Another American Douche

(3) According to Wikipedia- the acute effects of the bombings in Hiroshoma killed 90,000-166,000. In Nagasaki it was 60,000-80,000.

(1) In the Pearl Harbor attack, casualties included 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians.

(2) According to an article by Stephen M Walt for Foreign Policy magazine, the number of deaths of Afghan civilians from 2001-2009 is about 12,000-32,000. In Iraq, about 16,000 with the initial invasion and at least 100,000 more during occupation. The numbers are probably even higher.

(3) The September 11th "attacks" -2,976 victims and 19 hijackers.

It's funny to me now how, in an effort to expunge Islam, but not the Muslim community, a douchebag preacher is going to hold a massive book burning ceremony. First of all, let me say that this man has very poor grammar. Second of all, it tickles me pink when he says that Islam is the the devil and asks "why do we defend oppression." Hmmmm. There's that good ol' boy end oppression with oppression statement again. It's so like old white American men to say something so incredibly contradictory. I'm not saying that I agree with the Islamic religion entirely, but I don't believe that the Christian bible is any better either. Both are chauvinistic texts created by men throughout the ages. Neither hold any real truth. One is a book of fables, the other is a book designed to govern and control, well I guess that part is in both. Hey I have a great idea, I'll hold my own burning of sacred texts day! Everyone come on out and burn it all! Religious people have stooped, yet again, to an all time low. I just hope that when these ignorant back-woods, white supremicist, chauvinist a-holes die off, the younger generations of the world will come together in a glorious atheist movement. We'll call it something catchy like, "The Human Existence." People throughout will stop playing pretend with their imaginary deities and learn to exist amongst eachother, and simply be happy and live for today!

So if you read this watch the video I will be attaching, if you haven't seen it already. It's a good one folks...I can't wait for the writers of Southpark to make an episode about it (which hopefully they will).

I suppose that's all for now, thanks for listening :)

Here is the link to the video....

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/07/29/ricks.burn.koran.cnn





(1) Anderson, Erik. "Pearl Harbor Facts." Pearl Harbor: The Bombing. Web. 21 Aug 2010. http://www.erikanderson.net/pearlharbor/index.html.

(2) Walt, Stephen M. "Why they hate us (II): How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the pst 30 years." Foreign Policy. 30 Nov 2009: Web 21 Aug 2010. http://www.foreignpolicy.com

(3) "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." <http://en.wikipedia.org>.

"September 11 Attacks." http://en.wikipedia.org.

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