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Thread #75063 Message #1385497
Posted By: CarolC
22-Jan-05 - 05:38 PM
Thread Name: Obit: More Muslim intolerance?
Subject: RE: Obit: More Muslim intolerence?
Alright, Quizmaster. Here's a few for you:
Which nation used its intelligence services to squash the first ever fledgeling democracy in Iran and then installed the Shah as a (brutal) dictator and as its puppet?
Which proto-nation massacred hundreds of women, children, and old men, execution style in the late 1940s in order to frighten all of the people in the surrounding areas into fleeing their villages and homes so they could then steal all of the land belonging to those who fled?
Which country's intelligence services are responsible for the rise to power of Saddam Hussien?
Which Western country helped Saddam Hussien kill thousands of Iranians and Iraqi Kurds?
Which country used the Mujahadeen and the civil war in Afghanistan in order to help it in its cold war against the Soviet Union, and then, after helping to completely destroy that country, simply abandoned it, giving rise to the conditions that gave birth to the Taliban and its subsequent rise to power?
Which country funded the Taliban during its rise to power?
And here's the point. This is for you, Quizmaster, and also for the bigot Ooh-Aah2...
The reason that Islamic fundamentalism has become the problem it is today is because of the meddling of countries like the US and Israel (and Britain), who have created so much chaos in the Middle East and other Muslim parts of the world, that it is not possible for the people there to be able to evolve more liberal and democratic societies.
It is not because Muslims are any more inherently prone to fundamentalism.
Martin Gibson, I don't need to say anything insulting to you. You are your own worst enemy.