Americans Preach Tolerance to Iraqis

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Middle East - AP

Americans Preach Tolerance to Iraqis
Mon Oct 27, 2:54 AM ET

By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer

MOSUL, Iraq - When the U.S. Protestant chaplain finished explaining to Iraqi police the need to enforce only government laws in a religiously mixed city, one of the trainees asked: "If you believe in Jesus...then how come you don't apply the laws he passed?"

"I believe if God tells me I must do something then I must do it," replied Capt. David Arredondo. "However, in a free country, you have the state who rules."


That is a concept that can be hard to accept in a culture where the dominant religion, Islam, provides a detailed set of everyday rules which Muslims believe was handed down by God. U.S. concepts of separation of religion and the state are not widely accepted in the Middle East.


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Criminal laws were made by man, but God created man who made the laws," policeman Falah Jasim said. "Should we cut the hands of a robber? Yes. God is the most merciful. This is called deterrence."

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Arredondo, dressed in full military uniform with his glasses perched on his nose, pointed to a table full of candies — some white, others green, yellow and red.


"These candies all represent different religions," he told about 30 students. "We have winter green and peppermint right here, Sunni and Shiite. There are a few Christians, Protestants; and then we have some Christians over here, Catholics; maybe Orthodox and other churches within our community."






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1. Americans tolerant? HA!

Perhaps in the seventies... but ever since Ray-gun American tolerance has been on a slippery slope, sliding ever downwards. A downward trend that accelerated when Bush stole the WH, I might add.

And today, we have become one of the least tolerant societies in the world, behind only the most repressive regimes. I seriously hope we're able to one day regain all the tolerance we've lost in the last century.

[sam sarrha]

2. I am afraid that once gone, it is a matter of Totally starting over. The

culture of intolerance and hate that we are being brainwashed with in the media and every where...is turning normally rational people into high school shower room bullies. Negativity will continue exponentially until replaced with a positive alternative... you cant argue nor debate with negativity... Todays negativity is based on 'APriori logic: without making use of the experience afforded by the external world, Herr Duhring 1868.' the logical conclusion comes first and the premise follows... and always comes to the same conclusion... Those people are locked into a cyclical system of suffering.. which is becoming everybody Else's suffering...increasing exponentially. Its spread resembles an epidemic virus. Herr During was discussing using pure mathematics to describe reality, physics etc. It seems the Leninist's picked it up... there is NO way you can have a meaningful conversation with a person infected with APriori. this was the cause of the Holacost..and is the cause of much bigotry, and prejudice, and religious intollerance...etc etc.

[tom_paine]

3. American could do this, but not Amerikans

Who would believe those people who gave everything away in order to lick the boots of an unelected King?

Who are Ameriman to speak about equal application of the Law, when everyone knows that we are an arsitocratic society with two, perhaps three, sets of "application of Law".

Would a member of the Imperial Family be sent to jail under ANY cricumstances in Imperial Amerika? Will the Bushevik Anthrax Assassin be caught? Will Karl Rove or the Plame Leaker ever be caught?

Laughable. As laughable as asking if Himmler would have the SS invetsigate Der Fuhrer.

And as predictable in the answer.