<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Uncle Moneybags:
blue edwards,
The suicide bombers are a small minority. However, other "peaceful" Muslims speak the same rhetoric as their bombing brethren. Not all but a lot. If you talk to them about Israel or the U.S., thier views are in sync with the clerics. That includes the violence and the belief that it is a just punishment from Allah. If they want a separate religion, that's one thing. If they want to convert or kill all infidels they need to be taken out.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
maybe i haven't met enough arabs. the ones i have met all live in the u.s. and seem to like this country. i met a couple cab drivers who hate jews but, it seems like a lot of groups hate jews.
blue edwards,
The suicide bombers are a small minority. However, other "peaceful" Muslims speak the same rhetoric as their bombing brethren. Not all but a lot. If you talk to them about Israel or the U.S., thier views are in sync with the clerics. That includes the violence and the belief that it is a just punishment from Allah. If they want a separate religion, that's one thing. If they want to convert or kill all infidels they need to be taken out.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
maybe i haven't met enough arabs. the ones i have met all live in the u.s. and seem to like this country. i met a couple cab drivers who hate jews but, it seems like a lot of groups hate jews.
It wasn't merely during the "dawn of civilization" that Arab countries were dominant.
While Europe was going through the Dark Ages, the Arab countries were going through their own renaissance, keeping alive much knowledge that Europe lost during that time, as well as creating much on their own.
However, the fanatic aspects of Islamic rule have taken hold in many places, and even the less fanatic better off Arab places walk a fine line, and are always on the edge due to activism by the more extreme factions.
Muslim fanaticism and activism(even extending to terrorism) is a very wide spread problem, reaching from Africa all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and resulting in political turmoil and violence in more different countries than any single other political or religious ideology.
While there are certainly places where things are bad, and Islam has nothing to do with it, those are generally places with very corrupt regimes and low national wealth (Haiti, for example).
While Europe was going through the Dark Ages, the Arab countries were going through their own renaissance, keeping alive much knowledge that Europe lost during that time, as well as creating much on their own.
However, the fanatic aspects of Islamic rule have taken hold in many places, and even the less fanatic better off Arab places walk a fine line, and are always on the edge due to activism by the more extreme factions.
Muslim fanaticism and activism(even extending to terrorism) is a very wide spread problem, reaching from Africa all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and resulting in political turmoil and violence in more different countries than any single other political or religious ideology.
While there are certainly places where things are bad, and Islam has nothing to do with it, those are generally places with very corrupt regimes and low national wealth (Haiti, for example).
