.
In the other hand, and that's the reason the Western world is becoming more and more angry with Arabs or muslims, some so-called mujahedeens kidnap, hijack and take away innocent western civilizians who are working in the most of cases in Iraq to help the Iraqi people: journalists, Red Cross members, NGO's. They're shown in home videos treated as animals or even worse than animals, without any human respect to them, with their captors laughing at them, humilliating them in the same way happened in the Abu Gharib prison and, then, as the final act, beheading them in cold blood, while the murderers are laughing, having fun with that and showing the beheaded heads to the videocamera for universal rejoicing. Do Mujahedeen dennounce those criminal act? Do they go after the murderers to catch them, bring them to a court, to judge and condemn them? Do mujahedeens start an investigation to report about it? Do freedom-fighter reject that behaviour? The answer is NO. As Mad Mac says: that's the difference between a regular Army and a undefinied entity as Mujahedeens. Mujahedeens aren't accountable for their crimes or for behaving as unlawful combatants. No one asks for their responsabilities.
And what do we have here? This guy, Costa, having fun with that, making jokes about that. If muslims feel humilliated when they see Guantanamo prison or Abu Gharib prison, what do you think non-muslim when they see the beheadings? The same humilliation and anger. We are all human beings, and nobody, except those ones who are psychopats in both sides, have pleasure seeing the tortures, pain, wounds or death of another human being. The nazis had pleasure killing jews. Some American soldiers probably have pleasure killing Arabs. But there's a system which states that humilliating or killing for pleasure is unhuman. So, we all have here a knive with two edges: if we play with it too much, we can be hurt. Both muslims and non-muslims.