---In [email protected], <anartaxius@...> wrote :
The attack by Muslims in Paris on the magazine Charlie Hebdo, which satirises various subjects, show how much human minds infected with religious memes can deviate from rational social behaviour. This may result in a huge backlash against Muslims who are more peaceful and somewhat less crazy. The news media still does not talk about these things directly, calling the problem terrorism rather than religion, but all the inciting ideas come from Islam. Yes, there is guaranteed to be a Muslim commentator on every news channel tonight saying this has nothing to do with religion in the hope that some will believe it. Yet we have tax payers money funding schools where kids are taught from day one that theirs is the only god and they they are the chosen ones who know the truth. Some of them are just bound to believe it. And a disturbing number of people think they aren't responsible for their actions if someone has insulted - or made a joke about - the things they were brought up to believe. Fundamentalist cognitive dissonance is scary, scary. That other people don't see the world the same way you do should be the first thing they have to teach at these "faith" schools. I don't see why we should have them at all. Stupid idea. Teach people open minded, curiousity from day one and we'd have a different world in a generation. But now I suppose mosque's will have inevitable reprisals from anti-Islamic fanatics and the whole process of racial stereotyping and nationalism will go through another ghastly cycle. I feel sorry for everyone concerned as I grew up in a town with a big Muslim population and we always used to get along. Mostly. Sigh... 2015 shooting at Charlie Hebdo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_shooting_at_Charlie_Hebdo 2015 shooting at Charlie Hebdo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_shooting_at_Charlie_Hebdo Two or three masked men stormed the headquarters of the French satrical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, at about 11 a.m. CET (UTC +1). Early reports suggest that 12 people were killed and 10 injured.[2][3] The gunmen entered the building and began sho... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_shooting_at_Charlie_Hebdo Preview by Yahoo
