Saturday, April 10, 2004
Let's look.
Palestinian Hamas activists gather around the money, military clothes and other items that were donated by Palestinians during a Hamas donation campaign to help Jihad and the resistance in Palestine following the Friday prayer at Kholafa mosque in Jabaliya refugee camp northern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), Friday April 9, 2004. Hamas elements including armed military wing members called on the people to participate in the honor of Jihad by giving money or gold to help the fighters to buy weapons and supplies. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
(Via LGF)
And let's take a little closer look to see what's on the table in the Salahdin Mosque:
Palestinians gather money collected by Hamas after Friday prayers in Salahdin mosque in Gaza April 9, 2004. Worshippers handed over cash and jewelry to armed and masked men at Gaza mosques on Friday, at the start of a drive by the militant group Hamas to raise money for its armed wing amid U.S. pressure to choke off its funds. REUTERS/ Mohammed Salem
Which brings to mind this Cox & Forkum cartoon of the other day:
But we have to respect the cultural differences! Who are we to say that to worship a peace loving God you can't donate money and material so that others may go forth and kill random people? Why, to do so would be cultural imperialism! And down that path lies hegemony! We have to love and respect the differences of others to the point of baring our throats and handing them the blade we just shapened in the name of world peace!