New Wave Fundamentalism

It is hard to believe that in a day and age where we can travel in space, move information across the world in a fraction of second and cure all manner of disease, that fundamentalism is still alive, and it appears it is making a rebirth. From the crowded city of Tehran, or the rugged of Afghanistan, we've been hearing about how intolerant Sharia Law is, and how having a religious law imposed is so constitutionally wrong, and so violates democracy and basic human rights. It is a moral grey area where the rich democracies of the world (read: United States) have the 'right' to 'liberate' areas that voted for a non secular governing body, however in their own 'free' society, countries like France have banned Burqas[1]. Even in the United States, a supposed secular country, the mostly Christian denomination takes many liberties with it free speech.

However it is only barely tolerable that discrimination against minority groups, like trying to build the Mosque at Ground Zero[2], or even the Chaser joking around about a mosque in Mosman[3]. People would like to think that as countries get richer, more educated and more diverse, there should be greater tolerance and less segregation should occur.People WOULD LIKE TO THINK, however in the fervor of post 9/11 setting, the entire multicultural facade was unraveled. Like how 'open' minded people started looking at their neighbours differently because the people who attacked the Twin Towers were from 'the Middle East'. It's truly disgusting to see that this what globalistation breeds, secret intolerance that bubbles to the surface (see Cronulla Riots and Indian student assaults). This is political climate we live in, a politically correct but socially incorrect democracy that is like a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces in the wrong place. With people who'd like to think, yeah we love the culture of other races, we love the cheap labour and the tourism, but just don't live in MY country. This is quickly changing ideology, but still a current and extremely relevant one. It is not the immigrants fault that they are willing to work harder, or work for less, or be more talented at your job than you are. That inherent criticism that people are having their jobs 'taken' is redundant. The fact that the industrial juggernaut that was America is in decline is a showing that after centuries, laziness breeds inefficiency and also pent up frustration. The end result is like a spoiled child, wanting the privileges but not wanting to compete for less. As a result people become annoyed, it's all the Mexicans fault that they will work for less and work harder than we do. It's all the Chinese fault that we're out of manufacturing, not that our production techniques were obsolete and our wages too high.

What recently transpired in Bastrop[4] High is a travesty, not only a travesty but a farce on the very foundations of what the United States is built on. To ostracize and make a pariah out of a student, who was only following the LAW, trying to stop a STATE funded Christian prayer at a graduation, is wrong. It is not a worshiping ceremony, it is not a Christian celebration party, it is an entire school graduation ceremony, celebrating the years of education and not the church. The hypocritical nature of the American secularist ideal is so twisted and wrong it challenges any sane person to try argue with a Christian conservative. "It was wrong for the Muslims on the other side of the world to have their religion forced upon their people, however it is totally fine for our secular state to shove Christianity up every single citizens ass and call it a free country". A free country should be free of tolerance, free to worship however you want, but it shouldn't be a bigoted community that wont tolerate another culture other than the majority. I am sure that if a Muslim prayer was heard in the ceremony, every Christian the goddamn United States would be up in arms, crying the shit out of themselves that they let a Muslim pray in their country. I'm sure they would say that this violates the law they themselves violate every single day, and only add to the list of hypocrisy that country is founded on. I end this by saying, not everyone is stupid and not everyone believes in one thing or is totally intolerant of beliefs, because they're not. Some people are don't need to force their religion, after all I believe worship is a personal affair and that organizing it makes a fallacy of it. After all, what logic is a divine being that requires people to congregate and openly worship him/her/it. Don't believe the millenia old hype, I don't need to worship publicly to know how to be a good person. I don't need a man in robes to tell me that murder is wrong, however I especially don't need a man in robes to tell me that how people living their life should be impending by an organisation with no credibility.

And don't get me started on homosexuality and fundamentalism. Two gay people should have every right to be happy. [take for example my friend Botong, he and his partner should be free to love each other... and not get bashed for being in Melbourne by either racists or homophobes, or worse Christian fundamentalists]

[1]http://www.smh.com.au/world/first-arrests-as-france-bans-burqa-20110412-1dbcg.html
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51
[3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R6DfwqUSuY
[4]http://www.alternet.org/belief/151086/high_school_student_stands_up_against_prayer_at_public_school_and_is_ostracized,_demeaned_and_threatened/