I recently ran across a special on PBS called Inside Islam.
Its a pretty ham-handed attempt to portray Islam as just any other religion. One that respects women, abhors violence, but just wishes that America would never, ever, ever allow themselves to influence other cultures.
According to "Inside Islam", they do not hate us for who we are. Heck, the show spends half of the show telling us how much Islam admires the democracy of America. Its just like any other religion, it keeps telling us.
When the topic of suicide bombers comes up, the show tries to tell us that it has nothing to do with religion. They try to explain that Kamakaze pilots killed themselves too, but not in the name of religion. (Epic fail. Kamakaze pilots believed highly that they would be rewarded spiritually.)
Anyway, I decided to Google to find out more about the intention of the film. I figured out that maybe I was missing their greater point.
That's when I ran across this link.
Its America.gov.
That's us, by the way.
Okay. So why is America.gov running a promo for Inside Islam? The program was not sponsored by the US (as far as I know) and is not about the US.
Someone explain this one to me.
I forgot to mention... I also found this link:
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Once again, I'd like to ignore conspiracy theorists. I think its healthy to.
But my government is making the conspiracy theorists look rationale.
