Posted on Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Nasir sent me this: ‘For a people who constantly attacked Arabs/Somalis/Pakistanis for celebrating death, Americans are out in force celebrating this death tonight.’ That made me think. Take George W. Bush: he is as hated among Arabs and Muslims as Bin Laden is hated in the US. If Bush were to die, and if there are scenes of celebration among Muslims, the US news would be disgusted and guests would be invited on TV to speak about the sickness of Muslim culture.

On Celebrating Death, some perspective. (via thenoobyorker)

Those Muslims would be called America-hating extremists.

(via obentomusubi)

Interesting thought experiment.

(via mohandasgandhi)

I thought of this too. People went bugshit over the (fake) footage of Muslims “celebrating 9/11.” Yet Americans are in the streets acting like a bunch of animals over this news. It’s just gross to me.

(via celticthistle)

The American response to Abdelbaset al-Megrahi returning home to Libya came to mind the first time I saw the US celebrations. The lack of self-awareness in what I hope is a vanishingly small minority of Americans is horrifying.

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    are you kidding me? americans would be out in the street celebrating the death of W with everybody else in the world....
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    mohandasgandhi) Relevant.
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