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i only browsed the first post and some of the replies.
im not pro-west by ANY stretch of the means, but nor am i pro-islam.
alot of people these days are "don't rag on islam, it's racist" or some such shit.
i've done some studying into islam read parts of (not the whole thing yet) the quran, attended debates on, lectures on, etc etc, and have drawn some intellectual conclusions.
i don't get why alot of people as of late have been sucking the middle east's proverbial penis. just because it is currently the "opressed" part of the world.
i can say from my studies that islam does lend itself to fundamentalism better than other religions (of course, not to say a muslim is more likely to be a nutcase... that's not what i'm insinuating)
i just think it's ridiculous to put the middle-east on a pedestal. sure, i'm not saying it's a hellhole of depravity by any means. i think it has a wondefully diverse history and culture, most of which is not understood by most westerners. but whatever the initial post was getting at just seemed like pure ignorance to me.
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