If political climates were like geographic climates, the weather right now in the Middle East and particularly in Iraq, could be described as “Cloudy religious agendas with an 80% probability of execution.”
In the name of god throats have been slit, promises have been made to justify either the “fun” or the “mental” in “fundamentalism” depends on which deity you pray to, I guess. Its so interesting how far humans can go, when they act in the name of God. Such situations really make me doubt the inexistence of God. Maybe there is really a God?
I have always endeavoured to make a clear-cut distinction between religion - equitable to political inclination and all its possible extremes - and morality, defined as "conformity to ideals of rational human conduct". On this issue, I see no difference between George Bush and the Muslim fundamentalists, because Bush thinks fundamentalists are evil. Everything can be called evil except war which is the only legalised form of mass violence. Iraq is at war. George Bush declared it. Therefore there is nothing illegal in how many Iraqis are surgically bombed by the US Army or how many non-Iraqis are sheep-style-slaugtered by Zaqarwi and Co. To accentuate the similarity, all sides hide their identities ... on one side called helmets on the other side called hoods.
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