I really dislike quite a few American musicians and their compositions.
Like that one by Daniel Powter- "Bad Day"- Bad Song, that.
Can't stand the ones by Simple Plan (should have themselves renamed Simpletons) or Avril Lavigne, as well as their hordes of retarded punk fans.
Of course not all American music is bad. I'm addicted to the music by Linkin Park, Nickleback, Staind, and Bruce Springsteen, but most of today's American pop is rubbish. I mean, look at the absolute bullocks idiots like Britney "TITney" Spears keep churning out!
The world of modern pop music should be ruled by the Brit musicians like Coldplay and Oasis and Travis and Robbie Williams and Franz Ferdinand.
But enough about that, taste is always subjective.
In the meantime, I was thinking about the debate over fundamentalist Islam.
It is true that not all Muslims are suicide bombers (an obvious fact that is amazingly overlooked by some people), but it is equally true that all suicide bombers (at least in the modern terrorist context) are Muslim. At least that's how I see it.
I mean, even the ETA Basques and IRA Irish and Marxist Cubans dont load themselves with plastic explosives and board a schoolbus and blow themselves up just to prove a point, but it seems to be a mundane everyday thing in the Arab world- or the Muslim world, for that matter.
I know my words sound incendiary, and I admit that I am not an authoritative source on Islam, having never read the Quran, but from what I know of its history and the present world it seems that this religion has certain flaws that most of its believers refuse to admit.
I am not saying Islam is inherently violent, from what I know it is a religion of peace. My Muslim friends go to mosques that teach tolerance and the struggle against the sinful self, not how to skin and behead the oil-plundering infidels. Theoretically speaking, Islam is a force for good. And in any case, every other religion out there has been manipulated by power hungry politicans to create great evil- any history student worth his stuff can tell you about the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Imperialism that was justified by Christianity and resulted in the spilt blood of millions. Mind you, it was conquistadors supposedly bearing the name of Christ that invented exquisite tortures previously unbeknowest to humanity- and it was Bible-bearers who plundered massives amounts of gold and silver from the South Americans (after massacring them, of course). I feel for the real Muslims in the streets when they see madmen chanting Quranic verses and blowing up children and chopping off he heads of aid workers. It could happen to anyone's religion. I'm pretty sure in the 16th century there were quite a few Spainairds who went round quoting Biblical passages and mutilating Latin American genitals at the same time. Indescribable evil.
The point here I am trying to make is that Islam has key flaws which distinguish it from other religions. First, the Prophet spread his religion through force and conquest, whilst Jesus never advocated the use of violence, and was slain in the most painful way imaginable, and then resurrected. Siddartha Gautama, as far as I know, didnt hurt even a fly. The vastly differing origins of these religions did set in place differing levels of tolerance towards violence. Second, Islam places too much power in the hands of human leaders, unlike the Bible which asserts that only God and not man has the real authority (why else did God refuse the Israelites a human king at first?). Buddhism avoids the concept of power entirely (doctrinally speaking).
It seems that Islam has a greater propensity towards violence. While I say that it is NOT a religion of violence, I can only conclude that it is more easily subverted by madmen than the other major world religions.
More on this later, if the ISD doesnt lock me up.
