I'm not sure that this is a thread hijack or not. Stop me if it is.
Obviously the "Kill 'em all" mentality is moronic and has no place here. But I would like to bring up what I see as one of the reasons behind it.
I wrote this article
http://www.john-ross.net/race&rtc.htm
last year about race and values. For those that don't want to read the whole thing, here's the part relevant to this discussion:
"At the risk of being accused of blaming blacks for all their own problems, it strikes me that as long as so many blacks have such different value systems from their white counterparts, we will never see the generally easy coexistence that whites enjoy with Asians and, to a somewhat lesser degree, Hispanics.
"Never was this brought home so dramatically for me as at the O.J. Simpson trial. I am not talking about the fact that a largely black jury reached a verdict of Not Guilty in the murder of two whites. This has happened many times in our history on the other side of the racial aisle. I am referring to what columnist Bill McClellan called "the absolutely breathtaking reaction" of America’s entire black population when the verdict was announced. Across the country, Black America was positively jubilant.
"When white Americans see film footage of some pus-gut like Bull Connor and his thugs using fire hoses and billy clubs on peaceful black freedom marchers, the near-universal reaction is revulsion. The same is true of lynchings.
"It is true that over the years there have been cases where an all-white jury has ignored the evidence and freed a white man for a vicious crime because his victim was black, but White America as a whole has never, in my memory, cheered such events. I would like you to engage in a little exercise here with me. I would like you to envision the O.J. Simpson case, with the races reversed.
"Imagine a white Hall of Fame footballer turned actor/pitchman, like Howie Long. Imagine Howie had a moderately hot-looking black ex-wife with a high school education and breast implants. (To my knowledge Mr. Long is not so encumbered, but bear with me.)
"Imagine that there was overwhelming DNA and other evidence that Howie had butchered this black ex-wife and a black male acquaintance of hers. Imagine the entire Howie Long Trial being televised for months, and being called the "Trial of the Century." Imagine Greta Van Susteren's TV career being "made" by her televised legal commentary on The Howie Long Trial. Imagine that during The Howie Long Trial there is the revelation that one of the black cops involved with Howie’s arrest disliked whites and had used the terms "white devil" and "honky" in the past. Imagine the defense team running with this and arguing that all the city's black officers tampered with evidence and engaged in a huge conspiracy to frame Howie for the two murders. Finally, imagine a largely white jury telling us they had weighed the evidence and decided Howie was Not Guilty.
"Can you, in your most reckless imaginings, see White America having a mass celebration over this Not Guilty verdict, and repeating the mantra "The black bitch (and her friend, presumably) deserved it"? I can’t. Not at all. Similarly, can you imagine whites all across America being particularly upset at the possibility that Howie might get sent to Death Row for murdering two black people? The concept is ludicrous."
This, I believe, is what many people here would like to know: When we are shown film footage of large masses of Middle Eastern citizens literally dancing with joy about the WTC attacks or other American deaths, IS THIS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION THERE OR NOT?
When that racist in Texas chained the black guy to his truck and dragged him to death, I suppose there might have been some Klan group *somewhere* that was slapping their thighs, but not in public where they'd be seen. Every white person I knew (and that a news crew might find to interview) felt real revulsion for that act.
Have the news crews somehow staged these Middle Eastern celebrations of American deaths?
Are these kind of people truly an infinitesimal minority, or do they represent, say, half the adult male population?
JR