The attempted Christmas Day attack has cast a spotlight on charismatic clerics who use their online celebrity to indoctrinate and recruit young Muslims.
(From The New York Times)
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You'd think that the imams would be wiser than this... if they really wanted what's best for their followers, they would stop lying to them that this is somehow a war against Islam, which it is not. Cooler heads prevail... heard of it? Oh that's right, you destroy the schools first. It's never been about religion, ever, but you can't have jihad without a war over religion even a one-sided one. If they really wanted us out of their business, they'd stop fanning the flames of hatred and religious intolerance and stop making threats towards free people of the world. And what is it they're fighting for? The right to oppress their own people, beat their own women for showing skin (simply because the men cannot control themselves), behead people etc. Why? It's the year 2010, but they want to live like it's 10 B.C. Why?
Your post is a great example of the ethnocentricity that has helped create current conditions. If you broaden your scope you can see that in fact Bush used religious (christian) language when he invaded Iraq. The entire history of exploitation of the Middle East over the last hundred years reeks of manifest destiny.
Mature adult humans know that in any conflict there are at least two points of view, and that nothing can be resolved until those who are polarized can "walk in each other's shoes" and unpolarize.
They are not wrong and we are not right, nor are they right and we wrong. We see the world differently based upon experience and belief. To oversimplify, as you have done, misses so much.
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It's never been about religion, ever, but you can't have jihad without a war over religion even a one-sided one.
If they really wanted us out of their business, they'd stop fanning the flames of hatred and religious intolerance and stop making threats towards free people of the world.
And what is it they're fighting for? The right to oppress their own people, beat their own women for showing skin (simply because the men cannot control themselves), behead people etc. Why?
It's the year 2010, but they want to live like it's 10 B.C. Why?
Mature adult humans know that in any conflict there are at least two points of view, and that nothing can be resolved until those who are polarized can "walk in each other's shoes" and unpolarize.
They are not wrong and we are not right, nor are they right and we wrong. We see the world differently based upon experience and belief. To oversimplify, as you have done, misses so much.