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16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - South Park...off the h... · 0 replies · +1 points

. Of course, they did bleep out the panda bears name and no longer called it Mohammed but I really think the damage was already done and doing that only made the situation worse. People don’t understand that when dealing with these extreme radicals they aren’t afraid to take it to the next level. I mean, they put a death threat on a couple of guys over a cartoon, so to think that they aren’t dangerous is an understatement. I think that the show should have been cancelled and not been aired again and they especially should not have aired the second episode about Mohammed. What they are doing is throwing fuel on the fire, so to speak.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - South Park...off the h... · 0 replies · +1 points

The religion, like any other, has some extremists and radicals who take that kind of thing very very seriously and I do not know why they would mess with it and especially make fun of it and do something so stupid.
I do think that the people who got offended are taking it a bit far by putting out death threats on the creators of the show because that’s a little unnecessary. Obviously the show is just immature like that and I don’t think that they understand that because they aren’t from here and probably haven’t seen any other episodes. I also don’t really understand why, if when the episode aired it caused so much controversy, why the creators and the supervisors of the network Comedy Central would allow the second episode (which was a second part of the first offensive episode) to air and continue all of the mayhem.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - South Park...off the h... · 0 replies · +1 points

in 3 parts
I have never really been much of a fan of the show South Park on Comedy Central. It started airing when I was a little too young to understand it and then by the time I did understand it, I just thought it was immature and stupid and only boys seem to like it. I don’t really get the humor of it and I think it’s really juvenile and I disagree with most of the topics that they have on the show such as making fun of mentally challenged people, people of other races, and specific celebrities and people of stature. That being said, I think that it was wrong of them to poke fun at Mohammad and the Islamic religion because I think that’s just not right to do in general. I would have felt the same way if it would have been Jesus depicted in the episode as the panda bear or whatever the circumstance was in the episode (obviously I didn’t watch it). I actually heard about it first on the news and was not surprised at all by it.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Creating Terrorists · 0 replies · +1 points

. It seems absurd to me that you can just give someone a couple of farm animals such as sheep and they feel consoled and better about the fact that you just murdered their family members in cold blood.. It’s kind of ironic, actually that they are so extreme. When they find out you killed their loved one, they want to be a suicide bomber, but if you offer them something as miniscule as a sheep, they feel like you are offering everything you have to beg for forgiveness. This is just something we will never ever understand as Americans. We need to just accept it and try to stop the heart of it which is killing civilians.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Creating Terrorists · 0 replies · +1 points

To them, committing a crime such as a suicide bombing something that you do when you lose someone and you want to avenge that person’s death. You may not get to kill the specific person who killed your love one but the point is to make an impact and show people that you are doing it because you lost someone.
We sometimes think that it is all about hurting Americans. Yeah, sometimes that is the reason for crazy suicide bombers and terrorists but on the other hand, like the 80 year old man mentioned in the article, he was simply an old man who lost not one, but four of his loved ones. He’s juts an old man who was affected by this war in a very negative way. Was it fair for the American soldiers to come into his town and kill the innocent people in his family, 2 being women and one of them being pregnant? We didn’t enter this war to kill all Middle Eastern people and that’s really what it seems to be coming to.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Creating Terrorists · 0 replies · +1 points

in 3 pieces
I think this blog entry has a lot to do with the difference of two cultures. We as Americans will never really understand what it is like to be a Muslim (or a Christian) in the Middle East at this time in the world and because of that, I don’t think we will ever completely understand why some people do what they do. The video clip from the Australian news show was a very disturbing image that just goes to show how different we are in our beliefs and cultures. Here in the United States, Christianity is the predominant religion and within that religion we learn that committing suicide isn’t ever right, no matter what the reason is. Apart from religion, we just think as a society that suicide is something that you do when you are extremely depressed and unhappy with the life that you are living and that suicide is the last possible alternative. What we fail to understand is that in another country and religion, suicide has a completely different meaning to these people than it does here in the United States to us.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Tent Cities in Haiti · 0 replies · +1 points

It was also a little bit sad and strange im sure to adjust to everyone living together. There are people that were once doctors selling ice and food who are on the same exact level as these people who were already poor before the earthquake. Now these poor people who were already living on the streets have a place where everyone is on the same playing field as them. And as unfair as that is, maybe now everyone will have a better chance at succeeding in the future when everything is redeveloped.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Tent Cities in Haiti · 0 replies · +1 points

It amazes me that people can still afford the luxuries of a pedicure or manicure at a time like this, but it is also very cool because like the woman said in the video, if people were always used to having nice things, then the earthquake didn’t change that. I also thought it was very cool and smart to charge people a small amount of money to use the generator and charge their cell phones. Any little bit of production and consumption possible is what will start rebuilding these communities and take them a step forward in the right direction.
The reason that this video clip made me feel a little bit sad is because this is just the beginning for this country and these people. Yes, they’ve started off on the right foot and everything is falling into place the best that it can, but like the video said, a lot of these people will be stuck in these houses for many years to come. So not only did they lose everything they had in just one day, they can’t just get it all back and start over.. this is going to be a long process that will take many many years to overcome for this country.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Tent Cities in Haiti · 0 replies · +1 points

in pieces.After watching this video on the tent cities, it made me feel two ways: hopeful and sad. It was really amazing to see how people could work together and put these tent cities together so quickly and so efficiently just days after such an awful occurrence. I thought that alone was amazing, but what I thought was even more cool was when they showed all the individual businesses going on within these little tent cities. These people are coming up with great ideas on top of selling the basic necessities that everyone in their community is looking for to buy in order to survive. I thought that it was really inspirational to see the woman with the nail salon go back to where her business once was and retrieve everything possible in order to keep moving on and set up her business in another location to try and make money and help people.

16 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Letter from an Inmate · 0 replies · +1 points

His whole letter being about compassion is far more powerful and motivating than if he would have wrote his letter about his crime and just being in jail. The message that he was giving us was that no matter what roads you take in life and what obstacles you overcome and go through, you still have those inner feelings inside of you for other people no matter who you are, because, I think those things are just things that we are born with and can’t really shut out no matter how dangerous one person may be. Like I said before, I don’t think that every criminal has this mindset, I’m sure it just depends on the individual, but it makes you stop and think, is he really more dangerous to society now than some 18 year old punk who is going out and LOOKING for trouble somewhere? It’s just sad that one circumstance can change your whole life in an instant.

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