Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I think this is one of my favorite photos that I've gotten for Under Mars. If you'd like to see a closeup, here's one of the guys carrying the dead cow and one of the old guy in the foreground. The picture was taken in Kabul, Afghanistan while Multi 6 from 16 Signal Regiment (I admit I don't know exactly what that means, sorry).

So as many of you probably know, there have recently been a series of arrests of minors and young adults here in Toronto in a “Muslim terrorist” bust… According to the authorities they wanted to blow up the Parliament buildings (in Ottawa), chop off the Prime Minister's head, storm the CBC, demand the release of various Muslim prisoners, and then chop off some more people's heads.

To me the sitation reads like a bunch of stupid kids because from my point of view Canada is pretty nice to Muslims, but I asked an Iranian friend of mine whether I was wrong or not and I guess that in the mind of an extremist (or someone who desperately wants to be an extremist), there's not much difference between America and Canada because they're perceived as allies (even though Canada isn't in Iraq), and there's a larger, generalized enemy of “the West” which is slowly eating away at religion of all kinds.