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Thread #93592   Message #1809152
Posted By: GUEST,Nick
13-Aug-06 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: An interesting viewpoint on Lebanon
Subject: RE: BS: An interesting viewpoint on Lebanon
yeah, they don't have so much to say about that.

Some people say religion is at the base of it all - the desire to convert people at gunpoint. Muslim, Christian, they have done it in the past. You would love to ask them how many people did Jesus / Muhammed hold a gun to the head of? How many converts did they make with threats of physical violence? Maybe the gross misinterpretation of the religious message or something.

On the other hand, I know that in Ireland they were supposed to have a religious conflict in Northern Ireland, protestant against catholic. On closer inspection it turned out to be about have and have-not. It just so happened that those of one religion had more than the other and used their position to keep the other side down. Often so-called religious conflicts have socio-economic roots.

I wonder why the UN isn't in bigger force in places like Sudan etc.,? The Muslim paramilitaries there are vicious. They have committed appaling atrocities. You never hear much about it in the media either, like it's not important what happens to them.