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Originally Posted by Nirvana
willravel. after the whole thing with the pope and you see images with people screaming death to america, death to israel (they have nothing to do with this), what is your response. don't you think a lot of has to do with ethnic and religous hatred?
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Most of Muslims do not protest against disrespectful cartoons or Popes that talk out of their asses.
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Most aren't extreemists, but some are. The ethnic and religous hatred stems from ultra-conservative lifestyle. Conservatism is just starting to leave the ultra-conservative theocratic nations of the ME. I suspect that if the US and UK are able to stop interfering with the ME, it will finally give liberalism, and thus freedom of thought and choice, to take root and grow across the desert. But...every time a US bomb kills a family, every time the Pope declairs the Muslims to be violent, every time Israel occupies foriegn land, it sets back freedom and postpones peace. It takes two to tango, so don't think that I
only blame the invading forces, I realize that a lot of Arab Muslims feel a lot of hate and many of them let that hate out in terrible was, unforgivable ways.
So to answer your question: yes, a lot of it has to do with deeply seeded bigotry built into their ancestory and society, but it's decreasing. We can help by allowing the liberal youth to grow in their understanding of peace and freedom. We can help by allowing them to learn on their own and shatter old world hatreds.