BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Why the planned Koran burning causes outrage and alarm - CSMonitor.com

Why the planned Koran burning causes outrage and alarm - CSMonitor.com:

"The Rev. Terry Jones, pastor of a small evangelical Christian church in Gainesville, Fla., has a legal right to burn the Koran. But understanding why this act, planned for Sept. 11, is so inflammatory, means understanding the special reverence with which devout Muslims view the Koran.

Historians and linguistic scholars view the Koran as the work of Muhammad and his immediate successors, perhaps inspired by earlier Jewish texts.

If the notion of burning Korans wasn’t enough to upset Muslims around the world, Jones added more fuel to the fire by saying: "Islam is of the Devil".

That controversy was a boon to Muslim, Christian, and Jewish extremists who seek to portray the three religions as being fundamentally hostile to each other.

Al Qaeda acolytes seized on the cartoons as evidence of a global Christian plot to attack their faith; to some in the West, the violent reaction of a few Muslims was evidence that Islam is antithetical to modern, pluralistic values."
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