Hehe, I always love a good debate. I am recently reading a book entitled the Thousand Year War and How it affects us today by Richard Mulberry aka Uncle Eric. The book is phenomenal because it looks at the war from both our side and the side of Islam.
I've argued this before and will again. We have wronged the Arabic peoples. I know a lot on here don't agree with me whatsoever. But cmon folks lets look at this from their point of view. The Crusades to Muslims is comparable to the Holocaust to Jews. And it was, the Christians slaughtered men, women and children along with animals. The Germans at least spared animals only because Hitler was fond of animals. After the Crusades the Muslims were persecuted by Spain, England and other Christain European nations. Fast forward to when America was sucked into the war in Tripoli. We killed innocent and non-innocent Muslims in battle. Since the Middle East is the oldest civilized part of the world, they hold grudges longer than a younger civilization of say America. When you kill a Muslim, you bring ten more out of the woodwork who want revenge. America never understood this and we've been killing innocent and non-innocent Muslims.
Now contrary to popular belief, Muslims do not hate us...they hate our government. They understand that the American people are only smart enough to follow their government and have no brains of their own. They fail to see the hypocrisiy in this since they would follow Allah without a second thought, but that isn't the point. The point is that our government is stupid. They got into a war that started with Christian Europe over a thousand years ago. As soon as we got into the battle, our government becamse hated. We are hated because of killing innocents, but because we are encroaching on their land. Especially the land of countries who we used to support because they played us like a pack of cards. They claimed to be anti-soviet so they could get the weapons they needed. Then when the anti-soviet government was overthrown, the people who took over hated us because we had given the previous dictator power. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, I could go on, we've supported all of those leaders until the leaders we backed were overthrown by the people who hated their government for the atrocities commited against them. Then when they learned we supplied the weapons...well lets say just say that they don't take kindly to a country that backs a dictator.
Am I saying the Muslims are right in this? No, but they aren't terrorists. How come they aren't allowed to come blow up our buildings, yet we're allowed to go blow up theres? How come we can can kill their civillians but it is an atrocitiy when they kill ours? We need to stop thinking like the damn Europeans and get out of the Middle East and other countries. Until then, we will be hated...not the people but the government. Oh and watch out, because once the Saudi Monarchy falls, there goes another ally. And yes, if you buy into the bullshit that the people we're fighting in Iraq are terrorists, then our Founders are terrorists as well. They weren't and neither are the Muslims we're fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan.




The funniest thing is... I saw this title and KNEW it was you. I wasn't disappointed either!
Lmao...I guess I lied about flammatory writing, oops.
I had to write it, the book is very good and it makes good points.
I think the movie was Pearl Harbor. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, a Japanese General said, "We have awakened a sleeping giant." Not long afterward, we dropped two atom bombs on them....
This senseless back-and-forth fighting is like high school revenge schemes. We'll just keep fighting until there's no one left to fight! Humans are such strange creatures.
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Mhm, the Europeans awakened the sleeping giant when they started the Crusades against the Muslims and we're just another casualty in this senseless war.
I agree. Jingoism has replaced any sense of reason or fairness in the U.S. If we're killing them, they are going to kill us back...it's just what organisms do when their lives are threatened. Even bacteria understand this.
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Sometimes I believe that most humans are in fact stupider than other animals. We seem unable to comprehend the fact that you stated. It amazes me.
I think you'd like Edmund Hamilton's short story Devolution.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
The titled sounds interesting, I'll definately check it out after I finish the Hemingway book I'm reading..
I had the same feeling as katie. I knew this was you.
Well said. Well said.
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Homer Simpson
I'm gonna chaulk it up to the long winded, slightly controversial titles that I like to use, lol.
It's funny how people forget to view things from outside their own little box. For example, the U.S. was enraged of the German treatment of Jews and the Japanese treatment of it's prisoners, but look how we treated Japanese-Americans, and black people before that! It's ridiculous how people can lose sight of the fact that America is not the center of the universe.
But still, people really need to let bygones be bygones. Black-americans still play the racist card every time they feel slighted, I rarely see or hear of Jews doing this to Germans. It's fucking ridiculous that the Jewish community can get over something that happened 50 years ago while it is still taking the Black community over a century to get over what happened to them. Even Japanese-Americans seem to have gotten over it. That's my take at least at all the bullshit a large part of the black community pulls out. Obviously they could learn a thing or two from the Jewish and Japanese-American communities.
I'm not saying anything about us being the center of the universe. I'm saying that America needs to stop listening to the lies we're fed by the Europhiles, and get both sides of the story instead of the one that makes us most comfortable or fits in with one of our religions.