Peakah's Provocations...

These were the sights in front of the American Embassy in London on Friday...
I have a hard time believing that these nuts would get away with this in NYC.

The protest was organised by groups including the Muslim Council for Britain and the Muslim Parliamentary Association of the UK. Their protest follows fury in the Islamic world over the claims in a Newsweek magazine that US soldiers at Guantanamo Bay had abused the Koran.

The magazine later withdrew the article and apologised but not before it triggered riots in Afghanistan in which 17 people died and 100 people were injured.

One wonders what would inspire this amount of hatred.

I believe that the violent faction of Islam is motivated more by what is shown over the boob tube by western countries than they are by the same country's foreign policy.

I contend that the reason the extreme fundamentalists in the middle east fear the spread of western civilization is the perception perpetually fed through the open airwaves and media feeds that spread over all willing receptacles that confirms in their mind the utter madness that is the current western pop culture. We are so used to the filth flowing through our lit screens that there is only the reaction of wanting the envelope pushed further rather than moving toward more wholesome and uplifting programming.

Those who are glorified through even negative press and in our cinemas scare the daylights out of those fathers of simpler existing cultures who only receive glimpses of moments of time of our brash display of pomp and circumstance and extrapolate these impressions upon the whole of our American culture rendering us all infidels.

Seeing how Hollywood or the Mainstream Media isn't going to go away anytime soon, or even clean up it's act, it is safe to bet that this war on Terror is only going to escalate despite any perceived successes in Iraq.