So... Uh... What the hell, Australia?!?!

[Lancer873]

so a bunch of people protest at an embassy and that makes all us aussies hate americans how ?

Agreed. Kinda like how one douchebag makes a small internet video that disses Muhammed and suddenly all Americans hate Muslims. Or how some extremists go on what they believe is a holy war and suddenly all Muslims are now psychopathic fanatical mass-murderers...
... I sense a pattern here.

 

[DisgruntledOwl]

Yes i am. People parody Christians and Christianit and they straight-up insult them all the time. It doesn't spark such widespread unrest .

People are too scared to portray Mohammed in any mainstream media but have not problems with showing and parodying Jesus, Buddha and other deity's and gods. And while those artists might receive angry letters and some threats it sure as hell wont start a worldwide shit storm.

 

[the doom cannon]

However I didn't know about the president required to be Christian. That seems.....well...honestly....really fucking weird for a, as you put it, country where church and state are meant to be separated. I mean, I don't know much about American Political history, but wasn't JFK the one who decided it was a good idea? And weren't people like "Yeah that is a good idea, JFK, your the man!". (obviously the wording was a bit different back in those times, maybe "You have had a brilliant idea, good sir".)

Youre right, it is an archaic idea. But you also have to remember that something like 75% of the US is Christian.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States

 

[Kolby Jack]

Religion and politics in off-topic? I cast you out.

Oh, come on man! That's NOT how it's done!

Sane, this is for demonstration, not against you or your topic.

SaneAmongInsane... you have betrayed the express rules of these forums. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you've opened these peaceful threads and innocent posters to the horror, and desolation of forum WAR! You are unworthy of this thread! You're unworthy of your badges! You are UNWORTHY!... of the Escapees you have betrayed!

I now take from you, your power! In the name of my father, and his father before, I, Yuval152, CAST YOU OUT!!!

Then you blast him through a portal and hope he learns his lesson on Earth! That's how you do it.

Again, Sane, just for demonstration. ^_^

 

[PinkiePyro]

Is this still over that dumb ass youtube video Obama already apalogised for it what more do you peapole want...

we have freedom of speech we cant drag him to jail over it, so just stop already


as this new round is in Australia is there any way we can get/bribe yatzee to send his imp army to stop them?

 

[jackpipsam]

Considering that Australia is the only country to serve by the United States in every war since WW2, we don't all hate the United States.

Our government loves your government.
You can't judge the actions of a few and connect it with an entire country.

 

[ScaryAlmond]

You cant group the rest of us with these guys its 200 in 22 million
Thats 0.0001% or 1 out of 11000 of us does that really represent the majority.
This was just some kid who saw an opportunity to create trouble he's in police custody now.
We don't think your country is all racist due to the domestic terrorism by white supremesites it makes up a very small part of your population.
Most Australians are indifferent to America we like having a partner on the world stage and the cultural bond we share but we don't like the constant wars and war crimes the military base your building in our country the relationship (you kind of take us for granted) needs a bit of work but we don't hate you guys.

 

[Owen Robertson]

From what I heard (which isn't very much) some jackoff made a "movie" about Mohammed and put it up on Youtube. It's probably inaccurate, definitely offensive to Muslims (I don't know why but portraying Mohammed isn't allowed. Ever.), and most likely racist to boot (it's on Youtube).

There's a very good chance this is the all-time most elaborate attempt at trolling ever. There's also still a chance the purpose of the film isn't to offend, but to make a statement about the portrayal of Islam in the West, yada yada yada, now it's blown up into a media frenzy. I'm sure if the films creators got together with some Western and Eastern representatives of Muslim/Islamic culture, and had a nice long chat about boundaries, cultural differences, respect, and most importantly freedom of speech, we'd have a formal apology from the creators, muslims worldwide, and maybe even a few countries citizenry.

But that's not going to happen. People would rather talk shit and remain ignorant until we kill ourselves off. I am tired of Earth, these people. I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives...

 

[Owen Robertson]

as this new round is in Australia is there any way we can get/bribe yatzee to send his imp army to stop them?

Get this man a ribbon.

 

[Rinshan Kaihou]

OP is not helping our case. =|
Few protesters =/= entirety of australian population.

Though I will admit I wasn't expecting protests there, but it's not like the entirey of australia feels that way. At least, I don't think so... >_> <_< hmmmmm......

 

[Owen Robertson]

Yes i am. People parody Christians and Christianit and they straight-up insult them all the time. It doesn't spark such widespread unrest .

People are too scared to portray Mohammed in any mainstream media but have not problems with showing and parodying Jesus, Buddha and other deity's and gods. And while those artists might receive angry letters and some threats it sure as hell wont start a worldwide shit storm.

I agree. Then again, the religion is still ingrained within the cultural identity of so many Middle-Eastern countries that it takes very little to offend. Think of South Park portraying Jesus, but in the 50's. Not gonna go over well in the U.S.A. Or perhaps The Simpsons portrayals of Buddha or Vishnu (or perhaps it was Krishna) in sight gags, aired in China and India respectively. I think there would be more than an angry letter.

 

[Superlative]

Whats happening here is actually been summed up by The Boondocks (replace n-word with ignorant Muslim)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKFZjZPxkys (NSFW, VERY NSFW)

seriously, dumb asses are dumb asses everywhere. the people protesting are the Muslim verson of Americans who protest and hassle people in front of abortion clinics

 

[Owen Robertson]

Well, fortunately, the usual racist bigots have been SMSing each other (like they do) and they are planning to attack the next protest, so that's one riot each.

YOU HAVE CONFIRMATION OF AN ATTACK ON A CIVILIAN TARGET AND YOURE SHARING IT HERE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?
What the fuck dude! Tell the DoD or the NSA or the UN! Where did you hear this?! What's being done to combat it?! Who said they were going to attack a protest?!

I apologize for the caps rage but this could be a life-or-death situation and cause for civil war.

 

[ScaryAlmond]

Yes i am. People parody Christians and Christianit and they straight-up insult them all the time. It doesn't spark such widespread unrest .

People are too scared to portray Mohammed in any mainstream media but have not problems with showing and parodying Jesus, Buddha and other deity's and gods. And while those artists might receive angry letters and some threats it sure as hell wont start a worldwide shit storm.

I agree. Then again, the religion is still ingrained within the cultural identity of so many Middle-Eastern countries that it takes very little to offend. Think of South Park portraying Jesus, but in the 50's. Not gonna go over well in the U.S.A. Or perhaps The Simpsons portrayals of Buddha or Vishnu (or perhaps it was Krishna) in sight gags, aired in China and India respectively. I think there would be more than an angry letter.

Ye I need to kind of Counter the first one.
If you remember Life of Brian a parody not even about Jesus makes that apparent was pretty badly boycotted by Christians.
We have developed a sense of humor about our religion and we have gradually gained a tolerance to parody.
While I believe that the death of that diplomat was unforgivable I do understand that they have not reached the point in their religious history where they can think like that.
Just think a few years or decades ago making fun of a living man could mean death think of how that develops with a prophet.
It takes time for people to develop that tolerance especially in a culture that is extremely protective of their religion.

 

[Vivid Kazumi]

i love it how most people still think all of this is still about a bloody movie....

 

[David VanDusen]

so a bunch of people protest at an embassy and that makes all us aussies hate americans how ?

Because clearly everyone who lives in a country thinks exactly the same way. There are never any dissenters in a country who make their difference of opinion known through public protest. That just can't happen; we all agree on everything with everyone even vaguely associated with our country.

I love the oozing saturation of strict fucking irony with this comment.

WHY THE HELL NOT? Three assholes get together and make a shitty movie and apparently ALL AMERICA is to blame... including but not limited to people who were in OTHER countries when it took place.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Well, fortunately, the usual racist bigots have been SMSing each other (like they do) and they are planning to attack the next protest, so that's one riot each.

YOU HAVE CONFIRMATION OF AN ATTACK ON A CIVILIAN TARGET AND YOURE SHARING IT HERE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?
What the fuck dude! Tell the DoD or the NSA or the UN! Where did you hear this?! What's being done to combat it?! Who said they were going to attack a protest?!

I apologize for the caps rage but this could be a life-or-death situation and cause for civil war.

Dude chill. It was in the paper this morning. The police are looking into it.

...Tell the UN?

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

Guys, let me explain. All the riots and shit were going on over that movie (although, personally, I think it is just an excuse) and they were happening in Australia as well. In the CBD, a huge riot of over 1000 broke out and about 180 police officers reported, with about 80 riot troopers. I was talking to my Dad about this (he works for the police Airwing) and 180 officers is pretty much everyone. Like, they were calling up people who were at home telling them to get their ass into gear, there was a riot.

So anyway, that went down with 6 officers injured and 2 put in hospital. Then there was more protests world wide, and a few in Australia. Obviously one of the protests was at the US Embassy here. It is the Muslims (NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! The extremists, who do NOT represent all Muslims) who protested, not Australians (By Australians, I mean everyone BUT extremist Muslims.)

So to sum it up, Australia does not hate America, or at least some of us don't, so don't damned well blame us for something that a radical group of people did, especially if that group of people nearly killed some of our police officers.