Freed Irish priest 'treated well by Muslim kidnappers'

What an interesting and contrasting treatment of hostages when compared to missionary David Burnham getting the rusty scabbard on the back of the neck at the hands of muslim kidnappers in the Phillipines.

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WELL ISN'T THIS NICE SOMEBODY THE TERRORISTS DIDN'T KILL OR TORTURE! MUST BE ONE OF THE LUCKY FEW! IF YOU THINK THIS MEANS THAT THEY ARE JUST POOR MISUNDERSTOOD DECENT PEOPLE THEN YOU'D BE WRONG! THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LIFE AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO PROMOTE THEIR WARPED CONVERT OR DIE WORLD VIEW! HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE THEY MURDERED? TENS OF THOUSANDS? I'LL BET THE MUSLIM APOLOGISTS ON THIS SITE ARE THROWING A PARTY! FOOLS!

Uh, okay. That's nice that the priest was not mistreated but kidnapping is still always wrong.

On the lighter side, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is a real group? LOL!!!!!!! I have friends that would love to be kidnapped by a group called MILF!

You know that the hostages in Iran in 1979 said the same thing. No beatings

'Islamophobia' in the U.S. is a top down phenomenon encouraged and exploited by the right wing. It is EASIER to whip up war fever if the populace is irrational, mindless, or unduly fearful of an entire class, religion or even race.

US adventures in the middle east are all about oil --a resource that is desperately needed by the US which had been, at one time, a leading producer. The US finds it easier to 'sell' a war if it has been attacked by a class that is different. 911, clearly an inside job, a pretext for war, is the best example. 911 was --in fact --the 'catalyzing event' referred to by NEOCONS who drafted the infamous PNAC document: "REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES, Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century"

The passage reads as follows: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

Some context: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the break up of the old 'Soviet Union', the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev --all left the US without an easily exploited external enemy, one that might play the very role NEOCONS had hope it might --that of providing a 'catalyzing event' around which right wing militarists and would-be war criminals would rally a sheeple!