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Originally Posted by matthew330
"I've met the worst from all sides."
It's entirely possible you've met the worst of western religious fundamentalism, after all you live where they do and still feel comfortable bad mouthing them. I doubt you've met the worst of the Islamic fundamentalists and if you lived where they did I doubt you'd feel comfortable doing the same.
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I've been to the Middle East 4 times since I was born, and once within the last 3 years. I've been to Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt (thanks to a local church that was sending "missions" to the Middle East). I also have really good friends currently living in Iraq. The christian fundamentalists in the US haven't been at war on and off for the last 4000 years. There was the crusades a while back, but that was nothing compared to the Middle East. If I were in Tehran, I would not speak of Muslims the same way I speak of Christians in the US. Of course, I'm only talking about the radicals. I have no gripe with regular Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, or anyone else.