Why the euphemisms?

bernee51 · Post by **bernee51** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:05 pm

Over the past few days there has been an immense amount of bloodshed, death and misery in the Tal Afar, in the north of Iraq. It is a case of Sunni killing Shia and vica versa - i.e. muslims killing muslims for no good reason other than they hold a different view of the source of their beliefs.

The media seems to want to change this from a religious conflagration to something else - an 'ethnic' dispute. The Sunni wanting to clear their perceived homelands of Shia is described as 'ethnic cleansing" when it is religioius cleansing. They are not of different ethnicities - they are all Iraqi arabs.

Exactly the same as happened in Bosnia with the muslims being religiously cleansed by christian Serbs. Both the same race. Not ethnic cleansing at all.

Why the use of euphemisms?

Re-posted here

Grayven · Post by **Grayven** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:18 pm

I wouldn't want to say anything in offense of Islam, or Mohammed (PBUH). I don't wish to be murdered.

Islam is, after all, a religion of peace. Obviously, the Sunni and Shia do not kill each other for religious reasons. The both follow the way of peace. Their current strife MUST either then be ethnic, or instigated by the US.

See that symbol of peace on the bottom of the Saudi falg? (Arabia is the holiest land in Islam, the religion of peace.)

Cryopyre · Post by **Cryopyre** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:48 am

Grayven, Islam does not say it is such a thing, Islam has been about conquering, you may call that evil, but it united the tribes of the Middle-east until WWI. Islam does what any religion would do, it survives.