Daron Malakian talks about Politics and Religion

Daron Malakian, System of a Down and Scars on Broadway guitarist, expressed his views on politics and religion during a recent interview with KROQ.

“Anybody who thinks that Obama was going to come and fix that mess in three or four years is nuts. I mean, that by itself… You’ve got to give him a little bit more time. I think he’s doing an alright job. I ain’t got no beef with Obama. But I’ll tell you this much: he is a politician, like everybody else, and he’s a damn good one. Because he can really make you like him. [It’s the job of politicians] to bulls–t people and to make them like you, and he is king at it. He might be a little better than [Bill] Clinton, actually”

“I’ll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day. And that offends people, I guess, more than telling people what to do. But I just think a lot of people… Politicians use religion and they get their troops riled up with religion. And it’s not just here with Christianity, it’s… Those dudes, like [Osama] Bin Laden, these dudes are all politicians themselves”

“They use the simple-minded and the poor and they promise them things and that’s how they rile up their troops using religion. And we don’t see that as the same as our politicians, but they play the same games with their people over there as the politicians play with the people over here to get them riled up, to go to war… ‘You’re fighting for freedom.’ I just think religion is something… It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that’s when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me”, Malakian stated.

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