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StrangerThan -> RE: Tolerance and beheading (2/17/2009 9:13:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: RealityLicks
I find it odd that the way he killed her is considered so important and not simply the fact that he killed her.
You're making my point for me. Beheading is seen as a barbaric form of killing. And yes, there is a difference between pulling a trigger and cutting someone's head off. What is it? It's cleaner, more removed from the actual act. You don't have to get down in the grisly details of someone screaming, fighting, kicking, dying under your hand while blood gushes across your skin and splatters across your face. You pull a trigger. The result may be the same though I would not hesitate to state that removing someone's head has a much greater chance of incurring death than pulling a trigger.
But, I'm sure someone out there will debate that point.
Muslims have to deal with enough prejudice already. The world has seen or at least been given links to actual beheadings performed by extremists in the past few years that give those who hate them in the first place, only more reason to hate them. It, for right or wrong, is seen by many as a type of death promoted by the faith. Had he shot her, strangled her, stabbed her, or beat her to death, the story would have still probably made the news. What it would not have carried was reinforcement of the stereotype.
Dance around this all you want with whatever pacifying language you want to use. He basically destroyed his own work at showing Muslims in a more positive light in the same way someone who preached diversity would do if he were caught screaming racial slurs while drunk. What will be remembered by those who hate Muslims to begin with is not the work, but the manner in which he chose to end her life, in the BARBARIC fashion.
Like I said, sometimes, it would help the preachers of tolerance if those they preached about, helped themselves.
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