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Originally posted by irateplatypus
harsh economic conditions may be a reason given to these young persons to incite the rampant anti-US sentiment, but why do you suppose they are under those harsh conditions to start with? it would seem that every person in that region should being living as comfortably as anyone in the world. the oil money flow is beyond anything found elsewhere in a per-capita sense. if anything, there economies are being kept afloat by our ever-present thirst for oil. so... why is it that the world's biggest consumer of the main source of wealth for these countries is seen as it is?
to me, the answer appears to be ideological in a way that is arranged to perpetuate the social and economic orders as well. the elite in these countries are suppressing the masses and keeping the enourmous wealth to themselves. the only way they can keep this system going in an age where information can travel like it does is to create a blanket of fear of the western (democratic) world. if freedom will break their stranglehold, then it only makes sense for them to bring hate against those who promote it.
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Exactly in my opinion. you and I sit on opposite ends of US politics, but here we agree.
The perpetuation of a caste based system is hardly different from European fuedal systems of old. As such, the prosperity of one requires the subjigation of another as a base of the society providing labor and or support.
MSNBC did a rather interesting artical that got farked recently about the permeation of the internet as a source of information for Arab youth (as in 12-17yrs of age) that was rather interesting. i can't find it in the fark archives, but perhaps you will have better luck.