Muslims who kill fellow-Muslims to save their lives

Comment I placed in CNN.

The article quotes the London hacker as saying,

"We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone,The only reasons we killed this man ... is because Muslims are dying daily"

These men, as well as Tsarnaev in Boston, are spouting bl**dy BS.

Thousands Muslims die at the hands of Muslims. More Muslims are killed by Muslims in significantly higher numbers than by non-Muslims. Where are the prideful heroism for Islam in defending Muslims where it is really needed.

If you watch the TV series Life Unexpected, this teenage girl keeps blaming everyone but herself, keeps assigning reasons to other people as reasons why she misbehaves.

If these people are truly concerned about the fortitude of Islam, like Mahathir Mohammed did once say pejoratively - Muslims should learn to be like Jews - be good at what you do, excel at what you are.

Jihadists need to be reminded - that between 500 and 1000 years ago, Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrians in Persia and Southeast Asia pursued by their own freewill to convert to Islam because Islam at that time represented the elite in philosophy, fashion and technology. The Arab occupiers or traders had little motivation to convert those people. Even the invading Mongolian hordes converted to Islam because it made them look good and civilised.

What makes me believe is that Jihadists are actually disillusioned with Islam. They see it as a religion that is going nowhere. Jihadists are actually people throwing tantrums by killing Muslims and non-Muslims because they are afflicted with severe depression. They see it as being out of alignment with the world because the grand imams of their religion would not let it progress forward.

In that, they have neither hope nor understanding in the religion they are see themselves being stuck with. So they have no choice but to call even the most conservative of non-Muslims and other non-violent Muslims as evil and non-compliant to their religion. To feel good that they are better Muslims - the special chosen ones to punish the world - finding fault in everything to justify their need to punish.

1.3 billion dogs-on-a-leash

Comment I placed in CNN.

Americans and Europe have more to fear for a fully democratic China than an authoritarian one.

In an authoritarian one, as it now stands, the authority is able to persuade the populace that their natural state are dogs on a leash. So many of them, including the fearless Jackie Chan, accept that it is for their own good to be dogs on a leash.

However, have we ever considered what would be unleashed in a fully democratic China, that we would even wish to encourage that? The full forces of Confucianism and Taoism (not the religions but the culture) would be released.

Those are grandiose traditions - they see every thing as connected. Confucianism vs Taoism is akin to Sunni vs Shiite, Catholic vs Protestants. Confucians see things as connected by group mandate, Taoists see things as connected by fluid individuality. They both themselves admit that they are fire vs water.

The world will face drastic changes, when the cultural forces of a fully democratic China demands the rest of the world to see events, ethics, morality and progress in their perspectives.

Fortunately, the Communist party of China and Jackie Chan can still successfully persuade their people that they are worthy as mere dogs on a leash.

Read Jackie Chan supports suppression of freedom in China.