understand that in any true sense of
that word it becomes very difficult to
objectify evil in the world unless you
take that manikyam approach to religion
which religions are very susceptible to
that at a simplistic reading of religion
though the Quran divides the world if
you read it in that gross literal
reading in the demote me known and the
kaffir own but the deeper you go into
the Quran the Quran saying you'll
Tunisian Haman and mate you know he
takes the living out of the Dead and the
dead out of the living that night is
turning into day and day is turning in
tonight and be careful these things
aren't as fixed as they appear there but
you take you take the simple-minded
reading and you get these distortions
that are very violent in some cases but
then you can do that exactly the same
thing of the Bible so that you can say
well nobody would take seriously a verse
of the Bible that says thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live and yet you had
tens of thousands of women burned at the
stake by Christians are drowned because
they weren't because lepers because
there is a belief that witches were
irredeemably evil they were the agents
of Satan and saw so you know you you
always have to to stand up against the
simple-minded black and white
interpretation of things that are
properly in
preface tradition more subtly though
it's increasingly hard to do in our
society where there's more in black and
white available to us both on in
newspapers on the internet and in a sort
of intellectual black-and-white on in
the television news
how do what do we do you know when
you're demonizing the other and dr.
Bhatt was talking earlier about the slew
of zombie films that emerged after 9/11
and you know the the the in those films
invariably the zombies are slaughtered
with impunity by the good guys and that
you know that he was suggesting that
that unfortunately there are people in
this country that look at Muslims as
zombies mindless and malevolent and so
it becomes very easy to I mean I'm
always amazed that they talk about 4,000
American soldiers have died in Iraq and
never when that is mentioned is the the
I mean let's just have the Lancet report
which is a pretty reputable I'm not
pretty it is a reputed reputable journal
in England using the same criteria that
they use for Rwanda and they came up
with almost a million civilians have
been killed in Iraq but let's just have
that you know to be on the conservative
side and say it was 500,000 that's a lot
of human beings that are just gone from
the earth because of a misadventure that
was entirely predicated on lies and
deception and and people suffer from it
but when you demonize people it becomes
easy for people to read the newspaper
about that and eat their breakfast well
one of the things that that we often
talk about in the war on terror and so
it's called asymmetrical warfare in
which we have a lot of weapons and they
don't but they're winning the waves
constructors but the fact the matter is
that asymmetrical warfare would also
apply to something like the Iraq war
where Americans were never threatened by
Iraq still to this day Iraq has never
heard anybody who was not in the
American armed services or working for
an employer employed by the US
government
whereas bombings and attacks of all
sorts of affected the Iraqi civilians we
are carrying out what labeled a poem
called total war against Iraq but we're
not having total war as something that
we are suffering on our side that that
disequilibrium and this is the reason we
don't have an anti-war movement in this
country is that we don't sense that
we're at war but the Iraqis know damn
well we're a part and that that
asymmetry is is very disturbing to the
soul of the country I think but there
was that thing asymmetry with regard to
Vietnam we were not under attack her
when we threatened by Vietnam we heard
we've heard a lot about the 50,000
Americans who died and not about the
millions of Vietnamese there with the
content you have a country Walter
Cronkite you know nightly news showing
some pretty horrific images coming in -
that was the first time people had more
images you can see stuff on YouTube but
there's been almost total I mean wearing
almost like a Pravda type of situation
here I think in some ways our news is
becoming more and more like Russian news
and we're even seeing that the
scientists have been censored about
global warming nasa scientists and other
scientists were actually censored and
told what they could you couldn't say I
mean thank God some of that stuff is
coming out but there has been a lot of
censorship there have been no pictures
and I'll allow take those pictures of
the funeral the people come
Oh in in the in the body bags and things
like that
so that that's part of problem and then
another aspect of it is and let's face
it it's it's it's it's the it's the the
poor people that are dying over there
are large then if you look at even a lot
of the names it's Sanchez and it's you
know it's you know African American
Mexican American and then for white
communities that are suffering if you go
into the heartland of America in these
small towns those are the people that
are losing the people and and they don't
have that the type of cloud that you
know but there's an irony is that the
American soldier is recently well paid
now he comes from a or she comes from a
lower social stratum usually but it's a
good job until your killer but but one
of the things that we don't seem to
realize is that you know if we ever got
into a big war and we had a draft
together we can't afford to pay a good
salary because well let me say on behalf
of the sons and daughters of Adam here
today thank you dr. bullet anything come
to you so
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