{"id":1032,"date":"2006-02-03T13:09:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2011-06-05T20:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:35:44","slug":"the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muslim World Needs a Chill Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fineprint\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/060202_cartoon_protest_hmed_4p.h2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo: Adel Hana\/AP\" width=\"376\" height=\"275\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no defending this shit &#8230;<\/div>\n<p>You know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I really want to believe that these militants are a small minority in Islam. I really do.<\/p>\n<p>Fact of the matter is, I *KNOW* no matter what I think of our current policies in the U.S&#8230;. No matter how idiotic I find the current administration in the White House&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t last five minutes in that region without someone wanting to make a video of my beheading. All for simply being an American.<\/p>\n<p>Why should I give anyone a level of understanding or sympathy they would never give me?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Middle East is beyond sanity &amp; reasoning. They refuse to accept the fact that the West considers <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coxandforkum.com\/archives\/000768.html\" target=\"offsite\">Terrorism as *synonymous* with Islam<\/a>. Not a small radical fraction, but the whole ideology and reasoning behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes we can point out &#8220;Christian Terrorism&#8221;. Irrational hatred of gays and bombings of abortion clinics. That brand of fanaticism needs to be exterminated as well. But by and large people in America can be reasoned with or punched in the mouth without worrying about a dirty bomb taking out Los Angeles or Boston. Their sickness will be dealt with in due time as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11097877\/\" target=\"offsite\">The uproar over silly Danish cartoons<\/a> and calling for violence and death is undefendable. Other countries in Europe is reprinting  them in their newspapers for one simple reason&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like the United States, Europe is getting sick of your bullshit too.<\/strong><br \/>\nThey&#8217;re tired of walking on eggshells. They&#8217;re tired of appeasing and kissing the Muslim world&#8217;s ass when you&#8217;re going to call on a jihad for something else next week.<\/p>\n<p>Nice knowing you.<br \/>\nAssholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should I give anyone a level of understanding or sympathy they would never give me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-gossip","category-political-cannon-fodder","category-religion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Muslim World Needs a Chill Pill - WHUZZUP!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Muslim World Needs a Chill Pill - WHUZZUP!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why should I give anyone a level of understanding or sympathy they would never give me?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"WHUZZUP!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EricBrooksDotComWeb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"EricBrooksDotComWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-02-03T17:09:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-06-06T01:35:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/060202_cartoon_protest_hmed_4p.h2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eric Brooks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@EricBrooksCom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@EricBrooksCom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eric Brooks\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ericbrooks.com\\\/whuzzup\\\/the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ericbrooks.com\\\/whuzzup\\\/the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Eric Brooks\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ericbrooks.com\\\/whuzzup\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3b162468e1f9814f6e9f61460db00a3a\"},\"headline\":\"The Muslim World Needs a Chill Pill\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-02-03T17:09:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-06-06T01:35:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ericbrooks.com\\\/whuzzup\\\/the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":278,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ericbrooks.com\\\/whuzzup\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ericbrooks.com\\\/whuzzup\\\/the-muslim-world-needs-a-chill-pill\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.ericbrooks.com\\\/images\\\/posts\\\/060202_cartoon_protest_hmed_4p.h2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News &amp; 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