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In reply to the discussion: Ben Affleck Slams Bill Maher for "Racist," "Ugly" Views in Heated Islam Debate [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)to come here with WMDs, bomb our Malls, homes and steal our resources. If they reach maximum equality with us, they can torture our men, women and children, drive millions into refugee camps in Canada and Mexico, then claim they brought us 'democracy'.
Their society is the way it is because of Imperial brutality, it has been under the thumb of one Western Empire or another for centuries.
Churchill, who represents OUR stage of development, wanted to drop Chemical Weapons on the entire ME and wipe them all out totally, that way his Empire at the time, could just go in and take THEIR resources without having to bother with the 'subhumans' who lived there.
I wonder if people who have absorbed the bigotry of Western Imperial powers have ever even talked to people whose countries they have destroyed over and over again, ever visited them. My cousin eg, used to go to Iraq to shop in Baghdad. He thought the people were just wonderful. Never heard him say they were not up to our standards. They had their own, some better than ours in fact. Education eg, they were way more educated than the average person here.
They had their own culture. Maybe if people here knew something about history, they wouldn't appear to be so ignorant to the rest of the world.
I am proud to say I have known some beautiful, in spirit and in every other way, Muslim women. Educated, brilliant, mothers, doctors etc. We definitely have had some intense and apparently very successful propaganda regarding an awful lot of other human beings.