As much as it is fashionable to blame the current state of the Islamic world on western colonialism, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab at-Tamimi in the 18th century and the salafi movement in Sunii Islam is probably more on point. The apostate is always more threatening than the infidel.
>>>Sorry to hear that. They chose to make the ultimate sacrifice in a war that needs to be won.
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>>>It is hard to understand the minds of terrorists, they plant bombs that would kill their own and could care less. Woman, children, old people, they don't care, they just want to kill people.
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>>>It has been that way for 2000 years over there.
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>>The 2000 years is a good propaganda example that was repeated enough for all to start believing it.
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>>Just go back in History and compare Europe to the Arab world for the last 500 years and that propaganda will be very clear.
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>If I'm not mistaken, the time things started to change were during Britain's and France's invasions of everything.
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>What we're seeing today in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is fallout from those adventures.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
