24 January 2011 How to assure Islam is hated

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Jan 24, 2011

Update: At least 10 killed in explosion at Moscow airport

09:07 AM

At least 10 people have been killed and several injured in an explosion at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, the Interfax News Agency reports.

The agency quotes the Russian Investigative Committee and an unidentified medical source as saying 20 people have been injured in the explosion at Russia's busiest airport.

The BBC has carried a similar report, quoting Interfax, and reports that the Russian media says the blast in the airport luggage was from a suicide bomber.



Russian authorities: Terrorist bombing at Moscow airport kills 31

By the CNN Wire Staff

January 24, 2011 -- Updated 1719 GMT (0119 HKT

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/01/24/russia.airport.explosion/index.html?hpt=T1



Cassi Creek: There is no official release claiming responsibility for the bombing in Moscow at this time. One may be posted at any moment or one may never be posted. Given the history of Post Soviet relations with those former Soviet republics that are Islamic in character, and the hatred that exists between citizens of the “Stans” and those of Russia, I feel safe in assuming that this attack heralds the arrival of another jihadist in Paradise. This was apparently a luggage bomb, explosives and shrapnel-producing material stuffed into luggage and detonated by suicide bomber intent upon causing the greatest number of deaths and injuries.

The battle between Chechnyans, Stannis, and Russians will never be resolved in a peaceful manner. Old hatreds mixed with religious fanaticism and intellectual stagnation are brutally powerful causes for murders. Mix in the brutality of the Russian Army in dealing with any challenge and the racism that is as rampant in Russia as it was in the days of the Pogroms, and the reservoir of hatred is never allowed to cool to manageable temperatures.

I’m fully aware of the claim that Islam is a religion of peace. I’m cognizant of the fact that it is a small fraction of the total Muslims worldwide who are engaged in jihadism. I understand that most Muslims want little more from other cultures than to be left alone to work and live without being attacked for their faith.

Knowing all these things, believing them to be, for the large part true, I still have grave reservations about the integration of Muslims into western culture. I’ve worked with many Muslims over the years. Like any other cultural group, some were highly skilled, compassionate health care providers. Others were lacking in critical knowledge, compassion, and other things that caused me to want to avoid being cared for by them. I’ve tried to avoid inserting my biases into professional situations. Outside work environs, the same fractionalization applies.

The part of the equation that bothers me is the irrational violence taking place almost daily between Islamic fanatics and western culture, and between the various factions of Muslims.

There is a great deal of bigotry and hatred aimed at Islam by highly vocal fundamentalist Christians. There is a great deal of hatred between the extreme right wingers of both faiths aimed at each other as both groups of fundamentalists truly want to absorb the entire world into their particular religions. I want both to fail

While the various Christian reformers have partially settled the internal strife between sects and cults, Islam is still in need of a reformation. They are not only heavily engaged in war with western culture but also completely fractionated and intent upon wiping out one main sect or another at the same time. The death tolls in Iraq, Afghanistan, & Pakistan are becoming mountainous as the bodies of the non-combatants pile up.

I don’t trust anyone behaving as a fundamentalist of either Christianity or Islam. I don’t put much trust in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population either. Their conquest goal is much smaller than either Islam’s or Christianity’s, but it is just as troublesome to the world.

I believe that the UN should call for a moratorium on religion-driven violence and then ignore all the screams from UN member nations. Not until we have forced the various religious extremists into new reformations, not until we have demanded that all religions be removed from the world’s governments in favor of rational, secular, modern new governments will it be safe to travel to formerly Islamic nations or to fly with religious fundamentalists.

As for Islamic extremists, and Christian extremists, they need to realize that they will not come to rule either the nations they currently live in or the world to come. That is the best future we can envision.