I was recommended Khaled Hosseini’s book, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by someone I’ve been conversing with on Goodreads. While it’s fiction, it appears that this person takes it how Muslims really are. From the critical reviews that I’ve read, so far, my immediate takeaway is that the book is Anti-Communist (the Soviets didn’t invade Afghanistan) and Islamophobic. Others have said that it’s racist and makes the case for ‘humanitarian intervention’ aka invasion based on women’s rights or children’s rights.

He’s Asian, has described himself as a liberal—not a “woke” liberal—and has a negative view of Muslims (at least from Pakistan and Afghanistan), feeling that they should be subject to strict racial profiling and forced assimilation to be admitted to America (immigrants are already vetted by various U.S. government agencies). Well, why not do this for Jews? Swiss? Polish? How about Germans? I mean, some were Nazis, after all. Forgive me, I’m being sarcastic. I’m trying to think of a semi-intelligent response to his latest message to me. Maybe I shouldn’t give him the benefit of the doubt? I say that because I genuinely don’t know if what he’s said about Pakistani Muslims is true. Mandatory wearing of hijabs, men and women not being allowed to be friends, honor killings, etc….aren’t laws in Pakistan that I could find. As for mandatory hijabs in Iran, I’ve seen videos where women aren’t wearing them. So much of what we hear or read is just propaganda from the media. The same media sponsored by the military industrial complex.

I’ve previously expressed my disdain, to him, about the U.S. government weaponizing human rights as an excuse for invading other countries, i.e. LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, etc. Furthermore, I’ve also said that I feel that many issues in the U.S. are overblown, mainly by social media or even corporate media, such as the moral panic over LGBTQ+ rights. Especially when less than 8% of Americans identify as LGBTQ+. If your religious beliefs are so strong, why do LGBTQ+ or women’s rights even threaten them?

I won’t get into the books on the history of the United States that I was recommended (they aren’t ones that I would choose to read). What I’ve written so far has taken me long enough to write, as it is. I need some sleep, anyway.

Taken from my previous entry on war propaganda:

I knew nothing of Donbass or Palestine until after I started this blog. In fact, I was hesitant to blog about Palestine at first. It wasn’t until after I learned more about Islam that I started looking at the Middle East. Before that, I was into Christopher Hitchens and followed Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. Charlie Kirk, from TP USA, and Michelle Malkin even followed me on Twitter. Now, I don’t care for any of them.

There’s no moral to my story. I can understand people falling for the war propaganda, though. It’s just frustrating, sometimes