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Yeah, that kind of idiot
I was sitting on the bus here that takes us to the main part of the FOB. We live a ways off to one side of Taji, and it’s a rather long walk to the DFAC or the PX (or the MWR). I was sitting there, listening to the radio (the fairly decent rock station that AFN puts out), and two or three guys behind me start talking about Muslims. Reduced, their comments were undisguised ignorance and bigotry. I have seen a good number of people here who have started to hate almost all Iraqis, but as ignorant as that is, I have rarely seen prejudice that generalized – at least not in person.
One of the guys started off using a sort of Manchurian Candidate argument about interpreters that, no matter how long a soldier had worked with a terp, no matter how much you had trusted that person in the past, that because they were Muslim they could turn on you at any time. He actually said that there must be some gene (yeah – gene – yeah), some switch that gets flipped and they all, all Muslims, would turn on you. Would turn in to suicide bombers and insurgents. One even argued that there was nothing they could do about. I wasn’t really sure which sickened me more; the bigotry or the ignorance.
I was getting more and more pissed off by the pure extremist idiocy of these soldiers when they added another component to their arguments – the Antichrist. This – along with Hitler, the ender of all rational arguments – dropped from one of their mouths without so much as a flinch from the other two. The two agreed, if not explicitly, and continued talk about this, agreeing that the Antichrist was alive and was definitely a Muslim (despite all the “knowledgeable” authorities and literature espousing the belief that the Antichrist is a Jew). Despite how angry I had been at them, despite all the ignorant, idiotic, bigotous bullshit that had been spewing from their mouths seconds before, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Obligitory, but related, Kung Fu Monkey link - here.
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