tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5934233837338752656..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Muslim HypersensitivityStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19815173591434840462012-09-15T19:44:56.334-07:002012-09-15T19:44:56.334-07:00Michele Bachmann has an excellent speech regarding...Michele Bachmann has an excellent speech regarding Islam.<br /><br />http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2237/Islam-Is-Radical.aspxMalcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05478747589100326721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-90524473128713867002012-09-15T11:47:47.102-07:002012-09-15T11:47:47.102-07:00Stuart, I don't doubt the importance of this s...Stuart, I don't doubt the importance of this subject, and there seems little doubt that Islam is used by many to act our their destructive revenge fantasies. But your conclusion is less that satifying "Being feared does not make you respected." Being feared makes you respected BY THOSE WHO CAN'T CONTROL YOU (yet). <br /><br />For instance, Iran and North Korea want Nuclear weapons because they feel threatened, that a superior enemy can end their reign, and they learned that lesson from US, since we have nuclear weapons and someday someone is going to use these weapons again, and it won't be the respect-through-fear Iranians or North Koreans, but probably our own hubris, to think we can play with matches and not be burnt. Little Islamic terrorist can't touch our death fantasies. And of course you deny that, and so I do, but the problem is the 1-10% who cause all the trouble, and it doesn't matter whose side you are on, or whose religion your are mis-interpreting, as long as we use "respect through fear" as our moral code, we're just begging for our own destruction. <br /><br />I don't have a political answers. I just hate the false division between the powerful and the weak for their different tactics.<br /><br />When I was a kid, I had an adopted bigger brother who'd was very physical and would get into fights, and once I threw a knife towards him, intentionally off, but wanted him to know I was crazy. OTOH, he really was a poor street fighter, and yet I remember once he used his size to take a temporary beating by numbchucks before he disarmed his opponent and threw them in a tree, and I was glad for his size then, and proud of his willingness to take pain.<br /><br />Learning how to deal with aggressive feelings in the best of childhoods is hard. Maybe we should blame a specific culture or religion, and pretend its someone else's problem, because the disrespected men don't see what is obvious how to gain esteem, but maybe we don't see the obvious - self-destructiveness doesn't care. It will gain positive or negative attention with equal rigor, or die trying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com