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Originally Posted by willravel
Not only that, but if there was an important Muslim in the US (for whatever reason), he'd be assassinated tomorrow, and Muslims know that.
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You mean like
Keith Ellison? Or is a Congressman not important enough?
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Ignorant? No. Impoverished? You would be too if some foreign country was constantly invading the United States and overthrowing the Federal government in order to get to it's uranium stocks. As it stands, the only reason you're not impoverished is because you happen to live in a country which commonly extorts/bullies other, weaker countries.
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First, Merriam-Webster defines ignorance as "lack of knowledge, education, or awareness". If you believe that the Afghan people are not ignorant, than you yourself are. Even post-secondary educated people, having gone to university in Kabul, have elementary-school level understanding of mathematics, geography, history, science... pretty much every subject. That's people who actually go ON to many universities in this country. Those that only go to primary school (most common) or no school at all (still more common than university grads) have less knowledge. The
CIA World Factbook - Afghanistan gives the literacy rate as follows:
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 28.1%
male: 43.1%
female: 12.6% (2000 est.)
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A solid 28.1%, eh? Nope, no ignorance there.
As for the impoverished part, except for a brief period in from roughly 1950-196x Afghanistan has always been impoverished. Back in the days of the Silk Road it was a lovely stop between two large and cumbersome deserts. Even with large caravans summering here, there was never a great deal of wealth. There are few precious resources here. They barely grow enough food for themselves and their livestock (even with relatively advanced manual farming techniques). Water supply is seriously limited in most of the country. Pretty much, it's a shithole. Oh wait, I'm sorry, they DO have one major export... opium. Awesome! The CIA World Factbook lists their exports as "opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems". Yeah, lot's of ways they can make money there (aside from the opium). No, they're impoverished because they don't have much to work with and they don't push to modernize.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser in response to TotalMILF
You own the U.S.?
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Yes she does. So do I. So do you. That's the beauty of a Democratic Republic or Representative Democracy. In fact, you own a reciprocal portion to the total number of legitimate citizens of the US. We all do. Ain't ownership grand?