"Many Pakistanis worry that the United States is being taken over by religious extremists"

[Neo-wobbly]

How's that for turnabout?

http://www.thebulletin.org/columns/hugh-gusterson/20080205.html

That article is primarily about nuclear proliferation, another hot topic that is being ignored by all of our politicians.

[Gman]

1. As they rightfully should worry

As well the rest of the world should worry.

[blm]

6. It's gonna get even weirder soon. Billy Graham is in poor health. Expect Reagan-level worship

for at least a week.

[Gman]

10. Graham is a good man who's heart, I believe, always has been in the right place

But you're right. The RW fundies will canonize him on the spot as soon as he passes.

[blm]

11. Yeah - it's what figures get TWISTED into by the RW that gets creepy.

It was horrid what America became after Reagan's death - a two week lovefest for all things conservative by the corporate media.

THAT was what we were up against in 2004.

[onyourleft]

2. As are many...

Americans.

[rubberducky]

3. That whole article is a MUST read.

K&R

[PDJane]

4. Okay, I have a vile sense of humour.

That, although bleak, and bitter, and black, and altogether too true, is funny as hell.

Thank you. I needed that this morning.

[malaise]

7. Funny is an understatement

Great read - the moral of this one is that when you point one finger at others, three are pointing back at you.

Colonel Zhalot replied:
"Millions of Americans believe that these are the last days and that they will be raptured to heaven at the end of the world. You have a president who describes Jesus as his favorite philosopher, and one of the last remaining candidates in your presidential primaries is a preacher who doesn't believe in evolution. Many Pakistanis worry that the United States is being taken over by religious extremists who believe that a nuclear holocaust will just put the true believers on a fast track to heaven. We worry about a nutcase U.S. president destroying the world to save it."

What a hoot!!! Truth can be funny.
Edit -gr.

[KharmaTrain]

5. American Media Xenophobia

It's amazing how little American know of the world outside our borders. At the outset of the Iraq invasion, I looked at a map of the country and laughed at some of the strange sounding town names like Fallujah and Ramadi and then quipped that soon not only will be all know the names of these areas, but we'll all be "experts" on this country and people. Sure 'nuff, the corporate media made us all armchair generals...that our talking heads can easily project into what the "terrists" think and why they believe it. It almost always boils down to "they hate us for who we are", yet never any discussion on the "who we are" part.

Americans have long lived with a myopic view of the world. Our corporate media only views international events with an "how does it affect us" attitude rather than explaining it from the point of view of those directly involved. That gets combined with stereotypes that work their way into the "analysis" that demonizes what we don't know or control and glorifies what our country says or does. Thus, when the right wing took over our government, the corrupted corporate media went along for the ride and our understanding of the world beyond has suffered for it.

[Marrah_G]

8. perhaps they ought to look out their own windows

As a member of possibly the worst treated religions in America, and a woman, I would like to say I would MUCH rather deal with religious extremists here then in Pakistan or any number of Muslim Countries.

[jayjaybear]

9. There's something

almost Onionesque about that headline...