There's little education - those who aren't from a wealthy background (which 99% of your countrymen aren't) don't necessarily understand exactly how bad things are or how best to improve them.
There's no international aid - it's every man for himself. There is precious little that would be recognised as a legal system two thousand years hence. There may or may not be such a thing as conscription, but keeping morale up in your army is damn hard. As a consequence, many of your people are starving. The last couple of years have been tough - there's virtually no water (though the people in the next country have a number of rivers.). There's no farm subsidies (though there are farmers, it's a hard life being a farmer in the middle of a fucking desert). You are (by accident of birth) quite high in your society's hierarchy - but a lot of things that we take for granted these days simply don't exist in the middle of this fucking desert. Let us say, for the sake of argument, that you live in the middle of the fucking desert a couple of thousand years ago.
(And I understand why some of you with mod points might choose "Funny" for this post, which is totally fine, but I promise everyone that this is as unbiased an accounting of the facts as I find myself able to give.)īy the way, if you happen to be a techno-savvy hard-line Muslim reading this post, I have one question for you: shouldn't your first problem, before Matt & Trey, be with the second most populous denomination of Islam, the Shi'a, who apparently have no problem with depictions of Muhammad? Is it off-base for me to ask that you sort this out amongst yourselves before requiring the non-believers to follow your religious edicts under threat of death? They're so anxious over this possibility, these groups have threatened to suborn the murder of Matt Stone & Trey Parker by dispatching roving death squads.ĭon't click away to a calendar app-I assure you, it is 2010 and this is actually happening. Or, in other words, radical Muslims are fearful that a large faction of the faithful will splinter off and form a new denomination based on the worship of an episode of South Park. The worry is that any depiction could become the focus of worship, and the depiction itself could take the place of what it represents. For those of you that are unaware, the concern among Muslims about depicting Muhammad is based on a few hadith that warn against doing so to prevent idolatry.