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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Well, it's even worse in the context of what she's actually TALKING ABOUT.
To the Muslim residents of the middle east, suggestions that Western incursion into their lands and sovereignty is the divine will of a Christian god is a direct reference to the Crusades, and is deeply deeply offensive. This kind of talk is directly inflammatory, and she doesn't even know it.
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the fact that the Muslim god and the Christian god are one and the same leads me to believe that Western incursion is more of a power play based on economics and spheres of control, rather than one-up-gods-ship. Same goes for the crusades of yore.