Tuesday, May 30th 2017
So, last night
there were two terrorist attacks were carried out in Baghdad , Iraq ISIS claimed responsibility for both. Clearly the targets were military in
nature. Apparently, their enemies are
now arming themselves with weaponized tuti futi and mint chocolate chip while
recruiting the elderly. Wait... What?
So let's look at
the targets. First we have the ice cream
shop. Apparently, during the month of
Ramadan, the shop was a popular place for Muslim families to break their fast
one of the requirements being fasting from dawn to dusk. This was a place that they knew there would
be children. Now the goal here is
obvious, to cause fear. That is what
terrorists do. Shocking, I know. Someone who ascribes to a concept with
"terror" right in there in the word wants to cause fear. Go figure.
The second
target was a pension office where people were waiting in line to get in and get
their checks. These were mostly the
elderly, people who had worked all there lives and were simply there to get
what they had earned. These people
worked to earn their money. Presumably,
they had worked on things more productive than building bombs and blowing up
the innocent.
The
"reason" for all this bloodshed is ostensibly to advance the cause of
the Islamic State in one way or another, even if the advancement is simply
punishing people that they don't like.
Now I realize that the details of the situation in general, meaning the
history, current political climate, etc, are far more complicated than what I
just laid out, but there is one underlying fact that runs through everything.
As I said, I
will not be bashing Muslims here for one simple reason, aside from it being a
stupid knee-jerk reaction. The simple
fact is that these people are not Muslims.
I will say it again, the people who make up these organizations are not
Muslims. Now I am not going to spew out
the other knee-jerk blather of Islam being "the religion of
peace". I am not going to claim
that because it isn't. There is no such
thing as a religion of peace, at least in my experience. All religions have there fair share of
violence. It is one of my many problems
with organized religion. There are many
peaceful people within the religion, but the religion it self is no more
inherently peaceful than any other.
Now back to my
point. I promise there is one. These people are not Muslims. They are bloody minded people looking for an
excuse to hurt people and in doing so, make themselves feel more powerful. In short: bullies. There actions have absolutely nothing to do
with any religion, they simple want to bully people, usually with high
explosives. These people are looking for
an excuse to hurt people and they will take whatever they can find. If it wasn't Islam, it would be another
religion, or because they live in a different region, or they speak a different
language, or that they don't agree that the sky is plaid on alternate
Thursdays. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that they have managed to
find, or simply say "fuck it" and make one up, a justification to
bully others. These are bloody-minded
people doing bloody-minded things. They
have always been here in one form or another and they, sadly, always will. Just one more part of the barrel of fun we
call the human experience. Yay, us!
Rant Over... for now.
