God Versus God: The Undoing of Man

My first post, and not an old one either, but I was just thinking about this rather a lot lately.

We've all observed the events in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those more keenly into current events may have observed the general situation with the middle east both now and before 9/11. The funny thing is, while a lot of the terrorists are declaring this a holy war, to be frankly honest this is like a clash of the gods - Islam versus Christianity (Note I have nothing against Islam or Christianity).

Western countries, namely the United States (and their assorted bitches, the UK sadly being one of them) have been walking into middle eastern countries claiming that their backwards societies need sorting out, and they are people to do it. Why is that society backwards? Well, people are stoned for adultery (so I hear), peoples hands chopped off for stealing, there's even a video floating around on the net of a family killing their daughter by dropping a breeze block on her head. What did she do? Didn't come home one night, and was said to be fornicating. Yes this all sounds barbaric and backwards, but us in a lot of western countries are brought up in a society which is basically built on christian rules. Just as these "backwards" countries have societies based on Islamic rules (not that I'm saying Islam tells you to drop concrete blocks on your daughter) albeit to an extreme.

So really walking into a country and tell them that their society is frankly fucked up is just a matter of opinion, imagine an Islamic government telling the states they needed to start chopping hands off for stealing? It sounds absurd, and is effectively one country telling another their religion is better, "use our rules or you're going to get it". This is why poorly equipped terrorists in Iraq still aren't backing down, and if anything it's getting more violent out there. These people would rather die than abandon their god, and their idea will never go away no matter how many die, you really can't kill that with a gun.