Bias towards Muslim or forgetting history.....

I've been thinking alot about what has happened with the riots by the muslims recently. One of the most common comments by people has been as an example like Woody wrote as a comment to me:

"Why can’t the Muslim world grow up? There’s no need for a temper tantrum when some little insignificant thing doesn’t go your way boys. The world community needs to stop taking this stuff seriously and start ridiculing protestors like these. They only do it because we take them seriously and if we embarrased them everytime they "act the fool" maybe they would grow up and join the civilised world. "

Now I'm not picking on Woody, just using his comment as an example of what I'm talking about. Let's think about history and riots for a moment. Our own country has a history of riots, some are over some pretty stupid reasons, like sports event outcomes. We also have a history of race riots, which in some ways are comparable to what is happening right now in the Middle East.

Dr. Martin Luther King supported non-violence. He felt that was the key to getting America to change. Time after time during the 1960's we saw Civil Rights workers being attacked, beaten, and even killed. In 1965, Elijah Mohammad published his "Message to the Black Man", in which he encourages Black men to fight back.

Some excerpts from what he wrote on Self Defense:

The so-called Negroes of Birmingham, Alabama would have been justified by the law of justice if they had killed every dog sicked upon them by the hired, tax-paid policemen, for the taxpayers did not hire dogs to police their lives and property.

And if the policemen had fired upon those who defended themselves against the bites of savage dogs that the Police Department trained expressly for the purpose of attacking so-called Negroes, they would have been justified by God and the Divine law of self-defense to fight and defend themselves against such savage dog and human attack.

But as soon as the so-called Negroes turned upon the dogs and policemen with stones, Washington, D.C., ordered the Army to intervene—not to help the so-called Negroes against the White southerners, but to help the White devils against the so-called Negroes if they tried to defend themselves. But as long as the dogs and policemen were biting and clubbing Black so-called Negroes, it was all right.

This clearly shows how much we are in dire need of unity, but the unity must be backed by a power superior to the power of our enemies. This power is in Allah and the Nation of Islam, whose arms are outstretched if we would only accept them.

The lynchers live right next door, down the street, up the alley, yet they are not brought to justice. What sane man can deny that it is now time that you and I take counsel among ourselves to the end of finding justice for ourselves?

When you stand up and speak a word in behalf of your own people, you are classified as a troublemaker, you are classified as a Communist, as a race-hater, as everything but good.

The message I bring is not for the cowards. Those of you who follow me must be ready to withstand the barbs and insults of those who come to investigate, pry, and claim that our ultimate aim is to undermine the American way of life. We have no such intentions and our critics know it.

How ironic it is that the very people who charge us with disturbing the status quo, themselves go around raping, lynching, denying citizens the right to vote and talking in the halls of Congress to call you and me everything from a beast to an amoral entity.

I have no alternative than to tell you that there is not any life beyond the grave. There is no justice in the sweet bye and bye. Immortality is NOW, HERE. We are the blessed of God and we must exert every means to protect ourselves.

"It is imperative to abandon the unconditional non-violent concept expounded by Dr King and adopt the position that for every Martin Luther King who falls, 10 white racists will go down with him. "There is no other way - America understands no other language," said United Black Front chairman Lincoln Lynch in 1968.

There have been hundreds of Race Riots, here in our own country, this one list alone can give you a picture of where we have come from and still are.

In 1776, November 1, a huge crowd marched down Broadway displaying an effigy of Cadwallader Colden, the colony's highly unpopular governor. Members of the crowd took the governor’s coach and added it to the parade; at the end of the route the coach was smashed into kindling and used as part of a great celebratory bonfire on Bowling Green.

The crowd also turned its anger on British artillery commander who had boasted that he would be able to collect the stamp tax, by force of arms if necessary. His house was pulled down by the mob. The combination of threats and violence exerted the desired impact throughout the colonies. We teach this as a part of our early American history, The Stamp Act Riots.....

This is not just unique to the United States either, inciting the anger of Mobs has happened at various times thru history. So while I am not proposing we support the muslim riots over the Koran or anti-american feeling, I am saying let's remember history before we demean their religion. Let's realize that at many times in history the Mob has been used as a political means to a end. For it to stop, the cause of the initial anger and outrage has to be addressed, and I think we all know the original source of the outrage has nothing to do with Newsweek or the Koran.