In an Associated Press report, CHRIS BRUMMITT, asserts:
“Many Pakistanis, who are routinely misled by their government and live in a country where television and newspapers report conspiracy theories about the malign intentions of the United States uncritically, don't believe bin Laden has died.
"I think Osama did not die," said Mohammad Khan at a newspaper kiosk in Rawalpindi city. "I don't believe even 1 percent that he was martyred in Abbottabad. The making of a video is not a big thing for America. They can do what they want because they have the latest technology. They can make impossible things seem possible." “
This certainly typifies the mentality of those who are educated in a system which prizes ignorance above knowledge – not that unlike of Fundamentalist Christian population with their Creationism and own version of the same Conspiracy theory.
Of course, rationally, wouldn’t it be great if they were correct?
Suddenly, Osama Bin Laden cleans himself up, makes a video showing the Times or some other newspaper that reported his death – a nice front page would be perfect. He holds it up and uses the Islamic various of “Reports of my death have been exaggerated.”
Suddenly! American Government is fully discredited; the American Army is disgraced; then, American credibility suffers more damage than any other event in history could possibly generate.
The very fact that Bin Laden does NOT appear is enough to underscore just how stupid conspiracy types really are. Unfortunately – since we already know they are crackpots, there is no sustained damage to the causes they support. However, because they are crackpots, the world is a more dangerous place, and those who would like to believe in a Divine Father, an Allah, a Creator, are reduced to their level of ignorance.
So it isn’t all bad.
Now this certainly typifies Islamic stupidity those educated in a system where suicide ignorance
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