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Originally Posted by powerclown
Well, *I* would mind it if something were to happen to our poor Jessica and her gorgeous, bountiful golden breasts; I like to fantasize about them and look at them as often as possible!
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eh, i've seen (imo) better, but to each his own.
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And I hear you, but...I don't buy it. Everyone encroaches into everyone else's culture these days. They call it globalization: every country has immigrants, everybody is doing business with eachother. Jets, internet, cellphones, fax machines, satellites have removed the geographical distances between cultures. So now, people have to learn to play nice with eachother, no matter their cultural differences. They have to mind their manners. This intermingling has exposed the paranoia, insecurity and dysfunction of some countries, who have chosen instead to withdraw from civilized society and adopt counter-productive tactics for dealing with the outside world. One of the ways of coping would be with belligerence and aggression, foolishly branding whole societies as 'Infidels' and religiously unpure and unworthy. Its pure phobia based on fear, envy, powerlessness, confusion, ignorance and intolerance.
Excuse me, I have to google jessica simpsons breasts now.
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and i agree with you on this. but while they have to mind their manners, so do we. if you notice, it's not the entire arab world that's the problem, it's the fanatics. it's not as simple as one poster above said "they hate our freedom."
so i think a lot of good reasons for the causes of terrorism have been mentioned in this thread... and aside from some people who will be a problem no matter what (think of the southern baptist preacher to thinks everyone not southern baptist is going to hell, the kkk's ignorant racist views, etc), we can do a lot to keep those people who hate just to hate, who hate because we aren't like them, from gathering followers who are more moderate but feel pushed to extremes because their views aren't even being heard, let alone acted on.