No, I'm talking about the conquistadors that conquered and destroyed everything before them, from the Hellenists to the Berbers and beyond. If that's what you call spreading enlightenment as a means of justifying it, then everyone the west has conquered should also be grateful. They wouldn't have cars, computers, airplanes, modern weapons for self defence, modern medicine, electricity or any of this stuff. Am I trying to justify western colonialism? No. Would the third world have a fraction of the technology they possess today without the imposition of western systems? No. Would the third world be able to sustain its current populations and birthrate without western aid, technology and education? No. They would still be living in medieval times boasting about basic algebra and those arched columns that look like Persian slippers while infidels had their limbs sliced off and non-muslims got their apartheid tax. And everyone would be starving, worse than even the Palestinians themselves ever had it, except a very select few who could ignore the world while they jerk off in their harems.
The muslims nations didn't bring Europe out of the dark ages. Europe kicked most of the conquistadors out and sent them packing for home. European merchants who read and translated muslim texts helped to bring enlightenment, as did the discovery of the western hemisphere, relaxation of the church's powers and various other developments.
Do you see any Israelis getting off on taking that kid away in that photo? I don't see any smiles, I see a bunch of serious men probably operating in a chaotic combat zone. I'll bet the Palestinians get off on throwing each other from the tops of 10 storey buildings and shooting each other in the kneecaps though. Are there psychotic Israeli soldiers who get off on violence against Palestinian civvies? Yes. Name me an army that doesn't have a few loose cannons like that, especially one where every soldier knows someone or has a family member or a friend of a friend who got their legs ripped off by a suicide bomb.
A picture without context is useless. There are plenty of photos and videos around the web of Palestinian kids throwing rocks at soldiers' eyeballs, or showing up at the border with a bomb strapped to their chests, or carrying rockets and explosives for delivery to Palestinian militants. Hamas is sick, they even send kids into the fields to collect rocket launchers and dud rockets after launches at Israeli border communities because they know Israel won't target them. Don't bother giving me a photo of a kid being dragged off by Israeli soldiers without providing the complete context. The article doesn't say a word about why he was arrested or carried off, or where, or when. So the kid pissed his pants. I would too if I got dragged off by a bunch of strange men who I'd been taught were the sons of monkeys and pigs.
I don't see any torture. I see a kid being dragged off by soldiers and no context behind the incident whatsoever. Dressing 3 year olds up to look like suicide bombers and showing them self-martyring Mickey Mouses on TV is psychological torture, I don't see you condemning that sick tyranny one bit. Oh yeah, it's psychological torture and child abuse to teach children that they should kill anyone who leaves islam, and that they themselves ought to be killed for leaving it. Bet you would never condemn that in a thousand years.
