So why aren't we seeing similar outrage at the Arab coalition bombing of Yemenis as we see against Israel Palestinian bombing?

[Tom Sawyer]

I think it's mostly the religion of peace at war with itself.

They hate each other for their freedoms. And their legacy of invading kingdoms in middle east dating back to the middle ages.

Yes, the freedom to worship the Sunni version of Islam really should be an inviolate right for all of those poor, oppressed souls who are forced to worship the Shiite version of Islam. The evil leaders of that corrupt sect don't even give money to the correct group of terrorists.

 

[dismal]

Muslim Cleric Calls for ‘All-Out War’

“Our war with Iran, say that out loud, is a war between Sunnis and Shiites,” Sunni preacher Abdul Rahman al-Sudais says in the nearly seven-minute clip. “Our war with Iran...is truly sectarian. If it was not sectarian, we will make it sectarian... The Jews and cross” – meaning Christians – “I swear by Allah that they will have their days...The prophet said that Rome will be conquered ...Our disagreement with Rafidha” – another word for Shiites – “will not be removed, nor our suicide to fight them... as long as they are on the face of the earth....”

http://news.yahoo.com/muslim-cleric-calls-war-101500065.html

Charming.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

He wants to conquer Rome? Clearly there's one cleric who's unaware of the debt levels which have been incurred by the Italian government. He'd regret that conquest.

 

[dismal]

He wants to conquer Rome? Clearly there's one cleric who's unaware of the debt levels which have been incurred by the Italian government. He'd regret that conquest.

If you read carefully the prophet does not say you should conquer Rome just that you will. It could even be your efforts to avoid it will lead you to doing it.

Like when they sent the terminator back to prevent John Connor and ended up creating John Connor.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

He wants to conquer Rome? Clearly there's one cleric who's unaware of the debt levels which have been incurred by the Italian government. He'd regret that conquest.

It's a metaphor: Rome = Christianity.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Dozens of Yemeni children and civilians have been killed in the fairly indiscriminate bombing being carried out by Saudi Arabia and it's Arab Coalition partners against Yemen. Where are the street protests? Where is the outrage? Do Muslim lives only matter when it is non-Muslims doing the killing?

No. Muslim lives don't matter then either.

Joker, we run two basic stories here: horrible things they do to us (our blood on their hands) and horrible things we do to them (their blood on our hands).

The horrible things they do to each other... who cares?[/fullmetaljacket]

I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Black lives matter only when whites do the killing. Muslim lives matter only when it's the non-Muslims doing the killing. Why the double standards?

It's not a double standard. Black lives ALWAYS matter, even when they're killing each other. It's just that a bunch of black people getting together in the city to discuss an end to violence is not something WHITE people will ever want to know about and therefore gets exactly ZERO media coverage outside of PBS. This is actually the hidden truth of the "Jeremiah Wright scandal". Reverend Wright's sermons were shocking and appalling to white people all over America who were, until that point, blissfully unaware of what black religious leaders actually preach. The majority of black people who became aware of that story were likewise appalled... by the fact that the Cable Media found his rhetoric in any way surprising or even unusual (it's almost as if they'd never seen the inside of a black church before!)

The same is true of Muslims: Arab press EXTENSIVELY covers the atrocities committed by ISIS against Iraqi journalists (the majority of their beheading victims) as well as against civilians in Tikrit and Kurdistan. Western media doesn't give a damn until ISIS starts threatening western interests. Charlie Hegdbo get's shot up and they have rallies of support in Paris; the the entire staff of an Iraqi paper gets massacred by ISIS, and the only western outlet that even notices is Al Jazeera America.

So it's not so much that black/Muslim lives only matter in certain circumstances. It's that the American media only pays attention when its target audience -- namely upper middle class right-of-center white Christians -- is involved.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

He wants to conquer Rome? Clearly there's one cleric who's unaware of the debt levels which have been incurred by the Italian government. He'd regret that conquest.

It's a metaphor: Rome = Christianity.

Well, thanks for pointing that out because I clearly didn't realize it before I typed.

 

[Jokodo]

He wants to conquer Rome? Clearly there's one cleric who's unaware of the debt levels which have been incurred by the Italian government. He'd regret that conquest.

It's a metaphor: Rome = Christianity.

Pseudo-random historical fact: "Rome" in the 7th century Middle East referred almost unambiguously to the "Second Rome", i.e. Constantinople, the capital of the still prospering Eastern Roman Empire. The first Rome, by contrast, was a rapidly disintegrating city in a far away failed state.

So they did conquer Rome many centuries ago.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Dozens of Yemeni children and civilians have been killed in the fairly indiscriminate bombing being carried out by Saudi Arabia and it's Arab Coalition partners against Yemen. Where are the street protests? Where is the outrage? Do Muslim lives only matter when it is non-Muslims doing the killing?

I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Black lives matter only when whites do the killing. Muslim lives matter only when it's the non-Muslims doing the killing. Why the double standards?

There may be the small issue that the rebels took over the entire country (Yemen). The Rebels in Palestine were actually elected.

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Does Yemen have oil?

If so, why the hell is the US letting somebody else bomb it? You have one fucking job on this planet and we expect you to be doing it.

If not, then it's a case of a group of oppressive dictators killing a bunch of people in support of another oppressive dictator because they selfishly don't like the idea of citizens toppling oppressive dictators. This doesn't apply when it leads to the elevation of their kind of oppressive dictator instead of the other guy's kind of oppressive dictator. As to the Arabs not protesting it - you're fucking right that they're not protesting it. That goes back to the whole "their countries are run by oppressive dictators" thing.

I think it's mostly the religion of peace at war with itself.

Kind of like the Protestant Churches, just without the guns, bullets, and all those deaths.

 

[Sarpedon]

He's not suppressing evidence of a failure. He's declaring it a success.

To me that seems to be a trivial distinction. Once again, you avoid talking about real issues in favor of quibbling over semantics.

 

[Unbeatable]

Dozens of Yemeni children and civilians have been killed in the fairly indiscriminate bombing being carried out by Saudi Arabia and it's Arab Coalition partners against Yemen. Where are the street protests? Where is the outrage? Do Muslim lives only matter when it is non-Muslims doing the killing?

I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Black lives matter only when whites do the killing. Muslim lives matter only when it's the non-Muslims doing the killing. Why the double standards?

Because everyone who disagtees with you is evil and stupid. Thay's the answer you're looking for to your rhetorical question, right?

 

[arkirk]

Dozens of Yemeni children and civilians have been killed in the fairly indiscriminate bombing being carried out by Saudi Arabia and it's Arab Coalition partners against Yemen. Where are the street protests? Where is the outrage? Do Muslim lives only matter when it is non-Muslims doing the killing?

I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Black lives matter only when whites do the killing. Muslim lives matter only when it's the non-Muslims doing the killing. Why the double standards?

Because everyone who disagtees with you is evil and stupid. Thay's the answer you're looking for to your rhetorical question, right?

I do object to it. It is American Made Armament being used....some of the stuff recently sold to Saudi Arabia in the largest international arms deal in history. It was a 19 billion dollar deal and now it bears the usual fruit of such arms deals with countries like Saudi Arabia....where women cannot even drive a car and they still cut off far more heads than ISIS ever did. Oh, the wonders of OIL! It is the same side doing the same kind of thing.

 

[untermensche]

Of course there is outrage whenever deliberate war is waged.

Yemen is a mess.

But these bombings are just making Al Qaeda and other fanatics stronger.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Of course there is outrage whenever deliberate war is waged. Yemen is a mess. But these bombings are just making Al Qaeda and other fanatics stronger.

Yes, it must be the US's fault!

 

[untermensche]

Of course there is outrage whenever deliberate war is waged. Yemen is a mess. But these bombings are just making Al Qaeda and other fanatics stronger.

Yes, it must be the US's fault!

It is unlikely the US has helped much.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Of course there is outrage whenever deliberate war is waged.

Yemen is a mess.

But these bombings are just making Al Qaeda and other fanatics stronger.

It's a situation with no good answer.

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Of course there is outrage whenever deliberate war is waged. Yemen is a mess. But these bombings are just making Al Qaeda and other fanatics stronger.

Yes, it must be the US's fault!

Yup, we don't kow-tow to the end of the world.