19th July 2009, 4:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 19th July 2009, 5:06 AM by alien space marine.)
Quote:And you see nothing wrong with hating every person who's a part of the race that we're at war with? Even the people in our own country? Even in a case like the War on Terror where it's fundamentalist muslims that have been combatted, not all muslims? The problem with this kind of propaganda is it's just one more motivation for people to blindly resent, harass, degrade, or even physically assault or kill any person who belongs to that race. In a melting pot like America, that should be a huge concern.
Unless I've been oblivious to it, you really don't see that propaganda to that degree any longer, and rightfully so.
One distinction, Nobody chooses to be Japanese, but You can choose to be a Muslim.
I was once a major hater of Muslims and greatly loathed their religion , Some Muslims I've met have caused me to have a change of heart.
A reason for islamaphobia in the Americas besides all the terrorism and berserk temper tantrums that have been sensationalized by the media, We north Americans have forgotten out history, We just came to learn about the rise of Islam and its relations to our own history, having to learn about all that in our present time after 9/11 its easy to take history out of context.
I didn't know about the demise of Christianity in the middle east which was decided at the battle of Yarmouk in August 636 Just east of the sea of Galilee, A religiously driven army of Arabs managed to win a decisive victory against the extremely disorganized and unprepared Byzantines, The East Roman Byzantine empire was still reeling from wounds suffered at the hands of the avars & slavs in the Balkans that descended onto the empire at the outbreak of the last Roman-Persian war.
Then the 700 year occupation of Spain , Followed by the taking of Constantinople in 1453, The Siege of Vienna in 1529.
We all knew about the crusades, What we didn't know was that they had been kicking our hide for years before and after that, Its clear that the crusades was a retaliatory response by christian Europe to the advancing Muslim empire.
Political Islam should be resisted just as much as political Christianity or anything else like it, The thing that irks the hell out of me is the radical Zionism by christian fundamentalist ,Who believe that they are in some apocalyptic war with Islam and need to do everything possible to give material and military support to Israel and even the psycho west bank settlers.
Radical Christian Zionism who are entrenched in U.S politics but also have a footing in the political arena in all Anglo countries.
The reason the Islamic world is in a fury , Is the long standing mess in Palestine, Also the recent history of European colonialism like in Algeria and so fourth, Not to mention the poverty and oppression of western backed dictatorships, Which brings out a xenophobic hostile sentiment amongst them.