Wednesday, February 22, 2012

What to do about Religious Extremism: A fantasy

 Rioting in Afghanistan over Quran burning

THE US embassy in Kabul said today it was on lockdown as riots rocked the city during the second day of angry protests against NATO troops for burning copies of the Koran.


 Rick’s Religious Fanaticism

Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola.That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.

“Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition
 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/opinion/dowd-ricks-religious-fanaticism.html?_r=1

Israel: Jewish Extremists Attack Woman

JERUSALEM — Israeli police say a group of ultra-Orthodox extremists have attacked a woman who was putting up posters in a troubled town near Jerusalem.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says about a dozen ultra-Orthodox men in the town of Beit Shemesh surrounded the woman on Tuesday, pelted her with stones and slashed her car's tires. He says the woman suffered minor injuries.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/israel-jewish-extremists-woman_n_1227748.html


All these stories lead me to this fantasy:

Pick a spot in the world that is barren for many square miles. Build a fifty foot high enclosing fence. Put in a gate that can be bricked up after all the extreme religious fanatics are herded in with their Bibles and Qurans and no weapons and let the chips fall where they may.

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