I find it so interesting that everyone is so blinded and only focus on the Muslim communities uproar but pays no attention to bigger picture: the extradinarily disproportionate amount of media attention it always gets.
Open your eyes and see how you are being manipulated! I don't deny that muslims generally get quite sensitive about comments...I guess if you had the western world sticking its nose in your business for the past hundred years you'd be a little sensitive too.. but I'd bet if some influential Islamic leader made some comment about Christians the Christian world would decry it as well and you wouldn't hear near the level the media about their outcry. What you would hear is the media attacking the comment and the person who made it.
Open your eyes and understand that you are being manipulated by the same people trying to sell the "Islamic Extremist" line and are the same people controlling the media... Oh and coincedentally are also the same people responsible for more terrorist attricities in the world than any other group... don't we all love the Washington?:)
BTW, if you doubt my comments about Washington's entanglement in terrorist activity go look up:
Operation Ajax
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Bay of Pigs
Alpha 66
Cuban Air flight 1976 (First ever mid-air terrorist bombing in history)
...the list is endless, and these are only the ones we know of!
Actually it is not just Diebold and the facts have been out for a lot more than the past few months. The media has started to cover it finally in the past few months.
Go do some digging and you will find that a majority of the vote machine companies have been caught and most have large foriegn ownership and CEO's that are former CIA director's.
Don't think we are safe here either. All your paper ballots are generally machine counted here as well, just like they have been in the US for many years.
I think that people who want something will always search out a way to get it. And I agree about the skewiness (not a word I know, but I like it) of the media. While what they write about may in fact be important to some people, it is hardly likely that it is important to as many people as read the paper. Plus, there are a plethora (nice word that) of other things happening daily that are of equal importance, or greater even, to some people and that are not getting any coverage at all.
This does not make them any less important, but it does keep the majority of our populace in ignorance of most of what is actually happening in the world, or even just here in Canada!!! Although more particularly events in the rest of the world are ignored by our media.
I think it is silly...
And then you take into account the number of mistakes that we know for a fact the media makes about the stories it does choose to tell, and in some ways I'm almost glad they didn't butcher the other things that are important to me too.
I totally agree Dan, I think sometimes people think that not being racist means simply not noticing that someone has a different skin colour and it is not the same thing at all. That would be like myself being offended for somone noticing I have red hair. How absurd. I think that to be truly, non-racist, you should be able to notice and appreciate the diversity of each other's skin tones and still treat them like the equal person that they are.